Heroes old and new will team up to save the cheerleader world.
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]eroes hasn’t been good since season 1. I think we can all agree on that. Season 3 was promising at first, but then Matt Parkman started following turtles around and it got weird. Seasons 2 and 4 were just bad. So there’s a lot of scepticism surrounding the show’s return, and the first full trailer for Reborn had a lot to do to get fans back on board.
The trailer kicks off five years after Claire Bennet jumped off that ferris wheel and exposed her abilities to the world in the only scene worth remembering from season 4. This move obviously didn’t go down as well as she’d hoped, because people with powers are now being hunted and killed every day. Good one, Claire.
Claire isn’t around anymore, which means she probably died. Seriously, what was she hoping would come out of that ferris wheel thing? Instead her father, Noah Bennet (or HRG), talks us through the trailer. Noah returns alongside Mohinder Suresh and Angel Petrelli, who, you’d imagine, will serve as ways of connecting the new characters to the old hands. Also back are Matt Parkman (you know, the guy with the turtle) and everybody’s favorite time-traveller, Hiro Nakamura, who’s pretty good with a sword by now. There’s also a surprise appearance from Micah Sanders, the kid whose parents just kept dying. He’s all grown up and presumably still talking to computers.
A lot of the old characters make only brief appearances in the trailer, while new characters Miko, Tommy and Carlos take center stage. Zachary Levi’s Luke Collins is introduced at some Superheroes Anonymous meeting, and later we see a shot of the same room, full of dead superheroes. Zachary Levi isn’t playing around, and while he and the government continue to hunt down the heroes, everyone is ignoring a giant red hole in the sky, which is growing. Fast.
The Heroes world is immense, one where no two scenes should be set in the same city, even country. Where there are bad guys, there is something apocalyptic brewing; a bigger picture. This is the formula that made season 1 so successful. The later seasons revolved too heavily around the Petrelli family, and the spontaneity of the show was gone. It might be too early to tell, but it looks like it’s back to basics in Reborn, and the trailer ticks all the right boxes. See the extended Heroes: Reborn trailer below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=181&v=4FLHB2zB_cA
Heroes: Reborn debuts on September 24th on NBC.
