Heroes Bigwigs Get The Boot, Heroes Still Poopants
Two ways to tell that a TV show is in trouble: 1) its producers get fired and 2) the show is so terrible it makes people want to vomit tears.
And that spells a big uh-oh for Heroes, because both of those apply equally to it. The latter has done since around the end of the first season, but the former has only just happened. Heroes co-executive producers Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander have been given the boot by NBC in an attempt to make the show decent again.
There’s no word on who’ll replace Loeb and Alexander on Heroes, but we think it’ll be us. We have a three-point Heroes resuscitation plan raring to go, and it’s unbeatable. 1) Reduce the cast down to a key core of characters, 2) ditch all the time travel, and 3) bring in a new character who’s a cartoon time-travelling giraffe who speaks in rhymes like a rapper and has magical sunglasses. Kids still like rap, right?
Remember when everyone liked Heroes? You have to cast your mind back quite a way, but they did. When it started, Heroes was like Lost, except that it answered questions instead of wallowing around examining its own navel all the time.
Public opinion about Heroes has changed a little since then – it’s now like Lost except that nobody watches it, none of the characters are good, the stories are all rubbish, the acting is weak and all in all sitting through an episode is so pointless that you may as well spend an hour trying to push a goose up a badger’s bottom. Generally speaking.
It’s clear that Heroes needs something big to happen to change and, since NBC appears to be ignoring our calls to turn it into The Hayden Panettiere Rides A Mechanical Rodeo Bull In Slow Motion In A Swimsuit Hour, it’s decided to give the shove to a couple of co-executive producers instead. Variety reports:
Big shakeup on the staff of NBC’s “Heroes” came down on Sunday with the axing of co-exec producers Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb. Both had been with the show since its first season. It’s understood that Alexander and Loeb were let go because of Peacock execs’ frustration with the creative direction of the show.
It’s absolutely right that NBC should be concerned about the creative direction of Heroes. If the show continues to slide in quality at its present rate then we expect the entire second half of this season to consist of nothing but Mohinder waffling endless half-sentences about destiny and God and genetics to a photograph of a duckling. Actually, we take that back – we’d much prefer to watch that than Heroes as it currently is.
But, hey, if anyone can turn Heroes around, it’s the network executives. Give them a few million dollars to focus group the problem and we’re sure they’ll get Heroes back on its feet.
Well, it won’t be Heroes as such – it’ll be a new show set in space, and all the characters will be kung-fu girls in bikinis, and the end of each episode will be decided by text-vote, and it’ll be called Heroez and afterwards there’ll be a real-life reality show all about the dramatic ups and downs of Hayden Panittiere and Milo Ventimiglia’s relationship called Heroez: Unzipped – but kids like shows that have a ‘Z’ instead of an ‘S’ at the end, right?
Note that a slight typo converts “Heroes” to “Herpes”.
Coincidence? I think not…
The show was a bag o’cocks anyway.
I wanted to flush it the moment I realized the only Black character was an islander whose sole power was holding everyone else back and the only Japanese character was a fat Korean.
God bless America. (Just don’t talk about Him in school.)
You.
Are.
WRONG.
Though you’re right about Mohinder (and recently, Nathan). And tonight’s episode has a large plot development. 2, actually. It’s rilly, rilly good. Though I dare say the status quo will reassert after a wee while.
Sausage Pirate: What do you make of the fact that the new black character thrives on people’s fear?
and the other black characters that can walk through walls and paint the future?
i just got into this show. i can see the bad points as much as the next…but it will never be as bad as lost.
altho, has noah actually got any other lines except “clare, im JUST trying to proTECT you”
black guy who walks through…. oh, you mean the DEAD black guy who walks through walls? the one killed in the nightclub shooting? Yeah, forgot about that. Cheers.
Except he’s probably NOT dead. The one who was killed will end up, like, being from the future, brought back by Peter to save the present one, who was himself taken back to the future to stop Marty McFly’s kids, who are out of control.
Oh, and of course, we’re also forgetting Micah and his cousin St Joan. But then, it appears the producers have forgotten them as well.
And whatever happened to the annoying Irish girl who got stranded in teh future by peter? When the future changed, did she cease to exist?
Get rid of the annoying running girl (I fucking refuse to refer to her as a sp***ster, that’s just utterly pointless and a vain attempt to make her seem ‘cool’), make Hiro remember he’s practically a samurai, and have him slap the emo out of everyone present. Also remove this bizarre nerf they have on Sylar and make him kick peoples faces off again.
There you go, Heroes fixd.
Oh yeah, and Noah gets his own spinoff, coz he has awesome hair, cool glasses, and isn’t afraid to pistol-whip a bitch to get shit done.
So, Heroes… umm… was that the one with the plane crash or the one that stars Casey from Dawson’s Creek?
horror…do you play a particular MMO?
either way, i wholeheartedly agree. can someone get these ides off to the-, oh crap, the producers were fired.
@ Ironlung
Nope, no MMOs for me. I have far too much rage to be contained on something as small as an MMO server. I have something called a ‘Doctor Moon’, it absorbs and soothes my anger. Sometimes it works so hard it glows white-hot! You know those times you see the moon during the day? That’s T4 doing that.
True story.