Heroes Episode Guide - Chapter 1: Genesis

SPOILER ALERT!

I’m not going to give a full review of what happened in the episode, that can be found elsewhere (here is a good place to start) but rather say what I thought of it.

While trying to explain the show to someone else, they switched off as soon as I mentioned “superpowers”. But while they are the point of the show, it’s how they deal with them that I found intriguing. Claire the cheerleader struggling to cope, Peter and his politician brother have different ways of seeing their ability to fly (episode two and three explain that more), Niki isn’t even sure she has a power but is suspicious of her mirror image, Issac is freaked out and wants to destroy his paintings that depict the future and Hiro loves his powers and tries to convince his friend and others about it. It’s great characterisation and each little story progresses nicely and I’ve become invested in the characters already.

I do like the voiceover by Mohinder Suresh (the actor Sendhil Ramamurthy), I find it helps with the episode and put it into context - these are just normal people trying to live normal lives. It just happens they have superpowers.

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