At the end of its first season, Heroes looked like a pretty hot property, but over the last two seasons the show has gotten as cold and unappetizing as day-old pizza. Lots of possible reasons for the show’s decline (and if we listed them, this might be the longest post in the history of Agent Bedhead), but one thing is certain–it’s not Tim Kring’s fault. In fact, the series creator has responded to the whole debacle in a less than heroic manner. First, he kicked two of his top producers over the side, even though they had the backgrounds to compensate for Kring’s obvious weaknesses when writing about superheroes. Now, he’s saying that the fault lies with the medium, not the message (scroll down the page). Or possibly with the fans, whom he calls “saps and dipshits.” (The link says [expletives], but trust me–the man said “dipshits.”) Here’s the quote:

Serialized dramas work only if people sit in front of their TV sets on the night and at the hour the network broadcasts each episode. But now, you can watch a serialized drama whenever and wherever you want and almost all of those other means of watching episodes “are superior to watching it on the air.” Sooooo, the only people watching a show — “Heroes” perhaps — at the time it’s being broadcast by a network — say NBC — are the “saps and [expletives] who can’t figure out how to watch it in a superior way.”

Heroes is down to half the audience it had at the beginning of Season One, so neither the show nor its creator are likely to be around to annoy us much longer. Of course, if that happens, it will only prove that you were viewing the series in some inferior way that prevented you from appreciating the awesomeness Kring was pouring into his creation. You dipshits.