It's dead Jim. Heroes.

[coyote6]

Would it be blasphemy to think that Heroes season 2+ make me relived that Firefly was cancelled when it was?

Yes.

Seriously, the writers on Firefly had a track record -- a pretty good one, IMO -- that was longer than one or two seasons, so I think there was every chance that Firefly would have continued to be good. It also didn't have the structural instabilities built into it that Heroes did (i.e., the too-capable powers of some of the characters, etc.), so it didn't have as many chances to go spectacularly wrong.

I think the primary threat with extra Firefly episodes (whether that be another 8 or 9 episodes in season 1, or further seasons) would have been other forms of the thing that killed it -- network interference.

 

[Phaezen]

Personally I think network interference is what killed Heroes, bringing characters back from the dead, "because they were popular with the audience" and so forth.

 

[Fast Learner]

Would it be blasphemy to think that Heroes season 2+ make me relived that Firefly was cancelled when it was?

If Buffy or Angel are any clue, both got way, way better after their first seasons. Dramatically so.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

If Buffy or Angel are any clue, both got way, way better after their first seasons. Dramatically so.

The thought that Firefly could have gotten BETTER is melting my brain... Oh, the blissful agony...

 

[Pseudonym]

Thinking back now over the past seasons, there sure was a lot of bad writing and dealing with characters. The whole Nikki/Jessica thing, they way the got rid of DL only to bring him back as a firefighter(?!) to be pointlessly killed, the way they never really explained how the heck Sylar got to the rainforest and healed at the beginning of season 2, the pointless story arc with Peter and Nathan's father, pulling Adam out of the trap Hiro left him in only to be killed for no reason than to establish who the badguy was? Bah, the more I dwell on it the more I feel like a chump for sticking with it.

If nothing else, it did give me ideas for a future M&M game.

 

[Plane Sailing]

network interference.

So you can "stop the signal" if there is sufficient network interference?

 

[Baumi]

I would have liked to see how the series would continue with the big ending of Season 4 (telling and showing the world that Superheroes exist).

Anyway, I did enjoy all Seasons but I still think it would could have been better if there were more consequences and less "reset buttons". Especially the Season 1 Ending should have killed some of the main cast, that would have made a great impact.

 

[Insight]

That sounds like a show I could've really gotten into. (You meant "at the end of Season 1", right?)

Unfortunately, because of the formulaic way that network TV series are put together, you will never see an anthology show the way Heroes was first intended. Shows are built and marketed on their marquee stars and the studio can't deal with constantly changing who those stars are. Sure, you might see slight turnover from one season to the next (the Law & Order shows are a great example of how a show survives doing this), but wholesale cast changes are prohibitively uncommon in network TV shows.

Now, on a cable show, you might see some more flexibility.