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