Lost Fans Jumping Ship to Join Heroes?
By Sam | March 2, 2007 (2:03 pm) | More: Heroes TV Show News
Apparently ABC’s juggernaut of a show “Lost” is no longer such a juggernaut. This article from The Triangle Online opines about how “Lost” has been “hemorrhaging viewers at a rapid pace”, viewers who are now jumping on the “Heroes” bandwagon. One reason for the lost in viewership, the author asserts, is that “when Lost began, no one had an inkling of how popular it would become. The pilot was written with no idea it would last beyond one or two seasons.” He makes a pretty good point for why “Lost” has fallen out of favor, and why shows like “Heroes” has picked ups team.
Some more from the article:
While Lost was forced to jump into the unknown terrain of a serialized drama, Heroes has had time to sit back and observe what worked and what didn’t for two years. The results have been nothing short of fantastic.
Heroes tells its story in much the same way as a novel. Using a formula mastered by David Simon in The Wire, each episode is not self-contained, and the show is as much a serialized supernatural thriller as Lost. Where they differ, however, is in their pacing.
It is a given that in each story, new characters must be introduced before a conclusion can be reached. The major difference is that Heroes establishes these characters before introducing them into the main story arc.
You can read the rest of the article here.
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Speaking as a fan of both Heroes & Lost, I don’t buy the argument. I have been tempted to leave Lost and that’s partly because of the experiment they did this year, where instead of reruns they did five episodes last fall and then a dozen or so now. That’s hurt them more than anything. It’s blatant they’re trying to maximize their nielsen ratings by playing only during sweeps, and that strategy has backfired on them.
Also they’re steering away from the beach. I think that’s what hurts’em. There was something about the first two seasons where a bulk of the action took place either on the beach or in the nearby jungle. Now there’s a whole ‘nother island that we didn’t know about until season three? Spent much of the first half of season three with the principals in prison. Ooh. Fun. Not.
They blew up the Hatch, which was a big part of what made season two so cool. I’m still on board, but I can see why many are leaving, and it’s NOT cuz they’re leaving for Heroes. Heroes is on Monday nights. Lost is on Wednesdays. The premise of the article is flawed. You can be a fan of both. If Lost is losing audience, they can’t blame it on Heroes. I’d blame it on the writing, and messing up their own formula.
yeah..what he says
I totally agree with ZachsMind.
It is true that Heroes has indeed learned from the mistakes of other TV shows, which makes them a step higher than the earlier ones like Lost. And that is how it really is supposed to work… Learning and growing from past mistakes.
I still am a fan of Lost though!
I LOVE Heroes! Keep it up!
way too much mysteries on LOST… they never explain fully what happened…
they give too much stuff and never answer them….
like numbers, monsters, new people, experiments … etc
there are so much wrong theories the fans are guessing…
HEROES actually gives answer
I love the show, but, way too many commercials (10-12 minutes of the show and an equal amount of commercials. I also just realized that this exciting and riveting show will not be on again until late April. What gives?
Another network station did the same thing with their hit show, Jerricho. When it came back on the air, I totally lost interest in the show and watched something else. I guess the same thing will happen when Heroes comes back!
NBC had a great hit, too bad you leave your fans in the dust and disappear for about 7 weeks. I for one will start watching another TV show, probably get involved with another TV show and not go back to watching Heroes. The same thing happened with CBS Jerricho and when it came back on the air, I already got engrossed with another TV show on cable.
After all, if a Network doesn’t care a “fig” about their audience, then why watch their show when it comes back on the air.
I guess I will start watching and get involved with “24″ on another network, like so many of my friends. At least, I know, if I get involved with the story line on that show, it will not disappear for 5, 6, 7 or more weeks!
By pulling this disappearing act, your show has become my least favorite “Hero”. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot more viewers feel as I do and you go from 1st place to last in my choice of TV Show Must See”
So don’t watch it when it comes back on, it’s your choice. Stop griping and go watch something else. All good things come to those who waits.
I agree with what has been said above. Lost fans are just jumping to Heroes, (I too am a fan of both) but Lost has taken over 3 years just to get out one of the BIG life changes to a main character. Why was Locke in a wheelchair?
Something a bit more interesting though, Heroes, as said in the article, is watching Lost for what worked or not, but they aren’t making that subtle. Or maybe it is Lost that is trying to get some more Heroes fans. But the point is: Both series have a young blonde named “Claire” who JUST found out her father is the father or brother of a close cast-mate.
Coincedence? I think not.
I think you all are forgetting there are tools out there to beat the network. Have you ever heard of a DVR. If you have patiance set one of those up to record the entire season. And then watch it when you want I watch Lost, Jericho, Heroes, 24, and several others. I just watch them when I feel like without commercials. The best part, I always have something to watch.