A Complete Guide to NBC's Heroes

A few corrections/add-ons I’d like to make: -Peter got his powers back because he injected himself with the power-giving serum. I totally missed that on a rewatch, my bad. -I didn’t mean to imply that streaming existed in 2006. What I was trying to point out was that this was a transition period between old school cable and streaming. Entire shows were easier to watch in order through things like video on demand, dvr, dvd box sets, and buying episodes on itunes. This is one reason why more serialized shows were successful at this time. -Tim Kring announced a revival series in April called Heroes Eclipsed. The video was already done by the time I heard about it, otherwise I would have mentioned it.

"heroes reborn? there was a reboot of heroes? How did I never hear about this?" > The first thing it does is kill off claire offscreen "oh. Nevermind."

Nobody knew what streaming was when this show came out. My roommate and I got DVDs through Netflix through the mail.

that was the original plan for the HEROES show as each season(Volume) was supposed to be self-contained but connected to the overall world of HEROES, but the season 1(Volume 1) cast became really popular and NBC didn't think that introducing a new cast every season(Volume) would be good for the show.

Watched whole show on air. It's so strange how awesome it is and how much it lacks. It's like it trails you along, making you think it's going to get better... the atmosphere tricks you the entire time. I enjoyed it. And I wanted more. I was very said when spoiler dies and how they went into final season, but I loved it.

When Heroes first came out I downloaded 6 min long pieces of new episodes (8 videos per episode) at my work computer with a high speed Internet. Put them into a USB go home and watch it with my GF. When Hiro's timeline was revealed, I thought it was the coolest scene I have ever seen. I was 23. Great video! Thanks for putting it together! That does not change the fact that we are all idiots to watch the entire series at least twice over :))

I'm pretty sure Peter took the serum in order to get abilities again. So that would explain a difference in powers but it always confused me that he just got a watered down version of what he already had.

I know it gets so dumb near the end but it's still one of my favorite tv shows. I used to have the collectors editions of each season on dvd back in the day.

The motto 'Save the cheerleader , save the world' was cool. 1st 4 episodes 3xplored who was super powered and were good. Biggest mistake was focusing on Silar. Loved Hiro and his buddy.

I stopped watching Heroes because of Silar. He was a great villain, until he became a heroe...then a long lost brother, then NOT a long lost brother, and back to a villain. Also, fuck Peter for leaving Caitlin in the future and forgetting about her like the next episode.

One huge mistake they made with Heroes was to reverse direction on not having sacred characters. When the show began no character was safe from being killed off, but unfortunately Hayden, Milo, and Zachary became so popular they reversed course. This was a huge mistake. There was no suspense knowing the show was no longer willing to truly kill off a character. The network chose to appease the type of fan who can't live without their favorites at the expense of the show.

FYI NBC was broadcast tv and not cable. My friends and I loved the first season so much we would have monday night watch parties every week (not something I'd never done before or since).

The eclipse was annoying because when it took the powers away, they strongly implied that the eclipse in the first episode was what gave them powers. Except they seemingly forgot that the first season had an episode set months before the first episode where they already had powers anyway.

This show has one of my favorite moments ever, when hero first teleports to timesquare.

I saw this when it aired and I watched it all, even the reboot fiasco. One thing they did that was fun was an interactive element. During each episode premiere, you would go to the site on your phone and it would have polls, behind the scenes information, plot hints, character backstories, stuff like that. Sometimes it would ask the audience to guess what would happen next and you'd get to see whether or not everyone was right. TV shows using the internet to get the audience to participate were so innovative during this time period. Lost was another one that really tried to be multimedia before social media was really a thing.

The Nathan and Peter goodbye seen got me the worst. When they are hanging of the building and Nathan is about to be lost to Syler taking his body and mind back. Their relationship reminded me of my brother and I balled like a baby. 😂😂

Thank you for this video. Heroes is my all time favorite TV show because it felt like our story as opposed to X-Men with "mutations" like Beast or Toad...Heroes made it personal and relatable to anyone who ever felt like an outcast. None the less, it's my favorite for the way it made me feel about my real life. Thank you again for this guide; executed perfectly.

Love the video, but there is one thing to address; Peter had his original empathic mimicry powers taken away by his dad (because it was wayyy too op), and he got them back when taking one of the last remaining vials of the serum before Arthur’s building blew up. That’s why his new powers are slightly different. Edit: Hiro got his powers back because of Parkman jr. Which means that Arthur is taking the powers away, but since they’re genetic, if an outside force can kickstart the gene again, you’re all good.

I'm a completionist, when i start watching something, I have to watch it to the end. Heroes, by the end of the first season proved that it had no direction or plan. Everything about it was pointless. It was so bad, that it managed to break my completionist instincts. I was never able to finish this. I had such high hopes and it would be easy to make it an amazing show by better planning and interweaving the plots but no, it was like each episode writer was just told to continue the previous episode, with no other direction

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