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Head for the hills, everyone! The infuriating, obviously foreign voiceover is back! Mohinder must have been relieved that this time the voice was overriding Samuel Sullivan. This was a gut wrenching omen to me, but I was pleasantly surprised when ‘Tabula Rasa’ managed to not drop into my instantly lowered expectations. If you ignored the sudden and bitter reminder of crappier seasons, you were actually left with an episode that furthered the story with stable and thoughtful character progress. Though it didn’t hold a candle to last week’s intense episode, Monday’s Heroes continued to keep things positive.

You might not be all that surprised to find out that the title is actually Latin for “blank slate.” This not only directly references Sylar’s present condition; it could also easily be linked with many other characters in this particular episode. It seemed that the theme for this episode was people dealing with the new situations that they were in, and looking for a way to start over. As the name certainly suggests, a blank slate. One of the characters experiencing this ‘starting over’ was Emma, the sound-seer. Much like with all the other characters that discovered their power, she was hoping to find a way to stop it. But after conversing with Hiro for a while, she was more than ready to accept her ability, and even embrace it. Needless to say, this was the least interesting storyline of the night. I will say, though, that it was really nice to see Hiro playing the part of a thoughtful adult, even though he still retained his childlike happiness.

This episode also allowed Noah Bennet to start afresh. It allowed him to redeem some of his past misdoings. It all started with Peter using Hiro’s teleport abilities to get to Bennet, in order to use his vast resources to locate a healer that just might be able to save our beloved Hiro. (I really enjoyed their explanation about Claire’s blood; that by using it, the regeneration ability in it would only force the tumor to gain girth even more quickly). Once Peter and Noah banded together, they made their way to the location of the healer Bennet rounded up and mind-erased many years earlier. Rather than help the young boy, The Company and Bennet simply abandoned him. This left the boy’s power to grow and turn into one that could not simply heal, but kill as well. With the dead plants and grass, birds, and even parents, it was easy to see what it was the boy’s life had turned into. This was possibly Noah’s only chance to at last help the person he had so let down many years ago. After Peter gets shot by the boy, Noah was able to talk him into then healing the dying Petrelli brother. Thankfully it worked. As a result, Peter was able to head back to Hiro, healing ability and all.

For the moment, the true focus of the episode was on Samuel’s exploitation of Sylar, the amnesic. There were quite a few intriguing moments in this storyline, one of which being Sylar’s choice to be referred to as Nathan. Later, with Nathan’s memories returning, Sylar actually temporarily turned into the older Petrelli brother. But Samuel wasn’t going to stop with that. He wanted the real Sylar to come out and play. He started by welcoming Sylar into his rather dark carnival, showing him that everyone in this place was exactly like him. That was pretty cool because it really gave us a deeper look into the still very mysterious environment.

Later still, one of the members of Samuel’s supposed family used their ability to rebirth Sylar’s true memories. At the beginning, it seemed as though it was going to be yet another retelling of the stories we’ve already seen and heard before, dealing with Sylar’s mother. But then the onslaught of sliced foreheads started, and it forced you to remember what an evil dude Sylar really is. Sylar wasn’t totally committed to these new memories, however, and prevented himself from turning Ernie the Cop into Ernie the Corpse. Edgar finished up the job in stead. Even so, Sylar was perfectly content to stay in the perceived safety of the rather strange carnival, and with a bizarre baptism, he was welcomed with open arms into the Sullivan family.

All in all, ‘Tabula Rasa’ was a pretty nice episode (Imagine that, the one episode with little to do with lesbians is actually a great episode)! It really did a wonderful job of giving us all a much better understanding of many of the characters. I thought it was a pretty logical telling, and that it worked really well with things we learned previously, rather than going against it. I really want to know what happens next. I loved Samuel’s little line about making Sylar a better version of himself. I’m ecstatic that the writers have brought Hiro back into Charlie’s life. Jeez, I’m really starting to fall in love with Heroes again!

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