Profound, profane or pedestrian

Just finished watching Heroes S4 on DVD - it was like. so the cliche goes, eating Chinese food. After I finished watching it, I was full but an hour later I felt curiously unsatisfied.

( *SPOILERS* behind the cut. )

This article about some of the possible reasons that Heroes was not good enough to renew is overly harsh in a number of areas, I feel, but the five reasons given are applicable to any show:
1) Have A Good Reason For Your Characters To Be There
2) Don't Make Any Of Your Characters Too Powerful
3) Don't Repeat Yourselves
4) It's Okay If You Don't Keep Raising The Stakes
5) Don't Lose Track Of What The Show Is About

Words to write by!

Just finished watching the last 9 episodes of S3 Heroes today - and I still haven't found what it was that made me feel that S3 was such crap that first time through.
( Spoilers from this point on. )

As I watched episodes 10 & 11 of Heroes S2, I realised several things:
1) I hadn't seen either of these episodes (nor had I seen #9 either) and
2) the reason I hadn't seen these was because of the writer's strike in 2007.

That year all three major networks were, for the first time, trying to show all popular US shows just 24-48 hours after they showed in the US. When the strike was going to happen, they stopped showing Heroes S2 at #8 and then screwed around with the remaining episodes, trying to stretch them out over the next few months, also changing the timeslot repeatedly. In the end, I gave up in disgust.

When S3 came back on, it was enormously delayed so that was something like 18 months later. By that time I had long since forgotten how S2 ended. In addition they started changing timeslots repeatedly. I just couldn't get into S3 by that time and gave up.

I have to say that Heroes is growing on me - watching it on DVD seems to improve it because the continuity of the story is more apparent.