Who'll Rescue the Heroes…

…from their own writers?

It's tough to watch a bad show and desperately want it to be good. In spite of its repeated failings you make excuses for it. You overlook bad acting and implausible plots. You eagerly await any kind of excuse explanation for what you just saw.

Heroes is doing this to me. I want to like it like I liked it two years ago. I don't want it to become silly and forgettable.

But Heroes is suffering from a number of problems, up to and including an idiot plot. Not an idiotic plot (though that may be the case as well) but rather an idiot plot, where the protagonists "behave in a way to suit the author's convenience, rather than through any rational motivation of their own."

In a show with invulnerable time travelers and future-seers, the only way for the plot to be suspenseful is for these people to conveniently forget their god-like powers.