On the Set of Season 2

Claire:

- "I’m not normal. I tried to pretend that I was and I just hurt everyone; my mom, my dad. I ruined everything because of what I am. I hated it. But you – when I met you I finally felt like I was part of something."

- "I walked through fire and I didn't get burned."

- "This is Claire Bennet. And that was attempt number six."

- "Look... thanks, okay? I'll talk to you in front of people at school tomorrow. Promise."

- Claire: "Give it back Lyle!"
Lyle:"No! I'm going to put it on YouTube and make like a million bucks!"
Zach: "YouTube's free, idiot!"

- "You're totally my...

When Sylar telekinetically throws a shower of flying glass at Peter Petrelli in season 1, The effect is created digitally, as it is not possible to do physically (At least not without hurting the actors....)

On the computer, the glass shards are initially represented by black 2D shapes. CGI artist Mike Cook explains, "What they do on set is, they take a multitude of images(of the room itself) in a 360-degree veiw and we can use the images to put accurate lighting on the 3D objects."

"There was a real shard of glass used in the episode, so we wanted to make it look the same," adds fellow CGI practitioner...

I enjoy watching Heroes. I truly do. It's a great show to watch and every week I tune in. But from the very beginning of season one, I had issues with Heroes and its very obvious character parallels to X-Men. Sure there are those basic powers one must hit for entertainment purposes: flying, instant healing, reading minds. But just for my sake of drawing the character parallels because this stuff interests me, here are some of the instant X-Men/Heroes connections (nine-tenths of my X-Men knowledge is based on the movies -- so I apologize if I managle comic book lore.)