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Heroes is well known across the USA, and such is the speed of communication
Heroes is of course well known across the USA, and such is the speed of communication via the internet that a series that now takes almost a whole year to debut on British terrestrial TV seems positively ancient. The reasons of course are due to the complex political situation governing British television, but nonetheless it's less than two months before series Two starts in the USA. For those who have somehow missed it, the opening premise is relatively simple. A group of disparate people start to show superhuman abilities; The first episode opens with Private nurse Peter Petrelli dreaming of being able to fly. But when he tells his brother, Nathan of his presence in his dreams, Nathan brushes him off -- he has after all, a Congressional election to win. In India, scientist Mahinder Suresh is lecturing a university class when he is informed that his geneticist father has been murdered while working as a cabbie in New York. He flies to New York and takes over his father's cab route. In Texas cheerleader Claire Bennett (Hayden Panettiere) is filmed by a friend hurling herself off a gantry to certain death. As she climbs to her feet (surreally, still in cheerleader's uniform) she says, "That's attempt number six." And In Las Vegas, internet porn actress Niki Sanders (Ali Larter) scrambles to get her young son out of the house ahead of the mob enforcers who are chasing her for money owed. Her refelction stares back at her out of the mirror, but the reflection is in a different pose to Niki. In Japan office-worker and Star Trek Geek Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) shuts his eyes and concentrates so fiercely that his cheeks puff out -- and the clock begins to move backward. To convince his sceptical friend, he teleports -- first into the ladies room in a bar, from which he is thrown out, and then -- to New York. Where artist Issac Mendez has painted a picture that matches perfectly the cover of a newspaper showing a burning Israeli bus. But Isaac has painted the terrorist bomb blast three weeks earlier... Heroes opens glacially slowly, particularly when compared to 'Utopia' -- the Doctor Who episode -- shown barely two hours before the start of Heroes. Each character has their few minutes of screen time to establish their prsence, the script slowly, slowly opening out like a flower unfolding. But this is deliberate, and no bad thing. While Doctor Who may be like a manic Japanese chef hyper-kinetically stir-frying sushi, Heroes is more like slow-cooking, where each ingredient is savoured.
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