Conspiracy Theory behind ‘HEROES’ and why Alexander and Loeb were fired
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- By drvenkman
As you may have noticed the TV show Heroes has really started to suck. The story is all over the place the characters suck and its slowly dying. I could care less if I miss an episode now. ‘Heroes’ creator and executive producer Tim Kring must be feeling the pressure because he recently fired his 2 top writers and co-executive producers Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb. It sure sucks to be them.
Now it’s time for my conspiracy theory. I’m sure it’s not all Alexander and Loeb’s fault. There is a big behind the scenes political Hollywood chess game that is being played, unfortunately someone needed to pay for the crappy direction of the show and the blame got laid on Alexander and Loeb even though it was probably Tim Kring’s fault the show went bad in the first place. The reason I say that is because everything passes through Tim he went along with everything, if he didn’t like the direction he could have said no lets take it in another direction. It is more his fault that anyone else’s. Alexander and Loeb have been with the show from the beginning. The first season was amazing! As for the last couple seasons someone has directed them on where they would like to see the show go. They were following someone else’s lead, my guess its Tim Kring because he is the Top dog on the show. So to cover his mistakes and protect his own ass he went ahead and fired Alexander and Loeb. This gave Kring another opportunity to redeem himself. Variety reports:
Kring has assured NBC and Universal Media Studios brass that he intends to focus on simplifying what’s been criticized, even by ardent fans, as an overly complex storytelling structure to get back to the show’s comicbookish good vs. evil themes and to emphasize character development more than plot twists.
Insiders close to the situation emphasize that Kring has been a hands-on and diligent showrunner. The big problem is that the show’s large ensemble cast and intense f/x and post-production requirements suck up a lot of his time. And “Heroes,” already one of primetime’s priciest hours at $4 million-plus per seg, has been grappling with budget overruns.
Now, the thinking is that his focus is needed most in breaking stories and refining the tone of the show for the remainder of its third season.
The whole direction of the show and the reason it now sucks is Krings fault. I think it’s to late for the show to be saved, its going to crash and burn. ‘Heroes’ could have been an amazing TV, but because of Krings bad decisions not Alexander and Loeb’s, the show has suffered and it will continue to suffer.
There is nothing that can be done now with the show that will make the audience and critics happy. It’s all just a big mess, created by the creator. Kring got in over his head and now he is struggling to save his own ass.
My thoughts? You’re right, it’s Krings fault and he’s using the 2 writers as scape goats. Let’s a dig a little deeper to the down fall of the show. Heroes is experiencing what i like to call The O.C Syndrome.
What happens with this syndrome is that due to poor planning and a lack of creative direction, the show hits it’s peak with the first season. Subsequent seasons will try to emulate the success but that’s like trying to keep a falling ball floating, it’s impossible.
The first season had us all wondering about connections the characters had with one another, like the writers were hinting that there was something bigger behind it all that would be slowly revealed, but because ‘Heroes’ caters for the lowest common denominator (like The O.C), Tim Kring went ahead and just gave us what we thought we wanted. Note for Tim Kring, people are stupid, they have expectations that they want to be met, not knowing that if they get what they want, they will not like it. Play with their expectations you dolt.
Awhile ago, Heroes and Lost were often compared to each other, because perhaps, just maybe, Heroes would go on the same path and create a mesmerizing mythology in a universe with solid rules and boundaries where new events do not conflict with past events but shed new light on them. We were wrong.
A very basic analogy for this whole mess is that Tim Kring is a young man who is sexually inexperienced, and given the opportunity to please a woman, he came too soon. He came all over the place in season 1, spurting out all this stuff, but now he’s empty and limp, and the woman has gone back to her husband (Lost) and her poolboy (Arrested Development).
‘Heroes’ can not be saved. The only way to keep this franchise going is to cancel the current show with a cliffhangar finale, then start a spin off series that takes us back to square one, and this time, have basic plots and arcs planned in advanced so when the series is done, the entire series works as a whole, instead of this piece of shit we currently have that’s half runny and with bits of corn in it.
“I guess NBC is feeling it to.”
To what or where?
Ledouche wins the game! That was a great Rant! he is 100% right on the money.
hey its AKRO again with another rant. I used to watch Heros religiously but after the first season, it seemed like it went haywire and all over the place, not to mention that I had school on the night it was usually on. I tried to watch the missed episodes on the net but it just got too lame for me.