Heroes
Last week I started watching Heroes during my commute (I'm up to episode 12). I'm interested and the story seems compelling, but I'm a bit put off by the cribbing from Lost. Now, I gave up on Lost most of the way through Season 2, so I'm basing my character development on only those episodes I've seen. Though I've not done any Google searching on this topic, I'm sure this is one of those cases where everyone else has figured this out already...
Anyway here's what I've come up with so far:
Lost
- A doctor that is always trying to save everyone and who's father did some bad things then died.
- A slightly unshaven guy from Iraq who's a whiz with electronics and questions people
- Husband and wife from Korea, only one of whom speaks English
- A mysterious and beautiful woman with an apparently violent past
- A young child who has special abilities
- A musician who's addicted to heroin
- A mostly silent and rather large black man from Africa.
- A shadow organization that seems to be controlling a lot of what is happening
Heroes
- A nurse that believes he can save everyone and who's father did some bad things then died.
- A sometimes unshaven guy from India who's a whiz with genetics and questions people
- Two male friends from Japan only one of whom really speaks any English.
- A beautiful woman around whom terribly violent things are happening
- A young child who has special abilities
- A painter who's addicted to heroin
- A mostly silent and rather large black man from Haiti
- A shadow organization that seems to be attempting to control a lot of what is happening.
I've probably missed some similarities (is there a connection between the cops on either show?). Heroes moves at about the same pace as Lost but at least seems to be resolving threads, whereas Lost (again, as of season 2) suffered from its well documented case of open-thread-itus.