Dear god, they're trying to bring Heroes back again

We genuinely never thought we’d see it happen, folks: The psychopaths have decided they’re going to bring Heroes back… again. This is per Deadline, which reports that Tim Kring, creator of the superhero soap opera, is currently shopping around a second revival project in the vein of 2015's Heroes: Reborn, which served as a miniseries sequel to the original series, which ran from 2006 to 2010. (And in the process, set bold new milestones in the field of diminishing returns in genre TV.)

On a strictly practical level, we kind of get it: Heroes Reborn did adequate numbers for NBC back in 2015, bringing in 6 million viewers with its premiere, with roughly two-thirds of those viewers hanging on for its finale. Of course, we would also note that that was at the very height of the now probably-receding superhero craze, and it was spending all the Heroes nostalgia still kicking around in people’s brains like a poorly explained virus that will end up being really important for like two episodes, and then disappear from the scripts forever. (Sorry, but as survivors of the Heroes Fandom Epidemic of the late-2000s, we bear our scars with pride.) The upshot of all this is some genuine shock on our parts that there are still people hungering for Kring’s particularly convoluted take on superhero storytelling, which, last time we checked in on the series, was currently tracking multiple generations of “Evos” as they jump back and forth through time just, like, constantly, turning everything into a persistently untraceable mess.

Anyway, the new series is apparently called Heroes: Eclipsed, because there was an eclipse this week, and also one in the very first episode of the TV show. Kring is reportedly shopping his script around to multiple networks and streamers, including the show’s original home at NBC.