The following announcement doesn't come as a shock, but it's still disheartening for those of us that have watched Heroes from the start:
A source at NBC is confident this will be the final season of the show.
"There isn't much happening with this show in terms of audience, and giving it a 'final chapter' feel is something the network is considering to help allow the show to go out with a bang," the insider told airlockalpha.com.
During its first season, Heroes peaked around 15 million viewers. These days, it averages approximately six million.
Hiro represents the downfall of Heroes. The character has been wasted for three seasons now.
The show does have a loyal fan base, however, which includes some at NBC the source said. Just not anyone high up at the company.
"To keep a show like this going despite its numbers requires some nostalgic connection to it, and while there are a lot of people here who were part of bringing Heroes to the air, they are not in the decision-making capacities," said the insider, adding what many fans have feared for many months:
"I don't think this should surprise anybody. The writing has been on the wall for some time."
Nothing is finalized, of course. If Tim Kring is reading this right now, how would you advise him to improve the show in order to keep it on the air?
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October 29th, 2009 8:11 PM
OK...Listen Tim here is the thing. This show has the ability to be really amazing like it used to be. Even when you brought on Stan Lee to help with story arching. 1) Get rid of companies and anything having to do with "Companies". Keep sylar good, get 3 big new Major Villians Have them team up. Create one villian Like tracey but is also very powerful almost like Apocalypse, or Sinister. Have heroes DIE! Make them ALSO get into shape because it needs to be believable, get other Dimensions involved, but in a good way. BRING BACK DAPHNE!
October 29th, 2009 9:59 PM
Dear Tim,
Kill the damn cheerleader! Peace.
Love,
Heroes Hero
October 29th, 2009 10:42 PM
Mr. Kring,
1) Let Hiro grow. It is not unbelievable to have him mature into a sword-weilding time master by season 3 or 4. Don't take his powers to keep him in the story, just let him intercede on a diffrent level that makes sense. Stop demeaning his character by making him the comic relief.
2) Decide on how powerful both Sylar and Peter really are. Don't nerf Peter and leave Sylar as some sissy. If they are the pinnacle and must face off then let them do so. Let them cancel each other out like yin and yang and go into oblivion if you need to.
3) Finish your stories. What happened to that Irish girl Peter was hot for? Is she still in the future? Why not save her? Try to connect the dots. This goes for all other stories. This one just stick out liek a sore thumb though.
I'll stop at...
4) I came back from vacation to a season 4 marathon of 7 episodes. After 7 of those episodes I still feel like nothing significant has happened or is starting to happen. I still don't understand why Sam is the bad guy (revenge is too simple) and why he is gathering certain heroes. I don't understand why Sylar is partly in Parkman's head and his own body. Hiro is dying but still leaves to save an insignificant character instead of being healed by Peter. Everything simply appears to be in a chaos with all characters's personalities and situations and nothing is coming together.
I would suggest that you give this show a break or really sit back and take a look at what got you a second season. I refuse to believe you were that lucky with season 1.
Good luck.
Regards,
- JettaFlair
October 29th, 2009 11:41 PM
Mr. Kring,
Why arent you addressing anything to the fans anymore like you did in the past with the previous seasons.
Hiro shouldve matured in Season 3
You shouldve never made Caitlin and Mohinder just disappear
You should have finished Sylar off honorably in Season 1
You should have had EVIL Villians
You should have never made Sylar Peters Brother
You should have never made Sylar a Empath
You should have never made Sylar Weak that we laugh at him on screen
You should now REveal Samuels Intention
You should have given Hiro a purpose
You should Give Peter, HRG, Mohinder, and MAtt their own show call it Heroes evolution or something.
You shouldve never made Ali Larter Tracy and kept her Nikki.
You shouldve never made Mikah disappear
You shouldve killed these characters- Tracy, Maya, SYLAR, HIRO
AS you can see I was a very LOYAL fan of Heroes...now that its being cancelled....how can I defend the show?
October 30th, 2009 12:16 AM
wow this is really depressing. Why can't they give this season a chance? maybe Zachary Quinto put in his notice to leave and they figured they couldn't do it without him. I agree with JettaFlair. Give the fans powerful Peter vs. powerful Sylar. LET SOMEONE DIE! how about Peter avenging Nathan's death???? It would have been much better if Peter knew Sylar killed Nathan at the end of the season!!!! Sometimes I think the writers over-think or over-complicate things like the ending of fugitives. If they really wanted to start fresh they would have just killed off Nathan and started the next season with Peter hunting Sylar to get revenge, but no that had to make Peter go from an empath to powerless to having just one power in the stupidly written Villains volume.
I STILL BELIEVE THE WRITER'S STRIKE KILLED THIS SHOW BECAUSE SEASON 2 WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER AND THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A BETTER FOUNDATION TO DO A VILLAINS VOLUME!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhh i hate this news! DON'T end Heroes completely! put it on USA network or something! re-write season 2 or finish it like you were going to and put it out on DVD. Take a year or two off and actually plan and bring it back with some old characters and some new people with new powers....depending on where this season goes with Samuel
October 30th, 2009 12:19 AM
I'd like to see;
1) The heroes all team up (Sylar included if he survives the season) and fight some other big terrible fate but actually using their powers and ACCEPTING that their powers can help people and not trying to be 'normal'. They can still have 'normal' issues, relationships, jobs, home life etc. but have to deal with the effect being so special has on these issues (like Peter Parker). I think it'd be good to finally let the world know there are special people and deal with the aftermath of that (obviously there would be some positive and some negative public opinion but they could explore how this would affect our characters).
2) Do NOT kill Hiro or Peter. Both are the quintessential good guy and we need them. They are both very likeable and the show needs to hold onto them (they've yet to find other heroes we would regard as capable of 'saving the world' and also being good through and through, even if they make mistakes)
October 30th, 2009 3:43 AM
Kring,
I really hope you read these Tim. I have been a loyal fan through and through since season one despite everything done. Even through the horridity of season 2. I've purchased all season sets so far and plan on doing so continuously. But most of these people are right.
A few things do need to happen though and for the most part I can sum it in two words. Justice League. This show needs to take a few pointers on how to operate super heroes from the Justice League.
October 30th, 2009 8:53 AM
Dear NBC,
I tune to this website at least 100 times at day, when I am at work when I am at home on my iphone, and last night when I read this it complexly changed my mood I got very upset. It was notable by everyone and my family kept asking me what was wrong with me but I refuse to believe that my favorite show of all time is not getting pick up for next season but at the same time is not really a surprise the way things have been lately.
This show connects me with so many people I have friends, cousins and even fans on this website that I don’t even know, we talk about the show we enjoy the time very much and we all look forward to the next episode. My brother in law watch the show in the living room I watch it in my bedroom and when something excite happens I run to him to talk about it or I text my friend or my cousin it a beautiful moment and connection that we have every Monday is this nightmare really happening?
Dear Tim,
Dude you really letting me/us down I refuse to believe that next September there is no more Heroes to look forward to. I feel like stopping watching it right now to remove it from my mind never ever talk about it again, throw away my collection I can’t see my show getting cancel. But I won’t do that because them it would get cancel even faster and them hell is going to break loose.
Anyways:
There is so much I want to tell Tim right now but at this moment I can’t focus on anything I am still very upset about this news. (sorry for the bad writing friends I am just very mad right now)
October 30th, 2009 9:19 AM
Tim,
maybe the show cant be saved but you can go out in a blaze of glory at least. First off you need to give Peter his abilities back, were he could have multiple powers. The ratings in season one were so good because you had time travel a weird future, hiro was fun to watch. But you had Sylar against Peter, two powerful people one good one bad. Now you have two Sylars one in Parkmans head and one who doesnt know who he is. The point is every strong bad guy needs an equally stronger good guy, peter was likeable because he was just getting a hold of his powers in the first season and you knew he was going to be powerful. You killed off Nathan, why? All I want if my favorite show isnt coming back is for Peter to get HIS ABILITIES BACK. He is best when he is powerful so do the right thing.
October 30th, 2009 10:57 AM
You people know NBC has heroes forums of its own right? If you want Tim to read anything you should post it there.