Well, I'll start off by saying that the one-hour recap thing that was on at 8:00 absolutely blew. Or at least the first ten minutes did. That's all I could watch. I thought it was going to be a "what's happened so far/where we left off" show, when in fact it was just a gigantic, hype-filled commercial for the season premiere. And that was only so-so.They aired two episodes back-to-back last night: The Second Coming and The Butterfly Effect. And they jammed a lot of stuff into them and frankly, not all of it made sense.
This is what I think happened.
Things start in the future (another apocalyptic future? really?), where things aren't going so well for our heroes. It's 4 years after Nathan told the world about their powers in that press conference in the season finale where he got shot and never got the chance to tell the world about their powers. The heroes are being persecuted, tested and hunted down, Claire is a brunette and bad and wants to shoot Peter. So FuturePeter travels back in time to the press conference and shoots Nathan to prevent him from telling the world about their powers. OK, so the mystery of who shot Nathan is solved. But tell me this: why couldn't Peter travel back a few minutes earlier and just tell Nathan that he ruins the future by revealing their secret? He has to kill him? Sometimes I think Peter is actually slightly impaired, if you know what I mean.
FuturePeter spends the entire two episodes pretty much f*cking everything up by meddling with the timeline. He hides PresentPeter in The Company's Level 5 containment area (where HRG is being held) by "putting him into" a prisoner who is already there (I'm assuming this is a power that FuturePeter acquires in the future) - some guy named Jesse whose power is sound manipulation - and spends the rest of the time screwing things up. He tells Claire to stay home when she wants to come and see Nathan in the hospital and because of that, Sylar is able to find her (how did he find her?) and take her power, making him pretty much indestructible. I really liked the scene where he was poking around in her brain, especially when he tells her she's disgusting for suggesting that he eats people's brains.
FuturePeter's presence also messed up Matt's timeline. Matt's suspicious of FPeter when he finds him trying to hide the gun he used to shoot Nathan, so FPeter blinks him to Africa, where he spends both episodes wandering around and hilariously reading turtles' minds. But then a cute magical African guy (a possible Hero) finds him, gives him water and tells him to follow him.
Nathan doesn't die. Well, he does, officially, but then he miraculously recovers. Just sits up on his gurney and takes a big breath. He's convinced it was God who saved him and he gets sort of preachy and I don't really like Nathan like that. The press picks up the story, and the Governor of NY notices. He needs to appoint a replacement U.S. Senator (the one they had died, I guess) and the Gov.'s aide suggests Nathan. The Gov.'s aide, by the way, is Nikki! Who died in the season finale! But wait, it's not Nikki, it's someone named Tracy Strauss who is identical to Nikki but who is a much better character. She's an ice queen, both literally and figuratively - her power is freezing people with her touch. Shout out to her first victim: William Katt, the Greatest American Hero!
So anyway, while in the hospital, Nathan has been seeing dead people. Well just one: Linderman, who advises Nathan to take the job. He does.
Meanwhile, Mohinder and Maya. Sigh. These two are so STUPID. I can barely watch them. I really cannot believe they have kept Maya around, I really can't. I didn't follow any of the supposed "science" that Mohinder was spouting, I have no idea what the hell he's supposed to be doing, all I know is he is the dumbest scientist in the world. He suddenly realizes that the powers are connected to the "flight or fight" response and the adrenal gland and with that discovery he concocts some sort of serum that he injects into himself. He was supposed to be finding a way to cure people of these powers but instead he does a 180 and makes a serum that will actually give powers to anyone who wants them. Maya is reasonably pissed about that, until she comes over to his place the next day and finds him acting out scenes from "The Fly". Almost verbatim. (Was that an homage, or a ripoff?) She likes the new Mohinder and they have hot insect sex. Then Mohinder starts to peel in the mirror, just like Jeff Goldblum.
I have to say that I also found Hiro and Ando's portion of the story to be really poorly written and in fact kind of boring. To sum up: Hiro is now head of his father's company, he disobeys his father and opens a safe containing a scrap of paper that has half of some formula on it. As soon as he removes the paper from the safe (if it's so dangerous, why keep it??), some girl who runs really fast steals it. Hiro and Ando are now chasing her around the world. Oh, and Hiro jumped to the (apocalyptic) future at one point and saw Ando kill him, so now he doesn't trust Ando. I don't like that - Hiro and Ando should always be best friends.
So Sylar's on the loose. He finds a file when he's at the Bennett house that contains info on the "villains" that are being held on Level 5 and decides he would like to take their powers. When he goes to Level 5, all hell breaks loose. And so do the prisoners: When Sylar attacks Elle (after killing her father Bob), she freaks and releases some kind of electrical pulse (very cool) that fries the security systems and the bad guys get out, including Jesse with PresentPeter inside. (the guy who plays Jesse also played Weevil on Veronica Mars and it was neat to see him yelling to Elle (Veronica), if only briefly). So now JessePeter is stuck with another group of bad guys. Hopefully none of them have bad Irish accents.
HRG also escaped and headed back home to California, where he told Claire that he had to leave again and hunt down the villains who escaped. He did get a babysitter for her, though: her firestarter mother.
One of the best parts of the show, as always, was Angela Petrelli, who spent almost all of the 2 episodes trying to convince her dim son to get the hell back to the future and stop messing with the timeline. She's also the head of The Company now that boring bureaucratic Bob is dead. Sylar was captured during the melee on Level 5, and Angela has taken a particular interest in him. Like, the kind of interest a mother takes in her son. Hey, she said it, not me!
To sum up: a few things I liked, and quite a few that I didn't. There was WAY too much going on. I hope they calm things down for the next episode.
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