Making a very exciting and welcome return to our screen’s Heroes: Season 3, commences this week with much anticipation. Having my usual little patience for anything that involves waiting for much loved TV shows I quickly hopped onto the NBC website to see the double season preview and it didn’t disappoint. As a committed sci-fi fan for as long as I can remember I was immediately hooked to Heroes, not only because of the fantasy nature that it was portraying but to the incredible personal stories that it evolved. More than usual screen heroes, sci-fi villains, and fantasy character’s are purely that, science fictional beings. They have amazing powers, do incredible things but lack a certain personal and real life depth to them. Throwing this out of the window Heroes developed real human beings, people who were living ordinary and every day lives when suddenly these powers were thrust upon them, often with detrimental and unusual outcomes. Claire Bennet, the high school cheerleader, found herself able to heal but fell victim to being the centre of a world ending saga, Syla became overcome with the lust to grow and learn, leading him on the dangerous path to become a psychopathic murderer and Nikki Sanders struggled more and more to overthrow her inner demon Jessica. There were more to our heroes than just people with powers, they had lives, jobs, struggles….and the gripping thing, they were all caught in an integrated and unbelievably complicated web. 

Heroes also managed magnificently to blur the edges between good and evil. Characters that we initially thought evil, think Mr Bennet, were in fact, at heart, trying to achieve something positive, it just took us to look at life from their point of view to understand it. Whilst other good citizens turned out to be far from angelic angels. To this point Season 3, aptly named Villains, seems not to disappoint.

*SPOILERS* Within these first few hours Ando kills Hiro, Peter Petrelli tried to kill his brother whilst his mother continues her seductive and secretive route of evil. Syla continues his killing spree, letting loose some new and distinctly unsavoury characters whilst he’s at it, Mohinder is showing signs of “mad scientist” syndrome, and though Nikki & Jessica may have gone to the grave, there’s a very familiar face cropping up somewhere else. These new angles have people time travelling & popping up in places where really, they shouldn’t be messing around. It instigates what seems to be a very exciting, action packed and character developing season…..Save the Cheerleader, Save the World?! For all we know, with everything so blurred as it is, it may be Kill the Cheerleader, Save the World!