So last night was the ending of Volume 3, Generations, and the beginning of Volume 4, Villains. As 10:01 rolled around, I sat on the couch and thought, "WTF?"

Don't get me wrong—it was a good ending for a show that even the creator Tim Kring admits lost its way. Some great moments include:

1. Parkman jumping off Nathan's back, saying, "We'll never speak of this again."
2. Hiro putting Kensei in the coffin. Entirely human, poetic justice. And when Adam claws his way out in a decade or so, he'll be even more twisted.

1. I cheered when Maya was "killed." It has nothing to do with the actress and everything to do with the fact that she was a whiny, TSTL heroine, and no romance writer worth her salt would ever write a main character this way. I mean, come on. Killing people by crying black goo—shouldn't you have been working on that way before Sylar tested you? And you're on the run from the Mexican authorities for killing said people with said goo, so of course, you're gonna stop and rescue a guy lying in the middle of the street, and be so wrapped up in your "I'm a crying murderer" misery that you don't notice the creepy vibe Sylar gives off, but you immediately take his word for everything over your brother? Then you happily believe that your brother took off without saying goodbye and then proceed to break into some guy's apartment and cook like you're one big happy familia, only to be shocked when Sylar turned out to be bad? YOU DESERVE TO DIE.



2. All of these people believing going public with their abilities is the right thing to do. THIS IS AMERICA, PEOPLE. This nation don't cotton to people being different. Ask me if you should go public, and I'll answer with two words: Area 51 (okay, one's a word and one's a number, but you know what I mean.)

3. What's with the cheerleader saving the world yet again? How is it that Claire's blood can bring the dead back to life? I asked this question to fellow viewers and they pointed out that Claire and Peter never died. Well Claire and Peter had the abilitiy swimming in their bloodstream before they bit the big one. These others were already dead. Noah, as far as we know is normal. He was shot in the eye, obstensibly the brain, DOA at the Company. He shouldn't have been able to come back. Maya, yeah she's got the strain or whatever, but if she was dead, her blood wasn't circulating, so how did the injection anywhere but in her heart bring her back to life? WHY BRING HER BACK TO LIFE AT ALL?

4. You once again punk out with Micah's parents. It was a punk way to kill DL, and it was a punk way to (allegedly) kill Nikki. The only way to redeem this is to show how these senseless deaths affect Micah and make him turn into a villain, or at least Batboy. Bruce Wayne is a great vigilante hero with a bad streak.

5. Someone on USAToday commented that Sylar has more lives "than a soap opera character." I so agree. I remember being stunned last year when all the Heroes let Sylar slide his bloody, battered ass down into the sewers AND DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. You knew he was bad, you knew he was gonna blow up NYC—so of course you let him get away. (How did he get that manhole cover off by himself anyway?) And I just loved how he was still bruised and bloody in the middle of the Central American jungle, yet was somehow able to walk through the wilderness unscathed to the road the Wonder Twins were riding on in Calire's stolen SUV that Claire had the keys to.

6. I don't get Monica's powers. I thought that once she saw how something was done, she retained it. Didn't she make the tomato flowers more than once? So how come she didn't get all WWE on the thieves? I guess because they didn't write it that way. And how did dude afford all that gas he had to burn that building?

7. One thing I've noticed is that these writers start their female heroes strong, and then they completely wimp out on them. The fact that a third personality popped out of Nikki and went clubbing proves that her super strength is a part of her, Jessica's just able to use them better. DL's death should have made her more determined to use her powers to protect the family she had left. It wasn't her super strength that got DL killed, it was her multiple personality disorder. Like Nikki, Claire started off cool, then went to whiny-ville. Yeah she's a teenager, but she should have learned enough over the last year to know that laying low keeps you alive. Elle is fascinating, but if they turn her good (I hope they don't) they'll make her wimpy too. And I think I've said all I need to say about Maya.