Heroes cancelled!

[startrekwatcher]

I always got the impression (my own opinion mind you) that Moore and company decided to end their show at Season 4 to avoid cancellation. BSG's ratings were probably at their lowest point before Moore's decision. It was a prestige show for Sci-Fi so they likely didn't want to cancel it but at the same time the ratings were so low, they might have had to eventually. Deciding to end the show at Season 4 allowed both sides to save face.

Cancelled or bowed out--doesn't really matter to me--BSG had a stellar first season-tightly written, epic storytelling, heavily serialized, urgency of purpose. Then the last 2.5 seasons it was all over the map. It really could have cut out a lot of crap and merged seasons 3, 4 and 4.5--trimming a season and a half out.

I mean we had the tedious love quadrangle, the Baltar cult that just dragged on, the stupid Six/Tighe/Ellen triangle, the stupid Six baby plot, a whole bunch of uninteresting filler, the mythology just fell flat at the end. The only thing that salvaged it was a stellar series finale in "Daybreak".

 

[Wowbagger]

Back when Enterprise was cancelled, a lot of people were jumping up and down in forums around the internet saying, "Hooray! They finally killed that piece of junk!" I hated those people. If they didn't like Enterprise, why didn't they just not watch it and leave us fans to enjoy the show we loved?

Now the show is Heroes and, I am somewhat ashamed to say, the shoe is on the other foot. I feel bad for the fans... and yet strangely happy for myself. What an awful piece of junk it was after that glorious first season.

I think everyone so far has missed the reason that the show failed after Season One: they wrote Chris Eccleston out of the series.

I'm actually being serious. "Company Man" was by far the best stand-alone episode of the entire series. It also had the best character dynamics... and a huge Eccleston-to-Noise ratio.

 

[RoJoHen]

Now the show is Heroes and, I am somewhat ashamed to say, the shoe is on the other foot. I feel bad for the fans... and yet strangely happy for myself. What an awful piece of junk it was after that glorious first season.

I only feel bad for the fans' taste in TV shows. I was baffled to learn that Heroes was still on at all! I seriously thought it had been canceled after Season 3.

 

[Brent]

I'm kinda bummed, I don't like shows ending without properly ending or getting a wrap up. They ended on a kind of ending that I want to see what happens next with the world seeing Claire's ability. I want to know if the future we saw way back in S1 becomes a reality or not. I just seriously wanted a shortened season, whatever, to wrap up the story so there is an end. I hate it when shows don't get an end.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I think everyone so far has missed the reason that the show failed after Season One: they wrote Chris Eccleston out of the series.

I'm actually being serious. "Company Man" was by far the best stand-alone episode of the entire series. It also had the best character dynamics... and a huge Eccleston-to-Noise ratio.

Oh come on. Eccelston was okay in his role but hardly vital to the series. The real reason "Company Man" was good was for Noah. Matt and Ted were also good. Claire wasn't horrible as per usual. The writing was smart for a change. And it wasn't a stand-alone episode - it was part of the overall arc, like all the episodes were. My favorite is still "Five Years Gone."

 

[Angela 0077]

so Hero's has been canceled that is good in a way.

The first season was great and the second was quite good too.

But it seemed to go way off base after that.

 

[ALF]

I'm kinda bummed, I don't like shows ending without properly ending or getting a wrap up. They ended on a kind of ending that I want to see what happens next with the world seeing Claire's ability. I want to know if the future we saw way back in S1 becomes a reality or not. I just seriously wanted a shortened season, whatever, to wrap up the story so there is an end. I hate it when shows don't get an end.

Thanks. I've been fumbling with words... THAT is what I wanted to say.

 

[princessariel]

I want there to be a mini series or movie but it's up to NBC what if another network picks Heroes up?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

No network is going to touch Heroes. It's a failure. Hollywood hates failures.

 

[Angela 0077]

I agree that no other network will pick up the series again

it has ran its course and it is time for something new.

That is the problem with having so many seasons of a series is that you run out of ideas for the characters and storyline.

 

[Tom]

The bigger question is will Tim Kring get another series?? hmm

 

[USS Kongo]

Adieu, adios, and arrivederci, Heroes!

I can't say that I was really surprised to hear this news. I stopped watching the series after the third season.

Sean

 

[Temis the Vorta]

That is the problem with having so many seasons of a series is that you run out of ideas for the characters and storyline.

They had plenty of good ideas (and bad ones). Their problem is that they couldn't tell the good ideas from the bad ones and didn't know how to execute the good ideas well.

Lost has had six seasons and too many characters to keep track of. Somehow, they managed not to fall on their faces. Heroes has no excuse.