been hooked to this show since it premiered a few weeks ago. move over wesley snipes (blade), hiro nakamura is the bomb!

micah's powers could be more powerful than his parents

Jenn can you burn me a DVD also my HD is full right now and haven't got the cash to get a new/bigger one

What series? I'm looking for alternative shows to get... with the break in between seasons, I'm running out of things to watch.

Yup! Hiro rocks!!!

Heroes Bootleg DVDs are already available for purchase... upto episode 9 nga lang.hhehhehe

I posted this in the Cybertron Philippines forums a couple of days ago.

Wizarduniverse's interview with Heroes creator Tim Kring



WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS!





















WIZARD: So Sylar is in captivity…

KRING: Yes. Sylar [Zachary Quinto] has been captured by H.R.G. [Jack Coleman], who was so clearly consumed with saving his daughter, Claire [Hayden Panetierre]. He is full of vengeance and wants to kill Sylar. He’d rather see him dead.
However, we get a sense that H.R.G.’s working for people above him and is caught in the middle—he’s a pawn essentially. He’s under orders and they’re not his wishes. [His bosses are] trying to figure out what makes Sylar special, what makes him able to absorb multiple powers where most people only have one.

Claire is caught in a sticky situation, too, after the Haitian doesn’t follow H.R.G.’s orders to erase her memory.

She will now be pretending not to remember anything while living under the same roof as her father, with her father believing she doesn’t recall [what happened that night].

WIZARD: Is there an underlying theme for the next half of the season, like “Save the Cheerleader, Save the World”?

KRING: Yes. Mohinder [Sendhil Ramamurthy] will seek out those on his father’s list to help them. The theme will be, “Are You on the List?”

And Hiro still has to prevent what happens to New York.

Hiro [Masi Oka] goes off on a new mission to find a sacred object that he needs in order to save the world, and that sacred object is a samurai sword. It’s going to be a very nice little arc of several episodes—“The Quest for the Sword.”

WIZARD: What’s going on with Matt Parkman?

KRING: Well, Matt [Greg Grunberg] has encountered H.R.G. and the Haitian [Jimmy Jean-Louis] and is starting to remember what happened to him, so he’s going after them. He’s in Odessa, Texas, trying to figure the whole thing out. He’s the lowly beat cop who is uncovering a huge conspiracy that is way over his head.

WIZARD: You’re adding new characters to the second half of the season. George Takei, Sulu from “Star Trek,” has been cast as Hiro’s father.

KRING: Yeah, that’s right. We’re adding Christopher Eccleston [“Doctor Who”], too. He’s a new character with abilities. If they’re coming on, who else could we add? [EDITOR’S NOTE: After this interview took place, “Nip/Tuck’s” Jessalyn Gilsig was announced to play an unspecified character.]

WIZARD: What kind of abilities will Eccleston’s character have? Is he good or evil?

You know, good or evil, he’s ambiguous. I will say this much: Every hero needs a mentor and a Yoda, so he becomes that for Peter [Milo Ventimiglia].

WIZARD: So he teaches Peter how to control his powers?

KRING: Yes.

WIZARD: If Peter has the ability to absorb other people’s powers, doesn’t that make him like Sylar?

KRING: Peter and Sylar are two halves of a similar coin. Both are able to absorb people’s powers, but in two very different ways. Peter’s is based on his empathy and his ability to connect with people and when he’s around them. Sylar actually has to take your brain and do something with it.

WIZARD: What else will we find out about Sylar?

KRING: Sylar’s storyline is much cleaner line than a lot of people think. He’s literally just a character who wanted to be special and he gets kind of f--ked up and becomes a serial killer. That’s all it is.

WIZARD: In the mid-season cliffhanger, we see Peter is responsible for the explosion in New York. Some people assumed Ted Sprague was going to be the cause of it.

KRING: Well, Ted [Matthew John Armstrong] still factor into it in a way because there has to be an explanation how Peter has absorbed enough power to do that.

Peter’s got to figure out how to use his power because he’s just overwhelmed. He gets more powerful and all jumbled up in a big mess. That’s where Chris [Eccleston] is going to come in. Chris becomes a real character on the show. He’s starting with an arc, and we’ll see where it goes. He becomes an integral character to the plot for several episodes.

WIZARD: Does Peter have the power to retain the powers he’s absorbed?

KRING: He doesn’t think that he does, but that’s part of what the whole Yoda mission is, to figure out how to access the file cabinet actually in there.

WIZARD: An early version of the pilot had a terrorist storyline. Do you plan to address that in a future arc or did you totally scrap that?

KRING: It’s completely scrapped and in some ways, Ted Sprague replaced the [terrorist] character as a radioactive man.

WIZARD: Where is Ted?

KRING: Ted disappeared at the end of Episode Nine and doesn’t show up again until 12. He breaks out. He’s abducted and then he breaks out.

WIZARD: Is he on the run? Like a Bruce Banner-type who can’t stay in one place too long because he’s afraid the authorities will catch up to him?

KRING: Yes, exactly, but he’s actually more kind of on their tail. He’s hell bent on finding out what happened to him. Ted is a really a fun character, but we drop him for several episodes while he’s out there in the wind.

WIZARD: Will we ever find out how everyone got their powers?

KRING: You know, there will be multiple theories that will arise, but I’ve always said—and it’s one of the things that sort of sets me apart from a lot of the comic book genre world—is that I’ve never been that fascinated by that part of the story. I posited a theory that it was evolutionary—mutations happen when the environment changes and becomes hostile. The ice age shows up and suddenly a hundred thousand species overnight develop fur. I mean, that’s just the way that nature has been.

So my original theory was that we’re living in such a f--ked-up world and things are so awful that Earth needed to populate itself with people who were going to do something about it.

That being said, we have an entire conspiracy theory that is going to run counter to that based on who H.R.G. is working for and what they’re all up to. That’s going to run countertheory to that eventually, that maybe these people were not…

WIZARD: Not what?

KRING: It’s all there. You’ll see. So your previous question, I’m not going to give an answer to that because that becomes a really fun part of the show. I feel very comfortable that people right now should be taking the initial premise of the show at its face value because they’ll have the most enjoyment if they do that.

Already got my copy, bro. Just finished watching the first episode.

This is another show that's totally awesome!!! You'll get hooked bro! You won't stop watching it coz every episode is bitin and would want to know what happens next.

Watched all 11 episodes from last Friday to Sunday! A Heroes marathon so to speak.

That's great news about peter. He could potentially be one of the most powerful of the group specially if he can still retain the abilities after being in contact with the host. (Kinda like Synch of Generation X).

kent1211
Just watched the second episode. I agree about getting hooked. I already am.

Just saw the trailer of Heroes on Star Movies. While the preview was being shown...there was this flashing message that said.....

NOT AVAILABLE IN THE PHILIPPINES.

I guess the rumors are true that Heroes will not be shown in PI via Star World.

Darn!!!!!!!

just a couple of short announcements:

1) Headsup, time to download episode 12
2) Please check out Heroes Philippines --> http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/heroesphil/
... Just like Cybertron Philippines, Heroes Philippines is a new member of New World's Alliance (NWA)
... We've met the guys behind Heroes Philippines... and they are a bunch of cool people...
... there's lots of things you can do in their yahoo group... read news... discuss the show in great detail..
... Aren't you glad that heroes has a solid following here in the Philippines even if it hasnt been shown on local tv.

episode 12 was great. they introduced a new hero, the invisible man

Yeah it was cool! I wonder if that guy who could erase memories can see him.

Did Peter see him coz he can absorb powers or all of those who have special powers can see him as well?

It is possible that a local channel might have gotten the rights to Heroes which may be the reason why Star couldn't show it.

Expect a dubbed version pretty soon.

Guess who's set to appear in the 16th episode of Heroes?

Although no plot was given...just gonna put a SPOILER tag just the same....








"The Man"