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Much like every new day on 24, each new volume of Heroes offers the show a clean slate to start fresh. Sadly, the recent premiere of Volume 4, "Fugitives," simply reminded me of all the reasons I grow frustrated with Heroes.

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There are some slight glimmers of hope. Adding recent Emmy winner Zeljko Ivanek to the cast is certainly a good thing. And Hiro purchasing an abandoned fire station as his superhero lair evoked memories of Ghostbusters. But overall, I find it disappointing that Heroes refuses to fulfill its destiny by becoming a true comic book show.

There have been nearly 50 episodes, and still the characters refuse to accept responsibility as heroes. At the start of Volume 4, Parkman wanted to live a boring regular life. Mohinder was back to driving a cab. Peter was a paramedic. Claire was looking at colleges. And Ando just wanted to pick up chicks at a strip club.

Instead of evolving and using their abilities for good, these extraordinary people want to live ordinary lives. That's not what comic books are about, and now that we're in Volume 4, it's not what Heroes should be about.

In Volume 3, we were promised that the heroes would team up to fight the villains. Yet now at the start of Volume 4, the heroes are back to their own separate lives. Being rounded up by Nathan offers the promise of unity, but it's out of necessity, not desire.

Claire and Hiro are the only ones who seem to want to be heroes. Peter also strives for good, but he still doesn't know how to do it. For instance, in the final scene of Monday's episode, he desperately held on to the inside of the plane to avoid being blown out. Yet he seemed to have forgotten that he can fly.

As always, buried beneath the actual storylines lies a huge amount of potential for Heroes to stand apart as a true comic book TV show with heroes uniting to use their powers for good by battling the villains. But as always, the ever-shifting alliances and lack of passion in the characters prevents the show from achieving that destiny.

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