I got into Heroes after I bought the steelbook edition of the second half of season one at a yard sale. Despite me missing the whole premise and character introduction I was immediately hooked. Slowly but surely I bought the rest of the show (in steelbook editions, naturally, and second hand). And while the show had a troubled production and wildly varied in quality, it has a place in my heart until today.
Heroes ran from 2006 to 2010. Although I did not watch it when it first came out. I guess I was about 14 when I first saw it and when I first fell in love with their varied characters with their varied stories and powers.
The premise of Heroes is that some people discover they have latent superpowers and navigate what that means for them. They also have to stop a murderous superpowered serial killer, keep New York from exploding, save a cheerleader, evade a shady government agency and prevent a couple of disastrous futures. Among other things.
My favorite character by far was kind and gentle nurse Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia), who adopts the powers of every superpowered being he comes across but cannot control them in the least. He is so continuously good and selfless, which is something I love. My other favorite is Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), a comics nerd from Japan, whose time and space travel powers are among the strongest in the show but who just wants to be a hero. Another thing I loved was when the Indian scientist Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and the ex-cop Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) just lived together in an apartment in New York and parented a child, whose parents were murdered. Extremely random but very cute. Heroes also put Zachary Quinto on the map. He played a superpowered serial killer, was a dark mirror and foil to Peter and so popular with fans that he eventually got a redemption arc.
