[Sam]

Another positive review for the 55-minute "Heroes" pilot thanks to reader Miguel.

http://www.heroestheseries.com/anoth...ew-for-heroes/

[PlayaHata]

good review. he gets right to the point and sounds really enthusiastic about it. here i've copied his review below:

Okay, any show that has Ali Larter half naked in the first five minutes is four out of four stars, no questions asked. But seriously, in addition to Ali Larter, this pilot really rocks.

Very X-men like, the show opens with a Professor giving a lecture to his class on changes that are happening in the human body. In other words evolution is happening, causing people to develop extraordinary powers. The pilot introduces us to each of these people (except for Greg Grunberg and the other cast regular Leonard Roberts, who were strangely cut out of the 55 minute pilot I saw), and the powers that they have.

The Characters:

- Peter Petrelli - works as a private nurse, keeps having visions of himself falling from a building towards his brother.

- Nathan Petrelli - cynical brother of Peter who is running for Congress. Doesn't pay attention to Peter when he wants to talk about his dreams, and doesn't have time for his mother who has acting out (ex: shoplifting) after their father's death.

- Niki Sanders - a single mom in Vegas who's job is stripping for men via web cam. Niki, while trying to get her very gifted son (Micah) into private school, borrowed money from loan sharks and is two weeks overdue. By the way - loan sharks don't like that. She has the most mysterious power of the whole cast though, a doppelganger self, who apparently has a violent streak.

- Claire Bennet- a girl in Texas who discovers she is unbreakable. In other words she can fall 80 feet smack on her face and get up, all without leaving a bruise. She is popular at her school, and just wants to lead a normal life (very Buffy like).

- Isaac - a very gifted artist who paints images of the future. His girlfriend (Simone) becomes worried about him when he says he can't remember painting any of the pictures.

- Hiron Akamura - a humorous man in Japan who figures out he can bypass the time space continuum. Basically he can stop time and teleport.

- Mohinder Suresh - the professor in India mentioned above, who’s father recently died. Mohinder believes that his father was killed because of his research and theories that the human genome is changing. He travels to New York to pick up his father's papers, and finds that a mysterious man is following him.

Pilots always are a tough task, and very much like Lost, this pilot has to introduce you to a rather large cast of people and give you background on their lives, who they are, their families/friends, meanwhile making sure you remain entertained. The pilot does a pretty good job of that, and by the end of the episode it looks like an Apocalypse could be right around the corner. That’s always entertaining.

The writers do a good job of intertwining the characters lives. You know Peter? Well he is caring for a man whose daughter happens to be Simone, the girlfriend of the gifted artist. Yeah and that mysterious man following Mohinder, he's the father of another core character in the cast.

The acting is very good, and one thing this pilot has going for it is that it will appeal to a wide range audience. It has a teenager just trying to be a normal teen, a mother struggling to do what's best for her son, a man trying to care for his mother while all his selfish brother cares about is preserving his campaign image. The pilot is really about normal people discovering they have not so normal powers, while trying to lead out their lives, and discovering the hero that lies within. This can be best seen with Claire in the pilot, as she uses her special ability to rescue a man in a burning train.

The pilot may be a little slow, but the writers had so much to stuff in that I'll forgive them. The episode provided a good launching pad for the series. With likeable characters and a nice twist at the end of the episode, I know I'll be checking in to see what happens next.

[The_Heroic_Loser]

It's cool that yet another person likes the pilot. I think that's about a thousand good reviews compared to the one bad review by Televisionary!