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he problem is that three of their most popular characters --Peter, Sylar and Hiro-- are far too powerful.

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This is an excellent point that was brought up in another thread. Another than world domination what else is there for these guys to accomplish.... other than uniting in order to destroy an even greater threat - which would have been awesome.

Maybe they never imagined the show would get this far so they didn't plan larger story arcs. The greats do though - look at the characters Whedon developed in Buffy. You can't develop a character arc like Willow's without some foresight - a plan. The same thing has happened with Smallville. The show is brutal this year - it was never great but they've hit a point that they have no idea where to go because they never planned for it.

And again to my point in an earlier thread - I think Fuller leaving the show to do Pushing Daisies was huge. You can't lose that kind of creative input and expect to succeed.

Look at Lost. The show floundered for about half a season but once the original creators were able to work out a deal with the network about a definite end date they were able to pull the story together and come up with some great episodes.

Whatever - I'm rambling. All I'm saying is a show like Heroes (or Lost) must have some foresight and people ambitious enough to implement it or else it's over. You can't do this season by season.