Heroes season finale will feature new Heroes!
From SCIFIWire:
Tim Kring, creator and executive producer of Heroes, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming season finale will introduce new characters that will become central to the story in the second season. “There are several new characters coming in the immediate future,” Kring said in an interview. “The idea of the show from the start was always to basically honor the origin story of the first sort of blush and discovery of these powers. And so, in order to do that, new characters will have to be cycled into the show. And by extension, older characters will cycle out of the show.”
While the first year of the show was subtitled “Volume One: Genesis,” the second season will be called “Volume Two: Generations.”
“The idea of multiple generations has started to crop up on the show,” Kring said. “And in the second season we will deal with that more, hence the title, ‘Generations. … The idea was that we wanted to make it easy for viewers to be able to come on in the second season. And we thought if we wrapped the show too tightly around itself so that you had to watch 23 episodes before, I would be harder for new viewer to find the show. And we always want to be a show that has the barrier of entry low enough so that new viewers can join if they want.”
Kring confirmed that the show will indeed end on a cliffhanger, but one that hopefully won’t be frustrating for the viewers. “No, I think it’ll be intriguing more than frustrating,” he said. “The idea was to end one idea of the show, one story, and then slingshot you into the next season.”
The
two-hourseason finale of Heroes airs Monday, May 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. —Cindy White
May 18th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Yes!
I had doubts about the 2 hour finale, because so many people said it was one hour, and now it’s been confirmed by the Man himself!
Thank you Tim Kring!
May 18th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
although, is it going to be a proper 2 hour finale
or a lost style two hour finale where the first hour is a clip show to bring u up to speed??
FINGERS ARE CORSSED FOR ONE HOUR OF STORY….AND ONE HOUR OF SYLAR AND PETER KICKING THE S*** OUT OF EACH OTHER
May 18th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
The source has redacted their “two-hour” statement.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Great, now I have to tell all these people down in 9thWonders that the finale is still one hour…
They (and I) will be very dissapointed….
Oh well… as long as the episode is still amazing, I don’t care!
May 18th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
That’s a bummer about not getting our two hour finally but I am happy to see that they will be wrapping up this season with the finale and starting fresh next season. That way I won’t be totally left without closure, although I’ll still be crying myself to sleep at night on Mondays throughout the off season!
May 19th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Keep your hopes up…anything can happen!
May 19th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Im hopin that the finale is “commercial-free”…A full 60mins has to be devoted to fit everything in there.
May 19th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
If wishes were horses we’d all ride away. Thye finale will have ads and likely feature the Graphic novel and 360 characters, right?
Also, the creators are geeks too, and have said dvd will have extras, they want to bridge seasons of the mythos.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 am
this is stupid!!! there were no new heroes introduced in the finale…
or do you call those Samurai dudes the new heroes?!? cause they’re the only new ones there!!