Watching “Heroes”? Why not?
Last night was the “fall finale,” a cute way of saying there’d be no new shows for a month and a half. But in a nice marketing move designed to help new viewers get into this densely packed series and help keep regular fans obsessively stop-pausing scenes over and over during the holiday break, they’ve put the entire first season online for free viewing. All 11 episodes, uncut, with a quick commercial before each one.
And they’re worth seeing. There’s still enough cliches and “Wha…?” moments to make an old comic book reader like me cringe, but this convoluted saga of humans developing special abilities also has some compelling storylines, some great characters, and enough twists and surprises to keep you guessing even after you think you’ve figured it out. Go catch up and be ready when the show starts again in January. We’ll wait.
I just want to see Hiro get his sword…