“Heroes” Season 3 Premiere!
We’ve been without “Heroes” for roughly nine months. Fortunately, “Lost” is awesome enough to fill some of that void, but regardless, it’s due time for us to get a new season of “Heroes.” Not only did we finally get it, we got two hours of it and the premiere basically trumped all of last season. Unlike last season, they did not flood us with new characters but instead worked with those established characters and began setting up what I estimate to be a potentially amazing season.
What I really liked was that we found our cast of heroes for the most part separated from each other, but nonetheless all of their storylines have an interconnected plot. Once again, we’re talking the fate of the world. For instance, Hiro is now the head of his father’s company, but he’s bored and seeking a quest. Sure enough, his father leaves him a video explaining that he must protect a secret, half of a formula that could destroy the world if it falls into the wrong hands. Even better (or worse depending on your perspective, I suppose), as Hiro is looking at the formula it is stolen from him by a speedster (new character, sweet power). Better yet, Hiro takes a peak at the future and sees himself and Ando in a heated argument, ending with Ando killing him! With some sort of red energy blast that shoots from his hand! Ando with powers?
Ando isn’t the only one who scores some sweet powers after riding shotgun for two season. Mohinder figures out a way to give abilities to humans, and so he injects himself. As a result he gets strength, speed, agility, the ability to scale walls, and overall sensory enhancement. Oh yeah, and he gets a bit agressive and sleeps with Maya. This is not your nerdy Mohinder anymore.
Also important to note is that Nathan survives (yes!) and his assassin is none other than future Peter, who replaces present Peter by putting present Peter in the body of an inmate imprisoned by the Company. So now future Peter is masquerading as present Peter, but unfortunately, he did not think carefully enough about his actions as his mother points out that his presence has disrupted and changed continuity, one such result being that Sylar got to Claire and scored her healing ability. Not good.
That’s not to say that Claire is dead. We learned that contrary to popular belief, Sylar does not eat brains to gain abilities, it’s more like he learns how they work and then gains the ability. He doesn’t take the ability away from them, and so in this particular case, Claire was able to heal, but now, apparently, she doesn’t feel pain. After this encounter, Claire enlists the help of Peter (future Peter) in hopes that he’ll train her to fight. The theme of this season seems to revolve around everybody getting some badass edge to them, which is awesome. Here is where I’ll point out that the term “awesome” can never be overused when it comes to this episode.
As for Nikki, we now think Nikki might be someone called Tracy who works in government. But just when that began making sense, she killed a guy by freezing the &%*# out of him. Maybe it’s an amnesiac Nikki, but if that’s the case, where did this new power come from?
In the spirit of wrapping things up, I’ll finish up with a few more points. We first saw Noah being held in a maximum security prison area with some bad looking dudes with some scary powers (present Peter happened to be trapped next door to him). Elle and Sylar just so happened to duke it out in this area, shorting out the power and knocking Sylar unconscious, allowing Sylar to be captured and a prison break to occur. Now present Peter is on the run with some bad dudes, villains, while Noah has been reunited with Claire but is on a mission to take down the villains.
If you didn’t bother to read most of the above, then just know this. “Heroes” is back and it’s already shaping up to being a solid season.
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