Heroes is a bit like getting hold of another Mars Bar ice cream. It’s the same sort of drama series that is great fun while the concept lasts but when it’s been played out as far as it can go, we just want another one. Having seen the many seasons of Spooks, CSI, West Wing and 24 and so on, there is definitely a market for more of the same. Heroes is like watching a film with loads of half famous actors where you spend your time wondering where you’ve seen all the bits before. It’s not hard to identify the components. Coming on the back of the Marvel Comic resurgence of the last decade, Heroes seems to be a kind of X-Men fantasy tale topped with a huge dollop of the type of sinister fate and destiny type stuff that J.J. Abrams (creator of Lost and Alias) is so enamoured by. It’s not new either; think John Wyndham’s Chrysalids and mix it together with Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge to get an equally strong ‘fate and spooky talents’ fusion!