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[Alicia]

I finally got caught up on this show, but I may have missed an episode or two. Does anyone else watch this? It's really good and some shows can get kinda creepy, almost scary movie-like. It comes on on Mondays at 9pm on NBC.

[Kristen Smith]

I tivo it each week. I may miss it today since I am supposed to go over to your house and play your Wii.

[acheron]

I got hooked on this a couple weeks ago -- downloaded the whole season and got caught up in time for last week's new ep. It's pretty awesome so far, and I would be happy if they did not screw it up.

[emily]

I have to say, I'm fairly obsessed with this show, and I can't even watch it. I work when it's on, no TV, no on in my family can figure out how to record shit off of the satelite dish, and I can never figure out when they re-air on Sci-Fi or USA, though odds are I'm working then too. So I'm left just reading the recaps.

[Alicia]

If you go to that website I put up, they have the last episodes playing there each week. So last week's is up there right now, in 6 different parts. Also, they're downloadable off of iTunes for like $2 an episode, that's how I caught up.

[Spoodles]

Next to the American version of The Office, there isn't another show on TV that I'm looking forward to more. The only other show I've ever had that feeling about was 24. Sure, Lost is good, and so is Prison Break, but I'm never DYING to see new episodes. I'm not entirely sure what it is about Heroes, but it gets me but good.

Next week is Heroes' fall finale, and I'm pretty broken up over the whole thing.

[Jon]

I have to say, I'm fairly obsessed with this show, and I can't even watch it. I work when it's on, no TV, no on in my family can figure out how to record shit off of the satelite dish, and I can never figure out when they re-air on Sci-Fi or USA, though odds are I'm working then too. So I'm left just reading the recaps.

If you have a broadband connection, torrents are your Lord and Savior.

My favorite torrent sites are

http://www.thepiratebay.org
http://www.mininova.com (these extensions could be wrong, I'm at work and typing these off memory)

The best torrent client I've come across is BitLord (http://www.bitlord.com).

[emily]

Right, but I dont really have internet access anywhere but at work, and it's not the most convenient place to be watching tv.

[Kristen Smith]

I think people like this show because it is basically like X-men only without the ridiculous hair. If you look at the characters in Hereos and X-men a lot of them have powers in common. Although I like X-men more.

[Jordo]

BTJunkie.org is a good website as well.

It's funny, but initially I thought Heroes would only last like three episodes. This was coupled with the fact that my friend said the pilot was just horrible, so I blew it off until the buzz started. I caught up with the show when they aired a Heroes marathon, and I've been hooked ever since. Jim and I are both under the consensus that we'd bang the shit out of Claire.

[Casey]

I think Heroes is my least favorite of the TV shows I watch regularly right now (Heroes, Studio 60, Lost, The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs) but it's still pretty good. I will admit the plot has gotten better/more interesting recently, but the dialog is still a pile of dog shit. There's usually two or three lines in every episode that make everyone watching it with me sit up and go "W T F was that?" because they say something so cliche or awkward.
Lost took a while for me to get really hooked on it, so while I'm not saying there's any writing or performances on par with Lost in this show, I think it could at least get to be a pretty okay show by the end of this season.

[Spoodles]

You're going to have to wait a few months, as Hayden Panettierre is only seventeen years old.

[Jim]

We know. That was the first thing that we discussed. And while I'm generally not one to admit that I would have sex with a minor, I made an exception for Panettierre.

Anyhow, as for the show, it really is fucking great. Hiro just might be my favorite character on TV right now. Also, I love how gory it is for a 9/8 central TV show. Last week's episode was particularly gore-filled.

[Terry Cheesecake]

The worst part of Heroes is the bullshit voiceover that the Indian guy does at the start and end of every episode.

The best part of Heroes is Hiro.

Did you know?

The guy that plays Hiro is some kind of whizz kid who also works for ILM. Also he's been on the cover of Time magazine.

[Alicia]

Super Hiro.



I don't know if I could pick a favorite. They're all pretty cool.

[Mally]

I really like Heroes, and I was completely taken aback when I found out it was getting good ratings. Every other new show I've watched in the past 3 years, that I have really gotten into, has tanked and died in anywhere from 4 to 9 episodes. Yes, the curse is broken! I think.

I've watched it from the beginning and get more excited about it every week. Hiro is definitely my favorite. I only taped the pilot, and I wish I had taped all the others, but I may download them. There are so many "little things" that I think can be noticed once you go back and re-watch, things you missed the first time because they only become significant when certain information is given in later episodes.

I'm sometimes annoyed by the dialogue, too, so I can't say the show is perfect, but it's a small annoyance and I am pretty thrilled whenever Monday comes around.

Hiatus? Nooo!!! Well, I figured as much, but whine nonetheless.

[Hanstock]

Every TV show has moments of terrible dialogue. Go back and rewatch the first few seasons of ER and The West Wing if you don't believe me. Heroes is pretty consistently awesome. Sometimes the Ali Larter and Suresh segments can drag, but I can tell it's all building up to something, and I'm constantly excited to find out what that might be. I also really love that the characters and story is so sprawling that they can take a few weeks off from the brothers, or Ali Larter, or the cop, or whomever and the series doesn't suffer a bit from it. Just so long as there's plenty of Hiro.

and BitLord didn't work for me and I don't care for it. I swear by Azureus.

[B]

I think people like this show because it is basically like X-men only without the ridiculous hair. If you look at the characters in Hereos and X-men a lot of them have powers in common. Although I like X-men more.

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[emily]

I have to say, I'm fairly obsessed with this show, and I can't even watch it. I work when it's on, no TV, no on in my family can figure out how to record shit off of the satelite dish, and I can never figure out when they re-air on Sci-Fi or USA, though odds are I'm working then too. So I'm left just reading the recaps.

If you have a broadband connection, torrents are your Lord and Savior.

My favorite torrent sites are

http://www.thepiratebay.org
http://www.mininova.com (these extensions could be wrong, I'm at work and typing these off memory)

The best torrent client I've come across is BitLord (http://www.bitlord.com).

The only connection where I live right now to speak of is my aunt's computer, which has a really iffy satellite connection. I couldn't even watch the episode on the website because it kept freezing every two seconds. Didn't I tell you I live out in the sticks now?


Also, the Indian guy's crappy narration is made up for by the fact that he's smokin' hot.

[Hanstock]

Also, the Indian guy's crappy narration is made up for by the fact that he's smokin' hot.

Is he really? He's not funny-lookin'? Usually my straight hot guy-dar is spot-on, but I didn't get that from him. Also, the guy who plays Isaac is fugly.