In the Heroes section... In the examples section, there is this under the live-action series Heroes:

Then the Eclipse mini-arc, which was dropped almost as quickly as it was picked up.Fixing the bulletting of the Heroes section a bit. I got rid of the "When season 3 degenerated into a Random Events Plot this happened so much" bullet point under the series "Heroes" because I don't think those are examples of any aborted arcs. They may have sort of aborted the arc but the writers did so in a way that made sense - they had a person with the "power" to "take away other people's powers" take away Peter's hunger, so Peter only having the hunger for a ridiculously brief period is explained. Same with Sylar stopping fighting his evil urges - it is pretty much explained by the overwhelming feeling of betrayal making him all evil again, when he finds out he was lied to.

Doesn't seem like a really aborted arc to me.

I really don't like when people write under the examples:

Blah-and-blah show is notorious for this. And then give no actual specific examples, not even 1. This is a problem, right? People shouldn't be doing that?

So if anyone knows any Desperate Housewives examples, could they add them in?

Why don't we have a real life section?

Star Trek TNG: the "warp engines damage reality" subplot was mentioned in passing several times during TNG. Admirals giving Picard important missions would say "you are authorized to exceed warp speed limits for the duration of this mission". ST: Voyager opened with one of the characters (Kim, I think) remarking that Voyager was the first starship to use a new engine design that didn't damage the structure of space, at which point the subplot went away.

Babylon 5: is there a cite for the "Sleeping in Light" entry? AFAIK the "change" mentioned was a theory put forth by a crackpot fan back when the series was airing. Said fan was one of two mostly responsible for chasing JMS out of the original B5 usenet group (and the subsequent creation of the moderated one).