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Heroes - Season 1 Complete [2006] | ![Heroes - Season 1 Complete [2006]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419STNoersL._SL160_.jpg)
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| Actors: Milo Ventimiglia, Adrian Pasdar, Hayden Panettiere, Ali Larter, Masi Oka
Studio: Universal Pictures Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £59.99
Buy New: £24.00
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Rating:  99 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 7
Running Time: 972 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.7
EAN: 5050582527216
ASIN: B000MRAA7O
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: New Sealed Heroes Season 1 Complete, Same Day Dispatch if ordered before 3pm
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's hard to remember a science fiction series that has hit so big so quickly. Yet by the end of the first series of Heroes, it feels--for all the right reasons--that the show's been around for longer than it has, such is the huge amount of success it's enjoyed. The setup is simple, yet undeniably intriguing. It essentially tells the stories of a series of people who discover they have legitimate, differing superhero powers. On top of that, these people then gradually appreciate that these powers are needed for reasons that soon become apparent, and the story of Heroes builds up from there. Heavily influenced by comics both in its structure and story, Heroes sustains interest through a number of story arcs of different magnitudes, skilfully weaving them throughout the 23 episodes that make up the season. It's contained enough to keep you interested, yet offers enough threads to make several more seasons a very appealing prospect. Heroes, though, really gels because the basics are right. It's plotted intelligently, written and directed with real nerve and talent, and has a cast who you can't help but get emotionally involved with. It's also, for the overwhelming majority of its episodes, utterly compelling television. Ironically, its few miss-steps of any note come right at the back end, by which time you really would forgive it pretty much anything. Heroes is rightly being heralded as a sci-fi classic in the making. Yet even if subsequent seasons don't fully do justice to those words--and at the time of writing, season two is still some way from debuting--this boxset will serve as a glowing testament to just how good television can be when it's just done right. Quite brilliant. --Jon Foster
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 5 Star Show - 0 Star UK Price September 22, 2007
Mr. S. Bowes (St Andrews, Scotland)
58 out of 75 found this review helpful
Just so you don't get me wrong, I think Heroes is a fantastic show which more than lives up to the hype, so why the 1 star rating I hear you ask.. Well quite simply it's due to the astronomical "rip-off Britain" prices. Here we're asked to pay 42 for Heroes season 1, whereas in America it's sold for $40 which is only 20 - that's less than half price!! This has become a familiar problem in the UK, and I for one have had enough of paying double prices for no good reason. I hope everyone makes a stand, votes with their feet, and goes to amazon.com like I did so we can all enjoy this superb series at a FAIR price. Do what you know is right - don't throw your money away - buy from amazon.com instead ;)
 "Save the cheerleader, save the world" May 28, 2007
Alan Selby (United Kingdom)
44 out of 52 found this review helpful
Already a cult show in the USA, Heroes is due to receive an airing on the BBC in the summer 2007 (for those who haven't got the Sci-Fi channel on Sky).
In my humble opinion, Heroes has the edge over 'Lost', in so much that you are on a journey with each character to discover the special powers the heroes possess in order to prevent a 'predicted' disaster - the nuclear destruction of New York City.
The show features an ensemble cast of twelve main characters not all of whom have been shown to possess powers, and I've deliberately not listed them, they are:
Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman), more commonly referred to as "Mr. Bennet" or "the Man in Horn-Rimmed Glasses", a father who works for the Primatech Paper Company, which is actually a cover operation for an organization that investigates people with superhuman abilities.
Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere), Mr. Bennet's adopted daughter, a high school cheerleader who lives in Odessa, Texas.
Simone Deveaux (Tawny Cypress), an art dealer and gallery owner whose skepticism and complicated romantic life are tested.
D.L. Hawkins (Leonard Roberts), the husband of Niki and father of Micah.
Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera), an artist living in New York who can paint and writes / draws a comic book called 9th Wonders! which has been shown to depict the future.
Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), a programmer from Tokyo.
Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), a Los Angeles police officer.
Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), a New York Congressional candidate.
Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia), a former hospice nurse and Nathan's younger brother.
Micah Sanders (Noah Gray-Cabey), D.L. and Niki's son and a child prodigy.
Niki Sanders (Ali Larter), the wife of D.L. and mother of Micah. A former internet stripper from Las Vegas.
Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), a professor of genetics from India who travels to New York to investigate the death of his father, Chandra. Through his investigations, he comes into contact with people his father listed as possessing superhuman abilities.
The main antagonist in season one is Sylar (Zachary Quinto), a serial killer who hunts super-powered individuals in order to take their abilities.
The first season slowly reveals who and what is responsible for a plot to destroy New York City. The series also features many guest and recurring characters, including friends and family of the main cast, criminals and villains, and other individuals with remarkable powers.
The plot of Heroes is designed to be similar to the stories of comic books. Like comic books, Heroes has large overall arcs and small arcs within the main arc. No matter what characters exist and what events make up a season, all seasons of Heroes will involve ordinary people who discover their abilities and their reactions to their self-discovery.
Each episode reveals new answers and questions and progresses the story and/or the characters. There is an overall arc of the first season that revolves around stopping an explosion of immense proportions that happens in the future. That arc is initially carried by two characters, Hiro Nakamura and Isaac Mendez.
The first four episodes of the first season primarily revolved around characters discovering their powers, dealing with the issues of normal life and coping with the consequences of their discovery.
At the end of the fourth episode, a smaller arc began with the message "Save the cheerleader, save the world", which is tied to the explosion already foreseen. By the end of that arc, the characters slowly discovered their abilities and the existence of others like them, and some of them even began to realize the need to come together to prevent a catastrophe.
As characters progress through the first season learning of others similar to them, the plot turns to the question of how the explosion seen in the future will occur and what role the various characters will play to stop it or cause it.
With a second season in the pipeline, 'Heroes' has already gained cult status with cameo appearences in season one from Marvel Comics Stan Lee and Star Trek's George Takei - Watch out for the numberplate on George's car ;-)
There are reported to be sufficient story lines to support five (5) series. I personally cannot see how you can stretch out 'guess who has the special power?" for 120 episodes .. My only hope for Heroes, is that it can learn from Lost and go out on top, like 'Life on Mars' - That said, it's still the best Sci-Fi series around.
Question re: pricing ? August 13, 2007
N. Walker (the UK)
39 out of 50 found this review helpful
Is it really justifiable that this costs 40 ie $80 on Amazon's UK site and yet costs $39, that's 18 pounds on the US site. That's 100% profit by my reckoning. Given the show's success in the States and the way the publicity has been generated over here, it's not even defensible to say that the extra DVD cost is down to marketing. Rip-off Britain ? You bet - and the studios in the States are the ones ripping us off.
Outrageous August 23, 2007
Mark (UK, London)
30 out of 49 found this review helpful
Unforgivable profiteering - splitting this into 2 and charging twice as much for each half as the combined set in the US. Looks like exactly what was done for the first season of Battlestar Galactica.
Well folks - looks like BSG didn't try the same nonesense for season 2 because people like you voted with your feet. I suggest you do the same for Heroes - don't buy it, or import it from the US.
PS. As others have said, the rating I'm giving this is no reflection on the content, which is excellent - it's an indictment on the publisher.
 Universal Studios? Unheroic! August 16, 2007
Robert D. Edwards (Manchester UK)
28 out of 37 found this review helpful
Why am I giving 5 star quality television only 2 stars? am i mad?
Please bear with me.
Universal studios are not releasing the whole of season 1 on Region 2 DVD immediately. They are releasing the first half of season 1 in October(Boo!) then the second half in December(Hiss!). This is presumably to coincide with the BBC's broadcast of the show.
The RRP for S1 part1 is 35.99, so i presume part2 will be a similar price.
Over 70 for a set of DVD's you can get on amzon.com (that's .com folks, not .co.uk) from the end of August for less than 20! They're having a giraffe!
Even if you haven't got a region free DVD player, you could probably buy one & import the region1 DVD of Heroes inluding postage from Amazon.com and still have enough left for your own cheerleader outfit!
Universal Studios, you are billains(Hiro geek gag!).
Release date info provided by the good people over at dvdtimes.co.uk
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