So as any good geek knows, Heroes returned to TV with a brand new season yesterday,a nd we here at OP are here with our JOhnny-come-lately review right after all those other blogs stole the thunder. But not to worry – we’ll try to add something to the pile of flowers and accolades already heaped upon it.
Note that these reviews contain spoilers. If you don’t want to know, or were under a rock and didn’t know abotu the new episode, don’t read! If you do spoil yourself on accident, though, at least you can act like you’re a hero with precognitive powers.
First off, let’s hit on 5 things about the Heroes premiere:
-Nathan’s shooter is none other than….his brother Peter Petrelli, or at least, a Peter from the future. He hopes to change the horrible future to come, but ends up doing a bunch of things that might make it much worse.
-One of these things is inadvertently letting Sylar finally getting to Claire, and taking her power. But a revelation that Claire couldn’t be killed even if Sylar wanted to do it leaves Claire with new conflicts.
-Mohinder discovers a way to awaken powers in others and uses himself as the first test subject. He gains Spider-man like agility and strength, but the side effects could make it not worth it.
-Tracy Strauss, who looks a lot like Niki Sanders, is a top aide for New York’s governor (played by Babylon 5′s Bruce Boxleitner). But unlike Niki, she’s got a chilly personality – in more ways than one.
-Sylar frees a dozen villains who were locked away by the Company with the inadvertent help of an angry Elle, whose father was murdered by the former watchmaker. The Company’s top person is none other than Angela Petrelli, who drops the bombshell that Sylar is her estranged son and the brother of Nathan and Peter Petrelli.
Well, to say the least, this was interesting. New threads were started all over the place, from Tracy (possibly Niki) having to find out her life is possibly not as simple as a campaign, to Mohinder gaining powers but at a possibly great cost, to Hiro and Ando possibly creating a rift between them, to future Peter wreaking havoc no matter where he goes while the present Peter is stuck in the body of one of the worst of the villains. Sure, we’ve still got the problem with some of the more “overpowered” powers and dealing with those (like Claire being practically immortal), but at the very least, the inclusion of actual villains into the storyline might make things just a little bit difficult.
Sylar isn’t the only one who could be conisdered evil (and from the previews, it seems he has a new allegiance that could prove intriguing to say the least), but the truly psychopathic natur eof people with powers who have had to be incarcerated is going to only cause chaos in a world that is largely unaware of people who can do things like fly, throw fire, and read minds.
Overall, we’re alooking at the start of a lot of itneresting changes for allt he Heroes, and it can only get better form here.