Whoever is responsble for what they've done to Peter should be fired, sure.
Taking away his powers was the smartest thing those clowns have done all year!
Whoever is responsible for Mohinder the Moron must be fired, though.
But I still don't know what "creative direction" the suits want for the show. It would be nice for the pace to be slowed down so the characters can interact with each other and explain themselves better via well written dialogue; and a
lot more attention needs to be paid to plot and character logic.
But since when are shows punished in the ratings for being fast-paced but stupid thrill rides? I always thought the opposite was the case.
And the show content isn't responsible for the fact that 3M of the 11M viewers watch the show on TiVO, where the advertisers won't pay up; maybe indirectly, since
Heroes attracts the younger-skewing crowd that TiVOs everything. Isn't grabbing a young demo a "good thing"? The fact that young viewers tend to TiVO shows isn't something the
Heroes producers can solve.
I wonder if them blowing the budget isn't the real reason they got booted (both the producers). NBC is probably looking for ways to tighten the budget, which they can do by stopping their mania to hire new actors each season.
The crazy thing is, they've got the best budget-stretching formula they could hope for, a lot of great characters who the fans want to see interacting. Put two of them on screen, point a camera at them, write some good dialogue for them, and that's what we want! And you can't get cheaper than that. Having half a billion characters with individual plotlines requiring sets and location shooting is what drives up the costs. Lose some of the characters (starting with Hiro, Ando and Nikki) and there's more cost-savings.
They will always have to throw in those pricey SFX superpower battles, but this season has taught us a new Peter Principle: overusing superpowers just makes people bored of them.
