And thousands of Heroes fans around the world say "well, duh."Heroes creator Tim Kring admits that there might be a little bit too much going on in the show's universe. At a NATPE LATV Festival panel discussion, Kring says that there might be so much content going online -- and so many employees working on the online content -- that it sort of takes away from the experience of the show and the storyline, especially if you have a creative team working online that really isn't close to the team that works on the TV show. Sounds like he's referring (strongly) to the much-maligned second season of the show.
He also thinks that all of the product placement and corporate sponsorship that the show has doesn't help either.
I actually agree with this, to a certain extent. I like to see the creative people just do a show (or a movie or whatever) and I try not to get involved in these odd online offshoots that spring up. In a way it muddies the storyline and just gets either confusing or just gets to be too much of that world.
I'd rather watch Heroes on TV and stick with that part of the Heroes world, than go online and watch some minor plot with secondary characters (or even further down on the character chain, including new characters). I feel the same way about Lost; a lot of the extra stuff is really interesting, but in a way I don't want to be bothered with it. Of course, it's a different world, and a lot of fans really love this stuff.
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8-01-2008 @ 1:00PM
Midnight13 said...
To some extent I don't mind it. "Heroes" has always tried to establish that these gifted chracters come from every corner of the world. That's hard to show through a series, your cast can only get so big. So telling off shoot stories is fine, as long a they are intresting. If nobody cares about the characters nobody cares about your story. Bascially viewers for the most part like the established characters on the show from season 1. Didn't like the border crossing siblings of season two, nor Claire's flying boyfriend. I think some viewers can also be too quick to hate on certain characters at the same time, and should be more open to new characters.
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8-01-2008 @ 1:06PM
Diego said...
Indeed. The universe from the graphic novels and the show's one seem like two different ones. And not to mention the Going postal series, which was awful in my opinion.
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8-01-2008 @ 1:06PM
Ashley Boyd said...
Didn't they themselves come up with the idea of the mini-spin-off-thing Origins?
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8-01-2008 @ 1:09PM
LOs said...
You know, I was really into the Heroes online Universe, big poster on the forums, speculator, etc. I even went so far as to create a whole set of Wallpapers that mimics "The List" and helix symbols from the show, from people who submitted their names from the 9th wonders forums.
http://xl0sx.deviantart.com/gallery/
But it all just got to be too much. Overloaded it way too much and it got to the point where it detracted from the story line happening on the show. They also need to cull some characters, there are really only a couple compelling ones left. I woudl say Parkman, Noah Bennet, Sylar, and Hiro would be enough. They aimed high, came close on Season 1, completely missed the planet they were aiming for in 2 and looks like their trying to over compensate for 3.
Oh Well, I'll still watch.
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8-01-2008 @ 1:48PM
lovelain said...
i enjoy some of the online content. i don't keep up w/ all of the online comics, but i have checked some of them out and bought the book w/ all of the 1st season's included in it. i can see the point of the show's team and the online content team not working closely and how that could pose some problems. i think that branching out is understandable since this phenomenon is supposed to be happening worldwide, therefore there's all kinds of people w/ abilities that we don't get to see on the show and it's nice to see a bit of their stories sometimes online.
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8-01-2008 @ 1:54PM
Argus said...
The comics should have been published in collaboration with a traditional publisher methinks, even if also published online. Its not like Marvel has no experience with putting comics online. Newsarama also does a great job with online comics.
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8-01-2008 @ 1:58PM
Michael Brennan-White said...
I want a comic starring Moist, my favorite Dr. Horrible character.
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8-01-2008 @ 2:11PM
mj said...
I liked it at first. I was hugely into Lost, and all the web searches and cool stuff. But now I'm a bit bored with it all. I don't WANT spoilers anymore. I don't want bells and whistles. I just want a good story, that will keep me chewing my fingers. It is like reading the last page of a book, which I also used to do.
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8-01-2008 @ 2:52PM
Tucker said...
At least they're not doing in Heroes ("Blue Nissan Versa!!!" aside) what they're doing in Eureka. UGH.
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8-01-2008 @ 9:07PM
0megapart!cle said...
We don't know how bad the product placement in Eureka is going to be yet. At least they are being somewhat honest, and calling it sponsorship, in the world of the show.
8-10-2008 @ 10:10AM
litehousebeacon said...
I don't even pay attention to the online content from Heroes.
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8-10-2008 @ 10:14AM
litehousebeacon said...
Are they planning on putting the online content on the DVDs?
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