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 A Plea to Tim Kring:
by Taddimusprime
 I realize by now you’ve probably wrapped on another “exciting and super special” season of Heroes. You may be taking a break right now to come up with some new ideas for the next ‘even better’ season of the show. Here’s my advice, don’t. Simply let the show die in peace.
Now before you dismiss me as yet another angry fan, please give me a second to explain. I, like a lot of other fans of this show, really got swept into the first season. It was like a real live X-men weekly TV show. I mean any comic book nerd worth his weight in newsprint and acid free plastic storage bags would be lying if they weren’t even a little bit excited about that show idea. You had a large stable of characters, a super villain, and a shady organization that we don’t really know if it is good or bad.
The first season of your show didn’t insult my intelligence as a fan. You took the path, and rightfully so, that the audience would be at least familiar with the comic book genre. It doesn’t hurt that Spiderman, Batman, Ironman, Manlyman movies are huge in the box office right now. People ‘get’ the genre. So without watering anything down, we just jumped in and started running. Then a funny thing happened. Season 2 premiered and most of us went ‘ummm… what’s happening?’
Beloved characters didn’t seem to understand the achievements that they had done before. Our villain was suddenly without powers. Hiro was in feudal Japan… setting up a minor character that’s barely memorable. It seems that the writing just got lazy. Again Mr. Kring I’m not attributing that entirely to you, but you have to admit the plots did seem a bit kindergarten.
It didn’t stop there, there was a much needed writers’ strike in Hollywood that put the brakes on the series. The second season ended on a wimper and even you yourself came out and said “ok, I need to fix this.” I commend that, taking responsibility for your work, owning up to the fans, and trying to make things right.
The internet was buzzing with rumors that Heroes was going to get itself on track. The longer pause meant ideas could be reworked, plots reformulated, and characters re-envisioned. I waited through the summer occasionally wondering with baited breath, what are they going to do this season? I saw some rumors, we’d be meeting Mr. Patrelli, the father of the family. The biggest bad ass out there. Someone to make Sylar run away and hide. Excellent, this is going to be good.
Then I turned on my TV, and saw that you didn’t learn from your mistakes. We got more of the same, but WORSE! You turned Hiro into the new Jar Jar Binks. What happened to the cool future Hiro with the ponytail? The one that didn’t act like a befuddled child, but someone who grew up. Someone who was actually colored by his experiences? No, in this season we got a superpower of the week, and one that would be either absorbed by someone or dead before the end of the episode. And even worse, we all watched in horror as the writers of your show castrated Sylar. I think a real castration on television would have been less painful to watch than what I was exposed to. No, your staff actually had him working with the man who vowed to destroy him. You had him as an agent of the company, and Ma Patrelli saying that she was really his mother.
I mean, seriously, this is one really big leap of reason. Fortunately the season ended with you killing off Mr. Patrelli and trying to set up for something new again. I realize that you had a fire lit under you by the network, and because of that midway through this season you fired some of your head writers. I understand that, television is a business after all. NBC, of all the networks, desperately needs a hit. Because of this news I again was excited. You see Mr. Kring, like may other diehard comic book fans I still love the premise of the show. The thought of a serialized superhero drama. Something to relight some fires of my childhood, yet feed into my more adult sensibilities. I realize that children watch this show too, but you know what, they have had Saturday mornings for decades now, I want something good.
So now we get to this season, which was even worse than the other two. Terrible acting, writing, everything. Please Tim, your dog is lame, please stop its suffering. Watching the finale last night, Heroes looked at me with its pitiful eyes and went ‘please… kill me. Just let me die. I’m suffering; I don’t want to live anymore.’
I’ve come to the realization that I need to do my part Tim, and that is to stop watching the show. I’m not going to buy any Sprint merchandise, watch the web videos, nothing. I’ll miss the original vision of the show, but the direction that it has taken, I feel like I’m watching a very slow motion car wreck, not a good serialized drama.
I’m so sorry Tim. I hope your career can recover.
-Tadd
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