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OMG, y'all, the Heroes writers totally read our post! We just watched the season finale (okay, we're still watching it right now, we just couldn't wait to write this) and we are impressed.

A while ago, io9 wrote a post about how to fix Heroes. Sidenote: What is up with ZQ's eyebrows? They look like they're made of plastic.

Back to reality. The first thing io9 recommended was the deaths of Hiro Nakamura, Sylar, and Noah Bennett. The writers paid about fifty percent attention to this suggestion. Not only did Noah and Hiro not die, but their combined abilities - Noah's man-with-the-plan-itude and Hiro's ability to transport people - saved the day! Hiro's heroics are good for two reasons: one, we love him; and two, we were getting bored of his powers being all wonky. Sylar will never die. We here at SRSBZNZ have made our peace with that. Whatever. ZQ is good looking, so we guess we'll put up with him.

The first thing SRSBZNZ recommended: treat each season as its own, mostly separate, entity, like a real comic book. This finale TOTALLY DID THAT. Samuel was defeated - in a sort of anticlimactic way, granted - and the cliffhanger ending was enough to keep us interested (well, interested in the sense that we can't seem to stop watching this show even though it's kind of lame) without trying to carry over any already-meandering storylines.

Right now, SRSBZNZ is winning the Ways to Fix Heroes Contest with one point, while io9 trails with no points. Go us!

However, io9 earns half a point by recommending that Claire Bennett become the villain, which she sort of did. So you know how Samuel was going to tell the whole world about the heroes, or "specials," as they now seem to be called? Well, he failed. Sad face. But then Claire was mad at her dad for thinking that "specials" (This Week's Special: A Dude With X-Ray Vision! Only $99.95, for a Limited Time Only!) couldn't coexist openly with normal people, so she jumped off the top of one of the carnival rides in front of a bunch of news cameras. We don't think that makes her a villain, but it definitely could have negative repercussions for our favorite specials.

Now that we're reading our post, we have to take half a point away from ourselves for also recommending that Sylar get killed off. In our own defense, since this is OUR blog, we had, at that point, mostly realized that Sylar was immortal, but were not quite ready to let go of the idea that he could be written out of the show. We've since come to terms.

Final score:
SRSBZNZ: 0.5.
io9: 0.5
Heroes: 1, for not failing at season 4.