10 Hyped TV Moments That Never Happened
5. Peter Rescues Caitlin - Heroes
Oh, Heroes. Has there ever been a TV show more blatantly ruined by behind-the-scenes nonsense than this?
In its second season, protagonist Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) and girlfriend Caitlin (Katie Carr) visit the post-apocalyptic New York City of the future, and when Peter goes back to the present, Caitlin is accidentally left in this grim timeline. Oh, and with Peter's time-travelling powers inaccessible, he can't go back to get her.
This dangling thread was obviously expected to be picked up again later in season two, but due to the 2007-2008 WGA Writers Strike heavily impacting shooting, the second season ended up being significantly shortened.
And so, Peter never ended up rescuing Caitlin, but because Peter does prevent the future apocalypse, we're left to assume that poor Caitlin got straight-up wiped from existence, given that the future she existed in ultimately never happened. Yikes.
The fact that Peter doesn't even reference this tragedy makes it that much worse, the show evidently deciding to just move on from Caitlin and hope that fans didn't remember. But of course, they did.