io9 Talks To The Man With The Horn-Rimmed Glasses  Jack Coleman
has the enviable position of breathing life into television's
best and worst father each week on NBC's Heroes. During the day
he'll be bringing home teddy bears to his indestructible
daughter Claire, while that night he'll gun someone down and
work with genetically mutated viruses. He's gone through more
character twists than a corkscrew and returned from the dead. We
caught up with him at a Beverly Hills lunch spot to find out
exactly what's going on with the show and his parenting skills.
I was going through some of the NBC press materials from just
before the show launched, and you're not even listed in the cast
bios.  Oh, it's crazy. There are still photos of the entire cast
all over the place, and I'm not in them.  So your role was
obviously meant to be minor, but has now grown to be one of the
major characters on the show. At what stage during season one
did you know that was happening?  Well, the funny thing is it
was such a gradual progr