It is a given that many television series have a "sophmore slump," where the second season does not live up to the first. Heroes did not have a sophmore slump. It had a sophmore plummet. What were they smoking when they wrote this season? Clair's storyline was pretty much a rehash of the one she had in season 1, with all the stuff that made it good taken out, and plenty of stuff to hate added in. DL survives getting shot by Linderman only to be killed by some random thug offscreen before the season starts? Peter has amnesia and ends up working with the villan?? Not to mention the new characters introduced this season, most of whom did absolutly nothing but suck up screen time. Some (Maya and Alejandro) were just boring, while others (West) made you want to kill kittens. I doubt Heroes will ever get back to where it was in season 1, and even if it does, it will always have season 2 hanging over it like some curse.