Heroes Season 3 Starts

The season premier of Heroes was almost entirely what I expected. It was very enjoyable. The thing that put it over the top for me was a two second cameo by Dave Anders, the guy who plays Adam Monroe, villain of season 2 and by far my favorite character. He has no lines and just sort of smirks during a dream sequence in which all the heroes are dead. This gives me great expectations, those basically being that Adam will have a part in this season in one way or another.

Adam was pretty much the only good part of season 2. He's essentially a fallen hero, originally seeking money and fame in feudal Japan as a mercenary. Upon discovering his power (not being able to die) and with the assistance of the time warped Hiro, he becomes a great legend, the name of which I am blanking on. His motivation, outside of the obvious fame and fortune, is to also win the heart of the Japanese princess (or something like that) Yaeko, whom Hiro has taken an eye for as well (admittedly, he tries to restrain himself.) While its not exactly a big focus, Adam really does love Yaeko quite a bit.

Together, Adam and Hiro start doing tasks that will make Adam a legend in the future. Everything looks good, until Yaeko fucks everything up. While Adam really hasn't done anything wrong other than maybe being white, Yaeko decides she isn't really feeling Adam and makes a move on Hiro. After Hiro saves her from an explosion, she starts making out with him. Adam, who was worried they were dead finds them, and promptly overreacts, betraying his allies and capturing Hiro and Yaeko. Everything leads up to a borderline suicidal Adam and a reasonably upset Hiro duking it out.



This is what the fight looked like:




Annoyingly, Hiro wins. He has an emotional, poorly written goodbye scene with Yaeko which was probably intended to be romantic but was just boring and made me even angrier that Adam hadn't beheaded Hiro. After this, he returns to the future, where Adam, still alive and looking good, promptly kills his father, George Takai. Vengeful and embittered by his lost love, Adam attempts to destroy humanity via a virus. Hiro stops him, and since he can't just decapitate him, buries him alive, where he will die then reanimate for all eternity. Apparently, ruining his never-ending life once was not enough for Hiro.

The thing that really peeves me about all this is that Adam really didn't seem that evil. The transformation was all very sudden and even in the present day, he seemed like a pretty nice guy, if you take out his justified anger at the human race. If Hiro just hadn't messed up so badly none of that stuff would have happened and yet Hiro is played off to be this amazing self sacrificing legend who gave up the love of his life out of nobility. Neither was in the right, but Hiro was treated way too well in this case whereas Adam got a shaft of epic proportion. I get why Adam is pissed. Hiro deserved some kind of retribution for his actions. Whether he meant to or not Hiro seduced Yaeko, technically another man's woman and then Adam is somehow played off as in the wrong just because he got mad about it? Bullshit.

I hope Adam gives Hiro his comeuppance.

I imagine it like this:

Hiro comes back from France to get batteries for his magical tracking device. When he enters his office, he hears grunting noises from his spiny chair. Hiro says "Who's there?"

The chair slowly spins to face him. Hiro's sister is completely naked and is riding the pantless Adam, who simply says "Hello Carp... Looks like we're even now".

He then explains that he punched through the coffin and dug his way to freedom, ala Kill Bill Part 2. He also decides to become a good guy and joins the Bennett/Sylar team of awesome and sexy.

Yep... That's what's gonna happen.


Ah, knowing my luck he'll be dug up and freed only to die in a humiliating fashion and I will once again have cursed a well written character by declaring him to be my favorite.