March 2nd, 2007
Lost Fans Jumping Ship to Join Heroes?
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.
