After Laura Vandervoort’s disappointing ouster from Smallville - probably due to the fact that TV’s Supergirl rapidly developed into a more likable and proactive character than the increasingly morose Clark Kent - your humble host is happy to learn that Kristen Bell is returning to Heroes.
Elle, Ms. Bell’s psychotic yet oddly sympathetic character, was just the only good thing that happened on the faltering NBC serial last season.
(Well … aside from Sylar’s Popeye moment at the very end of an otherwise anti-climactic finale.)
Now if the series can only regain the focus of the last five or six episodes of Heroes’ inaugural storyline …
