Shows I am cautiously pessimistic about

This fall-winter television season will see many television series returning to continue telling their story. While every show runner is now touting the WGA-imposed strike as a "good thing" in order to think about stories (they said no such thing during the strike, I might add), telling us that this will be the best season EVER, there are a few shows whom I cannot help but feel uneasy about.

24 - A show that can be really good when it's good, but is too often too terrible. A terrible season three led the show to "reset" itself for season four. Jump ahead to season seven, and the show needs to "reset" itself once again. Not a good sign for a show. The show loves to recycle storylines and plots from it's first three seasons, and there has been nothing to indicate that this will cease to continue.
Reasons why it may not suck: Instead of Los Angeles, the nation will now be threatened in Washington, D.C., a much more "believable" location for acts of mass terrorism. Instead of CTU, Jack Bauer will now work with the FBI. So instead of having people come in from "District," I guess they just have higher-ups come downstairs to set them straight. And, everybody seems to acknowledge that season six absolutely sucked. Big time.

Heroes - This show was amazing for the first half of season one. Intensely incredible. But then the show got picked up, and the storylines had to continue. And into a second season. We suddenly had characters doing a bunch of nothing for weeks at a time (Hiro and the Cherry Blossom Tree! Claire and West sneak in kissing time!), while the iconic villian Sylar no longer had a purpose (kill the cheerleader, kill the world), but rather, just killed because he could. When the villian has no motivation, that is a bad sign. Not to mention the introduction of the Honduras twins, one of which is still alive, in spite of everybody reacting negatively to the character and story arc in general. The characters had too much angst and not enough story to juxtapose against.

(And I've seen spoilers, and the one character who should not be getting any angstier is, and the one actress who should be let go so she can show her talents on a television show show that will give her a good character, is sadly going to be with the show for a while longer.)

Why it may not suck: The showrunner honestly acknowledged season two's Numerous (that is numerous with a capital N) mistakes. There will be more Sylar, and since the storyline is named "Villians," I'm assuming he'll have some grander purpose to serve other than "that guy who trims the cast occassionaly." Jack Coleman will still be playing "Horn-Rimmed Glasses," and Mama Petrelli is supposed to have more of a storyline this time around.