The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Educated guess at what role Christopher Eccleston is going to play in Heroes" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2006/11/educated_guess_at_what_role_ch.php Comments for the entry "Educated guess at what role Christopher Eccleston is going to play in Heroes" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:53:51 +00:00 Comment from Toby OB 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.

]]> 2423@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c14027 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:53:51 +00:00 Comment from Rob Buckley 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...

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