People are fickle (and stupid)

From syfyportal, "Until recently, everyone wanted to get "Lost." At least, that's how it used to be, according to zap2it.com. Now, those in charge of other serialized genre shows are carefully pointing out that they aren't like the ABC series, which is currently drawing its lowest ratings ever, especially when it comes to providing viewers with answers.
For example, here's what Stephen Chbosky, the executive producer of the CBS series "Jericho," said at the recent WonderCon.

"One thing we knew from the beginning is we didn't want to frustrate the audience by not paying off mysteries, by not answering questions, because we know," he said.

It was apparently pretty clear to everyone there just what program he was referring to.
In fact, fellow executive producer Carol Barbee listed specific episodes when fans would learn important facts about who did what to whom, such as the missiles that the town's residents saw hurtling into the sky a while back.

"You find out certain things in 18. You also hear a little something in 15, which is the one after this. We haven't forgotten them," she said. "They're out there."

Barbee also promised that the origins of the nuclear conflict that started at the beginning of the show also aren't far away.

"I think you'll be surprised by who did it," she said. We didn't want to do the same-old, same-old. It's a many-faceted group that is involved. "

One of the people behind "Heroes" specifically distanced that show from his former place of employment. Jeph Loeb, who previously served as a supervising producer on "Lost," said that "Heroes" was built specifically to provide incentives to reach conclusions every so often.
"It was very important to us, unlike a lot of serialized shows -- and I think some of that has to do with the people who came on the show from places like 'Lost' and 'Alias' -- that we want our audience to know that when Tim Kring started out by staying this was chapter one or volume one, that is exactly what it is," Loeb said.

"When we get to the end of the season, almost all the questions that were asked at the beginning of the season will be answered, so that when you start back next season, some of the cast may have changed, certain problems that were encountered in the first season will have been resolved and there'll be new sets of problems and a new plot and a new driving element that's gonna take you into this new set of stories so you don't feel like you're constantly trying to catch up with the show."

For example, the current main storyline came to a conclusion of sorts on Monday, March 5.
"You'll get a resolution. You'll find out things that are gonna happen. Any question that you might ask that came out of the first three or four episodes in terms of every single one of those characters, we're doing our best to answer every single one of those by the time you get to the end of the season," he said. "And yet, of course we're going to leave you some cliffhangers so you do come back to us next year."

"Heroes" airs on NBC Mondays at 9 p.m., new epsiodes of "Jericho" appear on CBS each Wednesday at 8, and "Lost" can be seen each Wednesday night at 10 on ABC."