[Movie] Heroes

There's a new show on NBC Monday's this coming year called "Heroes". Basically, the premise is superheroes.

I don't know exactly how it got out, but the 2 hour pilot is available on the torrent sites and it blew my mind. Best pilot I can ever remember seeing. It's incredibly polished and the story seems like they can do quite a bit in the future.

The starting point is present day and the heroes (and villains, I assume too) are just learning about these powers that they have. You can tell where things are going (much like a comic book) but it seems like they'll dangle the carrot in front of you at the end of every episode with new revelations. Very 24ish in that regard (no surprise it will be on Monday night).

It's a pretty good cast for a TV drama: Ali Larter (smokin' hot, main chick in the Final Destination movies), Hayden Panettiere (has had lots of roles but most of you would know her best as Kairi in Kingdom Hearts), Milo Ventimiglia (Jess on Gilmore Girls, will be Rocky Jr. in the upcoming movie), and quite a few other people who I didn't know much about but put on good performances.

You've got your standard superhero fare: guy who can teleport and screw with time, guy who can see the future, guy who can fly, girl who has some power but can't control it, girl who can't be hurt. You've got the guy who seems to be evil but we don't know why, the guy who is studying all this, and what seems like could be a convergence on New York City (where else?).

Anyway, I highly recommend downloading and watching the pilot. I don't think the show begins until September, but this was a treat enough to make me find out if I'd have to make sure my VCR is working (yes, by the way, it is on opposite 24).


On a side note, it's also, I think, an indication that NBC finally found out how to get itself back on top. This show looks fabulous, it's followed by Studio 60 which has a huge, huge, huge cast. Tuesday's they've got Friday Night Lights which they'll advertise the hell out of on Sunday Night Football, which will be a big draw. And then they've got some of the best comedies on TV in Scrubs, The Office, and My Name Is Earl, as well as some of the most promising new comedies, like 30 Rock.

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Yeah, Friday Night Lights not only looks good, but it will have the biggest marketing of any show in the fall, new or old. That's huge.

I can see NBC winning at least 3 nights, though. Sunday is a given, although CBS is making a definite run at the NFL with The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and Without a Trace. Monday's could go to NBC if CBS's comedies don't stay popular (24 doesn't start until January so NBC gets a huge head start). Similarly, Tuesday's are Fox's to lose, but only in January when American Idol starts up again. Until then, FNL and two Law and Orders could take down CBS's NCIS and The Unit (though Gilmore Girls is still one of the best shows on TV). Wednesdays go to ABC for Lost (no one is even putting up much of a fight on Wednesday) and Thursday is still where CBS is king, although ABC put Grey's Anatomy right up against CSI.


But Heroes is awesome, the darling of 2006, I think.

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I must disagree, NBC will win Sunday, hands down. The highest rated cable program every single year was ESPN's Sunday Night Football. Even while MNF's numbers declined, ESPN's for Sunday went up. MNF became more about the show, and ESPN has vowed to keep it about the football.

Not to mention that every single week, the best game will be the Sunday night game. MNF was stuck with the games set long before, since you can't swap a Sunday game for a Monday game. But since all but one or two games are played Sunday, NBC gets the pick of the litter and it will always be fantastic.

Plus, ABC usually does very well when it has just college football on into Saturday night. All indicators are there for the NFL to rape the Neilsen's again.

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Originally Posted by sprouticus

Spoiler:

When Hiro travels through time, doesn't anybody notice that this guy, you know, DISAPPEARED or MAGICALLY APPEARED from our of nowhere? Or how about Ali Larter's power? I don't even get how it works. Another version of her appears out of MIRROR LAND? Ohh-kayy

I mean, you know, the show was only an hour long. And it wouldn't be fun if there was nothing at all for us to be left wondering about.

Plus, I thought there was a portion of the show where Hiro said he could both bend time and space...I watched this when I first made the thread and missed most of tonight's show, so I don't remember (also, what I watched was two hours, but I seem to remember them ending the same...).

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Originally Posted by speculative

Will there be an encore of the Pilot episode? I CAN'T believe I missed this one! This is definitely the only brand-new show I was really looking forward to this season. (I'll pretend I wasn't waiting for Jericho. )

They already showed an encore on Tuesday, you'll have to download it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by soulsteelgray

They weren't in the first episode. They're going to pop up in the second episode (since the filmed pilot was originally two hours but split into two episodes for pilot and airing purposes).

Some of them weren't even in the original 2 hour pilot. The cop that has been referred to on the commercial a few times wasn't on that pilot. For some reason, they cut down that original 2 hour screener that was leaked in July.

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Is it just me, or is it odd that, while the artist is supposed to paint things that happen in the future, the comic that Hiro got while he was in New York contained events that actually happened in the past?

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Well, and it gave the impression that there isn't a way to kill her, but only to disable her by jamming something into her head. Odd.

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Yeah, summaries are all that matter, not acting or writing or any of that silliness.

What is the other show?

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