Dragon Blogger Review of Heroes Season 4 Redemption – Episode 6
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: HeroesWarning, make sure you have watched the show before you read this review. This review includes opinions on what happened in the show and it is considered spoilers if you haven’t seen the episode. If you have watched the show already, or just want to read synopsis, then read away and leave me some feedback.
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Episode 6 Tabula Rasa was the highest rated episode so far of Season 4 according to TV.com with over 35 votes and an average rating of 9.5 out of 10. It is easy to see why, this episode and the season in general are about digging into the past of the characters and helping merge the past with the present. We see this with Noah seeking to help a teenager rediscover that he can not only kill, but still has the power to heal others like he did as a child. Hiro discovering he forgot about Charlie and needing to go back and save her three years prior, and even Sylar recovering memories of his past including the death of his mother and all of his murdered victims.
I thought the episode was pure entertainment from the moment Peter stopped time only to realize the shotgun had blasted through his body, pieces of his own flesh and shrapnel temporarily suspended spewing from his back to when Sylar tries not to kill the police officer and instead makes a choice not to become a killer like his past. The tension between Edgar and Sylar is palpable and the pissing match very early on as Edgar’s jealousy over Lydia’s interest in Sylar is sure to bring a showdown in the near future.
For each of the action sequences we have the magical moments of Hiro and Emma where he is like a comical Japanese Yoda trying to teach Emma to embrace her powers and not to be scared and deny them. The fact that Hiro whisks away to save Charlie just before Peter can arrive to heal him is classic of the “almost made it” scenes with which Heroes itself is famous for.
For Sylar to be baptized into the Carnival and still be a part Nathan but in Sylar’s body with Sylar’s memories leaves it all the more interesting as we know eventually there needs to be some reconciliation with Matt Parkman and Sylar. Truly a remarkable episode and I agree with the TV.com voting that it is the best one of Heroes Season 4 so far. One final note, it seems Noah is going to be more involved with the people he tagged years ago, but this time maybe to try and help them in their lives which could also make for some interesting stories and plotlines. Noah himself has grown into a much more noble and honorable character over the years and his decision to stay with the boy who can heal or kill was very altruistic.
For a final note, they acknowledged that Claire’s blood can still “heal” people (not Hiro because it would make the tumor grow), but they still don’t make sense why they didn’t use Claire’s blood to heal Nathan Petrelli, clearly she can bring people back from the dead as her blood did with Noah in Season 2, of course the show wouldn’t be as interesting with the Sylar, Nathan, Matt dynamic then.
That is my review of the latest Heroes Episode, Heroes fans or haters, what did you think of the Episode?
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October 20th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Great, succinct review. I like what the writers are doing with Sylar. I’m not so sure about what they have planned for Hiro though.
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October 20th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
this season is going so well, which makes me both elated and terrified. Elated because (obviously) the show has been so good, and terrified because I’m worried they’ll screw it up. Luckily I feel the only way to do that would be to throw in another couple “flash back” episodes. They are overused, and really there should be a better way to tell somebodies back story then to do an entire episode in flashback. I’m pretty sure season 3 had about 3 of those episodes and each time I wanted to claw my eyes out, although cold wars wasn’t too bad.
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