Hands down, Heroes is the best show on TV next to Lost, of course. The theory in this article seems kind of silly, but it’s fun to speculate how the two shows could possibly be related. If you haven’t seen Heroes, I *highly* recommend that you check it out. It is on a different night than Lost so you won’t be missing the more important show, of course. Plus, it’s the most intelligent, thought provoking show (on network TV) I’ve seen for awhile (or at least since Lost debuted).

2. DOES NBC’S HEROES TAKE PLACE IN THE SAME WORLD AS ABC’S LOST?
(Too-Good-to-Be-True Conspiracy Theory of the Week!)

LAST WEEK Unranked

ANALYSIS Roughly 13 million-plus Americans have fallen hard for Heroes, television’s newest cult-pop sensation, and I am proud to say that I am one of them. My friends and family have applauded the expansion of my geek-TV interests; they were worried that Lost had begun to take over my life. Of course, Heroes isn’t much of a leap from Lost, considering how much they overlap: Both shows have a diverse, multicultural, interconnected cast; fixations with fate, coincidence and destiny; mysterious comic books; an inexplicable recurring motif (in Lost, it’s the Numbers; in Heroes, it’s a helix-shaped pattern); a mythology grounded in weird science and possibly sinister scientific experimentation; and even a potentially superpowered kid with estranged parents. Hmmmm…

In fact, after watching the most recent chapter in the unfolding Heroes saga, my conspiracy-theory senses began to tingle and twitch in that crazy Brad Pitt-in-12 Monkeys kinda way that makes my wife very, very nervous. Because it suddenly struck me that Heroes’ fantastical premise — that human beings are breaking out with superpowers as an evolutionary response to environmental changes (overpopulation, global warming, war) threatening the survival of the species — is conspicuously similar to the sci-fi conceit of Lost’s Hanso Foundation/Dharma Initiative mythology. And by ”conspicuously similar,” I am indeed suggesting that both shows occupy the same creative universe.

THEORY The mysterious island on Lost was a mad-scientist laboratory focused on accelerating human evolution that created the superpowered heroes on Heroes. (read more here…)

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