Heroes' Origins Officially Dead
By: MaidenGreen
Source: Scifiwire


While Heroes lives to fight another day, its proposed spinoff, Origins, has bit the dust for good. 

Origins was created as a 6-episode short designed to cut down on Heroes reruns and give the fans some background on how the heroes came to be.  According to Scifiwire, "...directors and writers--including feature-film vets Kevin Smith, Eli Roth and Michael Dougherty--were already lined up..."   Deciding to nurture a good thing, NBC has opted to eliminate the Origins concept and allow the creators to concentrate on Heroes.

Heroes will return to NBC's schedule on Monday September 15, 2008 with an expanded third-season opener.  The decision to not bring back the series this season following the resolution of the writers' strike was said to have been made to allow the creators to rethink their premise and bring back the series for a massive relaunch.  NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman said, "We consciously chose to rest [Heroes] this spring so that [creator] Tim Kring and his team could get ahead of the creative and build up to a massive event--a three-hour Heroes night."

This decision may have been a result of the critically-panned opening segments of the much-anticipated season 2, which show mastermind Tim Kring admitted was a mistake, saying that, "they [had] made a mistake with the pacing of the show this season, new cast members weren't introduced correctly, the Claire/West love thing [wasn't] really working, the save the world plot took too long to explain, and ... Hiro was in Japan too long." TV Addict's Kring apologizes to Heroes Fans

While some may disagree that the second season was anything but stellar, the decline in ratings and critical reviews were instrumental in prompting NBC to reconsider rushing the series back on the air for the remainder of the 2007-2008 season.