I don’t think you can safely argue that a creator or writer “has no responsibility” whatsoever over how his creation is written or received. If the guy who writes isn’t responsible for the content, who is? Do you think we’d have any sort of quality in the media if writers and creators weren’t responsible for their content? Frankly, the industry would not exist.

The entire purpose of programming on television is to give something people to watch in between commercials. And how do you get people to watch your commercials? By making the shows in between them of a high quality. So as a writer hired by a network who wants eyeballs, don’t you think its the writers responsibility to deliver? And if the fans want legitimate, unforced plot points, and the writer does not provide them, don’t you think he should be held responsible?

I just don’t see how you can say that the creator of any work, no matter what field, is not responsible for that work that he/she has produced. I guarantee you that if all the episodes of Heroes received the kind of critical backlash the finale got, Tim Kring would most certainly be held responsible and would most certainly be out of a job.

It is a tv-show. It is a story. It is only a story. And yes there are some people out there they can do both. They can throw themselves absolutely into the story, into the world that has been created; and still they can go one step back and think of the whole thing as that what it really is: just a story that someone has written down and that has been produced.

Tim Kring is the man behind the story. He is not part of the world he has created. His creation is not reality. And he has no responsibility whatsoever.

Because the people, the audience can think for themself, he can tell how the story works for him, he could even tell how he had to change the names or the whole storyline because his dog accidentally ate some pages or that the swordfighting is only in there because he thought it would be cool to have some swords in there.

At least some people have to be out there, who can tell fiction (the story and the world that has been created) from reality (the whole process of authoring and the industries behind a tv-show, a film or a simple book) and still enjoy both.

I am a believer too despite I know that because of the “drama”, because of an more dramatic storyline , Nathan had to come back to fly his brother out in the sky.