News, Next Episode - Written by Infelt on Thursday, February 7, 2008 1:39 - 30 Comments

Good News, Bad News, Our Opinion…Your Opinion?

Tags: nbc-heroes, Season-Volume-3-three, television-tv, tim-kring, WGA-strike

The GOOD News:

As previously discussed, last week’s talks between WGA leaders and top studios execs have been productive. So productive, in fact, that WGA leaders have scheduled bicoastal (Los Angeles for the WGA West, New York City for the WGA East) meetings with their members.

At the meetings (both scheduled for Saturday February 9th, at at 2 PM at The Crowne Plaza in NY and 7 PM at The Shrine Auditorium in LA) WGA leaders will go over the details of the proposed agreement, and the discussion of the proposed agreement with WGA members will tell WGA leaders if the deal is going to pass in a ratification vote by the 10,000+ WGA members.

It is also possible next Saturday’s meetings go so well that WGA leaders might decide to issue an immediate ‘Back To Work’ order to its members. In that case WGA members could be back to work as early as Monday, February 11.

Under this scenario Hollywood studios will resume production on comedy and drama show in 2 to 4 weeks and air the first new episodes starting in May.

The BAD News:

Since Heroes’ production times are longer than the average drama (or comedy) show, and no new episode will air during Summer, Tim Kring thinks he can complete only three new episodes this season (this season = before Summer).
The next ‘Volume’ of Heroes ( before the strike ) planned to air between December and June, is titled ‘Villains’. And this is Tim Kring’s opnion: ”With a show like Heroes that’s so strongly serialized, and given what we wanted to accomplish with the new storyline, to come back with just three episodes could be creatively dangerous.”

Our Opinion:

Since producers and writers are creative people…they should think ‘outside the box.’
If it’s true that airing only three episodes (out of a dozen) of a ‘Volume’ could be dangerous,
is also true that those three hours of Heroes could be utilized to air an ‘Epilogue’ to Volume 2 (and tie a few loose ends caused by the need to end quickly the story arc) and an ‘Introduction’ to Volume 3.

Or film three self-standing episodes (who did not enjoy Episode 17 of Season 1 “Company Man’, please rise your hands) to explore, in depth, the past of our favorite characters… Hiro, or Peter, or Claire, or…

Your Opinion?

Sources: EW.com, NBC.com, Variety.com, Eonline.com, TVGuide.com

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Chris
Feb 8, 2008 17:14

Why not just make the three episodes into a telemovie?

brianna
Feb 8, 2008 23:09

I agree with Maj ( are you MateJ?) TV has thee Dumbest….Scheduel…..Ever. And what on earth is a telemovie??? :-/
-Brianna

Chris
Feb 9, 2008 10:51

Telemovie = made for TV movie. Ex. “Battlestar Galactica: Razor” “Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars” etc.

Kyle
Feb 9, 2008 23:05

I think the bad news might not be that bad. Think about it, if those three episodes live up to the HEroes suspense, then that suspense will build up over the summer and it will be awesome when they come back.

Aldrius
Feb 10, 2008 15:11

I’m kinda sick of cliffhangers. So I really think either play during the summer (which might not be possible), or make it so that the third episode concludes with an opening for the future, but not on a DIRE OMG cliffhanger.

Either way, I want to see an episode before next September.

Sad Sack
Feb 11, 2008 3:12

Keep playing new episodes into June! We’ve been deprived enough already this year!

INTJ
Feb 11, 2008 10:48

I think the self standing 3 episodes would be a good idea. Entertaining and doesn’t tamper with Villains. Let’s see more of how Elle became the colorful character she is or perhaps some more background on Bob.

M&M'S
Feb 11, 2008 13:02

Why not show us the history behind the Company… There’s a LOT of us wanting to see the older generation in action…. Although only 3 episodes, this is a chance to really bring the elders into the foreground…. This would also, in my opinion, make Volume 3 stronger, because we know a little behind the Company’s motivations.

alfonso
Feb 13, 2008 12:21

TIM KRINGGGGGGGG PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE MAKE ORIGINSSSSSS AT LEAST 3 EPISODES OR MOREEEEEEEEE GIVE US MORE HEROES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grace
Feb 14, 2008 3:00

Understandably we want to see Heroes back as soon as possible, but I think I’d rather wait. There were a lot of season 2 episodes that were a disappointment . If the writers only have a a few weeks to write 3 more episodes for the rest of this season - whether an Origins or some continuity - then who’s to say it won’t be haphazardly done? And then, yes that would be a disaster that Tim would not want to gamble with. I would rather the writers have enough time to think through each episode, and then give us something really awsome next fall. Besides, I read that Tim is writing a “series bible” that would direct where Heroes is going with for the rest of its TV life. Thinking through all these in the summer might prove much better than giving fans a few episodes to tickle us.

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