WARNING: This article relates to the second season of Heroes. Please avoid if you are currently watching the first season on BBC Two!
As the eagerly anticipated second season of Heroes creeps ever closer, Cult Spy takes a look at some questions thrown up over previous episodes that are still whirling around like one of Sylar’s mum’s snowglobes…
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Hiro
The most overt example of a narrative arc overlapping into the second season involves the plight of our over-enthusiastic pal Hiro. Having inadvertently teleported into 1671 Japan, the poor guy found himself trapped in a bit of a pickle involving some rather angry warriors. The solar eclipse may help him to sneak off to safety, but he’d better be prepared to use that Samurai sword again or work at his teleporting skills. Besides, he must miss the company of his beloved Ando!
Peter and Nathan?
At the end of the season finale Nathan unexpectedly turned good and flew his brother Peter high up into the night sky in order to avoid the nuclear explosion devastating the city. It would be easy to assume that the pair are currently in many little pieces scattered around the cosmos, but given their appeal and prominence as characters one can perhaps expect them to resurface at some stage… or maybe not?
The New Baddie
The introduction of Molly Walker, a Hero Tracking System within a poorly little girl, has set up the tantalising prospect of a baddie that makes Sylar look like a herbivore pacifist. For Molly revealed that out in the great wide world lurks one person who she dare not even think of. For such is his power, he can enter her thoughts and do bad things simply by being thought about.
Sylar
The old film and television cliché goes that the brave protagonists rarely finish off the villain of the piece properly, thus allowing said bad dude to creep off for more future misdeeds. One quick thrust of a Samurai sword into his chest didn’t prove to be enough to kill off the dreaded Sylar, for we witnessed at the end of the finale a trail of blood from where his body lay leading towards the sewers…
Happy Families?
We tracked the ongoing fractious relationship between Matt Parkman and his adulterous missus, but now the couple have a baby in sight does this mean an end to their squabbling? Furthermore, Matt now has a big financial burden on his shoulders given that he’s suspended from his cop job. That’s all assuming he recovered from being shot though…
Cheerleader Claire now knows Nathan is her real father and has reconciled with adoptive parent Noah Bennet. (Yes, that’s Noah, not Mister anymore!) What we’ve yet to learn is how this will all pan out in terms of Claire’s future family life.
As for the ongoing Jessica-Niki scenario, let’s hope poor Micah has his real mother back on full-time duty. Jessica was often the bad girl of the first season, almost throwing Matt to his death, but came up trumps for the forces of goodness towards the end of the season as some sweet revenge on Mr Linderman loomed large. How long before Jessica gets a bit tetchy again though?
