Looks like geekdom might be eating it’s own young again, only to eulogize them while still picking the bits from it’s teeth.

It’s already? happened once with FireFly, and looks like the same thing is likely to happen Dollhouse, and Heroes has been getting huge amounts of flack since the rather-botched finale of Series One.

Much can be said about the inflated expectations of anything with Wheadon’s name attached to it, or the all pervading evil-ness of Fox executives or why the US Network don’t give sleeper hits a chance like those nice HBO people.

Suffice to say, your geek-dom can be either fantastically loyal or can turn on a six-pence and rip your meta-phorical throat out.

To be quite honest, I can’t really see why unmitigated dross like Smallville (and to a lesser extent Lost, which disappeared up it’s own backside long ago) continues to have legs, while Heroes gets a bad rep.

I mean, if you go back and look at a look at some old Buffy’s, aside from one or two very innovative episodes, it does have its fair share of annoying characters and repetitive episodes.

I suppose it comes down to billing, all the best regarded sci-fi seems to have started as sleeper hits (Buffy, X Files etc) but once the driving force behind the show moves on they are expected to have a 100% hit rate by both exec and fanboi’s alike.