NBC cancels Heroes (finally!) and replaces it with...

[ManaByte]

THE CAPE

[MyNameIsMethodis]

[Stoney Mason]

Mercy Killing. That show really got shitty quick.

[Raban]

[Beezy]

 

[Diunx]

I'm there.

[Joe Molotov]

They should have gotten Billy Zane.

[huckleberry]

That picture is better than every single episode of Heroes.

So true.  One of the worst shows ever put on tv.

[Himu]

[OptimoPeach]

Summer Glau is in this? It's like she wants to have the worst TV track record ever

[AdmiralViscen]

 

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L&O  :'(

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[Great Rumbler]

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L&O  :'(

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 :'(

[Fresh Prince]

Summer Glau is in this? It's like she wants to have the worst TV track record ever

She knows her biggest fans are nerds that like this crap.

[AdmiralViscen]

Yea, L&O is like Conan for people past college. We don't want it gone but we sure as hell aren't watching it.

[Fresh Prince]

Aren't there like 5 other L&Os anyway?

[Stoney Mason]

I don't think I've ever watched an episode of Law and Order from beginning to end although I've flipped by it enough. Like 99% of Network TV its just sort of irrelevant to me although I had nothing especially against the show.

Same with CSI which I've also never seen an episode of.

[Purple Filth]

They finally killed heroes?

[OptimoPeach]

I would be Anthony Anderson's friend

[Stoney Mason]

For what its worth I really liked that first season of Heroes. I know a lot of people were disappointed by the finale that season but my only real gripe was that they didn't kill Sylar at that point. It set a really bad precedent for the show and it quickly nose dived. That season 2 and the first half of season three were so god damn awful I bailed after that and never watched anymore and I consider myself a fairly tolerant TV viewer. It takes a lot to actually make me stop watching a show I've decided to invest myself in.

[Great Rumbler]

Yea, L&O is like Conan for people past college. We don't want it gone but we sure as hell aren't watching it.

I think I watch at least part of an episode, or two, every day.

And they cancelled Law & Order Prime, but they're replacing it with the new Law & Order: Los Angeles.

[brawndolicious]

I would be Anthony Anderson's friend

He was amazing in The Shield.

[Stoney Mason]

I would be Anthony Anderson's friend

He was amazing in The Shield.

This man knows of what he speaks.

From now on, I say, "Suck my dick," you say "you want me to lick your balls too, Daddy?"
 

[brawndolicious]

He's like a black Nic Cage.  He'll do a lot of shitty movies for the money but if he's in something decent, he'll blow it out of the water.

Which is admittedly rare, but it happens.

[Phoenix Dark]

I remember watching the big "save the cheerleader, save the world" episode due to GAF hype. Didn't appeal to me at all. I want super heroes, not a fucktard who predicts the future based on paintings 

Apparently it got canceled without a finale. Fans of the show must be devasted

[Himu]

The first season was cheesy fun. Past that it sucked.

[Rman]

At first I was like "shit, they're cancelling Law and Order?" even though i haven't seen it in a while.  And then  realized Anthony Anderson was in it and it made perfect sense.

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I will never forget him from Hang Time.

[Phoenix Dark]

"isn't that the guy who got shot in the face in The Departed?"
"which one?"
"the black one"
"marky mark?"
"no the other black one"

[ManaByte]

I remember watching the big "save the cheerleader, save the world" episode due to GAF hype. Didn't appeal to me at all. I want super heroes, not a fucktard who predicts the future based on paintings 

Apparently it got canceled without a finale. Fans of the show must be devasted

Heroes has fans?

[Raban]

I remember watching the big "save the cheerleader, save the world" episode due to GAF hype. Didn't appeal to me at all. I want super heroes, not a fucktard who predicts the future based on paintings 

Apparently it got canceled without a finale. Fans of the show must be devasted

Heroes has fans?

close friend of mine is a huge one

[Mandark]

In it's prime Law and Order was the fucking model for how to make a television show that relied on the same fucking formula every single episode interesting.  CSI never even got close.

Back in the day you could set your watch to an episode of L&O.  At 11 minutes they talk to the hot dog vendor with perfect recall ("I remember that guy, he wanted mustard and said something about pawning off a diamond bracelet").  37 minutes in the smarmy defense lawyer tells Jack McCoy he's going to present a motion to suppress, thanks to Detective Briscoe taking the most expansive view of search warrants ever*.  At 41 minutes, McCoy is convincing a reluctant Adam Schiff to let him proceed with the case, but Schiff tells him they need to go back to the evidence and rebuild their case.

I always resented L&O a bit for being so popular while the vastly superior Homicide: Life On The Streets flirted with cancellation its entire lifespan, but I respect the craft.

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*Seriously, about half the important evidence in his cases got tossed out during the trial, and he NEVER LEARNED.  If Boogie did that shit, we'd be ragging on him so hard for losing his Mountie job that he'd snap, get drunk, and scare a couple posters off the forum with some belligerent PM's. 

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[Groogrux]

I liked the first season of Heroes too.  The idea behind Heroes was even kind of cool.  It made people having super powers seem like real people.  It showed that superheroes didn't have to dress up in capes to save people.  They just took a really hard turn for shit-creek after season one...

Glad to see they finally put it out of it's misery.

[huckleberry]

In it's prime Law and Order was the fucking model for how to make a television show that relied on the same fucking formula every single episode interesting.  CSI never even got close.

Back in the day you could set your watch to an episode of L&O.  At 11 minutes they talk to the hot dog vendor with perfect recall ("I remember that guy, he wanted mustard and said something about pawning off a diamond bracelet").  37 minutes in the smarmy defense lawyer tells Jack McCoy he's going to present a motion to suppress, thanks to Detective Briscoe taking the most expansive view of search warrants ever*.  At 41 minutes, McCoy is convincing a reluctant Adam Schiff to let him proceed with the case, but Schiff tells him they need to go back to the evidence and rebuild their case.

I always resented L&O a bit for being so popular while the vastly superior Homicide: Life On The Streets flirted with cancellation its entire lifespan, but I respect the craft.

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*Seriously, about half the important evidence in his cases got tossed out during the trial, and he NEVER LEARNED.  If Boogie did that shit, we'd be ragging on him so hard for losing his Mountie job that he'd snap, get drunk, and scare a couple posters off the forum with some belligerent PM's. 

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My college roommates had a drinking game they played when Law & Order came on. I would go over to their place and they would be waiting for keywords or scenes to have to drink just like you described.   

[The Fake Shemp]

Heroes went from intriguing, but flawed concept with the most anti-climatic finale to one of the worst trainwrecks on television within a season.

[fistfulofmetal]

as long as SVU is still around I'm a happy guy.

[Stoney Mason]

I liked the first season of Heroes too.  The idea behind Heroes was even kind of cool.  It made people having super powers seem like real people.  It showed that superheroes didn't have to dress up in capes to save people.  They just took a really hard turn for shit-creek after season one...

Glad to see they finally put it out of it's misery.

I think the first season was good also because it tapped into that super hero fantasy and it transitioned pretty well from normal people to normal people starting to acquire these fantastic powers. But once that actually happened in Season 2 and beyond they had no idea how to write for it and plot for it. And they really couldn't do a show like a superhero movie on a weekly basis with their budget.

[huckleberry]

Willco is definitely right....I watched the first season, and thought it was ok - not great - but ok.  The finale was fuck terrible.  I watched two episodes the next season,gave up, and never looked back.

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, I think I made it through two episodes of the second season. It was horrible. It's like they jumped a whole pool of sharks.

[huckleberry]

A co-worker would keep me lightly informed of what was going on in the show....smh has never been more appropriate.

[Diunx]

I watched the second season for teh lulz(there where many) but the last one was just awful on every level, I watched 2 episodes and them lose interest, I might watch the last episode just to see how low they had to go to finally get canceled.

[Third]

Good thing I never started watching Heroes. I heard the last few seasons really sucked.
I really regret watching Lost because of the same issue.

[huckleberry]

watching Lost feels like a huge waste of time, but at this point I have to see it through to the end. 

[TripleA]

I think Heroes was just like Prison Break in that a second season wasn't on the cards until the show became incredibly popular.

And LOST is just   , they relied on mystery to give the show longevity and now that the show is ending it's becoming clear all their 'mysteries' were just a series of bad writing.

[ManaByte]

I think Heroes was just like Prison Break in that a second season wasn't on the cards until the show became incredibly popular.

And LOST is just   , they relied on mystery to give the show longevity and now that the show is ending it's becoming clear all their 'mysteries' were just a series of bad writing.

Triple A Sucks

[Junpei the Tracer!]

Sucks L&O is gone. I really liked it. The new cast was good.

Poor Anthony Anderson, what will he do now.

[Stoney Mason]

I think Heroes was just like Prison Break in that a second season wasn't on the cards until the show became incredibly popular.

And LOST is just   , they relied on mystery to give the show longevity and now that the show is ending it's becoming clear all their 'mysteries' were just a series of bad writing.

They don't put on a network show unless they have hopes of it at least running 5 or 6 seasons with 22 episode seasons. The problem is with the network TV model. Prison Break was a limited concept that only should have run 2 or 3 seasons at max and it should have been announced that way at the very beginning so they could have plotted properly.

Heroes simply had no long term plotting. They just did whatever felt good at the moment instead of worrying about the long term which completely fucked up their story.

[TakingBackSunday]

Chuck is still alive

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even though it didn't really earn a fourth season this time around...at least through the first couple of episodes in this season.

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[Great Rumbler]

I'd like to see American TV pick up on model used by most anime, as in: one season of 13 or 26 episodes that tells a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end that's plotted mostly in advance. This doesn't need to be some iron-clad rule that every show follows, but it's such a pain to get invested in a series that runs for five or six seasons and then gets cancelled without a proper ending or has a really disappointing ending because most of the show was just written from one episode to the next.

[ManaByte]

Jeph Loeb is the Rob Liefeld of comic writers and shouldn't be allowed to run a superhero TV show.

Heroes Season 1 was a shitty rip-off of Watchmen. After that Loeb just started re-doing X-Men story lines from the 80s and 90s and hoping no one would notice.

[Mr. Gundam]

Are they ever gonna show Law and Order: London over here? It's got Jamie Bamber and that chick who played Martha on Doctor Who.

[Stoney Mason]

I'd like to see American TV pick up on model used by most anime, as in: one season of 13 or 26 episodes that tells a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end that's plotted mostly in advance. This doesn't need to be some iron-clad rule that every show follows, but it's such a pain to get invested in a series that runs for five or six seasons and then gets cancelled without a proper ending or has a really disappointing ending because most of the show was just written from one episode to the next.

Agreed. Cable has the right approach which is why HBO and cable networks generally have superior programming. Not every concept needs to be stretched to 22 episode seasons that last years and years.

I understand why they do it. Syndication and advertising. It's just not really effective for creating diverse and good entertainment.

[Great Rumbler]

Are they ever gonna show Law and Order: London over here? It's got Jamie Bamber and that chick who played Martha on Doctor Who.

I'd like to see that myself, but beyond some rumbling from Dick Wolf and NBC mentioning that they'd be kind of interested in showing it on American TV there really hasn't been any movement on that front. If nothing else, they should let PBS show it.

[ManaByte]

Are they ever gonna show Law and Order: London over here? It's got Jamie Bamber and that chick who played Martha on Doctor Who.

I'd like to see that myself, but beyond some rumbling from Dick Wolf and NBC mentioning that they'd be kind of interested in showing it on American TV there really hasn't been any movement on that front. If nothing else, they should let PBS show it.

BBC has been making it hard for PBS to get any of their programming by raising the price of shows because they want to air them on BBC America.

[Bloodwake]

Are they ever gonna show Law and Order: London over here? It's got Jamie Bamber and that chick who played Martha on Doctor Who.

http://www.target.com/dp/B0039LEAK8/ref=gp_se_search-results-asin-redirect

Evidently it's a "Target exclusive."

[Great Rumbler]

Are they ever gonna show Law and Order: London over here? It's got Jamie Bamber and that chick who played Martha on Doctor Who.

I'd like to see that myself, but beyond some rumbling from Dick Wolf and NBC mentioning that they'd be kind of interested in showing it on American TV there really hasn't been any movement on that front. If nothing else, they should let PBS show it.

BBC has been making it hard for PBS to get any of their programming by raising the price of shows because they want to air them on BBC America.

Is Law & Order: UK even a BBC show though?

[Bloodwake]

Are they ever gonna show Law and Order: London over here? It's got Jamie Bamber and that chick who played Martha on Doctor Who.

I'd like to see that myself, but beyond some rumbling from Dick Wolf and NBC mentioning that they'd be kind of interested in showing it on American TV there really hasn't been any movement on that front. If nothing else, they should let PBS show it.

BBC has been making it hard for PBS to get any of their programming by raising the price of shows because they want to air them on BBC America.

Is Law & Order: UK even a BBC show though?

According to Wikipedia, it originally aired on ITV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Order:_London

[Mr. Gundam]

Are they ever gonna show Law and Order: London over here? It's got Jamie Bamber and that chick who played Martha on Doctor Who.

I'd like to see that myself, but beyond some rumbling from Dick Wolf and NBC mentioning that they'd be kind of interested in showing it on American TV there really hasn't been any movement on that front. If nothing else, they should let PBS show it.

I watched a little bit of one episode online. It was interesting.