May
17
So, Heroes and FlashForward are gone, but not forgotten. Well, not yet. Lost is ending. A lot of the genre shows we associate with having grand, sweeping arcs are coming off the air, while the networks greenlight more week-to-week standalone fare like Summer Glau drama The Cape, or JJ Abrams’ sadly-not-in-our-remit The Undercovers.
It’s fine, since networks have to react to the changing viewing habits of its audience (even Lost’s viewership has been diminishing rather quickly over the past two seasons), but fans of these types of shows will have to acknowledge that this represents something of a sea change in what you can expect from TV over the next few years.
For those serial dramas that are left – Caprica, SGU, V – let’s hope they can stay watchable to a wider audience. Serialised TV drama will rise again, but to get to that point, networks need to stabilise the shows they do have. The quality also needs to be a little higher than it has been of late. As well-produced as Heroes was…the creative potential for a show with that concept and budget was sky-high, but never capitalised on. Let’s hope the next time a sci-fi show gets to that buzzworthy position, it can stay there.
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Really surprised that FlashForward has been cancelled as it’s been getting better towards the end of season one! Have they tied up all the loose storylines or are we getting a minimovie too? When are we getting one for The Sarah Connor Chronicles? :)
I disagree. Sure, Lost is ending, and FlashForward and heroes are ending, but to be fair, the later two are a bit rubbish. The best serialised show on TV at the moment is Supernatural, and that just keeps getting better and better, in terms of creativity and ratings. Add to that the above-mentioned SGU, Caprica and V, and I would say serilaised sci-fi is doing pretty well
Heroes was not rubbish and should get a mini movie. It was one of the best tv shows. (R.I.P. Heroes)
Yeah, Heroes had to go. To be honest, I thought it was massively overated, and in the end got lost up it’s own backside. I think alot of magazines such as SciNow, and the like, got carried away when it first started, as if it was the best thing ever made, but for me, it didn’t go above ok.
People reading this will probably wonder why I watched it in the first place, but the answer is simple-I like my Sci Fi as much as the next man, so I would hope it would improve, sadly it didn’t
I agree with Steven!
I watched Heroes from the beginning because the idea of the show was fascinating me, but I quitted somewhere in season 3..
Got to agree with the last 2 comments. Heroes had just become pants and I eventually gave in with it at the start of season 3. Flashforward though was starting to get to get good again after a dodgy middle section. Hope they tie up the loose ends somehow.
Personally I think all the mid season breaks are damaging to the shows and affect the habit forming viewing of the fans.
Clearly the fact I thought LOST was a pile of rubbish that should have been no more than a 10 part mini-series, and HEROES a pile of self pretentious nonsense, makes my views unique, rightly or wrongly. FLASHFORWARD gripped me from the very beginning. To say it only got good towards the end is absurd. The first episode was one of the best starts to a programme ever. The interest in a series is accumulative, so enjoyment builds up from the beginning, not just half way through. For anyone who liked LOST, the ability to watch pointless tantalizing cliff hangers, with almost no real progression from one cliché to another should have you primed for the slightly more engaging FF. I managed to watch nearly all of the first series of LOST, often through the tears and shouting at the TV in utter boredom. I never returned to that waste of time. Hours of my life lost for ever. FF sparked my imagination. It was a spectacle of philosophy and thought that asked more of the viewer than other programmes. If you want to just switch off the brain and watch the box, maybe LOST and HEREOS would have met my expectations. FF had problems, but they were just hurdles that were easy to overcome when the concepts and ideas were so strong and surreal.