"Well, you know, there was sort of this celebration of human perversion. It was kind of part of it because ultimately some of their engagements are sexual in nature. That's been very much downplayed because it makes some people uncomfortable. My mandate was to make some people uncomfortable - unfortunately some of those people run the network."

"And they wanted a show, a first episode that absolutely laid out the structure of the show, which is - Echo is at the Dollhouse, she is imprinted for an engagement, she goes on the engagement, she comes back from the engagement into the Dollhouse. This is how it works."

"Fox forgot to cancel my show... Very awkward. They looked and said, 'Oh, this is our bad. We forgot to cancel your show. You're going to have to make more.'"

"Blair Brown - Nina Sharp"

"Leonard Nimoy - Dr. William Bell"

"John Noble - Dr. Walter Bishop"

"Mark Valley - John Scott"

"I loved my time on Fringe, but the truth is that was originally a story about a female protagonist… and the show turned into a story about father and son [played by John Noble and Joshua Jackson]. Very often in this business, that’s what tends to happen… A lot of the time, those boy shows, it’s not that there’s anything against women, they just don’t know how to write women, so they go right back to [the trope of Steven] Spielberg, father-son — and there are mothers and sons, and mothers and daughters."

"Anna Torv - Special Agent Olivia Dunham"

"Joshua Jackson - Peter Bishop"

"Kirk Acevedo - Special Agent Charlie Francis"

"Jasika Nicole - Special Agent Astrid Farnsworth"

"Lance Reddick - Special Agent Phillip Broyles"

"Good will battle Evil."

"You can't choose your family. You can choose a side."

"In every hero there could be a villain."

"They will be hunted. They will be captured. They will need each other."

"As Evil grows stronger, a family unites."

"One of Us, One of Them"

"Rappler: Since the evos are being hunted in Heroes Reborn, is the show going to have similarities to how Mutants are hunted down in the X-Men movies?"

"Debuting in the fall of 2006, “Heroes” was something fans had never seen before: an original TV series centered around everyday people discovering fantastical abilities. We met characters like Claire Bennet (Hayden Panetierre), the regenerating cheerleader; Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia), the power-absorbing man; Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), the time-traveling pencil-pusher; and Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), the telepathic cop. These seemingly disparate people were discovering their powers and fearing what they might do to the world around them. On top of this strong sense of character development, the pilot almost instantly introduced the stakes in the form of Sylar (Zachary Quinto), the power-hungry villain with a scalping streak; a foreboding premonition of a nuclear explosion, the source of which was left to be discovered; and a visit from future Hiro, who bestows a mission onto his past self: “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”"

"2006 was a very different time for television. For one thing, there had never been a compelling superhero series realized on the small screen. But then came NBC’s Heroes, which filled a huge void on network TV with its sprawling ensemble, its story about superpowered people around the country, and its dense mythology. At the time, the show felt genuinely revolutionary, even if it was borrowing its storytelling tropes from the greatest hits of comic books."

"When the first (Emmy-nominated) season of Heroes debuted in 2006, its use of time travel and other tricky narrative structures was pretty cutting edge for a network show. (Usually studios insisted that each week’s episode be fairly accessible to new viewers.) Now, shows like the CW’s Arrow and The Flash deploy those kinds of storytelling tricks every week and have whole universes of interconnected spinoffs built around them."

"This was a problem with the original Heroes, too—the creator Tim Kring got so invested in his individual characters that he forgot to unite them into a team. You might recall the show’s first season motto, “Save the cheerleader, save the world,” but you’d probably be hard-pressed to remember just how the plot eventually played out. Kring would set a hundred threads in motion but then struggle to knot them all together, and considering the amount of time Heroes Reborn spends on introducing new characters, it’s fair to worry that his latest effort will struggle in the same way."