It ends with a lousy Claire cliff hanger?

I can’t say I regret watching the series - season one and three made it more than worth while - but season four’s writing, character development, and ending makes me wonder if the writers were Haitianed after every volume.

After becoming so attached to the characters, it’s disappointing to realize that in the Heroes universe, there are no consequences. Volume after volume, characters whose death may have lent a bit of integrity to show, were saved by writers using the “Specials” as a crutch. In S4, HRG is saved by Tracy’s water transportation, which we didn’t know she could do. I would have been devastated to see HRG die in Claire’s arms, but if he had, the pay off would have been an emotion-rich Claire/Samuel face off. But of course, he couldn’t die because no one does and as a result …my appreciation of the goodbye moment was cheapened.

Despite the lack of finality and incongruous plot lines between volumes, there were reasons I kept watching.

One being the Hiro and Ando pair. Even being subtitled nearly the whole series, Hiro was tied as the most real character on the show. My only frustration with his “master of time and space” powers was that they needed more consequence because with out consequence, his powers were often misused as an easy out when the writers wrote themselves into a corner. In the end though, Hiro always gave me a chuckle and even more, he built my faith that Heroes had the potential, if executed correctly, to make a statement about humanity.

And second being Gabriel Gray. Tied with Hiro, Sylar was the most believable character on the screen. Of every Hero, Sylar was the most dynamic; It was a rare moment, when a Sylar scene did not give you real insight into the character. From volume to volume Sylar grew and as a viewer I appreciated the opportunity to understand him and feel what he felt (a gift I think largely due to the fantastic acting of Zachary Quinto). Sylar had a real story, one with a beginning, middle, and end all of which added up to explain what his motivations as a character were. He had an end goal and it wasn’t to destroy the world - everything was an internal struggle with Sylar, which is beautiful and a storyline worth investing in. His desire to be special coupled with his hunger and why-am-I-not-enough anger, led him to kill for what he wanted. He was the ultimate super villain in S1 and S3, because he was so real - you could feel the pain pushing him forward. As the series moved forward and the story became more of a let down, Sylar maintained a believable course of action and in the end grew to become the Gabriel Gray he would have been had the S3 alternate future become a reality. Sure, there were holes in his story like all of Heroes, overall I give the writers lots of credit for the Sylar story. I fell in love with it (and a lot with Zachary Quinto).

So after two weeks of nonstop Heroes, I now am finished and disappointed with NBC. Now it is time to find another series with an engrossing plot and hopefully as ridiculously hot a cast as Heroes. Any suggestions?