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A thought about watching Heroes
It seems to me, from things I've read and people I've talked to that there's a general sense of disappointment that a lot of people feel at the end of each episode of Heroes. And I hesitate to say this, but I think they're watching it wrong. They're watching it like a TV show. They need to be watching it like a comic book. Especially like a modern comic book. The kind that gets written with the knowledge that it's going to be compiled as a trade paperback every six issues or so. In this case it'll be a DVD box set. See, the thing I'm noticing most is that it's not the cliffhangers that bother people. They don't mind being left hanging on the major plot points. They're used to that. It's the more subtle things that carry on from episode to episode. Things that as a comic book reader I know will carry through the entire arc. But to people who aren't used to how comics are written it feels like a point was raised and then abandoned without resolution.
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More disturbing to me is how serialization interacts with network programming. For example, the six month gap in Stargate: Atlantis. How nice that B.G. is going to get a whole season in with out repeats (see comment about missing an ep. above) but if SciFi is concerned about the ratings for Stargate, what's going to happen when all the non-die-hard fans are supposed to pick up the second half of SGA in March? Plus, most other TV shows will have already started new spring episodes and people will have their habits already set. So unless you're a B.G. fan and a SGA fan, and therefore already in the viewing habit, people are going to have to change what they're doing and that worries me.