i love this show

i had never seen a single episode of this show until a friend suggested it to me and i finally broke down and started watching it. i couldn't stop. i watched the entire first season in 2 days. it is intriguing, fun, and exciting. also alot of other adjectives. if you like comic books, or even just a good, solid storyline, you will love this show. but don't take my word for it. lol.

Philosophy, Superheroes, and every day living

I do not think you really mean what you said when you wrote that the show is only for simple minded people. You're only looking at the show on a very superficial level. If any other person wants to watch this show, then you should also do some self reflection upon yourself as you are watching the episodes and the story arcs.

The show deals with many morals that affects all of us but we don't really talk about anymore. It also casts a "new" light on super heroes ("new" because an attempt was made in the 80's with a graphic novel titled "Watchmen" but nobody really remembers it now) . The general paradigm of a superhero is probably one that is very much like superman: omnipotent and almost omniscient.

In heroes, we are forced to re-think the image of a hero: we always think that the superhero has the highest morals and always does the right thing. In Heroes, we see that the basic element that connects all heroes (human or alien) is that they have human emotions that often blur their decision making and can make the strongest heroes fall due to the hard grip of emotions.

There are also many other things that one can talk about with regards to this show including personal identity, ethics & morality (especially utilitarianism, Kantianism, and moral duty), existentialism, and even metaphysics.

The greeks and other great writers created fictitious stories not only to just "pass the time" but we really learn a lot about ourselves when we study other people; especially if those other people are very different from ourselves.

superb.

As a comic book fan, and a film lover it is great to get to see the two mediums combined every week! I am from the u.k and I loved this series, although the plot went slightly skew in the middle quarter the momentum that built toward the climax was superb even if the ending was only an eight out of ten. Ali Larter is superb, and I found her and sylar to be the best characters on the show. But to be honest I loved everybody aprt from..... Hiro! Yes I sound evil but I didn't like his character at all. He was comic relief at first but then he seemed to irritate me a lot. I hope they up the ante for this show in season two, although I think Sylar should have died I think keeping him alive speaks of a lack of creative ideas for season two. Lets have a fresh baddy with the bogey man that is mentioned toward the end of this season. I loved Heroes because it was dark and showed that comic book kids that were called geeks at school (well I was!) now dominate the world of enetertainment, is also nice to see Tim Sale's art on screen and Jeph Loeb's writing skills out there for all to watch. Buy It Heroes is an experience not just a t.v show.