After assembling some Internet spoilers for y'all, I think I can tell you what Christopher Eccleston is going to be doing in Heroes in January. Spoilers in a mo.
Eccleston will be playing an intense and wise mentor with an edge named Claude. He is said to be an imposing man with a gruff exterior. Supposedly, someone we will grow to love. He'll be making his debut in the January 22 episode and has an ability not yet seen on the show. This hero has been around a lot longer than all the others, so presumably he can teach those heroes we already know a thing or two.
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November 23, 2006 | Reply
There was a lot of noise at the beginning of this series that they got their powers after an eclipse. But some of them seemed to be manifesting their talents before then.
This would put the kibosh on that idea.
I guess they just don't want to come out and say genetic mutations or risk getting sued by Marvel like the 'Mutant X' producers were.
November 23, 2006 | Reply
The eclipse theory didn't make a lot of sense, unless you assume it was something that happened at the same time: eclipses only apply to very specific areas of the Earth's surface and there'd be no way someone in Japan, someone in India and someone in the US would experience an eclipse either simultaneously or even during the same day.
Did the Mutant X guys really get sued by Marvel? Didn't Marvel Studios put out Mutant X? I thought Fox sued Marvel and Marvel Studios because Mutant X was too close to The X-Men and Fox was arguing that infringed the film rights Marvel had sold them. I'm not sure Marvel can copyright the idea of genetic mutations, either...