IO9 has a review of Heroes Season 3, and the fact that the premiere 2 hour episode lost 25% of it’s viewership to shows such as “dancing with the stars” and “csi: miami.” The language of the review is pretty harshly against NBC, but they make a few good points.
Season 2 looked to be spectacular, if you take in to consideration the plans for the remaining 14 episodes of Season 2 which were abruptly aborted because of the writer’s strike. That left Tim Kring and the rest of the producers/writers with wrapping up the season gracefully.
In the scheme of things, it might just have been better to have gone ahead with their original plans (spoiler, but not much of one since it’s a “what would have been” look at the original plot) to release the virus and have the remaining 14 episodes to deal with the world wide catastrophe.
Likewise I’m forced to agree with IO9 that the one-hour countdown was too much hype. As interesting as some of the clips on the countdown were, I found the whole hour to be very trying. After an hour of watching the countdown, I was glad I have Tivo… so that I could watch the real episode later.
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