# Apparently a new Heroes Reboot or Sequel is coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997 "2014-02-23T03:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/1 "2014-02-23T03:35:35Z")
NBC just aired during the Olympics a teaser for a Reboot or Sequel for the show Heroes called Heroes Reborn. Don’t know anything else but it is definitely related to the original show as it had the same eclipse logo. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/2 "2014-02-23T03:38:14Z")
The first season was good. Everything after that was dominated by idiots - both the characters and the writers. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/3 "2014-02-23T03:48:56Z")
Agreed. First season was fun. Downhill from there. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/4 "2014-02-23T04:05:04Z")
Such potential squandered. I’ll hope they do better with this one–it’d be hard to do worse. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/5 "2014-02-23T04:18:43Z")
[The teaser for _Heroes Reborn: 2015_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUjpHHfTLY) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/6 "2014-02-23T04:26:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [The teaser for _Heroes Reborn: 2015_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUjpHHfTLY) It’s going to be a [thirteen episode mini-series.](http://smallscreenscoop.com/heroes-reborn-2015-details-on-the-nbc-event/338951/) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/7 "2014-02-23T04:32:15Z")
_Heroes_ went downhill the moment Bryan Fuller left and Tim Kring was put in sole charge. Kring is not as talented as he thinks, and gets far more power than he deserves. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/8 "2014-02-23T04:49:47Z")
I’ll watch. They’ve had plenty of time to go back over it and note the things the audience liked, and what it didn’t. I don’t even remember how the first one ended now. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/9 "2014-02-23T14:27:01Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > The first season was good. Everything after that was dominated by idiots - both the characters and the writers. I agree completely which makes it a good candidate for being redone. Good ideas that are executed poorly are things that should be remade. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/10 "2014-02-23T14:43:10Z")
The original idea was to reboot with new heroes every season. Of course they didn’t do this when the first season of Heroes proved very successful… instead they dragged it out until it was boring. So, maybe there’s a chance they won’t ruin this too. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/11 "2014-02-23T23:07:14Z")
Save the cheerleader, save NBC. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/12 "2014-02-24T03:08:54Z")
I think a miniseries is a great idea. It’ll keep the story tight and all but guarantees a satisfying conclusion. I can see a potential problem coming in that they introduced way too many characters in the original run and in inevitably leaving out any one of them, nerds will try to poke holes in the story with their absence. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/13 "2014-02-24T03:57:22Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > I think a miniseries is a great idea. It’ll keep the story tight and all but guarantees a satisfying conclusion. Ya’ mean like that satisfying conclusion that the ‘miniseries’ “Under the Dome” had? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/14 "2014-02-24T04:13:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [The teaser for _Heroes Reborn: 2015_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUjpHHfTLY) wow - so much info - so much - well, nothing really. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/15 "2014-02-24T04:20:28Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > I think a miniseries is a great idea. It’ll keep the story tight and all but guarantees a satisfying conclusion. I can see a potential problem coming in that they introduced way too many characters in the original run and in inevitably leaving out any one of them, nerds will try to poke holes in the story with their absence. That’s okay, just leave out the crap ones. Nobody’s going to nitpick about Mayaaa being nowhere to be found. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/16 "2014-02-24T04:27:43Z")
There’s also supposed to be an online pre-series, although I don’t know how long it’s going to be. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/17 "2014-02-24T10:28:45Z")
Not a well researched name at all. “Heroes Reborn” was a Marvel Comics event, so I really think Disney is going to have words, what with it being about superheroes as well. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/18 "2014-02-25T21:07:29Z")
If they were smart they’d model it after the UK show Misfits. (Which is probably what the first one was based on?) Man that was a good show. [Misfits - Series 1 Trailer - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud8AJDaAW7c) My problem with the original Heroes was that if EVERYONE ends up with special powers then it’s not as interesting. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/19 "2014-02-25T23:01:24Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Not a well researched name at all. “Heroes Reborn” was a Marvel Comics event, so I really think Disney is going to have words, what with it being about superheroes as well. Dunno. I do know that Marvel & DC have trademarks over super hero and super-villain, and super-hero and super villain respectively. From Tom Breevort: > [@](#): > > 1. SUPER HERO IS TWO WORDS; SUPER-VILLAIN IS TWO WORDS WITH A DASH. This all goes back to the joint trademark that Marvel and DC have on the terms super hero and super-villain—in their case, it’s super-hero and super villain. (The one exception is Marvel Super-Heroes, which was trademarked as a title with the dash still in place.) Why? Because that’s the way the trademark applications were filled out way back in the '70s. And as a conclusion to the Mark Gruenwald mantra by which I learned all this, superhuman is one word. Just trivia. We can call them heroes or superheroes without lawyers I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997/20 "2014-02-25T23:05:35Z")
I used to love that show and then just…stopped caring. Probably right around when they did. I don’t even remember what was going on when I stopped - something about a guy who runs a Carnival and can manipulate rocks or something. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-a-new-heroes-reboot-or-sequel-is-coming/681997.md?page=2)