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Comic Book Resources regularly holds question and answer sessions with Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite. The weekly posts, titled "Behind the Eclipse", often shed light on and provide insight into the mysteries of Heroes. Following are highlights from the writers' comments.
Episodes 1-5
- "Tim Kring (OFL) never read a comic book."
- "The characters are linked to their abilities."
- "[Mr. Bennet's] glasses are in fact prescription."
Episode 6
- Regarding powers (in particular flight): "In all cases our conclusion is that nature provides defense mechanisms for all creatures on land, in the air, under the ocean--the same is true for these abilities."
- "Are [Isaac's] paintings an absolute? Can the heroes change the outcome of something predestined?" "Wouldn't be much hope for the world if his paintings are absolute, right?"
- "Half of [the traffic numbers for the Heroes website are for the webcomic.
Episode 7
- "Claire feels pain, but not the way most of us do."
- Regarding finding meaning in different comic books (Tales from Space, D.J. Doom, Cosmic Man): "This might be a case of looking for meaning where there is none....Those books are just books--nothing more."
- "The number 9 is pretty important in the grand scheme of things."
- "Abilities are tied to emotion on some degree."
- "We've tried to stay a way from terms like [Metahumans, Mutants, Specials, and Ultras], mostly because we want to ground this all in the real world.
Episode 8
- Joe Pokaski's wife's name is Jessica.
- Peter's "dreams mean things."
- "The smoosh-faced lion...is an homage to one of our talented writer/producers, Bryan Fuller--who created the amazing series Wonderfalls."
