Heroes: My least favorite characters

There are two characters in the tv series Heroes that I'd rather not watch.

First is Niki Sanders the single mother.


I find it mentally draining just watching her struggle with her alter ego Jessica episode after episode. They keep coming back to the same old scenes in the garage, playing the same awful background music and reading the same old script. Ever since Jessica's first appearance, there's been nothing new to learn about the two of them. I mean come on, get over it already. I'm not going to spend the rest of the season watching her fight the same old battle with herself when she should be out there fighting the bad guys. I think they're trying very hard to kill an otherwise interesting character with repetitive over-dramatization.

My second least favorite character is Isaac Mendez the painter.


Like Niki, the producers are trying hard to kill him with the broken record syndrome. They keep repeating the same conflict scenes between he and his girlfriend (and anyone else who comes near him, now that Petrelli and others are coming into his studio), the same reminders about why he needs drugs to paint and the same whiny excuses about why he doesn't know why he draws what he draws. Look, we get it already. You've told this story in every episode and I'm gonna scream if you tell it one more time.

Its a shame that the power of subtlety is all but lost in Heroes' screenwriters.

Now for some strange reason this broken-record syndrome is is hovering around just a couple of characters and I've started to flip channels whenever its their turn on the screen. I hope I don't lose interest the way they lost me in the series LOST - a show whose tale is constructed almost entirely on flashbacks, which is like trying to guess what you ate by looking at a turd.