Fixing “Heroes” – or – Hey NBC, Give Me a Job!

Still, you can rebound from that. The problem was, the second season of Heroes had already been kind of lackluster. Season One was big and fresh, while the second season was a muted rehash of the same ideas. And the problems just multiplied over the seasons to follow. Heroes liked to pretend that they had a plan in place (like Lost), but it was clear that they didn’t. Promising plot threads disappeared without resolution and continuity was a mess. In the final months of this season, the writers retroactively inserted a character into Season One in a way that didn’t make any sense, and then tried to act like Hiro had altered the past, only there were absolutely no changes to the present as a result. And then there was the reveal that Tracy had been responsible for some offscreen murders, except that those murders occurred before she had the power that was used to commit them.