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Heroes is back next week, but it hasn't been on since before Christmas. After all that time of no Heroes, and the fact that season two was a bit rubbish, has let if fallen off my radar somewhat and I know it's fall off the radar of others. However, I've been reading io9.com's morning spoiler reports regularly for months now and seem to have acquired a vague idea of what's going on. So to refresh everyone's excitement for the show (read: trying to make it so I'm not the only person still watching it) I bring you:

Heroes Season Three Spoilers: The Good, the Bad and the WTF?

(Spoilers, obviously. Also, I may be wrong as to some spoiler (but I don't think so) and as to what turns out to be a good storyline and what turns out to be a bad storyline - I am after all, pre-judging based on little fact)

The Good

Nathan lives!

Evil escaped supers from the Company cause havoc (and hopefully many fight scenes)

Bennet's back working for the Company, hunting down escaped evil supers. And he's got a new partner…

…Sylar (this cannot end well)

Christine Rose has been bumped up to being a regular, which hopefully means lots and lots of Mama Petrelli being morally ambiguous, if not all-out evil (I think she takes over the running of the Company and spends her time giving Bennet and Sylar orders)

Claire's got two mommies. Meredith's back and creates a rift between Claire and Sandra.

Claire learns to fight and turns vigilante

West is gone.

Elle's back (there was some worry Kristen Bell would be too busy) and she's apparently got a lot of scenes with Bennet (those two had a really great dynamic).

Apparently, most of Peter's scenes are with Nathan

And most of Hiro's scenes are with Ando

The Tim Sale paintings, they are still there (I love those paintings)

The Bad

Niki doesn't live (they finally make her awesome, only to kill her off?)

Maya's not only still a regular character…

…but also Mohinder/Maya is a go

Monica and Micah are being written out

Nathan finds religion. And there's a whole bunch of stuff about him an Linderman (who is alive, btw) which harps back to the late season one Nathan who I did not like.

Matt's trapped in a desert somewhere with an Aboriginal spirit guide (as if he wasn't boring enough, and that second part's bound to be so Hollywood it makes me uncomfortable)