Fans can expect more action and more answers during the third season of NBC's "Heroes," according to show creator Tim Kring.

In an interview with Zap2it, Kring said that the season will "hit the ground running in a really quick way that has a tremendous amount of adrenalin."

Kring noted that this is in response to fan concerns during the second year that the stories didn't develop quickly enough. "Clearly the audience is really not very interested in slow build on this show," he said.

This is the program's third season, and it starts out calling itself "Volume 3." But it won't follow the season number for long.

Kring has an important reason for the subtle but important difference. The year will feature two volumes, each with its own complete story arcs. The first, "Villains," will be 13 episodes long and will be followed by a not-yet-named "volume" that will take 12 episodes to complete.

Why structure the show this way? The producers don't want to "get caught in a lot of the problems that most serialized storytelling has, where you become impenetrable to the audience after years and years of one continuous story," he said.

"We created this paradigm where you can create a volume, answer 95 percent of questions in that volume, and move on to another storyline for the audience so that we can keep energizing the story and potentially get new viewers," Kring said.

What else will happen this season? Kring has some hints.

"This season we are not really introducing any new characters that have their own storylines," he said. "So we are concentrating very much on the core characters that we've had for, you know, two seasons now.

"We have a certain style of storytelling that really is a kind of pastiche of storytelling, where there are multiple characters and multiple stories going on at the same time. The difference in this volume, 'Villains,' is they are all feeding one big, giant story. So no, we're not really planning on to feature anybody any more than anybody else.

Death will continue to stalk the characters in "Heroes," Kring said. "When you do a story that has any kind of stakes involved -- and stakes of life and death -- you absolutely have to have some casualties along the way, otherwise the audience begins to really become very suspicious of whether you ever really mean it when you raise these stakes," he said. "So, you know, fortunately or unfortunately, we exist in a world where we actually have to do that in order to maintain some authenticity. The good thing about Heroes is that nobody is ever really as dead as they seem to be on our show because of the ability to time travel, to go back in time because of the flashback nature of the show."

"Heroes" airs on NBC each Monday at 9 p.m. ET.

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