[All this is spoilerish for this week's Heroes episode, so don't read if you haven't seen it yet...]
I was a little disappointed with the encounter with "Nightmare Man". Why go through all the deception with the shotgun and whatnot? When Parkman and Petrelli bust in, why not just put them into a scenario right then and get away, or kill them or whatever.
That scene only works as a way to trick the viewer, with no other logical reason... and I don't usually apprecaite that.
Same thing with Peter opening his "box". They hyped that up in chapter 3, now, it takes less than 20 seconds of screen time, and doesn't move the story along. We've had five episodes so far this year and still we have not even the slightest clue why Peter is in Ireland, or how he survived, or ANYTHING.
So, I'd have to agree that the writing is suffering this year. Not enough to make me even think about not watching the show anymore, but if I hadn't seen season 1, I'd probably be on to something else.
