Season 3 starts four years in the future, with a renegade Claire confronting Peter for revealing the heroes’ special powers to the world and leaving them vulnerable to predators and enemies. But before Claire can shoot him, Peter travels back in time to see if he can stop the big reveal from happening.
As the eeeevil Mama Petrelli is happy to remind him in Pt. 2 (not-too-subtly titled, “The Butterfly Effect”), every readjustment of time has its consequences. So when Peter travels back to shoot Nathan to stop him from spilling the beans, all sorts of “Heroes” hell breaks loose.
The ramifications include Claire falling victim to Sylar, who appropriates her rejuvenating powers and leaves her numb; Nathan recovering, finding God and being pulled back into politics by a rebooted Nikki (now a political operative named Tracy); and Elle short-circuiting during a fight with Sylar and letting a bunch of superpowered mutants out of Level 5.
Meanwhile, poor Matt Parkman is wandering the deserts of Africa (!); Hiro and Ando are chasing some deadly formula across time and space; and Mohinder has injected himself with super-powers and is already regretting it.
And alas, Maya is still walking the earth to terrorize us with her hopeless acting and scary wardrobe. (Not the orange midriff top! Eeeeeeee!)
The encouraging news from “Heroes”-land is that the two new episodes had oodles of energy, and the Level 5 escapee plot is more promising than anything that happened during all of last season. Now that Elle’s father is dead, Mama Petrelli is in charge, which could be horrible for everybody, but great for us. She could also be Sylar’s mother. Which would be too sick for words. But in a really good way.
The downside is, too many of our heroes appear to be stuck in a loop that hasn’t changed enough since the show roared into our lives two years ago. Hiro is still racing through time to stop an end-of-the-world tragedy. So is Peter. Nathan is back in politics, Claire is back to videotaping her death-defying stunts, and Mohinder is still a good-looking cipher. Even Linderman is back from the dead.
But hey, Elle is still here and still sparky; Ando could be headed for the dark side, and Nikki/Tracy reduced William Katt to a pile of ice cubes. And you’re not going to see that on “Dancing With the Stars.”
So what did you think? Are you back in the “Heroes”fold, or still on the “Heroes” fence? Are you thrilled that present-day Peter is stuck in the body of Weevil from “Veronica Mars”? Were you pleased to see Andre Royo from “The Wire” in the credits, but confused when you couldn’t find him in the show? (Who was he? Anybody know?)
Or are you just waiting for “Lost” to come back?
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