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So...is Heroes back? Is it as good as it used to be? Beyond repair? Has it always been good and people are just too picky? Seems like fans (and non-fans) of the show all have opinions.

So does Bryan Fuller. He came back to the show after ABC canceled Pushing Daisies, and while I have always liked the Heroes, you can tell that the show has turned a corner in the past couple of episodes. The pace isn't break-neck anymore, the time traveling stuff has calmed down, and the storytelling is tighter. Fuller is interviewed over at SciFiWire, and he talks about how he, as a fan, was frustrated with the way the show was going. He also drops a few spoilers for fans and explains his plans for what's in store for the last episodes of the season.

Probably the biggest spoiler that Fuller unveils is this: Tracy is still alive! Yes, we might have seen her freeze and shatter into a million pieces, but Fullers says she's coming back this season "in a big way." And no, thankfully, that won't involve Ali Larter coming back as yet the other cloned sister Barbara. Fuller says they're not going there.

He also clears up something that fans have been discussing this week, about whether or not Tracy was winking after she died. It actually was a blink and a tear, not a wink. I guess the special effects and camera angle weren't the best and everyone thought she was winking, which meant she was still alive. She's still alive, but that was just a blink. Got it? Good.

Fuller also says they're going to show Angela Petrelli in 1961 and what happened to make her the way she is and why she does the things that she does. And Sylar is going to screw with Noah in a big way. One thing I'm curious about: if I remember correctly, wasn't there a first season episode where we saw an alternate future, where Sylar was disguised as Nathan and became the President? I wonder if Sylar's recently acquired power of morphing into anyone means that they're going to revisit that plot (and if I'm remembering that wrong, let me know in the comments - as if I have to tell you that!)