When Heroes first started broadcasting I had some misgivings about its apparent similarity to The 4400. I was however quickly won over in the first season.

There were a few times when I wished they'd done something better, but when you have a head-cutting villain with an evil glint in his eyes, an immortal cheerleader trying to get to grips with her situation, the comic relief of the asian peon with dreams of grandeur, and the hints of dark conspiracies that aren't all they seem everywhere, it seemed like the perfect mix to exploit for years in various ways.

I'm sad to say however that as of the first quarter of season 3 I have lost all faith and have decided to stop watching.

The show has become nothing more than a sci-fi soap opera where nothing is ever what it seems and allegiances shift for the most fickle and incredible reasons, just for the sake of shallowly exploring all the permutations of available heroes.

I have heard that for each of the major characters there are dedicated writers to work on their individual storyline. And it appears to me as if they have started an arms race for producing the most notable moments in every single scene of every single episode. As a result the natural highs-and-lows of a good story have been ironed into this flat homogenous surface with no definition and nothing to keep me hooked.

It is saddening for a show that had so much promise to go so far astray, but as-is, I just cannot bring myself to invest another 45 minutes in an episode that I am going to regret sitting through before it is even finished.