Sorry. That came off more patronizing than I meant it to. Still, just because people aren't happy doesn't make it bad. (Other things can and do. I recognize that there are elements of the show that are … less than ideal, but I still think it's entertaining, in a melodramatic, goofy way.)

Heroes is mostly ripping off a fairly good era of Uncanny X-Men, some thematically, some directly (check out Days of Future Past). But the main idea is that people with super powers were representative of people who were societal outcasts, from Jews in 1930s Germany to homosexuals in 1980s America, and like many of those peoples, wanted to hide their true selves from society at large. That is not a story of joy.