A shoutout to a series that doesn't get nearly enough attention nowadays... Though no subsequent season lived up to the first, it was still a fantastic show.
It was something massively different - serial rather than episodic. We take serials for granted nowadays, but back then prime time serials were practically non-existent. I think it's success and popularity was a factor in the success of Iron Man just barely eighteen months later.
Last time I got new glasses, I seriously considered horn rims so I could cosplay as HRG.
Hiro Nakamura : Peter Petrelli?
Peter Petrelli : What? Are you doing this?
Hiro Nakamura : You look different without the scar.
Peter Petrelli : I don't know you.
Hiro Nakamura : Not yet. My name is Hiro Nakamura. I'm from the future, and I have a message for you. I don't have much time. I'm risking a rift just by coming here. The girl. You have to save her.
Peter Petrelli : What girl?
Hiro Nakamura : The cheerleader. It's the only way to prevent it.
Peter Petrelli : Prevent what?
Hiro Nakamura : Everything. Listen to me. She must live. The painter, Isaac, go to him. He will know. When I call you, you must tell me where we meet. You've told me many times how lost you felt before it all started. *This* is what you've been waiting for. Be the one we need.
Tons of good moments in the show, and fourteen years later this one still gives me chills - the moment a number of major plot threads were suddenly and unexpectedly tied together. "Save the cheerleader, save the world" became something of meme and people laughed about it... But it's the moment the series became so much more.