Heroes

Recently, i've been glued to the new tv series Heroes. It's a story about some everyday folks who realise that they have extraordinary abilities and that they are destined for greater things. So far, the series is exciting and suspense filled. And unlike the other sci-fi series i've been watching, Lost, it has not yet lost the plot or revealed gaping unanswered questions.

Incidentally, this series is written by Bryan Fuller who also produced Wonderfalls, one of my absolute favourite TV shows (which i guess no one else really liked as it got canned after its first season)

Anyway, i realise that i may not want to be a superhero, but i wouldn't mind having these supernatural abilities!

Telepathy - It would be pretty cool to be able to get in their heads and read minds. We could know in an instant what someone else is feeling and thinking.
Teleportation and time travel - It would be great to be anyplace else in a blink of an eye. Or to go back in time to relive happy times or to make right mistakes.

Anyhow, life has been just fine so far without superpowers or superheroes. So superpowers & superheroes, do we really need them?