I Told You, Tim Kring

Now I'm going to have to bust a cap. Happy now? You're a dead man.

...

Well, not really. But still, I'm fucking pissed, Kring. First you put Claire through a graphic operation scene and give her a sad death scene, and then... oh, man, the rest of this season had better make up for that one.

Not a cool way to resolve what became one of the most interesting dynamics I'd ever seen on a science fiction series (the fact that the characters I was most involved with--Bennett, Claire, Elle, and Sylar--all wanted to kill each other, making it very hard for me to root for anyone).

Still, I hold to the cardinal rule of all comic books, TV shows, and movie franchises: a character is only dead until a writer needs them not to be.