Hero Moment Of The Week

This week’s Hero Moment Of The Week came at me from a very unexpected angle.  I don’t watch live television.  I’ve done a few diatribes and vents about this before, so I won’t go into it here, but basically, when I hear of a good tv series, I wait for a few seasons, then start buying them by the season on DVD, and watch them that way.

So I’m always behind a season or two on what everyone’s watching on tv here-and-now, but that’s okay.  Surprisingly, I don’t have any trouble avoiding spoilers.  And it’s so much more satisfying watching a whole season at a time on DVD, when you get whole episodes without ads.

At the moment, I’m working my way through season one of Heroes, which I’ve had more than a few people recommend to me, from the science fiction world, the script-writing world and the romance novel world.  Recommendations from three different areas like that probably means the series is well worth the time and trouble, so I’m devoting the small amount of spare time I get to watching it.

There’s this cute little Japanese guy running through the first half of the series, called Hiro Nakamura, and I confess I wasn’t paying him a whole lot of attention.  He didn’t speak English and he seemed to be in the show primarily as comic relief.  He ran around doing crazy things, and talking about Star Trek a lot. Cute, as I said.  He also had this ability to stop and manipulate the time stream…the time-space continuum.  Sounds very Star Trekkie to me.  I had to smile when he described it to his friend that way.

There’s a whole lot going on in this series, enough so that you have to concentrate at times to keep the story lines clear in your head.  I get the impression that the entire first season was plotted out in advance, before the first camera began filming, because these story lines jump across time in ways that can make your eyes bleed.

But to get back to my hero moment.  I conveniently dismissed Hiro (I believe the name isn’t a coincidence) as comic relief, and was more interested in the fate of one of the other major characters (there’s quite a few), Peter, who is on a subway train in New York city, about five or six episodes in, when

~~spoiler alert~~

the train freezes and everyone on it, except Peter.  He stands there, terrified about what’s going to happen, as there’s already been some really weird stuff going on in his world.

And then Hiro steps onto the train.

A very different Hiro.  This Hiro is from the future.  He’s wearing black, with his hair slicked back, and with a katana strapped to his back.  He speaks smooth English, and explains to Peter that he’s in danger, and that he must pass on messages to the Hiro of this time that will help everyone in this time period.  The Hiro of the future is risking much by bringing this message, he explains, but it is necessary.

It’s a very short scene, but I was blown out of my complacency by the Force 10 change in Hiro.  Wow!!

It’s not that this is the sort of hero that is going to make the backs of my knees sweat.  But he was dignified, serious, 180 degrees different from the comic book character bouncing around the scenes at the front end of the series…enough so that you had to wonder what he’d been through between now and then.  And he looks so different!  Definitely the sort of hero that could sweep in and rescue a maiden in distress.

Fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say.

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