Heroes DVD Review - A New Fan

Special thanks to Nick, a social media friend of mine at Gather.com who recently decided to get the brand new Heroes - Season One DVD. Nick didn't watch the show on NBC last season, but was introduced to it from the Netflix DVD rental service. I think it's great to hear about new fans of the show and their reactions/thoughts about it. Without further ado, I will hand this post off to Nick for his discussion of the Heroes DVD...

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Heroes Season 1 DVD

So, my wife and I started Netflix about a week and a half ago, and one of the things we wanted to see was Heroes once it was released on DVD. It was one of those shows that didn't do much to spark our interest with its advertisements when it was on, and really - I don't go out of my way to watch many shows. House is really about it.

But, we had been reading good things about Heroes for awhile, liked a couple of the people in it and well - I am and have long been a 'superhero' or comic book kind of guy. So, we decided to load up on Heroes, and in the span of the week got through all 7 discs, having finished the last 9 episodes tonight (it was a REALLY busy Saturday around here, as you can tell).

I really enjoyed the first season and am now looking forward to season 2 starting on Monday. The basic premise of people coming 'into their own' with super powers is hardly new stuff, but it was pretty entertaining in how it was handled I thought. Most of the characters were pretty interesitng, and a lot of them did not end up at all how they were expected to based on their early season endeavors.

It felt like a bit of a tease with the showdown with Pete and Sylar there at the end, because of their prior near-square offs as well, but something to look forward to next season I suppose. The DVD's also had quite a bit of commentary, some features and some deleted scenes - a far cry from a lot of 'season' DVD's with little to no content.

All in all, it was a very enjoyable DVD set, and I'm now stuck looking forward to weekly installments (that part's going to get annoying after being used to commercial free 8 episode spats). Any other big Heroes fans out there? :)

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About the Heroes DVD Special Features

I haven't done all of the special features yet but most - but, mostly we were just watching the main episodes and the deleted scenes, but here are the features and a quick rundown of them. I do recall that on disc 1 there was the 'unedited, unaired pilot' that was roughly 70 minutes.

The DVD video transfer was pretty good. I imagine the HD one will come across better, but I've seen a lot of TV shows brought over to DVD and the color and contrast was pretty good while not showing much artifacting or grain when in dark scenes.

The audio was pretty good, including a few instances of good surround sound flourish. There was closed captioning for the hearing impaired (we use it a lot ourselves because our kids can get so freaking noisey).

There were quite a few deleted scenes (I think I might have read somewhere that there were 50 of them), and while they weren't needed to advance the story, they were interesting. The first disc had some scenes that seemed to contradict the story they 'went with' very slightly in reference to DL.

- "The Making of Heroes" is just a 10 minute feature. Pretty typical fare and it was not my favorite aspect of the bonus features.

- "The Special Effects" and "The Stunts" are exactly what they imply - just a look at some of the effects and stunts found in the show.

- "The Profile of Artist Tim Sale" This is an interesting bit about the colorblind artist who painted all of Isaac's paintings of the future.

- "The Score" is just a quick featurette about the program's musical score.

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Thanks again to Nick for providing these reviews! It's good to see new fans jumping on board because this is by far the best show on network TV since who knows what! (Lost or 24?) The Heroes - Season One DVD and Heroes - Season 1 [HD DVD] are available at Amazon among other retailers.

Also, feel free to join Gather, where Nick shares his thoughts on TV, football, and video games amongst many other topics. You can sign up for a free Gather account, and receive rewards such as Borders gift cards or money!

Season 2 is right around the corner, on Monday, September 24th at 9PM EST!