It seemed so obvious in the two-hour premiere this season, that some of our heroes had become evil, while others remained good.

What was not so apparent, in retrospect, was exactly which ones are the evil ones and which are good.

Even after watching last night’s mind-twisting hour (complete with nuclear explosion, what, just halfway through???), that remains up for grabs, but I’m starting to think the obvious wasn’t so…

What? I didn’t do a spoiler alert? C’mon. It’s the day after the show, I really didn’t think I needed to … Fine. If you didn’t watch, don’t read. There. Happy now?

Thanks. I can get on with things now.

First, I want to apologize. Last week, I said Hiro & Ando were trapped on Level 5. I was incorrect, I noted last night: They are on Level 2. The primary differences appear to be that Level 5 has no air ducts, individual cells and big glass windows so Mama Petrelli and HRG can watch the mutants. On Level 2? Air ducts in the cells with covers that can be pulled out if you catch a belt buckle in them just right, very small windows on the doors and room for two per cell. (Maybe more.)

OK, since I started with the dynamic duo, I’ll take care of their storyline quickly: I’m annoyed at Hiro for not recognizing the fact that the more he pushes Ando away and doesn’t trust him, the more likely it is that Ando will actually turn into the person who murders Hiro. I mean, duh.

But even so, it was cute to see the two of them working together again, even for something as stupid as the airduct (which I’m not altogether sure that Hiro would have fit into). It was interesting for Mama Petrelli to be telling Hiro the high hopes his father had for him and that he could still save the day. If that formula is put together, the bad future we saw with all the flying people is going to happen.

And, see, that’s why Future Peter sounded so rational. He is right. They can’t allow the formula to get out there and be sold to the highest bidder. Human nature is such that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Not everyone, but enough to make things suck.

But this is the question: Is future Peter on the up and up?

Claire sure seemed to be the bad one, but is she? She’s trying to prevent the formula from being put together. She wants to stop Peter from gaining Sylar’s power, because with all his other powers, he would become truly unstoppable — plus, as we learned last night, Sylar’s power comes with a hunger. Even if you want to be good, it can be hard.

So riddle me this, Batman: Who’s the mother of Sylar’s son? (Did you notice he was named Noah, and HRG was nowhere to be seen in the bad future?) How did Sylar come to be living in Claire’s house? Her accusation that Peter had taken away everything from her – does that mean Future Peter killed HRG somehow?

So who truly is evil? Sylar only goes nuclear because his son is killed. Who among us with children can’t relate? Future Peter seems to be trying to change the past so not everyone can have a power – for a price – but is he being honest with Present Peter? Claire seems to be trying to kill Peter – Future and Present – to prevent them from … something that we’re not quite clear on yet. Might it be for noble reasons? Parkman seems to think that Peter’s a monster. What has he done?

And is Future Nathan (President? ugh) dead? Did Present Peter kill him or just badly injure him? That was unclear, but there was an awful lot of blood. (By the way, was the Present Nathan/Tracey scene where he goes all Superman on her and flies her to his apartment just too cute for words? Yeah, it made me a little queasy, too.)

And, finally, what is up with Mohinder? Obviously, he got the formula wrong, somehow. It’s not only given him super strength, stamina, etc., but also made him a super-jerk. (OK, some might argue that had happened already.) Seriously. He’s a total jerk. And now he looks like a science project. Did you catch his hand in the Future? It looked all reptilian. What, exactly, did he do to himself? And can Peter save him, somehow, with the formula from the past/present/future?

And who, exactly, is trying to get the formula?

Phew. I guess the only thing I didn’t address was Tracey’s conversation with Dr. Zimmerman. He was working for someone — some company? — that wanted to create these folks with superpowers. So do the lines break down between those who were made and those who were born? Was the company the company that Mama Petrelli works for?

Oh, and … Adam’s back!!!!!!!

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