TV-Reviewed

Heroes! When you hear that name lots of people around the world jump for joy. From the very beginning Heroes was a true winner. It didn’t stay that way for long though. After the second season everything went downhill and has yet to reach the peak this show once held. Many viewers are hoping that season 4 can bring back the glory days. This season just might do that.

H.R.G. and Claire are going on with their lives. Claire is enrolled in college and is having a good time. Her new roommate is a freak of intelligence and has her whole life mapped out. Claire quickly finds a potential friend in Gretchen, played by Madeline Zima. These two seem to have some things in common and look like they will be tight friends. A little murder will always bring people together. Claire’s roommate suffered an early dismissal when Claire found her body a few stories below her room. She tells the police that a suicide was out of the question but someone else put hard work into fooling the cops. Claire decides to do a test to prove that she was right but it allowed Gretchen to find the truth about her. Next week we will know if Gretchen can be truly trusted.

Her father H.R.G. had his share of close calls. Tracy paid him a visit as Aqua woman and almost kills him. Danco saves his life and warns him about his new threat. H.R.G. got on up on him and made a deal with Tracy. He had The Haitian erase his memory and Tracy was now free. She paid Danco a visit but encountered a very unique hero. They had a nice cool battle which left Ray Park running away. I swear I saw more action in this scene than I have in Heroes‘ entire run. He kills Danco in the process and leads H.R.G to investigate. He calls Peter who has been saving many people’s lives as of late to help him out. He encounters the man and we are treated with another fight sequence! We learn that the man is after a broken compass. It seems that only those with powers can make it work. The man regains the compass and almost kills H.R.G. The only people at his hospital bed were Tracy and Peter. He still talks to Claire but his wife is with another man. I hate to say that H.R.G. is going to have a rough season.

Madeline Zima as Gretchen

Speaking of a rough season, Matt Parkman is feeling it. It seems that Sylar has infected his mind and is turning Parkman evil. I kinds like evil Parkman and I’m glad they are going this route. He has used his power to get rid of the competition and his anger surfaced multiple times. With Sylar in his head does that mean that he is going to trick him into giving him his body back? From what I’m seeing it just might happen.

Nathan is starting to realize that there is more to him that meets the eye. He tells his mother about it and she gets freaked out. She wants Matt to redo his job on Sylar but Matt tells her that’s her problem she needs to deal with. He is starting to use Sylar’s powers and it seems that soon the truth will come out. I can’t wait for this moment to occur.

Hiro and Andy are in Japan running their own business. They are saving peoples’ lives one by one. Well at least that’s their plan. The only thing that they are doing is saving cats. Hiro does have some bad news for Andy though. He tells him that he is dying and that he doesn’t know how long he has.

Dawn Olivieri as Lydia, Robert Knepper as Samuel

With everything that has gone down in the past and his in ability to control time, I can understand why.  He sends himself back in time and that’s where he meets up with this season’s villain, Samuel, played by Robert Knepper. He convinces Hiro to change the past to help out Andy’s love life. He does so with a little push and is pleased with the results. Samuel is trying to change the past for some reason and has a legion of followers that will help him rather they like it or not. Will Samuel get what he wants or will the Heroes come together again and foil his plans.

These two episodes was surprisingly good. We were introduced to fresh characters that are pretty and dirty. Peter was entertaining for once and Claire still has no purpose. Matt is getting better story lines and they found a way to get Sylar and Nathan to share a screen. Tracy won’t be useless this season and we finally get to see some fight scenes. If they keep this up maybe Heroes will finally be back on track.

Rating: 7.9