Heroes: Pilot review

I took a look at the pilot for NBC's Heroes, one of the new shows in their fall lineup. Nyanko has blogged briefly about this show already, specifically posting to a preview on thefutoncritic.

I'm not going to get into anything that actually happens in the pilot, since that'd be spoilery, and you are all going to watch this show eventually so that wouldn't be very nice. Heroes is bound to draw some comparisons to Lost, and I believe one of the producers left Lost to join this show.

In case you haven't figured out yet, Heroes is about some ordinary people who seem to suspect something is different about them, and end up discovering that they have superpowers, basically. These are not all good people, and all but a couple of them so far wish that they didn't have these powers, or don't even know what to do about them.

It's always fun to watch regular people be awesome and fight crime, but Heroes is much darker than you might expect. It starts off with some spiel about how these heroes will do more than just save the world, so you expect some fight against alien invaders, but it obviously isn't so sci-fi. The darkness comes from the fear and lack of understanding that most of the characters have concerning their powers, and of course there is always the overarching mystery that covers the series. Oh, and there's blood.

In this series, the big overarching mystery is not just how they got their powers and what will they do with them, but the fact that everyone is linked somehow, and there seems to be a mysterious organizing out looking for them. I suspect subsequent episodes will reveal more about their powers and how they learn to harness them and reveal them to others, as well as more about who's out looking for them, most likely trying to control them for their own diabolical purposes.

Heroes is premiering September 25th, airing on NBC Mondays at 9 pm. This blog was not paid for by anyone, unfortunately.