Heroes Episode One: The Second Coming

My favorite show is BAAAAAAAACK! And lo, it was awesome.

We start 4 years in the future. Future!Scarface!Peter is confronted by Badass!Ponytail!Claire and she tries to shoot him, but he freezes time and teleports away. In the future, the heroes are experimented on and put into camps. Turns out this Peter is the one who shot Nathan (in order to stop him from revealing they have powers).

Nathan dies in the hospital, but then shoots up out of bed, alive. He gets all "I saw God and I'm here to do His bidding and God says we're all connected. Save ourselves, save the world." Linderman healed him and is in his hospital room. Not yet sure how Linderman survived that hand through his brain from the first season though.

Hiro and Ando are back to their old fun, hysterical selves. Hiro's dad has left a DVD message telling him that there is something important in the safe in his office, and to never open the safe. Of course he opens the safe. A second message is all, "I told you not to open the safe, ass." Within the safe is half of a secret formula - a formula the world depends on. Daphne, the new Super Speed chick, darts in and grabs it.

Hiro travels to the future to find out how the world is going to be destroyed. There are air raid sirens and he sees his future self confronting Ando over the formula. Ando has electric powers and knocks him out. The world starts to explode. Then Hiro is back to the present, on a mission to find the formula and prevent that nasty future.

Future!Peter is masquerading as Present!Peter and he makes Matt disappear off to a desert when he catches him. Mama Angela, who from that clip show looks to become The Biggest Badass Ever Made, confronts Peter, knowing it's really Future!Peter in disguise. She asks what he's done with Peter. She has premonition dreams - that's her power. Turns out real, Present!Peter is on The Company's Level 5, in containment, disguised as a Mr. Clean-looking dude, yelling and saying he's Peter Petrelli. Bennet is down the hall in containment as well and hears this.

Mohinder arrives home to Maya, having sent little Molly off on a plane somewhere. He says he's going back to India, she freaks out and the black tears start and subside. This somehow leads Mohinder to determine that abilities are produced from adrenaline. And then - in his apartment mind you - he manufactures a serum - whilst simultaneously having awkward, forced "sexual tension" with Maya - that can give powers to anyone. And everyone's powers will be different. Okaaaay. Mohinder injects himself with the power serum, passes out, is mugged by some ruffians, and then suddenly has super-strength and crazy agility and scares the dudes away. He's got powers, y'all! And powers turn him on.

Bruce Boxleitner, who I have had a crush on since childhood by the way, makes an appearance as "the Governor." "Niki" is with him, in her underwear (natch), but he calls her Tracy. "Jessica" had better hair.

I leave Sylar's part for last because I heart him most. He goes to Claire's house and is STALKY and EVIL and DELICIOUS. There is evil, sexy monologuing and horror-movie-style direction. She ends up stabbing him in the chest and he TKs her to the wall and cuts off the top of her head. TOTALLY AWESOME scene with him poking through her brain while she's still alive. She asks, "Are you gonna eat it?" LOL. And dirty. "Claire, that's disgusting." LOL! He finds the power in her brain, changes himself, and now Sylar's indestructible, y'all! He graciously gives her back the top of her head and she regenerates. He tells her she's not like the others and he couldn't kill her even if he wanted to. "You can never die... and now I guess neither can I." SQUEE!!

I thought the premiere was great, pseudoscience and all. I just go with it and enjoy the ride! The show is fun again!