CBR: "Heroes": Almost Certainly Over

[CBR News]

Word is out that despite the best efforts of creator Tim Kring, the NBC superhero-themed series will not be brought back for a mini series or special finale to wrap storylines.


Full article here.

[Ziggy Stardust]

At one stage, I would have desperately wanted the storylines wrapped up....

Now? Could not care less.

[Zombie Uatu]

...and there was much rejoicing.

(unenthused cheers)

[shades of eternity]

between sag story arc and the villain's story arc, I'm not surprised.

pity

die hard fan of Jack Coleman and Zachery Quinto, aka two great actors who even when carrying the idiot ball...carry it with style ;):).

I wonder what reality tv show will be in it's time slot?

[redvector]

It's Tim Kring's fault the show failed in the first place. He was the show runner and ultimately it was his decisions that lead to the show's decline. Namely the fixation on the character of Syler and giving Suresh and Ando powers was a really stupid idea.

"Almost certainly over" hopefully over describes Tim Kring's career. I'll avoid any show where his name is attached like the plague.

[The One and Only]

The replacement to HEROES in the Lutzed up Peacock Network's slot will the the heavily advertised series, THE EVENT. Thankfully not another reality show. Although I'm always hoping for something like either The Running Man or Climbing For Dollars ! if the network decides on another reality program. As for this news, the series has never been able to get out of the ditch its been driven into thanks to the damn, writer's strike, which took a whole lot of other shows down with it. And according to some things I heard, we're in for another one next year as well. I don't think anyone cares what happened in the end to HEROES.

[Surtur]

Damn, I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I'm sad to see it go. I would of at least liked to see what happened once Claire revealed herself to the world.

Which is a weird thing for her to do considering that she knows the last time someone tried that Peter came back from the future and shot him.

[Legato]

Damn, I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I'm sad to see it go. I would of at least liked to see what happened once Claire revealed herself to the world.

Which is a weird thing for her to do considering that she knows the last time someone tried that Peter came back from the future and shot him.

I too want to see some closure done for the series, anythings better than ending things on a cliffhanger.

[redvector]

I don't see another writer's strike happening. After the last one many of those writers didn't have jobs to go back to once the strike was over. Because the show's they were working on got canceled or the writing staff was cut back.

Inretrospect the writer's stepped on thier collective dicks when they struck and wound up worse off than they did before the strike. In this economy it'll be even worse next time.

[Vic Vega]

Actually the way it ended wrapped up the series pretty nicely. Show began with Claire and ended with her. There were no real hanging threads.

Had Kring had his way he'd of only made things worse I'm sorry to say.

I don't think he ever got how to make the show work after season one.

[sdc10]

Actually the way it ended wrapped up the series pretty nicely. Show began with Claire and ended with her. There were no real hanging threads.

Had Kring had his way he'd of only made things worse I'm sorry to say.

I don't think he ever got how to make the show work after season one.

Thats because Fuller left the show and Kring does not know how to make a story like Fuller. Fuller made you care about the characters while making the powers a secondary aspect plus Sylar was a creepy villain. When Fuller left and Loeb, being a comic book writer wrote the show like a comic book i.e. making the powers the focus which took the show away from its original premise. Combine that with less than interesting storylines, not knowing character direction, and trying to throw in plot twists in every episode spelled a recipe for disaster.

[Jared]

If he's really desperate to get things wrapped up, there will probably be a comic or a novel. Hell, if Dark Angel, a show built around ogling Jessica Alba, can get a trilogy of books, I'm sure Heroes can get something. Not that I'll have much interest in reading it. I bailed out on the show sometime when Hiro was still in fuedal Japan.

[MadCatTV2]

I was so let down by this show in so many ways...but the utmost was how quickly the show made me stop caring. At first it was one of the few shows I couldn't wait to see and everything came to a halt for the hour it was on. The show was unpredictable and I literally felt any character could be killed off and nobody was safe.

End season one, it felt like a helluva ride and I was excited about the season 2 teaser!

Season 2: Slow start....but, it’s only building momentum and maybe it'll get better? The writer's strike shortens and quickly ends an already iffy-starting second chapter and the ending apparently was forgettable since I watched it but can't remember the majority of it.

Eventually season 3 starts: Ali Larter comes back as a clone/twin of a character that was killed off, characters disappear with no mention and everybody who didn't have powers, gets powers... I turn off the television and read a book.

I'm officially over it and have no interest or concern to see how it ends. Which is a shame really because the show had massive potential and just ended up a wandering mess?

[Interzone]

being a huge fan of comics for most of my life, i asked myself why this show never appealed to me in the slightest.

to me, it just looked and felt a lot like lost. it was just a network trying to stave off being murdered by cable by putting on an intentionally predictable, pretentious show. it really pissed me off when people compared heroes to better shows like the x-files.

i would hope that the networks or cable (AMC, HBO, Showtime) would give the idea of people with superpowers a good rest just like with all those vampires. maybe in a few years we could get a haflway decent show with an original story.(please no adaptations.)

now i'm going to go hide in a bunker and wait for no ordinary family to bomb.

[Dr Will Hatch]

I've only seen season one, and based on what I've heard, I'm glad I did. S1 was fun but flawed, and Kring ended that season badly. I mean, an airborne nuclear man is infinitely worse than a groundling nuclear man, am I right? I agree with the poster who said that Jack Coleman and Quinto were the best, though. Yeah, they were consistently great even when their roles were badly wrought. And the girl who played Claire is good too. I hope she lives in Scream 4.