Heroes was canceled

[heidi]

And I am strangely...

I am okay with that.

I should be upset, but I just re-watched the end of the last episode from back in February, and I am so comfortable and good with where the show ended. I don't want to see Peter's life apart from Nathan (although I would have loved to see the sorta-maybe-un-twins (Gabriel and Peter) working together), I don't want to have additional random characters show up, I don't care enough about some of the plotlines, and I think the cast is all so amazingly terrific (and unbelievably nice and sweet) that everyone will go on to fantabulous things.

It was a show of brilliant moments and omgwtf were they thinking? missed opportunities and it's clear that Kring was pulling plotlines out of his ear and the scripts were being written by committee but there was so much mythos there that it was possible to retcon and fanwank anything you wanted - especially because the writers couldn't remember Claire's healing blood or the fact that the eclipse "six moths before" didn't do anything, or a million other plot deviations from the storylines themselves. The side-projects, like the comics and the webisodes, were nifty even when they didn't gel, and the cast was just good. They loved their characters, they loved the on-set crew, they worked well together, and I wish everyone the best.

I would've been more upset had Chuck been cancelled, because I think there's a lot more story to tell there. I think Heroes has told all the stories they need to tell. Maybe we'll get a six issue comic book to wrap anything up, if NBC or Kring think there's any use for it.

They probably won't. I don't think they care enough. Maybe it'll lead to some futurefics and AUs before the fandom bubbles down to nothingness. Maybe I'll do one more vid. A swan song of sorts. But before I put my fannishness for Heroes back on the shelf, I'll watch Peter dive off the building and into the sand at the playground, see Hiro shout YATTA! in New York City, remember Nathan fly Peter into its skies and Sylar in Mohinder's kitchen waiting for him to come home. Claude and Peter will swordfight and they'll all save the cheerleader and then she'll learn how to save herself. The strings will be hung and they'll be cut and Nathan will fall and Gabriel will return to himself and the show will be placed in that box of things that were so good, and so troubled at the same time.




Heroes was canceled. Do you care?
A little.
A lot.
I hope the cast all goes on to nifty and cool things, because they were generally great.
Hardly.
Ask me this two years ago.
Never watched, never wanted to.
You mean there've been episodes since Claude left?

Comments

[tptigger]

I don't think your poll worked.
I'm not surprised Heroes was cancelled, given that they didn't really get a full season. Honestly? The first season was awesome, the second had its character moments, and after that, it just kinda wandered....

[isis]

Hmm, poll fail. But I would have answered, "ask me this two years ago," because I loved the first season, was okay with the second season but had issues with it, and haven't seen anything past 3.1 which made me throw my hands in the air and give up on the series entirely.

ETA haha, didn't even read the other comment, but I agree entirely!

Yeah, ask me two years ago.

[jlm]

I think it was the beginning of Season 3 when I said "OMG, not another Days Of Future Pastiche" (OMG SEE WHAT I DID THERE I AM A NERD). That, plus the fact that they hit reset on Sylar's powers - I was all "for the love of God we're right back where we were at the beginning." I thought that if they were seriously going to have that many characters, they should have stuck with the original plan to keep rotating the cast - as it is, there was just too much cast and not enough screen time to go around.

But hell, for that first year, it was as good as anything on TV. Maximum credit for that.

[briarwood]

I sorta liked the first series; really didn't like the second and third but absolutely loved the fourth. So I'm not thrilled it was cancelled because I was hoping the next season would also be good...but it won't ruin my world. I never really got into the fandom-y side of it, though: that would make a big difference.