There’s a fascinating interview with Heroes creator Tim Kring on the Entertainment Weekly site. In it Kring admits they made mistakes with season two, which many fans have been complaining about.

It’s funny because people don’t remember the first season having a slow build up, but it did. I’ve been willing to cut the creators a little slack in season two because I thought they were repeating the pace of season one. Turns out I was right;

”We assumed the audience wanted season 1 — a buildup of intrigue about these characters and the discovery of their powers. We taught [them] to expect a certain kind of storytelling. They wanted adrenaline. We made a mistake.”

Bless the information age. Can anyone imagine a TV show creator making an admission like this thirty years ago? This has been spreading around the web. What I think is most fascinating about this article is how everyone can learn from it. I’d say this applies to novels too. If you’ve got a slow introduction to the first novel in a series, there’s no reason to repeat that slow introduction for the second novel.

These are core lessons about crafting any kind of series, whether it be TV, movies, novels, comics, or games.