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    Unofficial Guide to HEROES Season One
    Unofficial Guide to HEROES Season One
    Unofficial Guide to HEROES Season One
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    Unofficial Guide to HEROES Season One

    By Kristina Benson

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    It's clear that Heroes has captivated the minds of TV viewers all around the world. What isn't clear is what it actually means. This guide answers many of the questions you've been asking about Heroes. From a complete analysis of the plot and its symbolism to hidden clues within the show, this book provides inside analysis and news that can't be found anywhere else. This book includes a complete interpretation, and analysis for Season One.
    This is quite simply the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Heroes Season One!

    TOPICS INCLUDE:

    Plot Analysis and Interpretation
    Hidden Messages
    Trivia

    DISCLAIMER: This book is unofficial and unauthorized. It is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by NBC, Heroes, it’s producers, writers, distributors, publishers, or licensors. Any use of the trademarks and character names is strictly for the purpose of analysis and news reporting. All material related to the analysis is © NBC © Universal and © Tim Kring © Heroes

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEquity Press
    Release dateDec 19, 2011
    ISBN9781603322942
    Unofficial Guide to HEROES Season One

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      Book preview

      Unofficial Guide to HEROES Season One - Kristina Benson

      Unofficial Guide to HEROES

      Season One

      By: Kristina Benson

      Unofficial Guide to HEROES Season One

      ISBN: 978-1-60332-294-2

      Smashwords Edition

      Edited By: Jackie Moderson

      Copyright© 2008 Equity Press. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a license permitting restricted copying in the United States or abroad.

      The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials.

      Trademarks: All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Equity Press is not associated with any product or vender mentioned in this book.

      Table of Contents

      Critical Acclaim

      Themes

      The symbol

      The scar

      The eclipse

      Production notes

      Episode Guide

      Genesis

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Unaired alternate version

      Trivia

      Don’t Look Back

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      One Giant Leap

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      Collusion

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      Hiros

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      Better Halves

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      Nothing to Hide

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Seven Minutes to Midnight

      Synopsis

      Homecoming

      Synopsis

      Narration

      List of heroes

      Trivia

      Six Months Ago

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      Fallout

      Synopsis

      Trivia

      Godsend

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      The Fix

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      Distractions

      Synopsis

      Trivia

      Run!

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Trivia

      Unexpected

      Synopsis

      Trivia

      Company Man

      Synopsis

      Trivia

      Parasite

      Synopsis

      Trivia

      .07%

      Synopsis

      Narration

      Five Years Gone

      Synopsis

      The Hard Part

      Synopsis

      Trivia

      Landslide

      Synopsis

      Trivia

      How to Stop an Exploding Man

      Synopsis

      Volume Two: Generations

      Narration

      Critical Acclaim

      Heroes became popular immediately after its debut; the premiere episode on NBC attracted 14.3 million viewers overall and received the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years. In December 2006 the American Film Institute named Heroes one of the ten best television programs of the year, the Writers Guild of America nominated the program for best new series of 2007,and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated the program for a Golden Globe Award for best television drama, also nominating Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura) for Best Supporting Actor on a TV Series.

      Neither the series nor the actor won Golden Globes; the show lost to ABC's popular drama Grey's Anatomy and Oka lost to Jeremy Irons, who played Robert Dudley, the first Earl of Leicester in HBO's Elizabeth I. However, Heroes won the award for Favorite New TV Drama at the 2007 People's Choice Awards.

      The cast of Heroes was further honored in 2006 by being named in Time Magazine's Person of the Year issue under People Who Mattered, and the Sydney Morning Herald listed Heroes as one of the best shows of 2007, calling it a Modern twist of The Tomorrow People.

      Themes

      Three thematic motifs appear often: the symbol, the scar, and the eclipse. The mark appears to be man-made, but the circumstances surrounding the symbol – its meaning and its manifestations – are a mystery.

      The symbol:

      Appearances include:

      In episode 12, Godsend, the symbol, as appears on the sword hilt a combination of two Japanese characters: 才 (sai) meaning great talent and 与 (yo) meaning Godsend

      As a decoration in the Bennet house

      In a swimming pool at the scene of one of Sylar's murders

      On a billboard behind Hiro when he teleports in Times Square

      On one of Peter Petrelli's drawings

      In Isaac Mendez' paintings

      On a post-it note on the map in Mohinder Suresh's apartment

      On Claire Bennet's geometry book

      On pictures in Sylar's apartment

      On Jessica's back but not Niki's

      On the hilt of a katana once owned by 16th-century samurai Takezo Kensei. This katana is held by future Hiro and sought after by present Hiro ( The symbol also appears on a replica of the katana word.)

      Printed on the front of the book Activating Evolution

      Printed on the upper-left corner of the 14th issue of 9th Wonders! comic book, written by Isaac Mendez

      On the Haitan's necklace

      Drawn on a Greyhound bus sign

      Formed by bits broken glass on the floor when Sylar attacks Mrs. Bennet

      Seen in the form of an ice sculpture as a dolphin in the kitchen of a Las Vegas casino in the episode Run!

      Formed by the spaces between characters on Dr Suresh's laptop when Mohinder discovers his Fathers work has actually led to finding the Heroes.

      The scar

      A mark consisting of two parallel lines has been shown around the neck of the super-powered characters that have encountered Mr. Bennet or the Haitan. The mark appears to be the scar left by the two-pronged needle of a pneumatic injection device. All of the marked characters have had encounters with Mr. Bennet and/or the Haitian.

      Future Hiro Nakamura also refers to a scar that Peter Petrelli will acquire sometime in the future, which may be different from the ones inflicted by Mr. Bennet. When he shows up in the subway car he says, You look different without your scar.

      Future Hiro's remark about the scar may have been invalidated by Peter's successful rescue of Claire, which Future Hiro came back to change. Now that Peter has Claire's healing power, it is highly unlikely that he can be scarred.

      The eclipse

      So far, it has appeared as:

      The series logo

      A painting by Isaac Mendez

      A global event in Genesis

      A future event in a newspaper

      A picture in Mohinder Suresh's apartment

      A light in a hospital waiting room in Six Months Ago

      Production notes

      When the writing team works on an episode, each writer takes a character and writes the individual scenes surrounding that character. These stories are then combined and given to the episode writer, allowing every writer to contribute to every episode.

      A special 72-minute version of the pilot was first screened to a large audience at the 2006 Comic Con in San Diego. Initially it was reported that this unaired pilot would not be released, however Tim Kring confirmed in a subsequent interview that it will be included on the first season DVD set. The series is filmed in Los Angeles and Santa Clarita, California.

      Episode Guide

      Genesis

      Genesis is the pilot episode of the NBC supernatural drama series Heroes. It was directed by David Semel and written by Tim Kring.

      Synopsis

      The show begins with narration by Mohinder Suresh. During the narration, Peter Petrelli is standing on a building, and is then seen to plummet from it. After the fall, Peter awkens in the home of Charles Deveaux, a patient under his care.

      In Madras, India, Mohinder Suresh, the narrator from before, is addressing his class of university students. After receiving word of his father's death in New York, Mohinder suspects that his father (Chandra Suresh) was murdered because of his genetics research. He goes to the apartment his father keeps in India to look for clues, and to continue conducting his research. While in the apartment, the sound of a cell phone ringing clues him in on the fact that he is not alone is in the apartment. As the intruder talks on his phone about Mohinder's father and the research, Mohinder manages to sneak out undetected.

      In Las Vegas, Nevada, after doing a webcam performance in her garage, Niki Sanders gets ready to face the day with her young and brillant son, Micah, who has assembled a motherboard and created a pinhole camera. Niki sees suspicious looking, thuggish men heading towards her house, grabs her son, and bolts.

      In Odessa, Texas, Claire Bennet convinces her school classmate Zach to videotape her climbing up to an 80-foot (24 m) height and jumping off. On the sixth attempt, she dislocates her right shoulder in the fall and smoothly pushes it back into place when she rises.

      Back in New York, Peter keeps having these amazing dreams about flying when he closes his eyes. Turning to his brother Nathan, who had just gotten off a call with Mr. Linderman, Peter tries to open up to his brother about his dreams. However, Nathan is a politician running for Congress and is extremely busy. Although he does listen, he doesn't for a second believe that Peter can fly, but the conversation is cut off when Nathan receives news that their mother, Angela Petrelli, has been arrested for shoplifting.

      In Texas, Claire confesses her despair to

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