Heroic first series ?
One of my guilty pleasures has been a love of sci-fi for more years than I care to remember ( I still recall the painful tug when I finally binned my almost 1k collection of 2000AD’s !)
One story line that ran was a great little series called Zenith, detailing the trials and tribulations of the son of a pair of 60’s super-heroes who rebelled from their creators. This was a brilliant storyline mimicking and adding to the US comicbook XMen series in a curiously British style. Still it was always comic-book stuff…stories for kids or adults with maturity problem (a la comic book guy in the Simpsons !)
What’s changed then to let this genre become mainstream and produce
something of the quality and depth of Heroes. A friend in London has a buddy in the states who’s encoded the entire first series and been dropping them on his server for viewing - I got them off his Vaio after a recent visit and have been devouring them ever since.
The UK now has them on BBC2 each week and the 6mths worth of episodes I’ve had the pleasure of viewing will take too long on terrestrial to come in I think. If you haven’t tried it yet give one of the programmes a watch, see what you think….I love it.