Toob Talk

This week’s episode of Heroes took us five years into the future of the show we’ve been watching all season.

As has always been the case with the show, it was done with style and punch. For those that are familiar with the super hero genre, though, none of what we saw was particularly new.

In the classic X-Men story Days of Future Past, we were shown a similar track of events and a future similarly dangerous to those who are special. That was back in 1981 and the image is still echoing in the genre. Heroes did a very good job of it.

The future we see in Heroes has half of New York in ruins, only barely better than it must have been in the days following the explosion the heroes have been trying to prevent from episode one. We see that Hiro isn’t the only one that has become darker in the five years since the explosion.

We also get some questions answered and are left asking some more. (more…)