Forget where we left off with Heroes last season? Me too, but the premiere episode packed a lot of info, so let’s just dive right in:

The Petrellis and Friends

Well the Petrelli clan is back, apparently future Claire (indestructible) and future uncle Peter (absorbs others’ powers) live in a world where everyone knowing that they’re heroes is a problem, and they all wear a lot of black. So it was future Peter who came back to shoot his brother Nathan (flying man) to shut him up, and then sends Matt (mind reader) off to Africa. Nathan died-ish, and came back a religious nut. Last season’s thought to be dead Niki (split personality super strong Jessica) shows up with a governor who’s calling her Tracy. She’s recruiting Nathan to step back into politics when not using her turning people to ice power. And of course the future was changed, but not necessarily for the better.

The Formula

Hiro (time controller and teleporter) has inherited from his dad Sulu a new sacred duty to protect a secret half of a formula (and his father’s company). Though a new Speedster girl Daphne steals the formula. When Hiro goes to the future to check out what will happen he finds future Hiro getting zapped by future Ando (currently sidekick is ability free) and of course the end of the world. Hiro is torn about bringing Ando with him to track down Daphne but they find her and are on a continued quest to get one of the halves back. If they lose the formula their only hope is to find the person with purity of blood, whatever that means.

The Science

Last year Mohinder (scientist) was hard at work on the antidote to the virus that was stripping the heroes of their powers and even killing them. He was successful, but this season he was tempted to pack it all in. Instead he is talked into helping super annoying Maya (tears of death) and he begins to get more annoying himself. He finds the key ingredient in the abilities and becomes obsessed with being able to give mere mortals abilities of their own. Rather than do scientific testing, he randomly injects himself with the Maya ingredient. After he gets all super powered and spiderman-y, and sleeps with Maya, he crashes like nobody’s crashed before. This does not bode well for the future.

The Villains

Our original villain Sylar (absorbs others’ powers but by killing them) has gone back to his original goal to get Claire’s powers (remember ‘Save the Cheerleader, Save the World’). Turns out Claire is ‘special’ (perhaps pure of blood?) and survived Sylar, but in addition to stealing Claire’s ability he stole the files to the bad ability dudes stuck in Section 5, where Claire’s dad is hanging with present Peter stuck in Veronica Mar’s Weevil’s body. And speaking of VMars, Elle (electro girl) is trying to take down Sylar for killing her dad, but when he tries to kill her she basically explodes and knocks him out, and the power, which lets all of Section 5 out. Oh and did I mention that mama Petrelli is now taking over the organization and getting her son Sylar back in the game. Yes, son.

The one thing we can count on is that good and evil are rarely completely clear, and that someone will always do something stupid, and I’m yet again wondering what that will be. Stay tuned.