#10 – You’re right. Season 1 was this great, self-contained volume that had excellent pacing and story. They could have ended the show right there (just without Hiro going back in time) and everyone would have been satisfied to a point.

#9 – They’ve overdone the future storylines way too much. It’s one of the reasons why they’ve moved away from them in Volumes 4. But compare the events of Volume 4 to the Explosion Future and the Exposed Future. There are many similarities (one or both may actually come true).

#8 – They really painted Nicki into a corner. She began with a very basic story in Voume 2 then…went nowhere. She got mind-tricked, signed her death certificate and then got blown up. Then she reappears as one of her triplets. At least Tracey is getting some good story now.

#7 – There is a theory on this. Sylar’s sudden mood swing occurs at the same time Hiro goes back with Claire, changing the past at that moment that we see. The theory is that by moving The Catalyst from Baby Claire to Present Hiro, Sylar didn’t see anything special in Claire and thus didn’t change.

#6 – This was just the writers confirming that we were right. The Eclipse is something important to their powers. We’d always wondered so they decided to put us out of our misery.

#5 – Hiro’s story in Volume 2 was supposed to set up Volume 3 – Exodus, where Adam releases the virus and Odessa is contained. It looked like is was going to be amazing and was going to give deeper meaning to everything in Volume 2 that is now criticised for being shallow.

#4 – I missed this. I only started watching Heroes last year so I don’t see how advertising is a fault of the show, just bad advertisers.

#3 – Again, deeper meaning lost because there was a lack of Volume 3.

#2 – More fandom. We’ve been trying to figure this out for a while. Why is it that every painting of Issac’s has come true except the really bad ones? Before now we couldn’t say “fate” definitively because there were no explosions on the horizon. Now, however, we might be able to say that a catastrophic explosion is bound to happen, anywhere, anytime.

#1 – Future Hiro believed, just like everyone else in the future, that Sylar exploded, so saving Claire would presumably enable his younger self. The problem is that Peter is the one that exploded. It didn’t make sense that Sylar would explode anyway. Peter’s control index in Season 1 was below 20% whereas Sylar’s was above 70%.

Now point A.

Point B was just to keep Sylar in the show.

Point C is still up in the air. Everyone, including Adam, believes that a shot to the brain stem will kill someone with rapid cell regeneration. Well it does, but not permanently as long as the item is removed before total decay (presumably). Then there’s decapitation that Angela thinks could kill Claire at least. The limitations of Claire’s power are still up in the air. Until we see someone with rapid cell regeneration lose their head, we’ll never know for sure.