Heroes: Origins, the much-anticipated until recently, anyway spin-off has been put on hold at NBC. According to the trades, you can blame the threat of the writers strike and not — we repeat not — the original series taking a hit in the ratings and with critics in its sophomore season
Is this a relief? (Presumably the Heroes masterminds can now focus on fixing their flagship.) Or is this is an opportunity lost?
it would have been interesting giving good writers a chance at the
show
They lying. It’s because of the Heroes ratings!
Noah using memory loss as torture, WTF!
I’m definitely bummed about it. I was really looking forward to seeing what Kevin Smith and Eli Roth had come up with.
Not a relief – they could’ve taken all the new bull$hit heroes this season (Copycat, Lightning Girl, Flyboy, the Black Eyed Chicharos) and put them in Heroes Origins, so that HEROES could get back to its actual story and characters! D’OH!
After last week’s crappy episode, I’m giving up on Heroes. I hung in long and hard with Lost, and it ultimately paid off, but I’m not interested in doing it again with Heroes.
If they can get the actual show back on track, then it is a good thing.
I was just thinking the other day that no one was going to be interested in the spin-off since the original show had lost its way.
I just can’t wait for Dollhouse!
The WGA strike is just giving NBC the opportunity to kill a series that never should have been green lighted. Heroes at its best is a weak concept, and to try and spinoff would have weakened the original more than its second season already has. The creators of Heroes need to take a hard look at the mess the series is in, and make changes before NBC pulls the plug on more than just a spinoff.
this would be like having a spin off of “the carpoolers” at this point.
Can’t say I’m disappointed – I loved Heroes last year, but after every episode this year I’ve said “That’s it?” The thing is, it isn’t even hard to see where the faults are here. Get Hiro back to the present ASAP, dump the lame Wondertwins act, get Sylar back his powers, give us those killer cliff hangers again, and show us more interaction between the already existing Heroes. TO the poster who mentioned Lost, I can’t say I ever lost my faith in those writers – I believed they knew what they were doing all along, and so far they certainly seem to (though this break is killing me). I’m not so sure Heroes has ANY path right now…
After such a sucky season thus far, i was looking forward to seeing the show in more talented hands, therefore this is a dissapointment to me
Who still cares about this crappy show?
Let’s talk about Joss Whedon already! Come on Pop Watch, which pop are you watching?
Ok, let me just say this not only as a comic book fanboy, but as someone who HAS NEVER & WILL NEVER WATCH LOST. I missed the ship from the get go & never bothered watching the dvds to catch up. The HEROES ORIGINS spin-off would have been a great tool since the cast of characters has expanded quite largely and Sylar not having his powers to kill them off, means they needed another show with which to not only continue some of their stories, but also shed some light on the ORIGINS of these people & their powers. Think about it, X-Men is Marvel’s most popular title & you’ve got ASTONISHING, UNCANNY & at one point even EXTREME. All these different titles because each one was able to tell a different story and give us a broader sense of their universe. I was truly looking forwrad to HEROES ORIGINS to learn possibly more about Kensei, if he is immortal & hat he’s done over the lasst 300 yrs. Is the eclispse the switch for the powers to be activated? More about the past of the original 12…
I thought having a mini-season in between the season during the break was a good idea. I was hoping it was a success and would catch on. Maybe they’ll do it over the summer.
And I was complaining about season 2 initially, but I just wish it would stop now.
The interesting thing about a show like Heroes is that the first season is going to be much more satisfying because (unlike other templates) they don’t need to focus on setting up plot and depth. The cool part is seeing all the individual characters discover their powers. Heroes is struggling now because they might have spent too much time on fluff in S1 and are spinning their wheels in S2. Origins would have been a breath of fresh air after a second season almost guaranteed to be less successful than the first. This is definitely a disappointment.
yaaaay! I thought that was a bad idea even before this season aired. too much Heroes is not a good thing, moderation ftw!