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Oka: “Heroes” Working to Win Back Fans

January 30, 2009 By Mike Hickerson 5 Comments

“Heroes” is coming back Monday night…and it’s got a lot of work to do.

After a disappointing third volume, “Villains,” the third-year series is (once again) working on winning back the fans, critical acclaim and (most importantly) the ratings it enjoyed in season one.   A writing-staff shake-up may help things and according to many in the “Heroes” camp, the show is going back to the fundamentals in an attempt to lure back viewers.

Masi Oka, who plays Hiro on the series promises the show is  “going back to the central characters and trying to tell smaller stories but with big action.”

“I think with all our volumes we’ve sometimes have slow starts, but we always pick it up at a high gear towards the end. And I think because a show like this takes such risks and makes bold choices,” he told SciFi Wire.  “It takes a little bit of time for the audience and the critics to get accustomed to this kind of new kind of journey that we’re starting to take. And once everyone is on board, we hit the ground running. So, you know, we do ask [for] maybe some patience from the fans and the audience. If we can ask for that, that’d be great.”

“Volume four, “Fugitives,” is another completely [new arc]” he continued.  “We’re going back to the grounded characters and the central characters, [and] people trying to live their ordinary lives being hunted now. And that’s a completely different story than we’ve been trying to tell. So it might take a while to get us accustomed to the “usual heroes,” but it still has the core ensemble drama. So I’m not sure if it’s lost its way, it’s just always different. Some people will respond to the way the story is told in the one volume and maybe not to another.”

As for what’s ahead for Hiro, Oka said “Fugitives” will be about Hiro rediscovering the joy of his powers.  He starts off the storyline powerless and slowly regains them over the course of the arc.

And Oka says fans can look forward to a different dynamic in the Hiro and Ando friendship.

“In the beginning, Hiro’s powerless, and Ando has a kind of supercharger power, so Hiro is trying to nudge him on,” Oka said.  “In many ways he realizes, “OK, well now he’s had his turn, so he needs to kind of step up and see what he can do.” And he takes on pretty much the role of the butler. He becomes Alfred in many ways. He’s trying to make a Batman out of Ando, but Ando is reluctant, and he only cares about girls right now. So Hiro is trying to make him use those powers for good, to save other people. And of course, Hiro ends up getting in trouble, and Ando ends up helping him. But then, you know, then it’s about them trying to work together and find new ways to get [Hiro’s] power back.”

Fans can tune in and decide if these changes are what the show needs when “Heros” returns Monday night.

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Comments

  1. Gazerbeam says

    January 30, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    I know trying to make sense of this show is like trying to catch jello with your bare hands, but didn’t the say way back that the powers were hard-coded into their DNA? How can you lose something that’s a part of your genetic makeup? This lack of attention to what they’ve already done is a big part of the problem. I know it’s a comic book on TV and all, but even the bad comic books go a little while with some internal consistency 🙂

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  2. sojywojum says

    January 31, 2009 at 2:11 am

    This show is done. The writers pull a “Dues Ex Machina” _every_ _single_ _episode_. Time travel by running faster than light, ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

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  3. Bob Singer says

    January 31, 2009 at 6:47 am

    sojywojum! Read DC’s Flash comics from the 1960s on. That’s how the Flash time traveled, by running on a treadmill faster than light!

    BS

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  4. pheobe says

    February 1, 2009 at 10:18 am

    well i hope that heroes will good this volume, villians wasn’t horrible, but it couldve been imrovd, i think i should tell you all about this great blog i found about Heroes and alot of other great shows, the posts are really interesting, it just getting started so it doesn’t have followers yet but i think that its good, you should visit: http://www.heroesonthebox.blogspot.com

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