“…mastermind Tim Kring told me about season two, “There are plans to add one new, one big character next season.” I’m told that character is female—to even out the gender ranks a wee bit. Tim also told me that those Heroes who remain are likely to stick around, ’cause he’s changed his m.o. “I thought Heroes was going to have an ever-shifting cast,” he says, “but the cast hit in such big ways that now the challenge is to figure out how to use them all and still fold in a couple of new people, because I still think that the origin stories are the most fascinating, in some ways.”