Kring defends 'Heroes' second season

Heroes creator Tim Kring has defended the "slow" start of the show's second season, which incurred the wrath of many fans.

Speaking to the Official Heroes Magazine, Kring stated: "In the second season I think we had some interesting things happen. You can't really plan for the audience's reaction to things and one of the things we found out was that the audience did not want to start slowly and build.

"But sure enough that happened in the first season and I think people don't really remember that."

Kring revealed that he monitors fan reaction on the web and was bemused by the fickle nature of the mass consensus: "When I logged on to chatrooms in the first season, during episodes seven and eight, it was really depressing because the fans were just livid.

"They said, 'This isn't making any sense! The characters haven't come together, nothing is happening!' Three episodes later when I logged on, we were suddenly doing everything right!"

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