The potential writers strike has already claimed its first victim: NBC's planned Heroes spin-off, Heroes: Origins.The six-episode series, which was supposed to launch this spring during Heroes' sophomore hiatus, has been shelved indefinitely as NBC has decided not to move ahead with production.
The possible explanation may be fear over the strike, which could derail production; it's thought that any unproduced projects may be shelved over the new few weeks.
Heroes: Origins had secured a number of A-list talents to write and direct installments, including Kevin Smith, Michael Dougherty, co-writer on X2 and Superman Returns, and Hostel writer/director Eli Roth. Each episode was intended to introduce a new character to the Heroes mythos, which viewers would have a vote in determining which one(s) would make join the cast in Season Three.
Project is said to be on hold but could be resurrected down the road, should the writers strike be averted, as doubtful as that seems right now.
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I was also hoping they could snatch Joss Whedon away from film to do an episode, but it looks like I'm getting something better than that with Dollhouse.
Hero's story is comedic and fun, Yes Peter's Amnesia is lame, but the mystery of Matt's dad and Kristen's character and The Company are all great.
-the Mexican brother/sister team, forcing us to read even more captioning than we previously enjoyed
-lack of interaction between regular characters: Peter and Hiro are the chief culprits
-lack of any meaningful storyline involving the cheerleader: they saved her, now what?
-lack of the evil Sylar
-lack of purpose: last year it was "save the cheerleader, save the world", this year...??????
-lack of any advancement of the story as a whole, aka wheel spinning
On a brighter note, the most recent episode (Nov. 19) showed noticeable improvement, but now NBC is advertising "only 2 episodes left".
All things considered, Season 2 of "Heroes" has been a real test of viewer loyalty.