[Hero]

Take your pick for the article by the AP's Frazier Moore. It is a positive review, but HEROES IS different than LOST (although the comparison* isn't bad). End of the article:

Something fresh and skillfully executed, "Heroes" is like nothing else on TV. Unless it's an obsessed-upon ABC hit about a large group of people likewise trying to make sense of their world under pressure. With "Heroes," could NBC have found its "Lost"?

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EDITOR'S NOTE - Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore(at)ap.org

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DL- People are already mentioning our two shows in the same breath -- but other than large ensemble casts (which even shows like Desperate and Grey's employ) and a leaning towards the "unexplained," I don't really see many similarities... that is to say, in my humble opinion, HEROES is wildly original and not at all derivative of LOST. Does it piss you off to be described as "Lost-like," or is this something you embrace?

TK- I have gotten this question many times already and the simple answer is that I fully embrace the comparisons and look at it only as a positive. I can certainly see why people are asking it. They know very little about HEROES yet and at first blush you can make the comparison for the reasons you laid out. Hopefully, they will do this less and less as they get to know the show and see it for its differences. However, that being said, the shows are linked in many ways. The truth is there is no way that HEROES could have been made without LOST having paved the way for a large, serialized saga. It not only prepared the audience for this kind of storytelling, but the networks as well.

So it would be disingenuous of me to try to distance myself from LOST for those reasons and others. Not the least of which is our relationship. After all, the first person I called when I came up this idea, was you. It wasn't just that I've always loved your story sense and the way you think, but I clearly was picking your brain about your experience on how to undertake this "type" of show, given what you've learned on your steep learning curve on LOST. So, like it or not, buddy boy, you and I can't distance ourselves too much from each other. After all, that moment at the end of the pilot that everyone loves (and I always take credit for) was YOUR IDEA!