Heroes Season 3: Dark or Bright Spot?

All that's really been revealed to us about NBC Heroes Season 3 are speculations, rumors, a glimpse at some camcorder previews from a film festival and the NBC site's online content. Fans can easily put all these pieces together and see that a season called "Villains" might offer us a really dark, gloomy verison of our favorite show.

The brightest spot for Season 3, is the return of the darkest character, Sylar. He regained his powers in our preview of Season 3, which was at the end of Season 2. This means Sylar will be on one hell of a spree. Don't forget he now will have the abilities of Candice, who once told Micah if he ran she would make him see things that he'd never recover from. With Sylar having that sort of power, you'd have to feel bad for the "good guys".

So now we will have Sylar able to turn himself into just about anyone. He can fool other characters if he chooses to, making them much easier prey. I won't spoil Season 3 by throwing out names of characters who looked dead in the preview, but it looks dangerous already. This also continues to add to the notion of the "Five Years Later" episode we saw in which Sylar was able to disguise himself as Nathan the president. It's still possible, although Sylar would need DL's power to phase which was shown there. In the episode he reached through a door, dragged Peter out, demonstrating the ability.

The emphasis for season 3 of Heroes is on the plural, Villains. So that means there are more to come. Takezo Kensei aka Adam Monroe has been alive for over 400 years, and is still going, even though he's buried in casket. Not dead is not dead, so don't expect him to stay underground.

That also leaves the door open for more villains, more powers and hopefully more climactic and dramatic showdowns and twists in what could be an exhiliarting Season 3. Heroes Season 3 is set to start again in the fall, so the wait will continue and the speculation grows..