I had no idea that there wouldn’t be a new episode of our Heroes at all during the month of December until the very end of the episode, with the voiceover promo! Because of this, I began to think of “The Fifth Stage” as a sort of finale. After all, it is the last episode of Heroes for four weeks, at least. In the same situation, most television programs try to put out something outrageous
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Like most Americans, people with special powers also celebrate Thanksgiving. Don’t worry, though, their Thanksgivings are just a dramatic and chaotic as us regular folks’. In the episode aptly titled “Thanksgiving”, we get to celebrate three different character’s Thanksgivings. Two of the three stories were pretty unexceptional, with only a couple of juicy bits, while the third had massive potential and some truly great moments. Unfortunately, it simply didn’t deliver well.
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.
‘Heroes’ makes great use of the old standby, ‘when in doubt, throw in some more lesbian scenes’. ‘Hysterical Blindness’ is proof that the more a series appeals to a large crowd, the more on track it is. Season 4 is much more on the mark than last season, and it has given us the best episode of the season so far! Everything from the perfect pacing and wonderful character development to the storytelling was incredible last Monday.
“Sometimes you have to remember who you were to figure out what you want to be.” These insightful words aided a couple of characters alter their concept of themselves, and recognize who it is they want to become. These exact same words are precisely the type of twaddle that have famously become so annoying in many episodes of Heroes. “Acceptance”, all in all, was yet another underwhelming episode that muddled us through an entire hour of crap before arriving to where we discovered what characters would end up doing what. 





