| spurgeonryan said: It was not most popular, just popular enough for NBC to not cancel it. It sold really well on DVD so they kept it around for a while like they do with the show Community. But then not even DVD could save it and they cancelled it. I only watched the first season. Loved it. |
er...not true. Season one was, as they say, phenominally popular, (around 16 million viewers in the us at its peak which is actually very good. There was even a planned spinoff series that never saw the light of day), season two (which was kinda dull compared to season one in many peoples opinions) dipped slightly in the ratings (11-12 million at it's peak, still pretty good).
Series creator Timothy Kring then had to appear at conventions in an attempt to smooth the crowds of angry fans over, admitting they screwed up with series 2, and promising fans that things would be back on track with season 3. Does nobody here remember this???? Season 3 arrived, ratings dipped again, and many hailed the show as a desperate mess, a mere shadow of it's former self etc. As I recall the second half of season 3 (I think it was the 'Fugitives' storyline) was actually pretty decent, but it was obviously too little too late, as the ratings continued to fall with each new episode. This continued throughout season 4 until nbc pulled the plug. At the time I remember reading interviews with Kring where he was saying:'I'm pretty confident they'll let me make a tv movie to finish the series', but alas they never did.
I worked in a comic shop at the time of season one and two's release and I remember it seemed like the biggest damn thing out there at the time but by mid season 3 hardly anyone was talking about it at all. There was barely any notice of it's cancellation as many people didn't even realise it was still running.
In my opinion Heroes died a slow painful death as a result of (possibly justified) angry fanboy backlash... but maybe I'm wrong. Shame, season one was pretty damn good.
Haha most of what I just said is covered in the graph posted previously.
