As season one of NBC's hit show Heroes is slowly heading towards its conclusion, information about the second season is starting to leak. Will all of our beloved characters return? Will we meet new heroes and new bad guys? What will the storyline be? Heroes creator Tim Kring met with SCI FI Wire to dish about "Volume Two" of the series.
Heroes is about ordinary people finding they have special abilities and gather to save New York from exploding. Will we still see heroes cooperate to save someone or something? Will a possible conspiracy remain in the background? Amongst answers, Kring revealed that Heroes is a little bit more like 24 than Lost in its way of telling the story. What does he mean by that?
(Spoilers after the jump)
Before we get to what Tim Kring revealed here is a rundown of the few season two spoilers that have already leaked:
- Hiro will have a love interest. [Source: The Ausiello Report]
- The show's first season will end in a cliffhanger that ties up season two. "It's more of a cliffhanger as to the welfare and well-being of several of our characters. Obviously it plays into where we kick off at the beginning of season two," Tim Kring revealed. [Source: SCI FI Wire]
"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," he added during his SCI FI Wire interview.
This isn't too much of a reveal in itself but what Kring added next may have fans sit on the edge of their seat throughout summer: "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." Does this mean that the show could get an entirely new cast? Or most of the cast be changed? Fans shouldn't be too worried as Kring revealed that many of the regulars would return but he also confirmed that some would not survive the end of season one...
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
3-02-2007 @ 1:42PM
gwangi said...
Kill the Cheerleader
Kill the Series! ;)
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3-02-2007 @ 3:01PM
Elliott said...
It sounds more like this to me:
"The show's going great! Uh, oh the actors want raises!? Let's kill them off and hire new ones!"
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3-02-2007 @ 3:50PM
Yayaja said...
I agree with #8,
A season long arc is the way to go. If one story line keeps going and going then it just exhausting. If you hit the reset button at the end of the episode like most shows do, then you can't really develop your characters or the plot as well. It would turn each season into a miniseries, which isn't a bad thing. In fact i think mini series is the perfect format, long enough to really develop an awesome story without rushing, but no need to find ways to extend the story indefinitely. You can dump unlikable characters and cycle in fresh faces, and you could even jumped 10,15,20 years between seasons to allow the characters to change into different people, to allow children to grow up and to allow adult characters to have kids of there own that can become the focus. If this is what's in store for heroes, Then I think that we haven't even begun to tap into the potential of how awesome this show really could be.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:02PM
Franklin said...
It sounds like Kring has 24 in mind as the model -- a season-long arc that is resolved, and the subsequent season is a new adventure. Veronica Mars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be other examples of this. (The producers of Jericho have indicated they're doing the same thing.) This is what LOST should be doing, too, quite frankly.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:02PM
Yayaja said...
I agree with #8,
A season long arc is the way to go. If one story line keeps going and going then it just exhausting. If you hit the reset button at the end of the episode like most shows do, then you can't really develop your characters or the plot as well. It would turn each season into a miniseries, which isn't a bad thing. In fact i think mini series is the perfect format, long enough to really develop an awesome story without rushing, but no need to find ways to extend the story indefinitely. You can dump unlikable characters and cycle in fresh faces, and you could even jumped 10,15,20 years between seasons to allow the characters to change into different people, to allow children to grow up and to allow adult characters to have kids of there own that can become the focus. If this is what's in store for heroes, Then I think that we haven't even begun to tap into the potential of how awesome this show really could be.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:03PM
David said...
This is what it sounded like to me..
We got a season 2! Awesome! We didn't think we would... shit! Know what do we do for season two! I don't know! Let's just star tthe show over!
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3-02-2007 @ 4:03PM
michael said...
It could be like 24 in that there might be a several-year gap between the end of season 1 and the beginning of season two. I think this makes sense for a show like Heroes. It is more 24-esque than Lost-y in that the stakes are huge, not personal. New York. National Security. Mountain Lions. It would be ridiculous if they (presumably) save New York only to find out the next day that now they have to save Boston from Mooninites. A several year gap would allow for some interesting developments as well as avoiding the problem of feeling way too contrived.
On the other hand, they'd have to explain why Micah (and many of the other younger cast members) don't seem to have aged at all. Maybe just a several month gap? Or maybe it's like 24 in that all of the episodes are supposed to have taken place in real-time.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:03PM
Tim Dorr said...
Scott, that's an interesting idea and very comic-book-like. In fact, it will be interesting to see how many comic book concepts they will pull in. There's obviously spinoff series as an option, special side stories, crossovers with other comics, and maybe even a collectors edition release :D
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3-02-2007 @ 4:03PM
4ham said...
A show not afraid to kill off characters or see them off after their story is told? Yes please!
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3-02-2007 @ 4:03PM
scott said...
it would be great if the BBC produced a Heroes:U.K. - kring could be oversee the whole thing for continuity, but otherwise it could stand on its own. i think it would be cool to have the two series running concurrently - could make for some intesersting crossover episodes.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:03PM
C. Hernandez said...
This scares me. I'd try a "Heroes" without Claire's Dad and Claude, but I'm not sure I'd be able to stick with it if they go.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:29PM
pgwp said...
Right now they've got anywhere from 2-5 bad guys or potential bad guys (The Company & Linderman, which may or may not be related, Sylar, and then Nathan and Nikki/Jessica--two heroes that I think have the potential to become permanent villains). I'd love to see two of the three major villains get vanquished this season, with one of them escaping for another fight. I'd love to see Sylar get away at the end of this season and then not appear again until season three.
oh, and I LOVE the idea of a BBC version of the show.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:30PM
pgwp said...
Oh - and I'd love to see a season--or an arc within a season--that follows Hiro into the future where we might see a grown-up Michah, among others.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:31PM
Isabelle Carreau said...
pgwp: Your wish will be granted this season as episode 1.20 is set 5 years in the future.
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3-02-2007 @ 4:32PM
Jennifer said...
Bleah, I hope they don't just drop characters, as it kind of sounds like they will.
But if they kill off say, Niki (I do not get how she fits into this show still) or Isaac (boring, plus Peter can do his job), I won't object too hard.
Nice to know Hiro can stick around, though!
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3-02-2007 @ 4:39PM
bgdc said...
Kill micah, nikki, isaac and peter, claire's stroke-victim mom please. They all suck.
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3-02-2007 @ 6:01PM
jondan said...
I think it might be possible that Peter dies. He's basically all-powerful with everyone's abilities and no weaknesses. Kring might want a more balanced structure going into season 2. At the very least Peter's got to lose his abilities. He might get the shaft though. It would be hard for me to see him making it through to season 2 as he is now.
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3-02-2007 @ 7:23PM
malren said...
Lose Hiro and walk away. Bottom line. This is currently my favorite show on TV, but if we lose Hiro I'm GONE.
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3-03-2007 @ 1:43AM
Cindylover1969 said...
If they kill off Claire or Hiro, there will be repercussions.
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3-03-2007 @ 9:37AM
Kevinc said...
Didn't Peter fall into a coma after absorbing too many powers? Thus he must have a limit, and that should allow the producers to come up with a way for Peter to begin losing powers. Perhaps he'll lose one power to acquire another. This would open up alot of development possibilities, especially if it isn't under his control.
I would think Hiro, most especially, is suited to crossover any storyline which comes up. Because of his power over time, and more so because of his belief that he has a destiny, and wants to be a hero.
For Season 2:
Barring anything radical happening;
Even after saving N.Y., you would have to think HRG and company (the Haitian, Hiro's Father, Eric Roberts and perhaps Parkman) will continue to search and mark other Heroes. Where there is HRG, you have to include Claire...
Mohinder, unless he's killed off will continue his father's work. Hiro will follow his destiny..
I would think Nathan, Isacc, Claude could be left out easily. Depending on Who and What Linderman is Nikki and family could also be dropped.
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