Feeling robbed of a cool plot twist that could have happened in Heroes Season 4
I'm rewatching Heroes right now. I'm at first half of season 4 and just finished the episode Hiro goes back to the past to save Charlie. He is trying to not step on any butterflies to not affect the future. But I think it would have been so much more interesting if he accidentally changed the future, with, for instance, defeating Sylar for good.
At that point, Sylar would not be a threat to Claire, but New York would still have to be saved because either Teddy or Peter could lose control of the ability. Events of Season 2 where they save the world from the virus would still have happened (Sylar didn't really impact those). BUT in Season 3 Sylar would have not gotten Claire's ability. The Cheerleader would have been saved again. That would have been better because regardless the fact that Claire could heal, it was not right. It was abusive. And still they tried to make Sylar more likable and give him some kind of redemption as seasons went by. Almost like he is a completely different character.
With Sylar gone, Nathan would actually and still be alive because that confrontation at the end of Season 3 wouldn't have not happened. I think this would have given an upgrade and refreshment to Season 4. The consequences of messing with time, what is the new future, how the characteres who would be alive would play out in this new scenario. They could have even brought Isaac Mendes back! Elle would also be alive. It would be quite cool to see these characters back again.
This also made me realize how Sylar has been on the show for so long and was having more solo quests that didn't impact the main storyline throughout the seasons, which felt like fillers... And then suddenly out of the nowhere he was where everybody was. My conclusion was that, with the exception of Season 1 - where he is the main villain, Sylar was more a filler than a main character that brought the plot forward in other seasons.