Will too much Heroes kill Heroes ?
By fred | August 23, 2007
Having too much of a good thing might not be such a good thing. And while the second season of the show is still a month away, NBC are making sure fans are never out of anything Heroes-related.
But is it really a good thing?
It’s not new that I am not thrilled, to say the least, about all the recent casting news going on NBC’s hit drama Heroes. It’s not that I don’t like the actors & actresses who got added, I have nothing against any of them, but let’s face it : it’s way too much.
The show already had a very big cast, and they hired pretty much more people for this upcoming season than they had for the first one. Which might already have been a little too much if they had killed all of the cast from season one, with no exceptions.
As we know, this isn’t the case, far from it.
But the bad things don’t end there. To make it worse, they decided to have one story to take place in a completely different timeline, isolating the most beloved character from every other characters, heroes or best friends, for quite a while.
It seems producers over at Heroes might have forgotten to care about stories, characters, and actually writing interesting episodes - as hinted by the first season finale, one might add.
Instead, all they and NBC apparently care about is to get the most out of the show without waiting, in their idea of getting as much money out of it as they can, right now. And as Matthew Gilbert of Boston Globe pointed out, it only makes sense to worry that, following on the public excitement, they might be doing too much, too soon, and as a result killing the show.
Because it’s not restricted to what affects the show in its most vital parts, there’s more around it too, a lot more. They are already producing a spinoff mini-series - yes, after only its first season - where six new characters will be introduced, and fans will have to vote for the one to become series regular on the following season, which sounds like a very bad idea to me.
As Gilbert explained, this all looks like a marketing strategy more than anything else. Just like the way we had castings news all over the summer, casting choices that “are obviously targeted (…) to reach the cult- and comic-book-minded. The latest name is Kristen Bell (from Veronica Mars), who follows David Anders (from Alias), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura from Star Trek), Dominic Keating (from Enterprise), and many others onto the show.”
The benefits and goals behind those aren’t related to what’s better for the show itself, actions are not motivated by needs from the stories, but to sell more. It’s done with the idea to enlarge the show’s audience, and selling a lot of different action figures.
