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Xenocythe
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It's honestly AMAZING. Does anyone else watch all the episodes? It is, by far, the best show to ever hit my television. It's so smart, clever, suspensful, and just makes you think about it every day until the next episode comes on.

If you disagree, I really wonder what kind of shows you like with that taste. So if you think there is a better show, point it out


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I watched the first episode and found it very pretentious. Irritating dialogue and annoying characters--- very disappointed given the hype.

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i think lost is the greatest show. i tried watching heros but it was too... boring? save the cheerleader, save the world. every episode? whats going to happen after they save the cheerleader who apparently cant get killed anyways.. i dont keep up with the show.

the office is a great one too. i been watching since the start and its so funny lol
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I don't regale shows as much as i used to, its all the same patterns nowadays.
I do like comedic shows like little britain, black books etc.. sometimes.
I haven't seen the hero show so i'm not sure about what you like dislike.
Im going to cancel my cable next year, I cant see the price in it anymore.

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Heroes is by far my favorite show. Then again, I don't watch tv that often (Only Sunday nights on Fox and when Heroes is on)

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Posted: 21st Nov 2006 09:04 Edited at: 21st Nov 2006 09:07
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My list of favorite shows I watch all the time:

Lost
Dr. Who
Stargate SG1
Stargate Atlantis
Dexter
Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
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My favourite show is definitely BSG. Haven't seen heroes, although the name would put me off straight away

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Never heard of heroes....

I like battlestar though.

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I like Heroes - the character 'Hiro' is just the best! I did wonder if it was going to suffer because of its own popularity (just like Lost has) but so far it's stayed true. That, and CSI Vegas (with 'My Name is Earl' for comedy) are pretty much the only things I'll bother turning a telly on for.

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Hiro is the man. I am interested in the show because of the fact that it's taking the concept of super heroes but not dressing them up in spandex and makes it more appealing to the mass. Can't wait to learn more about Sylar though, his killings are so brutal (like the wrong cheerleader in the last episode).

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Penny Arcade raves about Heroes so much (It's the new Lost, apparently).

I'll try and watch the first episode...

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I love heroes. Hiro is definitely completely awesome.

Quote: "with 'My Name is Earl' for comedy"

Represent!

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I like the scene in the subway where the future Hiro talks about the cheerleader. The guy is a great actor... the future Hiro looked like he had been through many things in his life... he was no longer the almost kid like current Hiro that get excited so easily with "hero" stuff.
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BSG my top show, I watch Heroes but do not go out of my way to watch it. Still love Law and Order and the Simpsons as well. SG-1 was my favorite but the last few seasons have benn Uggh. and Atlantis has never really captured my interest, think because I don't like any of the characters. Futurama reruns and Robot CHicken get alot of watching also.

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Hahahaha...

"Yata!!!"

I love that. My favorite characer has to be Peter though. He just seems like the coolest so far.



The only problem is that dumb thing 'Save the cheerleader, save the world' that they put in the commercials. I saw that, and I thought it would be incredibly stupid. Haha, how wrong I was.



Don't read this if you are going to start watching, or haven't watched up to date.




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Interesting theory.

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Quite compelling. But that would leave the "villian" spot seemingly empty.

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No it wouldn't. I have a perfect theory for that too.

Don't read this either non-watching folks.



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It's constantly being speculated that HRG is the villian.

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... what's HRG?


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Heroes is great, but Prison Break is even better!!

What if there's a tv show about programmers???

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There is, Jake 2.0, the I.T. Crowd, plus numerous films such as firewall, the net, swordfish. Never forget, hacking is just programming designed for harm rather than good.

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I watched the first episode of Heroes today just to judge it for myself. It's a mildly interesting show with a little potential, but the cheerleader's sticking out ribs, and her hand sent up alarm bells for me. These things can be done in a far more tasteful way. The producers will have to produce greater and greater shocks which are likely to become more and more discusting as the seasons progress. No, I don't think I'll bother with the show from this point onwards. Cheap shock tactics so earily on, is more often than not a sign of weak writing.

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Kenjar, it does get worse for her in later episodes. But I don't think their goal is to make the watchers throw up everytime something happens to her.
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Yeah... you're judging a show by... that. That's not the essence of the show. It's about how ordinary people start to realize that they may in fact be extraordinary and could make a difference in the world, but not sure how to cope, not knowing how this all happened, not knowing how to control it, not knowing why they have these powers. Not about grossing out the audience with her injuries and being able to recover it, not about Sylars brutal murders, but about the 'heroes' and their lives.

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One of my all time favourate films is Unbreakable. It was tastefully done, adult, moving, and had a classic comic book twist at the end. The film managed to capture the essance of a classic comic book story and turn it into a great film.

Heroes appears to be ripping off the X-Men theme, and is turning it into a more adult show by allowing a depressed teenager to muteliate herself, speaking towards all those people out there who are into self harm. I've been like that myself, so beleive me I understand intimately what they are trying to portay, but having her hold up her bloodied hand is not cool, it's not nice, it's going far too far, espically for a first episode, and now it's been done the pressure is on to top that with something even nastier. Frankly, I'm not interested in seeing it. Which is a shame, because Hiro is quite cool, and the twist at the end wasn't bad. But when I watch a show, I want to be able to eat my dinner to it. The quaility of the dialog, the overall mood, and the very X-Men theme don't have a chance of making up for the potential gore.

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You honestly have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

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Which part of the post didn't make sense to you?

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Besides the fact that you don't seem to have any clue as to what the show is actually about?

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A bunch of people discover they have superhuman abilities (aka X-Men) they now have to learn to deal with these abilites (aka X-Men) girl with superhuman healing powers (Wolverine), bloke who can fly (arcangel but without the wings), power over mirrors (Mirror Master (actually the flash, not x-men)), teleportation (Nightcrawler), plus 1 seemingly unpowered human genuios scientist (that bloke off Mutant-X (which was also a kind of X-Men rip off)). The only relitively original idea is the bloke who can see the future when high.

This show is really appealing to everyone who has sat there on their own, and imagined that they could do something special. I think most imaginative people have looked at a pencil and wondered if they could move it with their mind, it's a classic fantasy. People also fantasise about just flying off, or never being able to be hurt. But like I say, having watched the first episode, I don't think that I want to deal with the potential scenes of gore, there are other ways of dealing with it. If you like that sort of thing, more power to you. But in my opnion it's way too far for a pilot episode.

I'm going to stick with smallville instead.

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I agree with Kenjar's analysis of the show.

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Kenjar, I really don't think their trying to make suicide seem cool to kids. It's just to show that she's invincible and can't die. Please watch a few more shows before you dismiss it entirely... you might actually like it when you see what the other characters go through.
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Okay, I will watch 2 more episodes, unless there are excessively graphical scenes in the next one with the depressed, self harming teenager. Also please bare in mind, that self harm is not suicide, it's something extremely depressed people do so they can feel something, this is due mostly to an overloaded nerver system.

Also, please note that while Wolverine could power his way though pain, and was often hurt doing something heroic, he never the less did feel tremendous pain. Certainly in the film's he'd cry out if suddanly stabbed or injured in another way. The depressed cheerleader on the other hand seems very detatched reguarding that sort of thing with morbid fasination rather than the horror it really is.

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She's not self-harming, there you go again....

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Um, she stuck her hand down a garborator in the first episode. I would call that self-harming

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Also walking into the fire to see if it perminantly harmed her, and of cause jumping off a high structure. I dunno about you, but even if I could heal extremely quickly I'd be less than enthusiastic about pushing the limits of my abilities. Mind you, I don't trust my luck at all, I'd prob end up with brain damage, and when it healed up I'd lost part of my memories. After all, DNA has the code to grow the body in the first place, great. What it does not have is a blueprint of our memories, and if it did, then the character would not actually need a brain at all.

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Actually she's decided to realize who she really is and is now no longer a self-harming, depressed teenager, but a OMG I can do something no one else can and now this guy with weird psychic abilities is trying to kill me

Oh BTW, I watch Smallville too, the Zod/Clark fight was SICK!

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Is sick good?

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When I was a kid I had a weak stomach. I would throw up just looking at anything I thought was gross or smelled bad. Now that I'm older I don't do that. I can eat while watching just about anything even real surgery.

In Heroes though it's all fake. The blood is colored sugar... the bone is plastic... the skin is rubber. Just keep remembering it's all fake and it won't gross you out.
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