Zap2it's TV Show Rehab: 12 steps to a better 'Heroes'

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Make death a permanent condition

We get that writers and producers can fall in love with their characters and the actors who play them, and we also get that in a show like "Heroes," dead doesn't always have to mean dead. But the copious number of fake-out deaths has become just a bad joke. If you want to bring Ali Larter back, fine; you've already established that Nikki and Tracy had a third sister. Resurrecting Tracy as a combination T-1000/Wonder Twin Zan is really stretching things.