Heroes: Tabula Rasa Review

This is our first joint review.  Razz's part will be in his red, mine in blue.  Let's get started shall we?

Heroes came back with Tabula Rasa on Monday, pretty good especially the Sylar/Gabriel scenes. Rather than going through scene by scene I would rather go through it by characters since Heroes is a very character centric show.



Hiro awakens to find Peter has taken him to the hospital. Peter believes Hiro came to him in order to be saved. so peter goes off for help after taking Hiro's ability. This was also the first time in a while we actually saw peter taking someone's ability, which I've kinda missed because it is a cool effect. However Hiro does take it apon himself to help guide Emma and show her that her ability is not a curse but a gift. He also realizes that he forgot one of the most important people in his life, Charlie. After he makes Emma realize her potential for her ability he has one of his "spaz out teleports" and goes out to the Burnt Toast Diner 3 years ago to be with Charlie.


Peter leaves Hiro and meets Noah to try to find someone to help heal Hiro. They find a boy named Jeremy who has a healing touch in Georgia. They go to a house filled with death and realize that Jeremy's ability has changed to control the flow of life. When Noah tries to confront him jeremy shoots but Peter teleports in front of the blast and Noah helps to coach him to control his ability to heal peter. Peter takes his ability and goes back to NY to save Hiro. Noah chooses to stay with the boy and to actually start helping people with abilities like he promised Claire.


Sylar is at the Carnival and having mixes of personalities of himself and Nathan and to prevent this from going down the wrong path Samuel sends him off to the "house of mirrors guy" who unleashes the memories of Sylar's murders. this makes Sylar sick at himself and disgusted.


This was a good episode and showed the personalities of the characters shining through and really gave insight to Sylar,perhaps he is a good person deep down inside. Now he is truly trying not to kill and keep himself pure.

For me, I also enjoyed the episode.  The one thing that got me was seeing Mark L. Young as the "Healer".  If you don't know, he also played the character Randy in a movie called Sex Drive.  If you haven't seen that I recommend you do.  Throughtout all his scenes (especially his with Noah) I kept riffing and making jokes like "Do you have a phone number?" and other quotes of his from the movie.  But I digress, it was good to see him doing something other than asking if a girl is wearing thong underpants.

One of my favorite scenes on tonight's episode was with Hiro and Emma.  Emman just wants the power turned off, but Hiro tells her that there's more to having an ability.  He shows her this by stopping time while a group of children are clapping.  She is then free to play around with the light coming from their hands.  Was it just me or did all that clapping look like the load screen for a computer with Windows Vista on it?  Maybe just me.  Also, when she plays with the one cloud of...sound...I guess...shouldn't that distort the sound when Hiro starts things back up?  I found it funny thinking one kid is clapping but it sounds more like a duck being squashed.  Maybe that's just me again.

Overall, I agree with what Razz has put.  Unlike me he actually reviewed the episode, but I feel like did something.  Overall, good episode and I can't wait to see what's going to happen to Hiro in the past with Charlie (again) and Noah trying to right some wrongs of the past.

Later, and til next time,
Mike & Razz