NBC's Heroes....?

Question

With a story line as big as the "Save the World" theme how do they top it and have a sucessful second season? I love the show, but after this season I can see it flopping!

Answer 1

i agree with lem... its funny my sister and i are such big fans of heroes and we were thinking of the exact same thing a few days ago

Answer 2

You are only a hero as long as you are saving people from something. They may save the world only to have to rebuild it and stop others from destroying it. It is time to pull out the spandex and dawn the tights. It is Superhero time.

Answer 3

i think they will have a 2nd successful season and no, it's not cancelled..I would expect that we will see all new Heroes and a completely different story line..that's how it will carry on

less than 42 hours until it's back wooohooo

Answer 4

they are going to have a second season of heroes.

Heroes Gather For A Second Season
Former Dr. Who will guest on NBC show, which is renewed for another year
January 19th 2007 08:34am | Posted by: Michael Simpson

Succeeding where Invasion, Threshold and Surface failed, the NBC show Heroes has become one of the few network science fiction series in recent years to be renewed for a second season. The announcement was made on January 17, according to Sci Fi Wire.

"In network TV you never take these things for granted," Tim Kring, the show’s creator and executive producer, said in an interview. "And while we're clearly a success, these things are always fabulous. And I think how early it was done is just a huge show of support for the show."

Heroes concerns a group of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary powers. Recently it won the award for Favorite New Drama at the 33rd Annual People’s Choice Awards. It was also the only television show chosen among Time Magazine’s 27 People Who Mattered in 2006.

Discussions have already begun about where the show might go in its second season, and the show’s writers are having no trouble plotting the future, according to Kring.

"It seems to want to generate ahead far enough so that you're never really in that much trouble," said Kring. "It's amazing. I was sort of panicked by the idea of having to take a break at the end of this season and go off and think about season two, and it's just naturally starting to come up in the writers' room, and we're putting stuff up on the board. While I had big tentpole ideas of where I wanted it to go, the meat is actually getting filled out, and every day I look at that board, and I smile, because it's one less thing I have to think about on my hiatus."

Before the second season comes, however, there are plot lines to resolve in Season 1 and new characters to introduce. Kring has revealed that these will include an invisible man named Claude. The character is named after the actor Claude Rains, who starred in the classic 1933 film version of the H.G. Wells’ novel The Invisible Man.

"His character acts as a sort of mentor for Milo's [Ventimiglia] character, Peter, who's having trouble controlling all of these crazy powers that he seems to have," Kring told Sci Fi Wire. "So he runs into this character, literally, and forces him, basically, to teach him what's going on and to tell him what's going on. And it's the first indication for the audience that these powers have been around longer than we seem to have sensed it as an audience based on what we've seen so far."

Although Claude will be an invisible man, the actor who will appear in the role has a face that will be familiar to genre television fans. Claude will be played by Christopher Eccleston, who played the Doctor for one season when the BBC revived their long-running science fiction series Doctor Who in 2005.

"So far, he's been in four [episodes], and then we're trying to work out his dates with his movie that he's doing," Kring said. "We'd like to have him come and play with us for a while."

Another actor appearing in Heroes who will be well known to science fiction fans is George Takei (Sulu in the original series of Star Trek). Takei will play the father of Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), a character with the power to stop time. Takei does not yet know, however, whether his character will be hero or villain.

"The thing is—and this is the part of the challenge of doing Heroes—I really don't know who my character is and why my character does what he does and what his motivations are and where he's going," Takei said to Sci Fi Wire. "Because with each new script, I make new discoveries. Is he good or is he bad? Is he domineering or is he being told to behave that way? I mean, there's so many ambiguous things about it."

One thing the character will be doing is speaking a lot of Japanese. Takei was impressed with that, but it was also difficult for him.

"It's a commentary on the television viewing audience," Takei said. "Here it is, prime-time network popular television, and [we have] whole scenes being played in a foreign language with English subtitles. I think it's a great commentary on how sophisticated and how global our television-viewing audience has become. ... I haven't worked in Japan in Japanese. And here I am in the United States working in Japanese with English subtitles. So that's a delight, but it's also a challenge because it's not my first language."

As the second half of the first season proceeds, fans will also find out more about existing characters, including Claire (played by Hayden Panettiere), the cheerleader who refuses to die.

"My character is definitely running down that road of trying to discover who she is, where she comes from, who her parents are, if she's alone," Panettiere said. "And you realize that it's a very, very small world. And people have these very odd connections. And there is a big, big turn. A couple [of] turns coming up."

Although a second season of Heroes is assured, the finale of Season 1 won’t leave audiences up in the air wondering where Claire and the other characters will begin Season 2, according to Kring.

"It's not necessarily a cliffhanger in terms of what has been set up so far, storywise," he said. "It's more of a cliffhanger as to the welfare and well-being of several of our characters. But there will be a payoff. ... It plays into where we kick off at the top of the season."

Heroes returns to NBC with new episodes on 22 January at 9 p.m. ET/PT. In Canada the show returns to the GlobalTV network on January 22. More from all of the interviews cited above can be found on Sci Fi Wire.

Answer 5

maybe they won't save it at the end of the world?? maybe all their trying to save it ends up screwing things up worse and they have to fix it??

Answer 6

There will be no 2nd season.
The final 5 episodes begin this monday.
Then, no more. :-(