Heroes cancelled!

[Temis the Vorta]

They finally put it out of our misery!

It's official. NBC has cancelled "Heroes."

The network seriously mulled bringing back "Heroes" for a shortened final season to wrap up the serialized show.

In the end, given the fairly high cost of the drama, the show's consistently declining ratings and the number of new hour-longs coming to NBC next season, the network decided the UMS-produced series wasn't worth an additional season. Sources are still leaving the door open to conclude the show with a special or movie, but also tabling that verdict until after upfronts, which isn't the best sign.

Seriously, what were they going to do with 13 episodes anyway? Where they left the story at the end of S4 would have required at least a full season to do justice to, plus of course decent writers.

So now we can play the same game as we do in the Lost forum: deciding what roles the actors should jump to now. Adrian Pasdar needs his own show, that's for sure.

 

[od0_ital]

Got a link?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Edited it in. Yes, I was paranoid someone would beat me to the punch while I was writing out a nice long post.

 

[startrekwatcher]

Good riddance. The show hadn't been decent since season 2.

Frankly I'm glad to see networks are willing to clean house with all the garbage they had this season--Mercy, Trauma, Heroes, Melrose Place 2.0, Cold Case, Law and Order, Flash Forward etc. They could have added V to that list too in my opinion.

My only concern is that it will be replaced by more garbage next year.

I'll miss LOST but even it is starting to falter so it looks like ending it this year was a very wise move.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

My only concern is that it will be replaced by more garbage next year.

Don't worry, it will. That's why I don't mind them renewing a mediocre show like V. I know the odds are slim that anything better would take its place. Heck, I would have watched whatever Heroes eps they aired.

I'll miss LOST but even it is starting to falter so it looks like ending it this year was a very wise move.

After this week's episode, I'm glad that they won't have enough time to screw everything up. Lost is veering dangerously close to midichlorian territory. It's definitely quit-while-you're-ahead time!

 

[Dream]

Good riddance. The show hadn't been decent since season 2.

Don't you mean season 1?

Damn. Talk about disappointing. Let Heroes be a lesson to all show runners in the future on how NOT to run a tv show after the first season.

 

[od0_ital]

Edited it in. Yes, I was paranoid someone would beat me to the punch while I was writing out a nice long post.

Well, just read it on Greg Grunberg's twitter, so it must be true.

Ah, well..the first season was awesome, the second season not so much, and I gave up durin' the third season...

 

[startrekwatcher]

Good riddance. The show hadn't been decent since season 2.

Don't you mean season 1?

No, season one was brilliant. Season 2 was a step down but still decent. Season 3 was when it really started coming off the rails--that year all they seemed intent on was introducing a ton of potentially interesting plotlines but instead of taking the time to develop them they were determined to introduce the next one then never developing it--the eclipse, Peter taking Sylar's ability, Angela being Sylar's mom etc then they had Nathan's out of left field personality change then another 180 when he decided to help the fugitive heroes. The attempt to slow down the pace and cut back on the number of plotlines in an episode didn't help either because then it just highlighted how dull the characters had become.

S4 was a slight improvement--I tried sticking with it but I just gave up eventually. The characters just didn't hold my interest, the lack of logic in Nathan's decision to "die", the plodding pace, the dull villian that was Samuel, the stupid Clair lesbo-fest etc.

 

[1001001]

Can't say I'm surprised.

Why must every show I like die without a proper conclusion??

 

[Caligula]

Wait... Mercy got axed, too? Can't say I'm surprised as that show never got acceptable ratings. Like Season 4 of Heroes, it started out fun but I lost patience with it towards the end.

Looks like the only shows I watched at all this past year which will still be around in the fall are Chuck and Fringe.

 

[Tom]

What a day, Heroes, Law and Order and Fast Forward official canceled.

 

[Tom]

oops duplicate post

 

[JarodRussell]

How long until NBC cancels NBC?

 

[omegaone]

Disappointing hopefully the wrap up doesn’t suck.

 

[ALF]

How long until NBC cancels NBC?

Well done.

Seriously.... I'm surprised they aren't even going to bother with a 2 hour finale or something.

 

[Guy Gardener]

the bow has released and the arrow is in flight.

It's too late to offer them an extra forty minutes because they'll ask for another 3 million dollars, and there's no ways they have the time to use any new cash on hand anyway.

 

[Starbreaker]

Seriously, what were they going to do with 13 episodes anyway?

Have a looming apocalypse, and Peter and Sylar face off? Sounds original.

 

[Hyperspace05]

YAY... NBC had more 'balls' that I thought.

They truly drove this show into the crapper, and they show-runners deserve nothing less. They made their own mess, and they can enjoy it now.

 

[Guy Gardener]

After Nathan died, he awoke to discover it was all VR/Truman show/Matrix and he has to try and get his "friends and family" out who are not really his friends and family at all but destitutes who sold away years of thei... (oh, Dollhouse, right.) and criminals serving sentence for crimes against the state... Hey, it was a bloody decent episode of Red Dwarf.

In one alternate universe the West Wing got to it's 11th season, but I think that this here where we live, is the most unusualy wierd reality which produded the most extended, nay, distended bloat of Heroes continuity across all the multiverse.

 

[Noname Given]

Good riddance. The show hadn't been decent since season 2.

Don't you mean season 1?

Damn. Talk about disappointing. Let Heroes be a lesson to all show runners in the future on how NOT to run a tv show after the first season.

QFT - Season 1 was great. The rest was utter garbage, with the second season just trying to reset and retell the season 1 story with a different 'future disaster' - yet using the exact same plot device to do so.