Behind the Scenes with Heroes creator Tim Kring and "Hiro" Masi Oka.
So how does a guy who doesn’t know Magneto from Wolverine find himself running a smash show about ordinary people who suddenly and inexplicably develop amazing superpowers?
In today’s increasingly splintered TV landscape, a successful series has to cater to multiple audiences, and Heroes is both a mass-market success and a cult hit. But other TV creators who bridged the mass/niche divide – Lost’s JJ Abrams, Ron Moore of Battlestar Galactica, Joss Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – were intimately familiar with the sci-fi and horror genres they were reinventing. Kring? Not so much. […]
To compensate for his ignorance of the superfriends genre, Kring hired a team of comics-savvy writers who dubbed themselves the League of Heroic Scribblers. Kring acts as a mainstream counterbalance. The result is a show that straddles two worlds, bringing geek sensibility to the masses and mainstream TV polish to the caped-crusader crowd.
Bonus track: Spoiler, Future Hiro confronts Hiro and Ando.