Heroes has really been struggling this year -- and finally we know why. According to creator Tim Kring, it's all your fault.
See, Kring wants to move the show away from a serialized format, saying...
(The serialized show) is a very flawed way of telling stories on network television right now, because of the advent of the DVR and online streaming. The engine that drove [serialized TV] was you had to be in front of the TV [when it aired]. Now you can watch it when you want, where you want, how you want to watch it, and almost all of those ways are superior to watching it on air. So [watching it] on air is related to the saps and the dipshits who can't figure out how to watch it in a superior way.
Wow. Saps and dipshits. Thanks, Tim. It was painful enough sitting down every Monday at 9 to watch your piece of rancid garbage, and now we gotta take some emotional abuse for doing so in an inferior way? Good analysis of Kring's babyfit by the Onion's A.V. Club. Seems like Heroes will be off the air pretty soon anyway, so nobody will be around to hear Kring's rants. [Ed.: Hey, maybe Kring's already been fired as showrunner to make way for the newly freed-up Bryan Fuller, and he's pissed that he can't say nothing lest lose his job altogether?]
-- Jake Kalish is the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights
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