Who in the hell would have thought that a television show about a bunch of ordinary people discovering their extraordinary powers would become such a damn hit? But it did. And how. The surprise combination of a subtly drawn-out supernatural story framework and heartfelt character arcs and interactions really formed the backbone of this series.
We had Mohinder, a non-superpowered professorial civilian, who kept us all in naps during his various voice-overs; Peter, a power absorber with a huge brother-shaped chip on his shoulder; Nathan, a political shark with a penchant for flying the friendly skies without a plane; Claire, a cheerleader with the ability to regenerate; Hiro, a Tokyo cubicle monkey who escaped his humdrum existence via his knack for traveling through space and time; Hiro's sidekick, Ando, who had a supernatural knack for making us laugh; Niki, a stripper whose alter ego spent much of her off-pole time killing people who got in her way; Micah, Niki's son, who could talk to machines and make them do his bidding; D.L., Niki's ex, who made capturing him difficult because he was always phasing through walls and stuff; Isaac, a druggie visionary who painted scenes from the future in comic book style; his girlfriend Simone, whose only superpower annoying the hell out of us; Mr. Bennett, whose only superpower was the power to be overprotective about his adopted daughter, Claire, and make us wonder on a daily basis whether or not he was actually one of the good guys; Matt Parkman, who could read people's minds and also irritate us on occasion; The Haitian, who could control people's minds and whose alliances are dubious; and finally, the universal baddie, Sylar, who ripped the skulls off Heroes and still managed to make us feel for him. But that could have been just because he was really hot.
For the first half of the season, the motto was "Save the cheerleader, save the world." But then Peter saved the cheerleader and Isaac kept painting pictures of a bomb going off in New York, so it seemed that the motto was more like, "Save the cheerleader, THEN save the world, because just saving the cheerleader ain't gonna cut it." The second half gave us "How do you stop an exploding man?" as the motto, but considering that no one really stopped the exploding man, this question wasn't actually answered. Instead, Nathan Petrelli showed up on the scene and flew his exploding brother up into the stratosphere as a presumed-dead Sylar somehow crawled into a sewer to take up residence with the cock-a-roaches.
By The TWoP Staff
Who in the hell would have thought that a television show about a bunch of ordinary people discovering their extraordinary powers would become such a damn hit? But it did. And how. The surprise combination of a subtly drawn-out supernatural story framework and heartfelt character arcs and interactions really formed the backbone of this series.
We had Mohinder, a non-superpowered professorial civilian, who kept us all in naps during his various voice-overs; Peter, a power absorber with a huge brother-shaped chip on his shoulder; Nathan, a political shark with a penchant for flying the friendly skies without a plane; Claire, a cheerleader with the ability to regenerate; Hiro, a Tokyo cubicle monkey who escaped his humdrum existence via his knack for traveling through space and time; Hiro's sidekick, Ando, who had a supernatural knack for making us laugh; Niki, a stripper whose alter ego spent much of her off-pole time killing people who got in her way; Micah, Niki's son, who could talk to machines and make them do his bidding; D.L., Niki's ex, who made capturing him difficult because he was always phasing through walls and stuff; Isaac, a druggie visionary who painted scenes from the future in comic book style; his girlfriend Simone, whose only superpower annoying the hell out of us; Mr. Bennett, whose only superpower was the power to be overprotective about his adopted daughter, Claire, and make us wonder on a daily basis whether or not he was actually one of the good guys; Matt Parkman, who could read people's minds and also irritate us on occasion; The Haitian, who could control people's minds and whose alliances are dubious; and finally, the universal baddie, Sylar, who ripped the skulls off Heroes and still managed to make us feel for him. But that could have been just because he was really hot.
For the first half of the season, the motto was "Save the cheerleader, save the world." But then Peter saved the cheerleader and Isaac kept painting pictures of a bomb going off in New York, so it seemed that the motto was more like, "Save the cheerleader, THEN save the world, because just saving the cheerleader ain't gonna cut it." The second half gave us "How do you stop an exploding man?" as the motto, but considering that no one really stopped the exploding man, this question wasn't actually answered. Instead, Nathan Petrelli showed up on the scene and flew his exploding brother up into the stratosphere as a presumed-dead Sylar somehow crawled into a sewer to take up residence with the cock-a-roaches.