"Heroes" Chapter One 'The Second Coming' (2008)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Allan Arkush

Writers:

Tim Kring (creator)
Tim Kring (written by)

TV Series:

"Heroes" (2006)

Original Air Date:

22 September 2008 (Season 3, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

In order to change the course of history, Peter Petrelli travels back in time to the day his brother Nathan revealed the existence of the super-humans...

Plot Keywords:

Clip Show | Psychopath | Depression | Attempted Rape | Comic Book

Cast

Jack Coleman	...	Noah Bennet
Greg Grunberg	...	Matt Parkman
Ali Larter	...	Tracy Strauss
James Kyson Lee	...	Ando Masahashi
Masi Oka	...	Hiro Nakamura
Hayden Panettiere	...	Claire Bennet
Adrian Pasdar	...	Nathan Petrelli
Zachary Quinto	...	Sylar
Sendhil Ramamurthy	...	Mohinder Suresh
Dania Ramirez	...	Maya Herrera
Cristine Rose	...	Angela Petrelli
Milo Ventimiglia	...	Peter Petrelli
Bruce Boxleitner	...	Robert Malden
Ashley Crow	...	Sandra Bennet
Jimmy Jean-Louis	...	The Haitian (credit only)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Tailwind Productions

Trivia:

Mohinder's voice-over at the end of the episode is from the poem "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats.

Quotes:

Nathan Petrelli: I saw God today.

Propulsive and Engaging Once Again

Heroes: The Second Coming

I swear I never jumped on the bandwagon for season 2. Right from the first episode, I felt it was lame. No Tim Kring, the problem was not the pace or the romance, it was the laughable story. The stilted dialogue. The abundance of plot holes.

This was the best episode since "Company Man".

The season premiere just started explosively and never let up. No questions got answered, and a whole lot more were brought up, but what made this opening exciting was the shear unpredictable factor. It was just solid, surprising and engaging storytelling. It felt fresh and inspired, like the first season.

A phenomenal beginning, and definitely a return to form. 9/10

*Edit, 9/24/08 I gotta say, I watched this episode again, and found this time, there lots of nagging holes in the logic of it all. Like why Sylar couldn't get through a door with chains. Or why if Kaito Nakumura didn't want Hiro to get the file why did he leave the remote to open it on his desk and also make the password Hiro's fingerprint? Why couldn't future Peter just talk to Nathan? Why doesn't anyone who dies ever stay dead? Maybe even further down the road I'm gonna have more. And why must we always go to the future and see the world blowing up?

Generally speaking though, still overall satisfied.