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HEROES Ends Early This Season!! ORIGINS To Air After The HEROES Season Finale In April!!
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“Heroes” will not air during May sweeps next year. It will conclude its second season in mid-April, series mastermind Tim Kring said at a Thursday-morning press conference in Hollywood.
The six-episode miniseries spinoff “Heroes: Origins” will air over six consecutive weeks in late April and May - after “Heroes” airs its second-season finale, explained Kring.
Kring also confirmed that “Origins” – which will be set in the "Heroes" universe and deal with a new superpowered individual every week - will be an anthology series, a rarity in modern broadcast network television.
Kring said scripting on "Origins" had not yet begun, and that he did not yet know which, if any, of the "Heroes" regulars would appear in the spinoff.
NBC last month ordered 24 second-season episodes of “Heroes.” Kring said the series would not air a new episode every week this season, but its breaks would be far shorter than the big break that split season one down the middle.
“Heroes” started shooting its second season two days ago, but Kring claimed the presence at the press conference of Santiago Cabrera (Isaac Mendez), Leonard Roberts (D.L. Hawkins), Zachary Quinto (Gabriel “Sylar” Grey), Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli), Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman) and Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli) did not mean any of their characters would necessarily survive into season two.
Grunberg did, however, let slip that he was already back at work on the show.
The Thursday press conference was designed to announce a series of late-summer promotional events being billed as “The Heroes World Tour.”
“The Heroes World Tour,” underwritten by Nissan (which also sponsored NBC’s original airing of the series’ pilot and provided a memorable piece of product placement in season one), will take members of the cast to at least seven cities in seven countries – Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Munich, Paris, London and New York – to promote the release of the series’ first season on DVD and HD-DVD. The week-long tour will kick off Aug. 28, the day the season-one sets hit shelves.
During the conference’s Q&A, Kring said Hiro Nakamura will remain in ancient Japan for “a handful of episodes.”
Not everyone has yet shot scenes for season two, but the actors who play the Petrelli brothers sported at the conference different looks than fans will remember from season one.
Ventimiglia’s hair is now extremely short, shorn of Peter’s trademark bangs, and Pasdar has grown a full beard. Hayden Panettiere, who plays cheerleader Claire Bennet, looks skinnier than she did last season.
Kring said every installment after episode nine on the season-one set will feature an audio commentary.
Not every cast member is expected to travel to every city on the whirlwind tour. Fans will be able to follow the tour’s progress via photos, videos and blogs linked to NBC.com.
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Yeah! Now, my life means something.
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I'd like to see some of the dead characters at least reappear in Origins for some backstory. Heroes had one of the best ensemble casts, shame to lose any of them.
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Now it means nothing again.
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No Mother fu(gunshot) sweeps
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Fuckin first post losers ...
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...I was really hoping this would be a revisited role in season 4! They never did get him out of the tree...
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I feel sorry for any of the cast members (I'm guessing Peter and Hiro) who have to do the whole thing. also glad to hear that they aren't doing the Origin's thing in the middle and splitting the season. I don't know what moron exec thought that spiltting a season in 2 halves would work...coke adled idoit.Shame that they are taking any breaks, I think hero's works best one right after another. Unless they aren't going to be doing a big season long arc this year, they need it back to back to back. Is LOST the only show that knows how to do a serial? Espically now that there are NO breaks in LOST's schedule..I'm not SAYING LOST is better, but I think their producers are
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Cuz hes evil.
Cant wait for season two.
Glad to know that both Petrellis survived the detonation of Nuclear Petey.
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Figured I'd put that out there right away. And I think it could only build up the HEROES fan-base by having actors like Quinto do other big genre stuff like STAR TREK. A bit off topic, I know. Anyway, very much looking forward to Season Two of Heroes, as well as the DVD, Commentaries, etc.
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I thought Origins was supposed to air BEFORE season 2 to give us a taste of Heroes during the long wait. Well THAT just plain sucks. I think putting Origins on during the "breaks" isn't a bad idea. I HATE those long ass breaks for no reason other than sweeps. Take a cue from 24, NON-STOP episodes!!!!
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don't be doing no li lo brit ho nonsense now...
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It could be like twilight zone where its just a one off scripted story about a character.
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I want a World War Z adaptation, and the only way to do that right would be an Anthology show.
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I hope not... Guys, your show is at its best when it is moving towards X-Men, Avengers, or Justice League. Don't stick us with seperate storylines forever.
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I love skinny, nearly anorexic undernourished teenage cheerleaders.
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All of you fatties need to calm down. Maybe she actually works out or eats healthy food. That would account for a bit of weight loss because she did have a bit of chub on her. Either that or the lines of coke with Lohan have started to kick in.
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Just saying.
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wasnt hayden 17 when they made season 1? cuz many girls lose "baby fat" during their mid to late teen years. i'm not sure why i'm posting or even reading this talkback since i've only seen the pilot but yeah i'm bored.
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Is perfect as is. End of line.
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Have you ever read Demo?! Its like a done deal, and such a cream dream. Which of course means it would never happen!!!!
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and grow their breasts out, then freak out over being seen as sexually attractive and try to recapture their pre-puberty innocence by dropping a lot of weight. It happened to Lohan, it happened to Christina Ricci. It's not limited to teens - it happened to Portia DeRossi. Girls find out their 'sexy', freak out and try to lose their sex appeal. This must be especially had if the girl in question if 1.) on the TV 2.) growing up in public 3.) getting her every paparazzi photo plastered all over the innernets 4.) the sex object of an army of sci-fi and comics fan geeks 5.) getting called chunky, chubby or baby-fat in the tabloids 6.) trying to launch a pop recording career for a label that keeps postponing your release date 7.) based on every candid pic of her I've seen, have awful taste in clothes and 8.) based on every talk show interview I've seen, aren't that bright to begin with. With all that to deal with, is it any wonder she opts to live on cafeine and salads for a while?
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Hanging out with teenage cokeheads will do that to you.
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Snort the yayo, shed the inches.
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I though the Heroes:Origins was going to air when Heroes went into reruns. Now not only will it not, but Heroes will have a shorter season to make room for it? AND Heroes will still go into reruns during the season? Crap, I knew the first plan sounded too good to be true. *************************** So they are going make the Cheerleader anorexic like the rest of the actresses in Hollywood. God, our society is digusting like that. I appreciated that Claire WASN'T so skinny. She looked normal. Not to be, I see. Also, Peter without bangs? Oh jeez, the ratings will plummet faster than Felicity post-haircut.
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Seriously.
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i can take an educmacated guess, but someone explain it to me like i'm dumb anyway.
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People watch Heroes? Thats news to me.
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Yes, it did quite well in the ratings. But you knew that, you were just trying to be funny. You failed miserably. Anyway, I'm not on board for season 2. The season 1 finale blew.
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Cuz he's a time-traveler. He knows what's coming.
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is if this second season's new characters all turn out to be bad at the end, and all along kring had been showing us how the good justice league analogy meets up in the first season-- then takes season 2 to show us how their team of arch nemeses meets each other. season 3, they all codify their alliances and start the ass kickery. a p.s.a. can dream...it is just a damn shame they couldn't deliver ass kickery all the way through the first season, makes me pretty fucking doubtful they will be able to do so in the 2nd season either.
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It's lead villain is bland and unmemeorable. The plot makes very little sense. It's largely humorless (except for Hiro). The only thing that saves it is an array of charismatic characters...but there are just as many who induce groans... I would be surprised to see this show have a third season.
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Is it just me or is anyone else not that thrilled with the concept of ORIGINS? HEROES is already on character overload and they haven't even begun season 2 yet. ORIGINS will introduce 6 more, 5 of which we'll probably not hear of again. I'll wait to judge it, but concept wise, eh...not thrilled.
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...mediocre series. I watched half of last season and it was laughable at best, seemed to be impulsive writing and not fully realized. NBC's hype machine wins again!
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Great show up until that point. They blew their loads on that one episode and were just flacid sfter that. I'll still watch it though.
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But really? How did it? The characters are so cliche it isn't even funny (DISCLAIMER: Hiro is okay), am I supposed to connect with some drug addict turned super hero. Lets not also forget that cheerleader, the whole idea of a pompous cheerleader getting more things to brag about pisses me off. A villan who actually reeks badass could help too.
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The first Jhonny Q. Public to walk out of the Watchmen movie and say cynically "They totally ripped of 'Heroes'" I'm going to stick my boot so far up his ass he'll cum.
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On the one hand, if any genre is going to get over-hyped, I'm glad it's sci-fi related and I hope better shows get this kind of treatment in the future. But truly, "Heroes" is unworthy of all this. It's certainly not a bad show by any stretch, but it's really not THAT good of a show.
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Heroes is ending early? What the fuck ever. I'm tired of shows' seasons getting shorter and shorter.
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really killed a lot of my personal enthusiasm for the show. Things were building nicely, then kinda flatlined and took a dive in the finale. It over-promised and didn't deliver. A shame. If the early part of S2 doesn't redeem the finale, they'll lose another part of the audience.
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I'm totally Blu-Ray after this.
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Will Hiro meet up with the ninja turtles in japan next season?
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HAHAHAHAHA. Very Funny!
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omg...i was actually lame enough to do one of these catch phrase things...
actually I mean it, I dunno if I'm really to forgive heroes that shitty season finale...
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regards to my last message :-p
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Such fun we can have with her name.
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there is a deleted clip of claire meeting the pilot played By Grunberg and tells her about her about his parents and there is a big hint that his father was Clairevoyant. His mother was big into spirit world. The pilots dad was Roger Macklin.
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But this show is first great show of the 21st and will remain so for a long time to come. At least They keep people coming back. The question about who is in the box is genius.
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Clusterfuck.
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Clusterfuck.
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They are not producing less episodes this season, they are just ending it earlier, meaning that there will be less re-runs and breaks during the season.
My God, for a bunch of nerds some of you guys are really, REALLY dumb.
As for the finale, it was dissapoinintg, but not really crap, just not the money shot we all dreamed up in our little geek heads. Come on guys, it was season 1. Try watching the first seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its truly painfull.
As more talented writers get drawn to the show, and actors begin to get comfortable in their characters the show will just get better and better. Look for a better season 2 and by season 3, a finale that makes you cream your jeans.
That being said they should have killed of Ando, much as I love the character, actually BECAUSE I love the character, then have Hiro flip out and, using a mixture of his newly honed sword skills and slowing of time, go Flash Ninja on Sylar's happy ass. The fact that Syalr didn't even defend himself was pretty damn lame.
Finally, know that Sylar CAN NOT negate Hiro's powers. Hiro was to distracted by the moral implications of the task at hand, and lost his concentration. Know about it.
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Yes, it could be better and yes, the Season 1 finale was disappointing. BUT...it could be hell of a lot worse (I'm looking at you, SMALLVILLE episodes where Lana has powers!) and it's better than most of the crap the networks are spewing out these days. Just enjoy it for what it is, be grateful for what it isn't, and ignore everything else.
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Yeah, I too thought we were getting origins this summer. Oh well. Sounds like they're doing good with the new schedule. I actually prefer a mid season break to a full run. It's either that or a huge break. The only thing I don't really like is more than one break per season. Like season 2 of Lost had the worst scheduling of any show ever (show an ep, take a two week break, rinse repeat). I think this'll work out real nice for Heroes.
As for Clairbear, we all loved her as is. That being said though, I loved her as is and it was clear that she was on the road to obesity. Not that she would get there working in Hollywood, but someone from a small town looking like her would be fairly huge by the time she hit 25. And god help her if she ever gets pregnant, that would probably be the end to her body. At that young age, it's the boring sticks that grow up to be hot. And the hot chicks grow up to be fat. So I don't mind her losing weight, as long as she doesn't go overboard like so many actresses do. It's all about maintaining the high hip-to-waist ratio. -
I was disappointed with the finale like everyone else, but it wasn't that bad. A decent fight between Peter and Sylar was all they needed and most people wouldn't have had a problem with it. What's more, this has been a horrible 2007 for season finales. Rome aside (Dexter and Weeds were 2006), I think Heroes had the best finale. Not because it was so good, but because it wasn't so unbelievably bad like all the other geek shows. And I know there are people who think those other unbelievably bad finales (I'm thinking of three shows that I won't mention) were genius, but they really weren't. They all lacked substance in favor or some kind of twist. Kring has proven himself to be conscious of internet opinion so I'm fairly confident he won't make that mistake again. The season 2 finale will kick ass or I'll eat my hat.
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dude the finale was no way was the best finale. Well for me anyways, lost or greys was best...
The amazing build up to the finale was destroyed because of sloppy writing. The weak fight was one thing but the damn plot holes is what really ruined it for me...i won't go through the plot holes or contradictions again because i'm sure it's been covered in talkbacks from this site and discussion in other forums.
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...is Kensei. sorry if i bring this to the table late, but i've not seen this mentioned b4.and i have something to say to you, Hollywood: FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERLESS, SOULLESS, HELLBOUND ASSHOLES IF CLAIREBEAR GOES ANOREXIC. *YOU* ARE RESPONSIBLE, AND *YOU* WILL PAY FOR HER AND ALL THE TEENAGE GIRLS STARVING THEMSELVES IN HER WAKE, YOU FUCKING CUNTS. message ends.
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Defintely beats out everything else.
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I have to agree, with the whole build of Lindermand then having him get killed so easily was kinda lame. He wasn't such a bad ass either, but at least he's much better than the guy who plays Dr Doom.
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...before everybody starts complaining that it's not as good as the first season.
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I see your guys point on the Linderman thing. I guess I wasn't too disappointed with that aspect at the time cause I figured they'd never be able to keep Malcolm McDowell around very long in any case. At the very least, it was a cool death. If DL wants you dead, there really isn't much you can do about it so I didn't think of Linderman as a wuss. He had an interesting story that I wanted to see told, but it does look like we're going to get that in some fashion, what with Sulu and Mama Petrelli. I also wouldn't be surprised if Hiro runs into Linderman again at some time in L's past. Again, I wasn't a huge fan of the finale, I'm just saying that it was more of a disappointment than it was a truly sucky ending. And I haven't seen Grey's, so I can't comment on that finale. But without dredging up the debate again (please), I'll just say that different people saw the Lost finale VERY differently. It's greatness is hardly an objective fact.
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I think more people comment on how hot she is than on how fat. If she is reading user comments then she should be flattered. And since when does a teenage girl need to be told she looks fat to actually think it? I think it can all be chalked up to living the L.A. lifestyle. It's kind of hard to fault people at that age for anything though. It's just a wild time. Now Candice, she should have been fat, and that was one of the bigger beefs I had with the finale.
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There has been some vague talk about action figures coming out next year... anybody have any news on this?
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SMG was soooo hot in season 3 of buffy...don't get me wrong, i'd still hit it, but skinny SMG is just not as yummy...
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Why does everyone keep saying that its a shorter Season? NBC ordered 24 new ep, Thats a full season. KRing said that volunme 2 will end about 9 episodes in and then Volume 3 will finish of the season
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I'm so fucking sick of ugly skinny chicks with nothing but tits!
Monroe or Grable were women.
Sadly they would be considered fat today.
What the fuck is wrong with people thinking pipe cleaner legs are hot? That a flat ass looks good?
Big tits on skiny chicks means surgically enhanced.
Give me real women with a full ass and nice firm thighs any day.
You know REAL women.
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Maybe BasketBall 2 can focus on his story.
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Papa Smurf is right; people seem really confused. Most TV seasons are 22 episodes long. Heroes Season 1 had 23 episodes. Heroes Season 2 will be 24 episodes, that will air from the end of September until April with only a couple of minor breaks (around the holidays for instance). Then the week after the 24th and final episode of the Season airs, Heroes: Origins will begin. So that's 30 hours total of Heroes content over the same period of time we had 23 hours of content last season.
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...and I registered just to write that. My life is over.
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they will over hype it and it will fail by season three. Always keep them wanting more, you can use Twin Peaks as an example of how to fuck up a great show in one season.
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I'm NOT liking the trend of the current crop of serialized shows. You never know who is gonna drop off the face of the earth next. Used to be...you could count on seeing your favorite show with your favorite actors for at least 5 years before the defections began. No wonder nobody watches network anymore.
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the first season is setting up this big origin story. The heroes have not become the bad ass heroes like in the future episode, yet, but they will. This show has so much potential. It's character-driven superhero drama taken seriously. What more could a geek ask for? People were dissapointed because the finale did not have a bigger Peter vs. Sylar fight. CGI Superhero action like in the movies is just not possible on a TV budget. Studio puts that much money in this show and suddenly it gets too expensive and next thing you know the shows cancelled without ever getting a chance.
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I liked her the way she was. I do not quite know why all actresses have the goal of resembling a skeleton, since I have yet to meet a single person to find skeletons sexy. Girl, you were perfect the way you were! Don't let Harry creep you out...
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She is growing up and losing her baby fat. She does not hang out with coke addict Hollywood skanks, because she is a good girl.
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