Heroes Magazine

A Heroic Point

If you woke up and discovered you had secret powers which would make your boss’s life a misery and your children suddenly easy to get along with, would you embrace them or get rid of them? (The powers, not the children; this blog does not endorse that).

As with all super-hero types who really don’t know how good they’ve got it, Heroes sees seemingly every-day people blessed with super wow-wow powers suddenly deciding that no, they don’t really want to More

Heroes – character representation

One of the things that first endeared me to Heroes was its diversity of characters. Not only were there a great deal of strong female characters who had important roles to play—the cheerleader who has to save the world, anyone?—but there was also a variety of characters from a number of different ethnic backgrounds. While the show was still not exactly representative of the diverse cultural mix found in our society, it certainly thumbed its nose at the generally unrepresentative More

Heroes – the art of plotting

I have to admit that I was a bit slow in sitting down to watch the much-hyped Heroes. After the recent slew of Hollywood blockbusters revolving around mutants, government plots, and crazed criminals, I thought that I might give it a miss. After all, a cheerleader whose role is to save the world?

But when I finally sat down to watch it, I was utterly hooked. In fact, I whizzed through the first season on a Saturday—albeit an entire Saturday, More

Heroes!

We are in the middle of the fourth season after the first one started on Sept. 25, 2006 and it is only getting better. Our favourite cheerleader Claire Bennet is now in university kissing other girls, and we are still not really quite sure what is going on with Peter Petrelli. The LA based filming is produced by the equally LA based Universal Studios, who are really turning out some gems lately, with House in the sixth season, and the unforgettable Twin Peaks due to be rereleased in 2010.

Anyway, Hereos gained an audience of on average 14.3 million viewers in the United States alone, ranking it the highest rated NBC drama in five years. Heroes has also received BATAs, Peoples choice Awards, Primetime Emmy’s, and Golden Globes.

Along with the TV show there are endless, graphic novels, promotional material, and even a Hereos webseries called Going Postal between Seasons 2 and 3. So watch this space for news on the show, characters and so much more!