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从8月27日到9月1日，大热美剧《英雄》世界巡回活动踏足东京、巴黎、香港、伦敦等城市，为第一季DVD及第二季首播进行宣传。在电视观众因为网络等新媒体分流而大量流失的情况下，新一季《英雄》能否克服困难，再创辉煌？—让我们一起拭目以待9月24日的第一集吧！（关于《英雄》的剧情简介，请参考CE: Teens 07年1月号）
Before its launch, Heroes didn’t sound really 1)promising: it was a 2)serialized story, about a group of 3)mutants who have the 4)daunting task of saving the world. This 5)undertaking, in itself, could be complex and 6)sticky. Moreover, it involved science fiction, a 7)genre that rarely does well on TV.
But the show doesn’t rely on superpowers. Its success is rooted in real, 8)down-to-earth characters, dealing with such 9)mortal 10)dilemmas as being a single mother, struggling with a language barrier, wrestling with a drug 11)addiction, or trying to live in the shadow of a big brother, the most common 12)archenemy around.
No character has 13)registered more with audiences than Hiro Nakamura, an office worker in Japan who knows only a few words of English, but comes to America to stop world destruction with his ability to bend time. Even more unbelievable than his power are his 14)exuberance and a “ner-say-die”pirit. He may well be one of the most 15)optimistic characters in American TV history.
“He’s such a joy to play,”said the actor Masi Oka. “He’s the kid we probably all once were, but couldn’t hold onto. There’s not enough characters on TV that have that much hope.”
On the other hand, Adrian Pasdar, who plays Nathan Petrelli, a politician with the ability to fly, said it was better to deal with the reality of the world than to ignore it.
“It’s there, in the newspaper 16)kiosk and on 17)CNN. You can’t get away from it,”he said. “I think people accept it as a basic 18)intrusion in life. Our show presents the state of the world, but with people willing to take extraordinary steps to change it.”
As they say, the show is basically about hope, which is probably the reason why fans all over the Net are expecting the coming season that much.
What to Expect in Season Two?
Tim Kring注1 told the media that the upcoming second season would constitute a new volume in the multi-volume series, with new characters and an entirely new storyline. “If you remember, the opening of the 19)pilot pronounced the 20)episode as the beginning of Volume 1,”Kring said in an interview. “Volume 1 comes to a conclusion at the end of Episode 23, and Volume 2 starts with the opening of Season Two. And Volume 2 is a different story.”
Kring added, “We could have new people, and new storylines, and new ideas, and new threats, and new bad guys, and new heroes. So I would prepare the audience for that idea, that it’s not just a continuing serialized storyline about only these people. It’s a little more the 24 model, than the Lost model注2.”
“Heroes needs to 21)evolve, and if we are positing an idea that this is happening all over the world to many, many people, then we get to see some of those people, and see how their story fits in.”
播出之前，人们似乎不太看好《英雄》：这是一部关于基因变异者的连续剧，讲述他们肩负艰巨使命，谋求拯救世界的故事。这件事本身就相当复杂棘手，而这部作品还融入了科幻小说的元素—这类电视剧就更少有成功的先例了。
但这部电视剧靠的不是超能力。它成功的根源在于一批真实的、有血有肉的角色，他们在各种人生困境中挣扎求存，比如当一名单亲妈妈，面对语言障碍，与毒瘾角力，或者生活在大哥—我们身边最常见的人生大敌—的阴影之下。
最让观众记忆犹新的角色莫过于中村宽，这个日本上班族只懂一点点英语，却来到美国，要用自己扭曲时间的超能力来阻止世界的毁灭。比起他的能力来，更令人感到不可思议的是他充沛的精力与永不言败的精神。他也许是美国电视史上最具乐观精神的角色之一。
“饰演这个角色的感觉真棒，”其扮演者丘增（音译）说。“我们小时候都曾经是‘中村宽’，却没能坚持下去。在电视上，没有多少角色能像他这样对生活充满希望。”
另一方面，内森•佩瑞里—他是一名会飞的政客—的扮演者艾德里安•帕斯达则认为，面对现实远远胜于逃避现实。
“现实就在我们身边，总能在报刊亭和美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）上看到，你无从逃避，”他这样说到。“我想人们已经把它当作入侵日常生活的一部分。我们这部电视剧反映了世界现状，但是剧中的角色会竭尽全力，谋求改变。”
正如他们所说，这部电视剧就是关于“希望”，可能正是因为这样，遍布网络的粉丝们才会如此期待下一季的开播。
新季看点
蒂姆•克林对媒体透露说，该电视剧是多卷系列剧，即将开播的第二季将是全新的一部，会有新角色和全新的故事情节。“如果你们还记得的话，电视首播时以第一集作为第一部的开始，”克林在一次采访中说到。“第一部随着第23集结束而完结。第二部则在第二季拉开序幕时开始。第二部将是一个完全不同的故事。”
克林补充说：“我们会加入新角色、新故事、新想法、新危机、新坏蛋以及新英雄。所以我会让观众做好心理准备，让他们知道这不是仅仅围绕这一部分人展开的连续剧。这部作品用的更像是《反恐24小时》的模式，而不是《迷失》的模式。”
“《英雄》需要不断进化。如果我们假定这种变化发生在全世界很多、很多人身上，那我们就会见到他们中的一些人，看看他们的故事如何融入进来。”
英雄榜
Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere)
职业：高中生、啦啦队长
能力：自行复原
说明：无论受何种程度的伤都能迅速复原，与养父母一起生活
Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka)
职业：上班族
能力：控制时间
说明：多次穿越时空以改变未来，第一季结尾时落到17世纪的日本
Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia)
职业：护工
能力：复制
说明：每当遇到一名超能力者就能自动获得与对方相同的能力，险些毁灭纽约
Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy)
职业：学者
能力：未知
说明：继承父亲的发现，从事超能力者研究，血液中有特殊抗体，是第一季的线索人物
Niki Sanders (Ali Larter)
职业：舞娘、杀手
能力：双重人格
说明：通过镜子映象互换人格，第二人格“Jessica”凶暴残忍
Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar)
职业：政客
能力：飞行
说明：Peter的哥哥，Claire的亲生父亲，为了救弟弟和纽约牺牲自己
Sylar (Zachary Quinto)
职业：钟表匠
能力：研究
说明：杀害超能力者，通过夺去他们的脑部获得其能力，被Hiro刺中，生死未明
Micah Sanders (Noah Gray-Cabey)
职业：小学生
能力：与机器沟通
说明：Niki的儿子，能让机器服从其意志行动，Nathan参选胜利的关键
Before its launch, Heroes didn’t sound really 1)promising: it was a 2)serialized story, about a group of 3)mutants who have the 4)daunting task of saving the world. This 5)undertaking, in itself, could be complex and 6)sticky. Moreover, it involved science fiction, a 7)genre that rarely does well on TV.
But the show doesn’t rely on superpowers. Its success is rooted in real, 8)down-to-earth characters, dealing with such 9)mortal 10)dilemmas as being a single mother, struggling with a language barrier, wrestling with a drug 11)addiction, or trying to live in the shadow of a big brother, the most common 12)archenemy around.
No character has 13)registered more with audiences than Hiro Nakamura, an office worker in Japan who knows only a few words of English, but comes to America to stop world destruction with his ability to bend time. Even more unbelievable than his power are his 14)exuberance and a “ner-say-die”pirit. He may well be one of the most 15)optimistic characters in American TV history.
“He’s such a joy to play,”said the actor Masi Oka. “He’s the kid we probably all once were, but couldn’t hold onto. There’s not enough characters on TV that have that much hope.”
On the other hand, Adrian Pasdar, who plays Nathan Petrelli, a politician with the ability to fly, said it was better to deal with the reality of the world than to ignore it.
“It’s there, in the newspaper 16)kiosk and on 17)CNN. You can’t get away from it,”he said. “I think people accept it as a basic 18)intrusion in life. Our show presents the state of the world, but with people willing to take extraordinary steps to change it.”
As they say, the show is basically about hope, which is probably the reason why fans all over the Net are expecting the coming season that much.
What to Expect in Season Two?
Tim Kring注1 told the media that the upcoming second season would constitute a new volume in the multi-volume series, with new characters and an entirely new storyline. “If you remember, the opening of the 19)pilot pronounced the 20)episode as the beginning of Volume 1,”Kring said in an interview. “Volume 1 comes to a conclusion at the end of Episode 23, and Volume 2 starts with the opening of Season Two. And Volume 2 is a different story.”
Kring added, “We could have new people, and new storylines, and new ideas, and new threats, and new bad guys, and new heroes. So I would prepare the audience for that idea, that it’s not just a continuing serialized storyline about only these people. It’s a little more the 24 model, than the Lost model注2.”
“Heroes needs to 21)evolve, and if we are positing an idea that this is happening all over the world to many, many people, then we get to see some of those people, and see how their story fits in.”
播出之前，人们似乎不太看好《英雄》：这是一部关于基因变异者的连续剧，讲述他们肩负艰巨使命，谋求拯救世界的故事。这件事本身就相当复杂棘手，而这部作品还融入了科幻小说的元素—这类电视剧就更少有成功的先例了。
但这部电视剧靠的不是超能力。它成功的根源在于一批真实的、有血有肉的角色，他们在各种人生困境中挣扎求存，比如当一名单亲妈妈，面对语言障碍，与毒瘾角力，或者生活在大哥—我们身边最常见的人生大敌—的阴影之下。
最让观众记忆犹新的角色莫过于中村宽，这个日本上班族只懂一点点英语，却来到美国，要用自己扭曲时间的超能力来阻止世界的毁灭。比起他的能力来，更令人感到不可思议的是他充沛的精力与永不言败的精神。他也许是美国电视史上最具乐观精神的角色之一。
“饰演这个角色的感觉真棒，”其扮演者丘增（音译）说。“我们小时候都曾经是‘中村宽’，却没能坚持下去。在电视上，没有多少角色能像他这样对生活充满希望。”
另一方面，内森•佩瑞里—他是一名会飞的政客—的扮演者艾德里安•帕斯达则认为，面对现实远远胜于逃避现实。
“现实就在我们身边，总能在报刊亭和美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）上看到，你无从逃避，”他这样说到。“我想人们已经把它当作入侵日常生活的一部分。我们这部电视剧反映了世界现状，但是剧中的角色会竭尽全力，谋求改变。”
正如他们所说，这部电视剧就是关于“希望”，可能正是因为这样，遍布网络的粉丝们才会如此期待下一季的开播。
新季看点
蒂姆•克林对媒体透露说，该电视剧是多卷系列剧，即将开播的第二季将是全新的一部，会有新角色和全新的故事情节。“如果你们还记得的话，电视首播时以第一集作为第一部的开始，”克林在一次采访中说到。“第一部随着第23集结束而完结。第二部则在第二季拉开序幕时开始。第二部将是一个完全不同的故事。”
克林补充说：“我们会加入新角色、新故事、新想法、新危机、新坏蛋以及新英雄。所以我会让观众做好心理准备，让他们知道这不是仅仅围绕这一部分人展开的连续剧。这部作品用的更像是《反恐24小时》的模式，而不是《迷失》的模式。”
“《英雄》需要不断进化。如果我们假定这种变化发生在全世界很多、很多人身上，那我们就会见到他们中的一些人，看看他们的故事如何融入进来。”
英雄榜
Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere)
职业：高中生、啦啦队长
能力：自行复原
说明：无论受何种程度的伤都能迅速复原，与养父母一起生活
Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka)
职业：上班族
能力：控制时间
说明：多次穿越时空以改变未来，第一季结尾时落到17世纪的日本
Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia)
职业：护工
能力：复制
说明：每当遇到一名超能力者就能自动获得与对方相同的能力，险些毁灭纽约
Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy)
职业：学者
能力：未知
说明：继承父亲的发现，从事超能力者研究，血液中有特殊抗体，是第一季的线索人物
Niki Sanders (Ali Larter)
职业：舞娘、杀手
能力：双重人格
说明：通过镜子映象互换人格，第二人格“Jessica”凶暴残忍
Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar)
职业：政客
能力：飞行
说明：Peter的哥哥，Claire的亲生父亲，为了救弟弟和纽约牺牲自己
Sylar (Zachary Quinto)
职业：钟表匠
能力：研究
说明：杀害超能力者，通过夺去他们的脑部获得其能力，被Hiro刺中，生死未明
Micah Sanders (Noah Gray-Cabey)
职业：小学生
能力：与机器沟通
说明：Niki的儿子，能让机器服从其意志行动，Nathan参选胜利的关键