"Heroes" was meant to be NBC's answer to "Lost" and "24," but it may not be a serial much longer.

Series creator Tim Kring told a panel at the recent Screenwriting Expo that maintaining serials like "Heroes" have been "an absolute bear to do." Television viewers, he says, don't watch TV on the same terms they did just a few years ago.

"It's a very flawed way of telling stories on network television right now because of the advent of the DVR and online streaming," Kring said, according to IGN. "So [watching it] on air is related to the saps and the dipshits who can't figure out how to watch it in a superior way."

That could mean shorter plotlines coming for "Heroes" as well as more individually contained episodes. That vision from Kring is reflected in his feeling that audiences should "come on in" because "the water's fine."

"You can [just] hop on the train, and you won't have missed too much," Kring said.

Yet, unlike the Cylons of "Battlestar Galactica," Kring doesn't have an overall plan for the show, and there's no endgame that he's trying to reach.

"We didn't have an island to get off," he said.

For more of Kring's discussion at the expo, read the original IGN story by clicking here.

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