Tim Kring told season one’s storyline will be concluded in season finale and we’ll experience new stuff in season 2, but we thought same heroes-different story kinda thing, we’re wrong,..
Tim Kring, creator of NBC’s hit series Heroes, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second season will constitute a new volume in the multi-volume series, with new characters and an entirely new storyline. “If you remember, the opening of the pilot pronounced the episode as the beginning of Volume One,” Kring said in an interview. “Volume One comes to a conclusion at the end of episode 23, and Volume Two starts with the opening of season two. And Volume Two is a different story.”
Kring added: “We could have new people and new storylines and new ideas and new threats and new bad guys and new heroes. So I would prepare the audience for that idea, that it’s not just a continuing serialized storyline about only these people. It’s a little more the 24 model than the Lost model.”
The first season of Heroes is exploring what happens when a disparate group of ordinary people discover they have extraordinary abilities and attempt to save New York from disaster.
“Heroes needs to evolve, and if we are positing an idea that this is happening all over the world to many, many people, then we get to see some of those people and see how their story fits in.”
Kring also confirmed that some of the current heroes just might not survive this season, but added: “Many of your favorites will live to fight again.”
If “Heroes” is more like “24″, who’s our Jack Bauer? Who’ll survive at the end of the season?
AWESOME NEWS!!! That means we’ll get closure at the end of this season? That rocks!
Heroes is a soapie. It is. The concept that is permenant and can go on forever – the basic premise of the entire series is simply people developing abilities, that’s all. None of the cast are specifically bound to the premise (like, say, Prison Break, where they *need* the brothers to make the show work), and therefore are interchangable and can be replaced or supplemented as the stories require. It *is* like a soap – and a brilliant one at that – and therefore it’s got the potential to go on as long as some of the soaps.
About the 24 reference: By S4/S5 of 24 all the old characters were dead except for Jack. *gulp*
I think this is good news. This just means that the show is going to get more complex, and characters will probably run into each other in later seasons if not even in season 2.
Keep kicking ass, Heroes.
I like this, but the problem that I have is I believe they wasted way too much time on character development that didn’t matter if they are not planning on re-using a significant portion of these characters. The #1 complaint I’ve heard from my friends who are avid 24 and Lost followers is that many Heroes episodes simply don’t move the plot far enough to keep their interest. The last episode was a masterpeice because it covered a few characters and moved the plot a long way with them. The episodes that try to cover everybody are the ones that seem to go nowhere and the commercials seem to have more airtime than the show itself.
I really hope they don’t do something stupid and leave much unanswered, but if they have a Jack Bauer, it has to be Peter Petrelli.
Lol, Lost fans complaining about Heroes’ plot not moving fast enough. Are these people even real.
Of there is a Jack Bauer, I agree it has to be Peter Petrelli.
Well, the one best character would be Hiro, if the limits carry over of only a few returning characters. Hiro’s power allows from a very wide scope of places and times to be at, and can touch on current characters at anytime.
imho
interesting concept, hopefully one that can be successfully realized in terms of staying on the air long enough for the suits to realize the series has a following. as far as current cast, aren’t we pretty much guaranteed that at the very least hiro and peter survive, given the “future hiro” visitation in the subway in one of the earliest episodes?
My guess for key characters are Hiro, and Peter. Everyone else is, all in all, disposable.
I keep Hiro is because of the dinosaur stuff, and his much-different future-self meeting Peter on the subway, which leads towards a larger overall story for Hiro.
Peter, because he is the good sponge, and eventually will have every power worth having. He’s already got, what, a dozen or more, and half of Sylar’s? I mean, when he fights Sylar, he gets every power Sylar uses, and vice-versa, and Sylar obviously will die or lose, so Peter is the keystone, if there is one.
DH? Jessica? Their kid? Parkman? Claude? Uh… painter guy? Ted? Except for any Linderman angles, they are all just decoration and storyline necessities.
I forgot Nathan, but he’s just a dick about everything, ever. Claire, yeah, she was important somehow… we still don’t know how “Save the Cheerleader Save[s] the World”, except maybe Peter absorbing Claire’s powers leads to his NOT exploding…
So Nathan, Claire, and her mom, they’re all decoration also.
My thought on “save the cheerleader, save the world” is that if Sylar had gotten Claire’s powers he would have become unstoppable and eventually threatened all mankind at some point.
Not sure if that’s the actual reason, but that’s my theory.
Love Heroes….but only when I can ignore the frequent bad acting and clunky dialogue.
Jack Bauer’s daughter lives (though not appearing on the show yet this season).
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I think the director its being too selfish by just showing what he wants to show, and always leaving us in doubt with what’s going on…., and whenever the situation seems just a scramble then he moves it into another character of the series…
Therefore when is time to get back into the previous character then he shows another topic…, leaving us with forgotten doubts…
Although, I have noticed that he’s focusing more into Drama “c’mon” if I wanted to watch drama then I switched channels to Spanish Tv
isn’t this supposed to be a sci-fi show????
I started liking it and now and getting disappointed the showing is too slow…