I almost feel like it's "Heroes" week right now on Airlock Alpha with a great column by our site's very own Tiffany Vogt, an awesome episode review this week by Dan Compora, and a story that's getting a lot of traction, the one that talks about the imminent demise of "Heroes."

Oh wait. I guess it's not exactly a stellar week for the show then.

Although I wasn't surprised by the revelation this week that NBC is considering bringing "Heroes" to its end, it doesn't make me any less sad. I was excited about "Heroes" from the first moment rumors started to circulate about the show in 2005. It was going to be something that genre fans -- the entire gamut from the supernatural, to the real geek, to even the comic book lovers -- would really get into. And the show didn't disappoint.

Well, at least through the final episodes of the first season.

Because that's when everything started to fall apart. In fact, I think "Heroes" may have first started showing signs of the imminent derailing when producers, for whatever reasons, decided to make a last-minute change in a character played by Thomas Dekker, who was leaving the show to take on a new role as John Connor in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." That character, a friend of Hayden Panettiere's Claire, was supposed to come out to her. Instead, he just stumbled over some words and pretended he was the gayest straight guy ever.

Not long after, we got to the big buildup to the tremendous season finale where we expected a battle royale. Instead, everyone met on a soundstage that doubled as a street corner, and had a five-minute battle, and it was all over. Fans just sat there, still not sure what happened, as the ending credits rolled. Where was the fireworks? The special effects? The exploding city?

Coming back into the second season, Hiro, played by Masi Oka, went from being a lovable character wanting to do good things, to one of the show's most annoying. His bumbling antics were cute in the first season, but got old in the protracted storyline in ancient Japan that really had many people looking for the remote.

"Heroes" never really got its groove back, although the last three episodes of the current season featuring the revelation behind why bad things were happening around Claire and the showdown between Parkman (Greg Grunberg) and Sylar (Zachary Quinto) was finally coming to a head. But really, it's just too little too late.

While "Heroes" remains on my "must-watch-live" list, I am not sure it can continue to be there, especially after this year. And I know I'm not alone.

Our recent story is not good news for "Heroes" fans, I get that. Luckily, "Heroes" fans are some of the most polite people in the world, and the amount of real nasty e-mail in my inbox has been limited, but I can still understand their desire to make our cancellation story untrue. And maybe their wish will happen.

But it's hard to look at the number of viewers and how much they've shrunk in just the past two years, and believe the show has legs to stay on the air. It's expensive to produce, and it's sucking down resources NBC doesn't have right now with little to no return.

I'm just a messenger here. I'm not out to get "Heroes." Hell, I'm a fan. And if you don't want our cancellation story to come true, then organize a fan campaign to stop it.

Everyone always is about waiting for official word and such. But the chances of saving a dying show through a fan campaign already are slim. Once a network announces the fate of a show officially, all bets are off. Really, they are. So instead of looking at a way to kick my teeth in about this, use that energy instead to try and let NBC know how much you love the show before they announce how they really feel.

If this is the last year, I'll really miss "Heroes." It had so much potential, and right now is demonstrating some of it. But many of the diehard viewers that had stuck it out for a while are gone, and I don't think they'll ever be back.