Heroes Q&A With Zachary Quinto and Tim Kring
Heroes is back, and the early word is that it's back strong. Fans went wild for what they saw at Comic-Con over the summer, and anticipation is high with Volume 3 ("Villains") just launched on TV (see it commercial-free at Amazon Video On Demand). Recently, I had the chance to take part in a wide-ranging Q&A with series creator Tim Kring and series star Zachary Quinto, who plays uber-villain Sylar (the watchmaker's son with a deadly taste for other people's powers). They discussed their plans for the new volume (which will be 13 episodes long), how Heroes helped Quinto get the role of Spock in the much-anticipated movie reboot of Star Trek, what the future holds for Sylar and the fans' impact on the show. Specifically, they heard the complaints about Volume 2 (too slow, too much time spent with new and not-super-engaging characters). Kring says this season "we are not really introducing any new characters that have their own storylines. We are concentrating very much on the core characters that we've had for, you know, two seasons now." And in "Villains," they "are all feeding one, giant story." And Quinto adds, "for a cast as large as ours, I think all of my fellow actors would agree that each of us gets a significant amount to chew on in all the episodes that we're in. There's never a feeling that one storyline is suffering in favor of another." And if you're new to Heroes, Kring says they've worked to make it comfortable to dive in. "We didn't want to feel like you had to have watched two years of this show to catch up. We wanted to answer things really quickly so that you could move forward on this volume and have a kind of clean path in front of you." See the rest of the Q&A here. -- Stephanie Reid-Simons, TV Demander
Neema on September 26, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Heroes Ha, More Like Zeroes, even if you could stop time or jump to any location you want, you still wouldn't be able to beat the AGGRO, AGGRO CRAG. You would get lost in the maze or slip off the mountain or fall into the Ice gorge. They even have a fan site with a live chat there's a chat tonight at 7:30 @ http://FamilyGUTS.tv