Depending on what coast you're on, there may just be a few short hours before Heroes' third season debuts. And since I know many of you are anxiously counting the time down, I asked KTV intern Marisa Roffman to drop some more pre-premiere scoop on you...

Executive Producer Jeph Loeb on the premise of the new volume: We’re going to get to see the other side of things -- The original premise of the show was, what if ordinary people suddenly got extraordinary powers -- Now it's all about what happens if those ordinary people happen to be bad guys. We live in a world where it's very difficult to understand which side you’re on, so it’s a good place to be [exploring]. Let’s just say that some choices are going to be made that aren’t in everyone’s best interest. By the end of premiere night, a lot of secrets will be revealed, a lot of characters will be put in situations we’ve never seen before, characters you love.

Angela Petrelli may be one of those characters. She is very much involved in the third season opener. Not only is she a prominent figure in one of the cliffhangers that will end the two-hour premiere, but we learn one of her powers tonight. Yes, you read that right. When I talked to her portrayer, Cristine Rose, she seemed to strongly hint that Angela may be harboring more than one power. But no one was more surprised than Cristine about her character having any abilities: "I assumed when I did the pilot that I had no powers.  But her power makes perfect sense -- even going back to the first episode -- if you look back, you’ll go, oh, of course!"

As for Angela's boys, we'll find the Petrelli brothers in interesting shape this year. "Peter’s not quite himself," Milo Ventimiglia admitted. How long should we expect him to stay in this strange state? "I don’t quite know," Milo told me. "I think it may go on for longer than people would like to see, but what we can take from it, is that Peter is influenced by the people around him, by the situations he finds himself in. It’s not without the people around him to know who Peter is. Peter is a direct result of everybody he comes in contact with. It’s fun to play a character that is brought to power and also brought down by everyone in his life."

Could one of those people be his big brother, Nathan? As I'm sure you've heard, the shots fired at him in last season’s finale were not enough to take the politician down, but post-shooting Nathan will be a changed man. He will turn to religion: "It's a kind of stutter-step, false start," Adrian Pasdar explained. "The belief in a higher power is what gets him to the stage where he realizes what really happened."

And Nathan will play a major part in the first half of this third year as unexpected alliances are formed. "There’s something that people are trying to put together," Cristine Rose explained. "And politics and imagination bring together some strange bedfellows. You never know who’s going to be changing, not only shapes, but sides. You never know how alliances are going to be formed. So when you meet up with one person and that might seem like a good fitting, you might find out they’re on a very different side..."

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I'm actually excited

JT | Sep 22, 2008 3:54:45 PM | #

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It was awesome!

Mandy | Sep 23, 2008 11:01:58 AM | #

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Yeah . . . no it wasn't. Deleted from my TiVo season pass.

Erika | Sep 23, 2008 1:45:45 PM | #

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The ratings were horrible I heard. Still haven't watched yet.

P | Sep 23, 2008 5:12:57 PM | #

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I loved the season premier.

John A | Sep 24, 2008 8:34:56 AM | #

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The writers switch things and people on a whim. Dr. Saresh was so principled and about doing the right thing. Then over night, because the writers wanted it, he is suddenly power hungry.

Another show that answerers questions with more questions...when they bother to answer any at all.

| Sep 25, 2008 5:11:20 PM | #

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