"Heroes" Chapter One 'Genesis' (2006)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

David Semel

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator)
Tim Kring (written by)

TV Series:

"Heroes" (2006)

Original Air Date:

25 September 2006 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

In Manhattan, Peter Petrelli is the younger brother Nathan Petrelli an overly ambitious and unscrupulous candidate for the next New York congressman...

Plot Keywords:

Brother | Father | New York City | Mother | Son

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Santiago Cabrera	...	Isaac Mendez
Tawny Cypress	...	Simone Deveaux
Noah Gray-Cabey	...	Micah Sanders
Ali Larter	...	Niki Sanders / Jessica Sanders
Masi Oka	...	Hiro Nakamura
Hayden Panettiere	...	Claire Bennet
Adrian Pasdar	...	Nathan Petrelli
Sendhil Ramamurthy	...	Mohinder Suresh
Milo Ventimiglia	...	Peter Petrelli
Cristine Rose	...	Angela Petrelli
Jack Coleman	...	Noah Bennet
Ashley Crow	...	Sandra Bennet
Thomas Dekker	...	Zach
Shishir Kurup	...	Nirad
James Kyson Lee	...	Ando Masahashi

Also Known As:

"Heroes": Chapter One 'In His Own Image' (#1.0) (USA) (first segment title)
"Heroes": Chapter Three 'Genesis' or 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (#1.0) (USA) (third segment title)
"Heroes": Chapter Two 'I'm Being Followed by a Moon Shadow' (#1.0) (USA) (second segment title)
"Heroes": Genesis: Tim Kring Cut (#1.0) (USA) (DVD menu title)

Runtime:

53 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

NBC Universal Television

Trivia:

In the original pilot "In His Own Image" the voices of Chandra Surech and Sylar heard on Suresh's answering machine were provided by Ravi Kapoor and Miguel Ferrer. Kapoor and Ferrer play Dr. Vijay and Dr. Macy on "Crossing Jordan" (2001). Tim Kring is the executive producer of both "Heroes" and "Crossing Jordan".

Goofs:

Factual errors: When HRG is in Mohinder's cab, there is a quick close up of his permit to drive the cab - the expiration date shown is "02/30/07". It is also misspelled "Vehicle Oprator's License"

Quotes:

Mohinder Suresh: Man is a narcissistic species by nature. We have colonized the four corners of our tiny planet. But we are not the pinnacle of so-called evolution. That honor belongs to the lowly cockroach. Capable of living for months without food. Remaining alive headless for weeks at a time...

Movie Connections:

References "Star Trek" (1966)

Soundtrack:

Eyes

I Expected More In the Introduction of Heroes

In Manhattan, Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) is the younger brother of the candidate to the congress Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), and he dreams and believes that he can fly. He decides to prove his theory and jumps from the roof of a building in an alley and his brother flies and saves him. In Texas, the cheerleader Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) is indestructible and can not harm herself or die. She saves a fireman in a fire in a train. In Tokyo, Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) believes he can control time and space continuum. In India, Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) moves to the Brooklyn, New York, when his father that was researching a secret project called Genesis about genome and DNA is killed in his cab. In Lower Manhattan, the painter Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera) paints pictures of the future. In Las Vegas, the striper Niki Sanders (Ali Larter) borrows US$ 30.000,00 from a powerful local mobster and does not have the money to pay her loan. She sees a different image of her in the mirror, and when two gangsters come to her house to collect the money, one of them hits her and she faints.

The Introduction of the characters of "Heroes" is a reasonable episode, with six disconnected stories. I believe the lives of the characters will entwine in the next episodes, but I had a great expectation based on the comments of friends and I was a little disappointed. The story of the gorgeous and sexy Nikki is the more intriguing in this moment. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Genesis"