The first question I found myself asking is whether Heroes<\/em> or The 4400<\/em> came first. Of course, I suppose the answer is X-Men<\/em> came long before either of them, and so there is no reason to think that one of the two recent series directly inspired the other.<\/p>\n Scientificially, the show treats evolution in a way that is unscientific, and one might say it mythologizes<\/em> evolution. It treats evolution as this thing that leads to progress and will eventually endow us with telekenesis, the ability to fly without wings, clairvoyance and other magical powers.<\/p>\n Evolution is not going to save us. It doesn\u2019t have the capacity to do all these things. Technology, on the other hand, might. It has the power to regenerate our cells and perhaps one day allow us to fly with only minimal mechanical paraphernalia attached to us, as power sources become smaller and new forms of propulsion are developed. This doesn\u2019t mean that we should simply mythologize technology, however, and treat it as salvific in the way the original Star Trek<\/em> series tended to. Technology has the same ambiguity as the Heroes\u2019 powers: the same nanobot technology that might one day enable Claire-like healing might also cause Nikki\/Jessica-like personality takeovers and Sylar-like murders. Technology is powerful for accomplishing these sorts of ends, whereas it is unclear that any changes to the human genome, whether natural or artificially-induced, will ever be able to allow us to bend space and time. Thankfully, this doesn\u2019t stop my from enjoying the show, any more than my being more of a skeptical Scully-type stopped me from enjoying the X Files.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m still in season 1, so no spoilers please. I will say that my favorite moments so far are when Hiro Nakamura, perfectly fluent in English and without glasses, arrives from the future; and when Petrelli flies in his pyjamas (as all flying superheroes are expected to).<\/p>\n I just recently began watching Heroes \u2013 from the beginning of season 1. I have done this with several series that I didn\u2019t start watching from the beginning but had recommended to me later. (It was good to have something to do during the long hours of computer problem resolution besides staring at the screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-873276228104157663?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")