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UPDATE: I hear Pasdar will be paid through the end of the season. Very weird.
So I watched this show its first season, loved it, and then never watched again. (My inner geek was satiated.) Still, Adrian Pasdar’s forced exit is surprising unless flying is no longer considered a cool enough capability. More likely is that the show keeps suffering lousy ratings because it never recovered from being interrupted during the writers strike. (Poor Tim Kring was collateral damage as well as his Heroes sequel.) Here are all the superheroes who’ve been axed from the series since Day One: Season 1 — Tawny Cypress, Santiago Cabrera; Season 2 — Noah Gray-Cabey, Dana Davis, Kristen Bell, Leonard Roberts; Season 3 — Dania Ramirez. Given the failure of NBC network primetime these days, and Jeff Zucker’s zeal to save money on shows, I wonder if the 4th season Heroes cast now will be whittled down to just people who can lift a fork from their plate to their mouth in order to save CGI costs.
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The writer’s strike had nothing to do with this show’s failure. The choice in season 2 to tell many disparate stories with no connection and no pay-off is what killed the show, trying the patience of viewers ad nauseum and ultimately losing their loyalty. Plenty of shows were interrupted by the strike, and while it can be a pain and hurt momentum in the short run, if it’s a good show that rewards its viewers along the way, it will sustain in the long run. Four years later, it’s just getting worse and worse. There was no long-term vision for this show, and so whereas season 1 built to a climax for the season, the rest of have been meandering around story-wise like a lost puppy.
You mean, kind of like that last sentence of yours?
Cast-of-thousands usually kills a show….How special are these heroes when there’s an anthill full of them, and more popping out of the woodwork at every turn. Focus on a few, instead of giving each story line 30 seconds. The attempts of making the good go bad and vice versa are unfortunately abandoned half way – 110 % good or bad is BORING ’cause PREDICTABLE. There IS a great show in there, which pops out from time to time, but FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS, and stop the charisma bleed (first Bell, now Pasdar – lose Quinto and you can close shop)
I’ve been hanging on the last 3 seasons, hoping they’d get back to an actual storyline- like they had in S1.
I haven’t seen anyone comment on the switcheroo they pulled with Ali Lartner’s Niki/Jessica Sanders & Tracy Strauss characters. Although her original Niki/Jessica character was a dud and needed to go, they really insulted th audience by sticking her into an entirely different role. The frequent changing of alliances and role-reversals also make it difficult to follow or or “get into” the characters.
Heroes Season I was possibly the best season of TV ever made (Rivaled only by Season I of Prison Break). Season II was rough. Season III-IV were ok. Season V is mediocre at best. Peter not having his power is infuriating. Sylar losing his ambiguity as a good/bad guy is dumb. Claire’s lesbian relationship with her roomate was about the dumbest thing I have ever seen. The story of the hospital is not going anywhere. Hero is driving me nuts that he doesn’t just hold still and get his braintumor fixed. Heaven forbid he just go to his resources of superhero friends who could fix the problem in like 2 seconds. Or that he get Sylar to fix his power for him like he did Charlie. Everything about this season is frustrating because it could all be fixed in 5 seconds by someone acting semi-rational. Season I was the height of the show, and it has not even come close to rivaling how good it was in season I. It also ticks me off to no end that the show brings in tons of characters (Flying Boyfriend, Crying Mexican Killer, Mimic Girl, etc.) who the viewers don’t like, so they just disappear. And then major characters like Micah get left out without any explanation.
The only struggle I have enjoyed watching this season is Parkman/Sylar. Everything else seems like a fight for ratings. I actually think the Carnival thing is pretty good as well. I think there is a lot of potential there and an endless reservoir of potential characters.
I miss the ambiguous Sylar. I miss Peter holding onto more than 1 power at one time… why not let Peter keep his old power and bring in a new villian or something that does what peter is doing now… that would have been an awesome 10 episodes or so of plot. I miss Hero on an actual quest that relates to saving the world. I miss the anticipation of some future event that decides the fate of everyone. I wish that the writers would sit back and write the entire season before starting to film and then listening to what the viewers like. At least write the show an entire season at a time. That’s how season 1 was. But all the other seasons have been pandering. The strike hurt, but not as much as the weak plot.
i’m not trying to be a bitch or anything, but i’d like to point out some key flaws in your rant here..
first of all, there are only 4 seasons, just fyi. they’re in the middle of airing the 4th one currently.
secondly, if all the characters acted rational and did exactly what they SHOULD do then they wouldn’t have a tv show. if you think about it, what hit tv show is about everything going right all the time?
and thirdly, you’re very mistaken that sylar has lost his ambiguity. i think even if he had lost all his humanity after the incident with his father, there is still some left fighting within him after harboring nathan’s spirit. i don’t think he’ll ever be gabriel again, but i certainly don’t think he’s lost ambiguity as a character.
you do make good points about the niki-tracy reversal and characters like micah and monica just disappearing. feels like the writers jumped in over their heads and are reaching desperately…but honestly, i still enjoy the show entirely. i think there is still a good balance of mystery and satiation within the plot and i think continued watchers will be rewarded.
anyways, just my opinion. just me.
I agree with both of you completely (well I mean except that part about season 5, Sylar, and rationality in which I agree with the reply, not the original).
Also does anyone know what happened to Molly? Did Matt just leave her with the babysitter or what? Last I remember, Mohinder was watching her, but once sylar broke in at the end of season 2, she just sort of dissapeared (as you said before) maybe I just missed something…
It had everything to do with the writer strike. Have you seen any of the alternate scenes and peices from the differant episodes? Apparently not. The Season was supposed to be alot longer than what it was. They had to change every bit of it because it had to end early.
The writer’s strike had nothing to do with this show’s failure. The choice in season 2 to tell many disparate stories with no connection and no pay-off is what killed the show
Comment by Hank — November 2, 2009 @ 3:41 pm Reply to this post
haha this post is completely rediculous…
lol the whole reasoning of their choices for Season 2 is BECAUSE of the strike, duh!! OF COURSE it had EVERYTHING to do with the strike… Your right about telling many disparate stories, but one made THE ultimate connection. Hiros traveling to fuedal Japan… where he meets who? The main villain of season 2. They had to leave this story in… so we didn’t have an unknown, nameless, faceless, villain. If they leave out Hiros fuedal Japan story…they would of had to scrap Adam Monroe, and make a entirely new villian for Season 2, thereby losing all the written material they had done so far, before the strike. They would of had to start from scratch. The Strike had EVERYTHING to do with it…
Notice how Hiros journey in season 1 lead up to the finale, stabbing a non-regenerative Sylar. Same goes for Season 2… his travels directly affected the outcome. However, “because of the strike”, they had to condense alot of stories into 11 episodes or it could of been better. Altho i loved Season 2.. To me Season 3′s Volume 3 was the worst of all. They made up for it in Volumes 4 and 5 tho.
I am commenting on the fact that they did not have to get rid of him. I.E. – they could have just did what they did to HRG use Claire’s blood to bring him back. The fact that nobody in the show has thought of it is “lame”. If anybody has already posted this idea,I did not try to steal it. I just did not read all the posts as they were all sounding the same.
That’s true. Plus, if they put sylar and Nathan into the same head, then I thought they couldn’t kill just one! I mean, if they could do that, why didn’t Matt just kill off Sylar? It sure wasn’t too difficult for Sylar to kill off Nathan(actually it was way too easy).
Tim Kring and his show are one trick ponies. It’s entertaining but there are episodes where there’s nothing going on. I wouldn’t blame the strike from damaging the show; if anything, it saved it. That shit would have been canceled at the end of S2.
I totally disagree! Heroes has gone from strength to strength and this season is the best so far! As for the effect of the strike yes Heroes lost momentum due to the number of episodes that were shown but season 3 and this season 4 have been great ad now that Heroes has great writers working on it it has been injected with a new life and the characters have more depth to them. If you have stopped watching due to season 2 then you have missed out big time Zach Quinto has been awesome as well as the others in the cast.
What have you been smoking? This show has squandered opportunity after opportunity in search of ratings and the story has never gone beyond banal. Go read a book.
You have got to be kidding me! Once the Petrelli family secrets were revealed and that whole Nathan-Sylar sctick…I bounced. This entire show is crap now. Lost its luster.
absolute bull crap..This season keeps me hanging on for the next episode every week…I started watching while season three was going on (we ended up buying season 1 and 2 before we ever saw an episode of season three) I was always under the assumption that this series was one of those that you had to see “from the beginning”.Once I got all caught up I realized that this show and its characters are interesting watch and you can’t wait to see who teeters on the fence as far as good or bad…This season especially..I hated when people bitched about season 2..So far this season the characters are really fun to watch because they are going back into the past, you have to wonder if Kring thought of that ahead of time…As far as Sylar goes, he is the best bad guy I’ve seen in a series for a long time,and he should stay…I think Adrian Pasdar’s character being let go was the only logical senario for the shows direction..and now we get to see what happened to sheresh….If anything quit the bitching…If you don’t like the show STOP WATCHING!!!And for those of us that do like it, I guess we will see what happens..
Yeah, I didn’t like the show so I DID stop watching- along with most other viewers.
Phooey on those of you who can only diss the show!!!
I have been faithful to Heroes since Day One – I’m hooked, and I’m fascinated! I was nearly in tears at the end of last week’s episode, and I’ve thought about that particular storyline a lot since I saw it.
Yes, the second season was lacking — I know several former fans were tired of Hiro’s story, since that was most of the show. But the writer’s strike was definitely to blame! Hiro’s storyline was probably the only one to have been completed. And it sucked with relation to the entire show, but did help with Hiro’s story. However, since then, the characters have grown and I am seriously enjoying the evolution of both Sylar characters.
Hey, don’t like it? Don’t watch.
Don’t want to know about it? Don’t read.
Its not so much because of the strike, but because Kring hasn’t got a clue (and Sylar should have been killed of 3 seasons ago)
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Jesus there are no consequences on the show. Kring stole X-Men, and still couldn’t get it right. In the X-Men movei even they killed off characters.
Hero’s is crap and they should have canned it after the first season. Now they will go to syndie with a shitty show.
heroes is not crap. you need to think before you say something negative. the show is good and the best thing thats on tv. if your one of those people that like disturbing crime shows, then that’s your lost. who ever wrote this article needs to grow up and actually look at what’s it’s gained in the past three years. it gained fans and got more views on the first season then any other show and was reconiginzed as one of the best sci fi shows. never have i seen any other show that actually got to travel to other countries to promote it. the reveiews were estatic and if you give it time then maybe it will once again be that great. you need to look at the full picture of this.
look at the reviews it gotten on tv reviews which is low but still alot, then look at the reviews online, look at how many people are watching tv show online including on tv. if you conpared those numbers you would realize it’s just as high as it is from the season 1.
if anybody thinks they can prove that wrong, be my guess because i can prove you wrong.
Actually, I think you need to think before you pump up substandared fare like this as “the best thing thats on tv”. If you’re resticted to rabbit ears & 3 network channels, then yeah, maybe it is the best thing you’ve got to watch. But once you throw cable into the mix (or even FOX, for that matter) tripe like this is exposed for what it really is. If you’ve never read a novel or a comic book and never seen a movie, then yes, Heroes is quite original. If you’ve the attention span of a gnat and no concept of continuity, the writing is brilliant. Even the highly touted first season (which I’ll readily admit to enjoying) was nothing but ideas and plots stolen from comics (and in a further insult to fans, the creator claimed to never have read a comic book…). The continuing plot thread from season one: stolen from the Watchmen (and poorly executed).
As for your point of lots of talk online=lots of viewers? Apparently you’re new to the internet. Look up “Firefly”, “Arrested Development”, or “Jericho” for proof that massive online fanbases do not mean people are watching the show. While you’re at it, pick up the DVDs for these shows to see what good television looks like.
Stop comparing HEROES to X-Men! Just because the show is about people with special powers doesn’t mean it’s a direct rip off. The X-Men family is HUGE and anyone writing something about people with special powers, even if they’ve gone their entire life not knowing about X-men, would somehow write characters that bare some resemblance to an X-men character. What about the fact that Heroes is WAY WAY WAY more believable than X-Men? Or that even with time travel there are no grand rewinds and mass resurrections? Even though Heroes is made in the comic book style, it’s still very much grounded in the real world and that sets it apart from such predecessors like X-men. Yeah they dropped off a bit there in season 2 and for a little while in season 3 but Fugitives and this current volume have very much redeemed the show. And what about the fact that they pretty much changed the very DNA of the show? Originally after vol. 1 was over, we’d be given a new set of characters, new stories, and a fresh start. but because the fans liked the cast so much, kring altered the show drastically and this probably threw some things out of line. they’ve made a lot of changes for we the fans so the least we could do is give them some room to breath and time to work.
…Sylar’s the only character that keeps the show going. The show would have been canceled after season one if it weren’t for him.
So true. The day Quinto goes is the day Heroes drops of my Tivo list.
Sylar is by far the best/most interesting character in the series, but I only realized that around season 2/3. Before that, I was all for him falling off a building and cracking his head open on the pavement. The main problem I have with him is how many times he has bounced back and forth: the whole I’m evil, I’m good, I’m evil, I’m good, I’m evil, I’m an amnesiac w/puppydog eyes and a gun while my mind is stuck in Parkman’s head sctick is getting old. A character can only bounce back and forth so many times. I know why the writers did it, b/c they knew sylar would be a more interesting villain if people both loved and hated him. It worked, but now theI loved the first season, they tied it up in a nice little bow and yet left you guessing on some major points. Season 2/3 were okay, but I began to hate certain stories. Unlike in the first season, when I enjoyed hearing most of the backstories, family secrets, and watching the turmoil, 2 and 3 left me just plain bored with some of them. After all, when a character’s best secrets are revealed, they do get boring (Ex: mama petrelli). I still like watching Heroes, but when it used to be my #1, it has dropped behind Dexter and Supernatural (and a few others). I don’t think it is the quality of the show that has dwindled, and I don’t really think it is the character killing. The latter is cruel but necessary because the writers can’t be expected to come up with so many secrets and lies to reveal for only 12 (or however many we began with) characters and string it along for 4 seasons plus. They NEED to introduce new blood, no matter how short lasting that blood is. The whole premise of heroes is a sci-fi/fantasy mystery where mutants(?) discover the truths about themselves, fight for their right to live, and learn the hidden secrets of those around them. And yes, I loved firefly, arrested development, and other shows whose broad fanbase couldn’t save them from the chopping block. I think heroes is still riding the wave from its 1st season, and NBC recognizes that it COULD be as amazing as s1 again, it just hasn’t quite figured out how. Sorry if I rattle on, or insulted anybody, but I’ve got a right to my opinions and I could go on for days about this kinda stuff. Just thank God I have to go pick up my laundry.
This is probably the most intellegent and well thought out review I have read so far (even if it took two seconds to write). Do you realize Sylar has flip flopped eleven times? (and yes I am nerdy enough to count it) Seriously, he better stay good, and not just because I like him as a good guy, cus I loved him as a bad guy too.
I watch this show for the characters though, and they are realistic. Gabriel Gray is obviously just a bit stupid when it come to people. He knows how they work, he just doesn’t want to believe it so I guess in real life he would be so easily manipulated.
He flip flopped so many times (between good and evil I mean) because in the beggining he was just killing for logic and “to see what made things tick” but once he started getting emotions (which just sort of randomly happened out of the blue) he became weak, therefore, easy to manipulate. Which is WHY (in my opinion) Sylar flip flopped so much (taadaa!)
Of course now it seems he is both Sylar and Gabriel Gray not “too sides at war” (like Nikki/Jessica) so hopefully he’ll stay that way or I’m not watching! (ok, I’ll probably keep watching because Peter anD Sylar are so freaking hot! ;D) Don’t be mean, this is just my random ranting opinion but if you have another theory I’d love to hear it
Wait, what??!
(He goes, I go.)
Is this true about AP being let go?
“More likely is that the show keeps suffering lousy ratings because it never recovered from being interrupted during the writers strike.”
That’s a nice story for those involved with the show to tell, but the last show of the first seasons was just awful, and the 2nd season didn’t even meet that standard.
The headline should’ve started “Adrian Pasdar Escapes…”.
since you seem to have stopped watching after the 2nd season you have no idea just how great season 3 was or how great this season is! I am sorry to hear that AP has been let go but we have some fantastic newcomers to the show ie Robert Knepper! It is people like yourself that never really got into the show in the first place that think it is bad but for those of us who have followed the show it has gone from strength to strength.
Sorry, season 3 sucked epically. As soon as the Papa Petrelli’s death was faked, they had the bogus storyline about Sylar being a brother to the Petrelli’s, and they had Sylar experiment with being “good”, the show became a bit predictable and played. They had good premise but they botched it. How many trite comic book conventions were they going to rip off and not twist in an interesting or different way?
How can you say that – If anyone out there truly understands that Tim Kring is doing nothing but ripping off the X-Men stories of Len Wien, Chris Claremont & John Byrne.
For god sakes, they are running the “CARNIVAL OF EVIL” comics from the early Byrne/Claremont days of the mid 70′s.
The ringmaster (Robert Knepper) is doing a perfect imitation of Mesmero – Who by the way was the ringleader of the carnival in both the early 70′s X-men comics, as well as the mid 70′s version!
Hollywood truly does not have a single original thought in it’s body!
Besides…
What if it is in fact Zachary Quintos that is being killed off?
Hear me out, If Sylar’s body is being used by Nathan’s memories * Sylar’s memories are stuck in Grunberg’s mind * in order for them both to find peace, two of the three characters have to die. Plus with Zack about to retake the role of Mr. Spock in the next Star Trek film, he probably needs to leave the show. That now makes more sense of why Sylar’s persona has been taking on such a large role most of the episodes this season. Just a hunch…
Thank you! A loud second to this comment. Tim Kring is aesthetically empty–never had the goods to deliver, and somehow everyone else got blamed.
I liked Adrian’s character and I’m “totally bummed” he won’t be on Heroes anymore (Hiro is my favorite character out of the bunch…I’ll stop watching if they axe him).
The failure of NBC network primetime is due only to the fact the executives get too involved in the shows and ruin them. Its not a recent trend, though it has been more obvious with good shows like The Pretender, Medical Investigation, Journeyman, and Freaks and Geeks being cancelled for no good reason. NBC has been doing this ever since the late Brandon Tartikoff left the network. Tartikoff was the only executive to spot good shows AND stick with those shows. They just don’t know what they’re doing over there. As long as they’re getting paid, they don’t care either.
Now, when good shows start on NBC…they’re pretty much doomed to be cancelled. Not everybody likes to be insulted with stupid reality TV shows or “blah” medical dramas (the only good ones of those on NBC were St. Elsewhere and the short-lived Medical Investigation). There are a few other shows left on the air that still make you think and feel like you were really entertained while learning something other than who can dance or sing the best…but those shows are on the other networks.
If another Heroes-type show came along on NBC, I’d still watch it…even if I knew it was going to be ruined eventually by the execs.
NBC is developing another superhero hourlong show this development season — isn’t it called THE CAPE or something like that? It’s being done through Berman Braun.
thank you someone who gets it! The NBC have butted in and put Heroes on at the wrong time for so long of course it is not going to fair as well as House or some other inane programme but Heroes is a great show and those that actually work on it are fantastic. Hopefully the NBC are listening to what we fans have to say. Tonight’s episode shows that they are beginning to give us fans what we want as they brought Isaac and Charlie back (for this episode anyway) and it is widely known that they were 2 of the most missed characters that were bumped off. and they seem to have got good writers that seem to care about the show working for them now.
OK, Brandon Tartikoff was pretty good, but he made mistakes.
He had the terrible habit of running the initial episodes of a new show completely out of order, making the show thoroughly incomprehensible! When the pilot runs as episode 5, no one knows what the characters are about!
And every time he did that & a show failed, he’s apologize & say he wouldn’t do it again.
And then he’s go out there & do it again & again!
I’ve always called that “Tartikoff Syndrome”.
And when Brandon left NBC, Warren Littlefield picked up from him & he also suffered from “Tartikoff Syndrome”!
But back to “Heroes”, this show has had ups & downs. The first few shows were bad, then it got better, then Kring came up with those two from Mexico with the weird eyes & the show hasn’t recovered.
Plus Sylar is just a ridiculous villain & should have been really truly killed off a long time ago.
And the previous season was just “As The Petrellis Turn”.
Who gives a shit!
Hiro was always the real find on this show & his part has been written ludicrously for two seasons.
I finally stopped watching a few weeks ago, but saw last weeks show & vowed NEVER AGAIN!
I miss Hiro’s old character too, but they had to change it! The changes are realistic, he’s becoming more serious because of the horrible things he’s seen. He’s becoming more solemn, but also more caring (not in the nice sense but in the sense that he is more empathetic). And he would after seeing the death of Charlie (about 8 times) and the death of his mother (3 times) and his hero being a drunk, and having to leave his gf in the distant past(not charlie, the Japenese one), and his bff killing him, and new york exploding (2 times), and, well, you get the point. Lots a crap happened to him.
This is of course, just my personal opinion. If you have another idea, please be kinnd.
The same shit happened over at CBS…They cancelled Jericho after the first season then brought it back(because of the fans)for like 6 episodes…It was a fantastic series and it got canned because we need more reality tv? Bull crap….
So it’s Pasdar after all. Well, that’s the one dumb thing they haven’t done with the show yet. Then again, I couldn’t believe when they let go Leonard Roberts either.
Originally, all the actors were supposed to get axed after season 1 to be replaced with new characters and storylines. All the actors knew that going in, so none of them can complain now. Heroes should have stuck to the original plan. They didn’t and now all the characters have worn out their welcome. Was it an NBC directive to keep the “beloved” characters after season 1 and jettison the original idea? If so, congratulations NBC on killing another show. Genius at work.
That’s all the same information I knew. I think I am slightly bummed that we missed out on the ever changing cast. I guess the writers hadn’t been expecting such a fan base for the original characters.
Proof that listening to the watchers doesn’t produce a great show. Stick with you plan, people; we aren’t writers, we don’t know what we are talking about.
Proof that listening to the watchers doesn’t produce a great show. Stick with you plan, people; we aren’t writers, we don’t know what we are talking about.
You’re exactly right. Another show that suffers from this same affliction is ‘Supernatural’. The writers there have catered to the fans way too much, and the last couple seasons have suffered horribly because of it.
Getting back on topic, though, I watched ‘Heroes’ for half of the first season, but never could get into the show. However, I’m sorry for the fans who liked Adrian Pasdar’s character, as losing a long-running character on a show almost always sucks.
For the record: One of the biggest risks NBC ever took was on an initially low-rated sitcom called Seinfeld.
Now we have a network more inclined to play it safe and cut shows or their budget rather than invest in a show’s potential.
As one of the few who have actually stuck with Heroes through the years, NBC would be better off investing in better quality for their current shows (Heroes, Chuck, Friday Night Lights…. law & order is running thin) and trying to give good new shows a solid footing (In the battle of Trauma and Mercy, Trauma should’ve won even though the ratings are basically the same…but guess which one is cheaper to produce)
In other words, NBC took the easy way out by putting a talk show that’s wearing thin on five days a week instead of working on new innovative works. From the network that brought us the groundbreaking ER and West Wing, NBC has essentially given up all of its testicular fortitude. ’nuff said
Heroes suffered from a great number of problems – the least of which was the stupid strike.
And they kept the Matt Parkman character? Who is writing this show? 10th graders? As of tonight I delete it from the DVR.
I thought Kristen Bell walked.
“Poor Tim Kring”? He’s the biggest problem with the show! It’s funny that sometimes on other networks when shows go downhill the showrunner gets the boot. But Kring somehow still has a job running Heroes into the ground.
The biggest problem with Heroes is that the characters are the worst written characters on television. I have never seen characters that are more stupid than on Heroes.
Perhaps it is because of crappy ratings or because AP’s character, Nathan, was truly killed at the end of last season and is currently occupying the body of the awesome Sylar. So… I’m not too surprised about them letting AP go. Bringing him back in full would be ridiculous and Sylar’s storyline has finally come back up. Not a bad trade off, if you ask me.
The strike has nothing to do with it.
Season 2 was cluster-f**k of epic proportions. It’s very obvious that Kring didn’t have a clue where this thing was going.
Sylar killed him last season. It’s not a stretch or a surprise, and truthfully doesn’t impact the show as it is now in any way. And, neither Noah Gray-Cabey, Dana Davis or Dania Ramirez were killed. If you just mean not spotlighted as characters, you’re right. Unlike many, I still enjoy the show and the characters they’ve created.
Pasdar’s character was killed LAST SEASON. How is it a story, much less a shocking one, that he will no longer be on the show?
Most TV shows today are high-concept gimmicks for a good reason: They’re the scripted show answer to reality TV. Cost-control is the operating word. So the gimmick is the star, not the actors. Of course, character-based shows provide stronger ratings more consistently, but the networks are convinced that the ratings decline is a given, and so, implementing this safe, highly corporate, control-freak type of strategy, they perpetuate their low-ratings reality. There is no escape from this at least as long as the networks remain under tight parent-company control, or until the time there’s a network head with enough personality to hedge a bet and keep the parent company at arms-length.
I might just start watching Heroes now that the idiodic Adrian Pasdar is gone. He adds nothing to any show I have ever seen him on.
Get rid of Kring, you’ll have a better Heroes. Period.
The First season was only good beacuse “The Heroes” (characters) save the world. Since then, they haven’t saved shit! It’s like a bad soap opera now. Have them save the world again Kring and forget about that inner conflict bullshit… Do that, you’re golden.
Sorry to hear about Pasdar. He’s a good actor, but soon enough they’ll all be gone…
Along with ‘Sienfeld’, other shows like “Cheers”, “Hill Street Blues” and “Night Court” started with low ratings, but NBC believed in them, and they went on to win many awards, develop a HUGE audience, very high ratings. Their is something to be said for a Network who stays with a series to allow it’s fan base to grow.
Well, NBC has given HEROES three seasons, with the forth one currently underway. If you can’t grow your audience in that time, it’s not because the network isn’t giving you a chance.
I loved Heroes during its first season, continued watching it during its second season (but didn’t like it nearly as much), and gave up about four episodes into the third season. Sounds like I haven’t missed much. I’m not watching any series on NBC except for 30 Rock. There’s nothing else left to watch.
How does this author know it’s Adrian Pasdar for a fact? She doesn’t cite any sources.
I haven’t heard any of this reported anywhere else.
If it is, then they might as well cancel the show for all I care. He’s the best actor they’ve got.