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Heroes 1: We Could Be Heroes  

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§ ita § - Apr 26, 2010 6:22:32 am PDT #5008 of 5028
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Rumours of a 13 episode finish-up season. Though I've heard at least one cast member has made other commitments already.


DawnK - May 14, 2010 3:11:05 pm PDT #5009 of 5028
giraffe mode

Official cancellation [link]


-t - May 14, 2010 3:24:54 pm PDT #5010 of 5028
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Kind of a relief.


DawnK - May 14, 2010 3:25:31 pm PDT #5011 of 5028
giraffe mode

Yeah last season was a mess and a half


Sheryl - May 14, 2010 3:32:26 pm PDT #5012 of 5028
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Well, with this news, Lost ending, Law and Order cancelled and Flashforward cancelled my tv viewing will be a bit less crowded next year...


sumi - May 14, 2010 3:36:26 pm PDT #5013 of 5028
Art Crawl!!!

They had two different stories on NPR about the cancellation of Law & Order. . .


Kalshane - May 14, 2010 6:56:32 pm PDT #5014 of 5028
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

It's too bad they didn't get a chance to wrap things up, but I'm suprisingly undisappointed by the actual cancellation, which pretty much says it all about how the show was doing in the end.


-t - May 14, 2010 7:57:30 pm PDT #5015 of 5028
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I don't really remember what they have to wrap up.


victor infante - May 15, 2010 5:16:52 am PDT #5016 of 5028
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

regarding ...

It's too bad they didn't get a chance to wrap things up

... and ...

I don't really remember what they have to wrap up.

Here's the thing. I actually think Claire outing everybody was a pretty good note to end on. The status quo changes, the future's a blank slate, Claire takes initiative on something, Sylar's at a steady good-guy point and Nathan's still dead. Not perfect, but at the very least, our main characters are settled.

Given only 13 episodes, where would they go from here? Given the show's track record, I'd say they'd have giant, hero-hunting robots herding the heroes into concentration camps, or possibly some other X-Men ripoff, and while the characters meandered around avoiding each other and emo-ifying their hair.

Nah. Killing it now was a mercy. So much potential, but it never seemed to know what it wanted to be, and they seemed adverse to -- to borrow a concept from Charlie Anders -- just letting it be pulp.


-t - May 15, 2010 3:20:13 pm PDT #5017 of 5028
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Now that you've jogged my memory, I agree, the ending we got is not bad as an ending.

BTW, there's discussion in Lightbulbs about closing this thread now that the show is cancelled. In case anyone in this thread wasn't aware.