Heroes: "Brave New World" - 2/8/10 - Season (Series?) Finale
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I'll watch this just in case it really is the series finale - it can't possibly be as bad as it's been built up to be! In 42 minutes, Claire and HRG have to escape the caravan, Peter and Sylar have beat up Multiple Man and get to the carnivale, Samuel's plan has to go ahead and be thwarted, Sylar has to be redeemed or killed or whatever, and somehow the heroes who have nothing to do with this storyline have to be shovelled in. How can Hiro, Ando and Tracy, just off the top of my head, get involved in a meaningful way without derailing the whole episode?
Yeah, this is going to be hilariously bad!
Yeah, this is going to be hilariously bad!
It's only an hour? I thought it would at least be 2
Well sure. He dies in every season finale. Although if this is the series finale, they may try to do something new.
I know, I was laughing even while typing it.Supposedly, Christopher Eccleston is going to be back in this episode tonight. We'll see.
43 minutes is plenty of time for Samuel to talk everyone to death by boasting about all the great plans he has for his family.
And that, in itself, would make the whole episode for me!
Sadly, this will probably take up the majority of those 43 minutes. I'll be glad when the little twirp gets killed FINALLY.
Not complete proof, but looks promising:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1582860/
I'm actually a little excited now.
The A.V. Club interview with Tim Kring:
AVC: Whatever the case, the perception from that article was that you guys follow fan feedback online, and change things based on it. Is that true?
TK: In season two, we were shooting episode 11 when we wrapped because of the strike. We had probably eight episodes in the can by the time we aired. So any feedback we get from the audience, we can’t really do anything about. We’re three to four months ahead. But we very much are like the fan base ourselves. We’re all fanboy geeks. The writer’s room in a way is like a sociological study: It mirrors the fan base in a really close way. When we start to say, “We should do this, we’ve done too much of this,” sure enough, three months later when the fans are watching the show, they have the exact same reaction at exactly the same time as we did. We’re constantly wishing we could say, “Just wait. We’re way past that now.”
AVC: Do fans ever affect how the show is written?
TK: Yeah, I guess. The problems we are on to today are so different than what the audience is experiencing. We obviously know that certain characters are popular, so we’re not going to kill those off. But even that is hard to know, because you really understand the whole saying of, “That’s why God made chocolate and vanilla.” If you really look at the fans’ stuff—which is hard to do, because there’s a lot—it’s all over the place. For everyone who hates this one character, there’s a fan club that loves him. There’s a very broad reaction to things—it goes down demographic and gender lines.
AVC: But when people wonder whatever happened to the soul-patch future Hiro, and then he’s explained away in a later episode, it’s easy to wonder if people are following the fan commentary.
TK: It’s so amazing how much collective-conscious stuff you pick up on. The truth is, people would like to think their blogs actually influence us, but there really isn’t one main place to get an aggregate sense of what people are thinking. You’d have to troll forever. People who work on shows get very wounded by going online—they’d rather just do their jobs and hope they’re making the right decisions. Someone invariably goes online and gets depressed. It’s akin to hitting the bottle again.
AVC: Whatever the case, the perception from that article was that you guys follow fan feedback online, and change things based on it. Is that true?
TK: In season two, we were shooting episode 11 when we wrapped because of the strike. We had probably eight episodes in the can by the time we aired. So any feedback we get from the audience, we can’t really do anything about. We’re three to four months ahead. But we very much are like the fan base ourselves. We’re all fanboy geeks. The writer’s room in a way is like a sociological study: It mirrors the fan base in a really close way. When we start to say, “We should do this, we’ve done too much of this,” sure enough, three months later when the fans are watching the show, they have the exact same reaction at exactly the same time as we did. We’re constantly wishing we could say, “Just wait. We’re way past that now.”
AVC: Do fans ever affect how the show is written?
TK: Yeah, I guess. The problems we are on to today are so different than what the audience is experiencing. We obviously know that certain characters are popular, so we’re not going to kill those off. But even that is hard to know, because you really understand the whole saying of, “That’s why God made chocolate and vanilla.” If you really look at the fans’ stuff—which is hard to do, because there’s a lot—it’s all over the place. For everyone who hates this one character, there’s a fan club that loves him. There’s a very broad reaction to things—it goes down demographic and gender lines.
AVC: But when people wonder whatever happened to the soul-patch future Hiro, and then he’s explained away in a later episode, it’s easy to wonder if people are following the fan commentary.
TK: It’s so amazing how much collective-conscious stuff you pick up on. The truth is, people would like to think their blogs actually influence us, but there really isn’t one main place to get an aggregate sense of what people are thinking. You’d have to troll forever. People who work on shows get very wounded by going online—they’d rather just do their jobs and hope they’re making the right decisions. Someone invariably goes online and gets depressed. It’s akin to hitting the bottle again.
Well sure. He dies in every season finale. Although if this is the series finale, they may try to do something new.
Supposedly, Christopher Eccleston is going to be back in this episode tonight. We'll see.
He was also "supposed" to be in the last season finale too. I think he shows up all the time in imdb credits. At this point, I've just decided to assume he's in every episode, but invisible.
What are you talking about? Claude has been in every episode since the first season. He has just been invisible this entire time!
What are you talking about? Claude has been in every episode since the first season. He has just been invisible this entire time!
Aw, rats! You beat me to it!
yeah... I was expecting (right before the commercial) the sound of a bone (neck) breaking....
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