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Creator: Tim Kring
Air Time: Monday's at 9pm
Network: NBC

Introduction

Imagine that you could fly, or teleport, read peoples minds, or even tell the future. That would make you different from everyone around you. Some might think that would make a person special others might think that it would make you a freak. These thoughts and more push the character driven story of Heroes on NBC.
This new drama has been compared to shows like Lost and 24 with its complex plots and focuses on the characters in the stories, watching them grow and develop.

The Story

Heroes is the story of a group of everyday people that soon discover that they have supernatural powers. There is a large cast of characters, including Hiro, a Japanese businessman with a penchant for comic books, Claire, that appears to be able to regenerate broken bones, cuts, and more, and Isaac, a young painter that can seem to tell the future while in a Heroin induced haze.
Creator Tim Kring sums up the synopsis of the series like this in a recent interview, ?The inspiration was that I wanted to do a large show and I started thinking about what would connect with an audience, and I started thinking about the idea that the world is a very complicated, confusing place for most people right now. With things like global warming, diminishing resources, terrorism, people are really feeling that something is amiss. That something has to give. So I started thinking about a show that sort of dealt with that in a way by populating the planet with various people that may be coming along to actually do something about these larger issues.?

Review

I must say, I have been pretty excited about this upcoming series. A TV show about superheroes with complex plots and a large cast, not to mention the fact that it isn?t a hokey send up like some past series ? Birds of Prey comes to mind pretty fast ? all these things had me jazzed for the pilot. The show really hit the ground running, unfortunately a lot of the episode had already been seen in the previews. For me, that made it a bit anti-climactic. The good thing was the introduction of a villain character and revelation as to who in the cast he has connections with. This ?villain? is sure to be a large part of the series as we see how these people actually got their powers.

The really interesting thing is going to be in how the characters come together to stop the ?larger issues? that Tim Kring speaks of earlier. And since we have a large cast of heroes, it will be good to see if any of these people will actually become villains as well.

Conclusion

Overall, I think the series is off to a great start. It appears that there will be many more cast mates in the upcoming episodes and when things really start to weave together, Heroes has the makings of a great TV show. One problem will surely be that since this is a character driven show, comic?s fans may be left out in the cold when it comes to special effects. Another problem could be if the show takes to long to develop the relationships between the characters that will really help this series fly.

Be sure to check out an online comic that will coinicide with the series.

Want more about Heroes? Check out an Episode 2-4 review!