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After taking hits for flip-flopping its heroes and villains and for pressing the rewind button too often, Heroes' third season is now under attack from its own characters.

The NBC show took a particularly revealing stab in the heart from its comic relievers, Ando and Hiro (pictured above), in last week's episode, "Angels and Monsters":

Hiro: Every hero hits a slump now and then.
Ando: Slump? Are you kidding? We are the worst heroes ever.

He said it, we didn't. But he's right: The heroes in Heroes are the worst heroes ever.

A TV show that posits a future where everyone has genetically engineered superpowers shouldn't be recycling tired prime-time drama and resurrecting exhausted plots and left-for-dead villains. It should be blowing away expectations. After all, this isn't ER.

But in the first part of Heroes' third season, it sure has felt like we've been lying on a gurney, waiting for last rites.