Heroes

With Heroes' season 3 premiere only three months away, its cast and crew have been hyping the new season up as much as they can. With a second season that many viewers found lacking, which wasn't helped by having to be cut short due to the writers strike, many viewers are still apprehensive that the show won't be able to bounce back even with the large break between seasons 2 and 3.

Of course everyone involved with Heroes will be the first to admit their failings and to tell us that the upcoming season will be the bee's knees, especially the series' creator, Tim Kring. Sci Fi Wire caught up with Tim Kring at the Saturn Awards earlier this week where the Heroes producer accepted the award for best TV DVD and discussed what the focus will be in season 3, as well as the fate of fan favorite Sylar (Zachary Quinto).

As stated at the end of season 2's finale, the upcoming volume of the series will be called “Villains.” As we have learned through interviews, Heroes plans to bring in many new villainous characters for the established heroes to face off with – and perhaps turn some good guys into baddies as well.

"You're going to see a lot of bad guys in this one," Tim Kring told Sci Fi Wire. "The idea, also, is we're playing off the idea of our characters as heroes or villains. So it's really the duality of good and evil. ... We're playing off of this duality of good and evil. All of our characters were given these powers and possess these powers, and at some point it becomes sort of free will and human nature as to what you're going to do with that. And all of us are given the choice to make decisions that lead us down very dark paths or towards heroic ends. And so, literally, every one of our characters gets faced with that dilemma."

Kring also assured his interviewers that the new volume will try to dig deeper into the psyches of the show's characters as they face these personal dilemmas.

"One of the things that this volume is going to do that, I think, is really going to be fun for the audience is that there were very initial sort of primal questions that the show asked," Tim Kring said. "Who am I? What's happening to me? How am I connected? Where are these powers coming from? All of those questions get reframed and turned on their head in a very interesting way in this volume."

Of course, you can't have a volume entitled “Villains” if the face of the Heroes villains isn't represented – namely, Sylar. Though the character would have had to be written out of the show for the second half of season 2 due to Zachary Quinto's role in the new Star Trek movie, because the writer's strike cut the season short they were able to work Sylar back into the “Villains” volume.

"Well, we have no plans of saying goodbye to Sylar right now," Kring told Sci Fi Wire. "I mean, that was yet another silver lining for the strike, was Zach Quinto's availability to us in the third volume. I mean, that was a huge thing for us to be able to have him back. As you guys know, he would have disappeared for a large chunk of the second half of season two. And so, for us, it was a big, big deal."

Will season 3 escape the creative doldrums in which Heroes found itself during season 2? Find out when Heroes airs its three hour premiere, Sept. 22 on NBC.


- , BuddyTV Staff Writer
Source: Sci Fi Wire
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