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The first season was excellent, then it went sadly downhill, though I watched it until the end. I remember that the original idea was that each season would be completely standalone, much the same as "American Horror Story", but there was fan pressure to stick with the same group of characters and continue that story. A mistake, in my opinion. they could have had fan favourites still feature on and off season to season but had a completely new focus and story arc each time ... could have been great.

instead they turned Sylar (a great and really cold villain) into an emo, and then to make matters worse, they nerfed Peter Petrelli! he might have had daft hair, but his ridiculously out of proportion powers made him awesome and a perfect counterbalance to Sylar. But emo Sylar didn't need a counterbalance so they just... Just raped poor Peter.

Everyone was waiting for a massive Petrelli / Sylar deathmatch and it never happened. That made it lame. Though I always suspected they simply didn't have the special effects budget for it on a TV show. That said - Smallville always managed to have fairly convincing superpowered battles sooo...

Anyway! I'll still give it a go. Hope theres more focus on the powers and less on the emo storylines.