Heroes NBC Monday 9/8cst pm

Ep 1x2

Hiro worship… Well no, its called "don't look back"

Ok, I’ve taken to watching the new NBC series Heroes. The first episode was a setting of the stage, introducing the characters, the setup and what not. There is the prerequisite Indian doctor whose father had a theory about people with extraordinary abilities that live secretly amongst us, and how to track these people. Then we have the Cheerleader with a healing factor. The Japanese comic book geek who can teleport, the artist who paints the future, the webcam girl who has an evil twin, and brother of a senate hopeful who thinks he can fly. Amongst a few others introduced.

Claire Bennet

D.L. Hawkins

Hiro Nakamura

Isaac Mendez

Matt Parkman

Micah Sanders

Mohinder Suresh

Nathan Petrelli

Niki Sanders

Peter Petrelli

Simone Deveraux

So, we have the stage set. The second episode surprised me greatly. It was far more enjoyable than the first episode.

We start off with Claire Bennet, the stereotypical cheerleader with a healing factor. Clair’s father tells her not to worry to keep things light and fun as long as she can… Then an ominous look at the newspaper report about the train wreck. Later at school she is almost revealed as the one who rescued the man in the train wreck from the previous episode, only to have one of her fellow cheerleaders take credit, which she is happy for, but kind of pissed off at the cheerleader for getting the attention. Then her sidekick informs her that the tape of her testing her new powers has disappeared. In the process she collides with a football player and has her head turned all the way around back. Good cover. Then her father (adopted) tells her that he asked the adoption agency to find her real parents to make contact, and it might take years upon years.

Next we move to Mohinder Suresh who comes hoem from a hard days work to find a man in his apartment. The man, claims to be a pest control guy, but is under the table bugging Mohinders apartment. They scuffle, the exterminator pulls a gun. During another scuffle as he tries to get away the exterminator loses his gun and the pretty girl down the hall™ gets the gun and the exterminator runs away. Of course pretty girl™ recognizes his name and knew his father. They find a flash drive, and find Mohinders fathers proof of how to find the super powered beings.

Then we have Hiro! I have to say that my favourite character in this series so far is Hiro. He speaks very little English, but is an excellent character none the less. He is a big sloppy wet kiss to fan boys everywhere. After using his powers to reach New York he finds a comic book on a bookstand with him on the cover. Flipping through he recognizes his own story. This leads him to the writer of the comic, who is the fellow spb Isaac Mendez.. Of course as soon as he gets there he finds Isaac’s body on the floor his head cut open and his brain missing. Then the cops bust in…

Niki Sanders. She is a webcam girl, with some unfortunate connections to lowlifes. She is supporting herself with webcam work, and last episode had to deal with waking up to a room full of destruction and corpses. This week she is in panic mode, and is fleeing the scene of the crime. Going back to the house with her son to grab some things she finds the garage completely put back together and the bodies missing. Also, she finds the keys to the convertible hanging from a rope in the garage. The cars papers have also been made out in her name. There is a heart note on the back telling her “in the trunk follow the map…” The bodies are in the trunk, and look rather destroyed. She follows the map into the desert.. to find a shovel in the sand. Digging a hole she finds more decayed bodies…

Then we have the Petrelli brothers. First mother Petrelli came in and admits that their father killed himself, and suffered from depression and delusions of grandeur. She is worried that the same thing is happening to her son and tells him that he is her favourite and she couldn’t stand to lose him. Later Peter is on the roof and Nathan comes to talk him down. Peter wants Nathan tell him that he flew, and that he’s not crazy. Nathan tells him that they both flew. That he was too heavy and they were falling and then they both started falling. Peter doesn’t believe him. And walks towards him… Nathan tells him to look down and peter realizes that he is floating like three feet off the ground. They hug, Peter looks happy, Nathan seems mad.

Finally we have Matt Parkman, a beat cop who is on the scene at a double homicide, this is a pretty gruesome scene. The wife has been nailed to the banisters on the stairwell with knives and pokers, the father frozen completely solid and his brain sawed out of his head. Matt can hear a little girl whispering though… she is whispering please don’t hurt me… please don’t hurt me. He tunes right in on her and finds her in her hiding space under the stairs. This draws the attention of the FBI agents who are handing the case and think it might be a seriel killer called Syler, one doesn’t believe it the other does. After being questioned by the Scully of the team Matt is dismissed, but the Mulder keeps questioning him, and starts to insinuate that maybe he set this whole scene up to make himself look good and become a detective. A misunderstanding because of his powers leads to Matt being arrested.

The end of the episode though.. That’s the kicker. He tells the cops interviewing him how he teleported from Japan… Getting them to call his friend who can speak English he finds out he has been gone for 5 weeks and has been missing the whole time. Then we hear rumbling and a flash of light... They all stand to look out the window and see waves of light and a destructive blast wave heading for them.. Buildings are destroyed as waves of destruction come across the city. Concentrating the world dissolves behind Hiro, and he is back on the Japanese Subway where he started… We know now when the nuclear explosion hits, its Nov 8^th… Oh, and Hiro is an honorary member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society!! Geekgasm!!

Very Very good show.