All the best science fiction uses imaginary worlds to convey messages about the real world. Isaac Asimov showed how advances in science would affect human society. John Wyndham was more interested in how humanity depended on science, for example by asking what would happen if the technological advances science has provided were suddenly taken away.

Heroes is that girlfriend I know is bad for me, but I just can’t seem to stay away. Every time the show does me wrong, I swear I’m never coming back, only to show up the next week hoping it’ll treat me right. Sometimes it does, and some times it doesn’t.

From the day he walked on screen and taunted her with his cryptic statements, to the day he walked off into his own series, until the day he and his friends stood against the forces of hell in the face of a storm, I’ve loved Angel.

I have loved Buffy from the jump, and while I liked the character Angel, I couldn’t love the show as much.