Often times the question arises when a show reaches success basically overnight, and I don’t remember a show taking off to the magnitude of Heroes has with the spin-off series announced, comic books, and the like. And it seems as though several other media outlets around the net are feeling the same way. In an interesting article over at the Boston Globe he writes about just that, is Heroes growing to fast for its own good? Here is what Matthew Gilbert from the Boston Globe had to say:

As the fall TV season approaches, and we wonder which series will shame themselves, “Heroes” is looking increasingly like a prime suspect. Since the Monday night show is NBC’s only newish non-reality hit, the network and Kring have spent the summer heaping tacky expansion gimmicks onto it with abandon. “Heroes” has been turned into a relentless and tiresome source of merchandising, casting, and spinoff hype — hype about how the show will grow as a product, not media-generated hype about how good it is.

To me, it’s as if NBC is pressing “Heroes” into child labor. The network is working the show like a mature blockbuster — on the order of “CSI” or “Lost” — too soon. Underneath all the great expectations, there is just a wee sci-fi TV series whose unformed back is carrying too much weight.

“Heroes” has great potential, based on much of its first season, to be special and enduring. But, like many new series, it still needs refining and tender loving care before it deserves to be turned into a synergistic linchpin. Its Emmy nomination this summer for outstanding drama series came too soon.