I received a few e-mail’s last night after the premiere that a few of you were disappointed that I didn’t give more insight into the premiere, and instead just gave my opinion on the pacing, with very little specifics. So to meet the requests of the audience and to better acquaint you with the return of Heroes, here is a much deeper look into the first episode of Heroes in Season 2. I should say there are some spoilers below if you have not watched the show yet, that is your warning!

One of the more difficult areas of starting a new season of a show, is the beginning, how do we grasp the audience back into the storyline? Heroes didn’t waste anytime in that area, the show begins with a look at Mohinder giving a speech to a half empty (or half full) lecture hall describing a deadly virus that is mutating in these evolved humans (AKA: heroes). Following his speech to the less then amused audience he is approached by a guy who is stalking Mohinder at each of his lectures trying to get him to join his company which tries to “save” these heroes and teach them how to use there powers for the greater good. The beginning of the show to me just set the mood for the episode right from the onset by really becoming much more of a show with questions rather then one with answers.

Heroes then does a very large shuffle, where we are then tossed back and forth through several new and old characters. One of the focuses however of the episode was on Claire who moved with her family down to California to start fresh. Of course Claire’s Dad is very specific to Claire about just blending in at school, not to make any friends, and to be anything but special. Of coure it would help if she wasn’t almost run over by her new love interest West who later in the show we learn has the ability to fly. And like any teenager, Claire doesn’t listen to her wise father and instead dislocates her leg when jumping off of a cheer leading lift, and puts her hand through a Bunsen burner.

And what would an episode of Heroes be without our good friend Hiro, who we find in 1671 in Japan near his very own Hero, Takezo Kensei. This is an interesting sequence of events as we find that Kensei isn’t everything the tales and books that Hiro read growing up told him about, in fact 99% of the tales seemed fabricated. In fact Kensei is an English man who pays people to do his own dirty work, and Hiro in an effort to save him from a sea of arrows teleports him, stopping Kensei from his original quest. So now we are left with Hiro attempting to make Kensei into the hero that he had read about growing up.

As I mentioned before the show really jumps around a lot and in fact we don’t hear from all of the Heroes in this episode. However Parkman the man who can hear people’s thoughts is now taking care of Molly who became a big part of the show late last season for her ability to locate all the heroes in her brain. Parkman is doing his best to look after Molly and it seems as though Parkman and Mohinder are working together to make sure she is kept safe. The scenes with both Parkman and Molly were probably the most profound in the whole episode, mainly because they allowed a deeper insight into how the life of a Hero.

Then of course there is Nathan, who has now seemingly lost his election, and seems to have gone into a total tailspin downhill. I was actually shocked to see Nathan away from his clean shave and perfect haircut, but now he is with a full beard and throughout the show is numerously getting wasted away in alcohol. His mom who we all know to be a very pointed woman blames Nathan for the death of Peter, and Nathan won’t have any of that, and tells her to leave. It was a very intense sequence of events and one that really no one expected going into the show. Nathan really looked as though he had hit a low in his life and felt a lot of guilt for what had happened to Peter.

The show wouldn’t end without a few cliffhangers and this is really where the first episode of Season 2 of Heroes really picked up the ball. We learned that both Nathan’s Mom and Hiro’s dad got images of themselves with red swirl shape on it which both somehow meant they were to die soon. We then find Ando with Hiro’s Dad continuing to be loyal and faithful to his family and to Hiro. Ando goes to get a sword for Hiro’s father but when he returns he watches the subsequent death of Hiro’s dad by a hooded man who we could not identify (possiby Sylar) pushing Hiro’s father off of the building. We knew someone was going to die in this episode but Hiro’s father was not among my list of possible candidates.

And then the show wraps up with something I am sure the ladies wanted to see and that was Peter was still alive (what a surprise). We meet this Irish crew who seems to be looking for a crate of electronics when they open up this big crate to find Peter chained to the back suffering from memory loss. However he still has some powers working inside of him as he literally takes out this Irish crew with just a flick of his wrist, and thus the episode concludes.

Some of the things that I was a bit disappointed on, was that we really didn’t get any answers solved, but similar to a show like Lost we just were given more questions left to be answered. Seeing Hiro back in time was actually a treat, and I thought Kensei was really a treat, a typical hero that we read about that actually wasn’t much of a Hero at all, but just was in the right place at the right time. Your going to obviously see a few things in the weeks to come. Claire is going obviously grow closer to West the man with flying ability, and I am sure we are going to see Claire break every rule her father makes. Secondly Hiro is going to do everything to make Kensei the hero that he read about growing up. And I am sure finally we will get a lot more insight into Peter, what happened after the explosion and who the man or woman was under the hooded cape that killed Hiro’s father.