This season is about odd desolated group of people who feel that their fate is to be superheroes. They then narrate remarkable tales of people who has special abilities to move through time and space.
How many viewers will have the patience to tune in week after week while the unknowing superheroes scratch their heads and wonder how it is that a hippopotamus could sit on their head and they'd still feel peachy.
There are very few American adults who haven't had the "would you rather fly or be invisible" debate with pals after a few beers, so have a sliver of faith that "Heroes" will prevail.