WE DON'T NEED ANOTH -- OH, ACTUALLY, WE COULD USE ANOTHER HERO: Say you're sick, and rather than staying up for S60 you're hunkering down to watch it in bed, and your clock says it's on in 15 minutes, but your clock is exactly 16 minutes fast so that you can hit snooze twice and still get up at exactly 6:02, and you turn the channel to NBC so that if you accidentally pass out, you can just rewind the TiVo and not miss anything. Then you basically pay little attention to what's going on on the tube (reading about the Fighting 442nd), noting that it involves some people that seem totally unrelated to each other, and -- assuming that this is Six Degrees -- you pay no attention. Then you see the tortured lab guy from Scrubs speaking Japanese, and you're at least mildly interested. And then Ali Larter's mirror image kills somebody, and you're thinking this is intriguing. And then Hayden "Purveyor of Bread" Panettiere mangles up her hand and just as quickly fixes it, and you remember that this is Heroes, and all along you were going to tape this because Sepinwall said so.
Granted, I only actually paid attention to the last 15 minutes, but I was totally hooked enough that I'm going to remember to record the whole thing tonight (in the TiVo age, rerunning pilots is very smart). What's not to like? A Lost-like mythology, some likeable characters and actors, Road to Perdition-like production design, a disaster-prone cheerleader who suffers a you-killed-Kenny mangling a few times every episode, and a superhero story. I'm a sucker for reinterpretations of the superhero myth (I loved Unbreakable, for example), so I imagine I'm going to love this. Did anybody else watch?
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