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№ 187 Heroes Season One Rant

Season 3

Date

2013-09-15

Featuring

Ben, Matt

Length

1:33:46

Category

Review

Series

Heroes Rants

Listen

2019-03-14

One of the funniest series of the show starts here.

Odd Opening

0:00 Matt opens with an odd cadence

Future Episodes

  • Heroes Season 2 Rant
  • Heroes Season 3 Rant
  • Heroes Season 4 Rant

Opening

3:22 I bet Koby has a really hairy back. I don't want to talk about Koby's back.

Main Topic

Characters from worst to best:

Dislike:

  1. Comic book delivery guy
  2. Peter Patrelli
  3. DL, Nikki/Jessica, Micah
  4. Matt Parkman, Janice Parkman
  5. Audrey Hanson
  6. Mama Patrelli

26:00 character development

  1. Zach
  2. Claire's moms
  3. Suresh
  4. Nathan Patrelli
  5. George Takei

Neutral:

  1. Eden
  2. Sweaty Ted
  3. Claire
  4. Sylar
  5. Isaac
  6. The Haitian

Liked:

  1. Charlie
  2. Noah
  3. Hiro
  4. Linderman
  5. Claude

Top 5 Heroes Episodes

Ben

  5. Homecoming

Matt

  1. Genesis
  2. 5
  3. Company Man
  4. Homecoming
  5. Five Years Gone
  • The finale

Ben doesn't like that the show pushes ultra-individualism over responsibility, eg Peter walking out on his nursing job.

1:09:00 Ben decided not to pursue a doctorate because it would have been too hard on his family. Heroes helped him make the decision.