QUOTE(The DOKTOR @ Dec 7 2007, 06:15 PM)

Of all the goofs, loopholes, continuity errors and what nots anybody can find about Heroes, the one things that really really bothers me is the use of the miracle blood. I'm afraid the show might have jumped the shark if they keep reusing it...
To be fair, they
have been using it for the last season - Claire, Peter.
The idea was even used in X-men, where Wolverine gave a sick Morlock a blood transfusion to heal her from an incurable disease.
I quite liked Maya's place in the story - Sylar is driven by an evolutionary imperative, one of the main drives of such a thing is the drive to reproduce. When he abandoned her to cure himself, it needed to be more strained in my opinion - although, by that point he may have decided that it was a wasted effort as she was so polarised against him.
With a dead brother, and being with Mohinder, Molly and Elle.. she'll probably stay on to be a sort of surrogate mother for Molly, helping Mohinder with his work.
The good thing about Heroes has always been that it isn't episodic, but works with long story arcs - Maya is a perfect example of this. She will come in to her own later on, but for now she helped with Sylar's (more Gabriel's) character development. Sylar and Gabriel are two distinct elements of the same person, with Sylar being the powerful, driven side of him and Gabriel the more gentle side of him, as shown by his interactions with Maya (and, also, his mother) as she understands him.
Just because she didn't exactly help with the action greatly doesn't mean she wasn't vitally important to the growing character of Sylar, making him more than a psychopath and more human, more flawed - hell, even making him likeable.