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Similarities with Heroes

posted 10 years ago by The_guard_of_Magog
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Have just binged watched all 4 series of Heroes as well as Taken, and have noticed a few similarities:

1) Getting one of the characters to narrate the 'previously on Heroes/Taken' line

2) Using their power either killed/made very sick Jacob/Allie on Taken and Hiro on Heroes

3) Jesse Keys was a paramedic and put himself into crazy situations as he knew he couldn't get hurt, just like Peter on Heroes

4) the whole 'the world isn't ready for People like us' theme running through it

5) a government conspiracy to cover things up

6) the bending of space/time shown by Allie on Taken and Hiro on Heroes

There are more, but can't remember them off the top of my head. Wonder if the guys who did Heroes 'borrowed' a few ideas from this series?

Te futueo et caballum tuum

[–] eiy 10 years ago

Check out 4400. That's where Heroes really "borrowed" a lot of ideas from.

[–] TheRealManofSteel 9 years ago

Good grief, seriously? Why don't you just compare either or to Back to the Future while you're at it? All 3 deal with bending space and time. All 3 also have bullies that bully the little guy. Truth is you'd be hard pressed not to find some sort of similarities to any other movie or tv show nowadays.

[–] don savant 9 years ago

Many accounts of real life were worked in to Taken, unlike Heroes.