I'm going to leave the boring preambles to Samuel this week. He's doing another voiceover and beating us over the head with the episode theme. Sylar can't remember who he is, so he's a broken vessel, a ghost, a blank slate. He has no compass to guide him. BUT Hiro does, because the body thrives when the heart has a mission blah blah Sambabble. Now we're in the hospital room with Hiro and Peter watching over him. The episode title is written on Hiro's blanket. FOREIGN EPISODE TITLE STOLEN FROM LOST ALERT!! "Tabula rasa" means "blank slate" in Latin and the phrase comes from psychology, if I remember right from when they used it on Lost. You can read more about it here.
Gotcha! You've just been herolled again! (I decided to change the name from Katt-rolling. Call it retroactive continuity, and if you don't know what that is, I have a massive Comic Book Lecture coming up on the subject one of these weeks.)
So if you paid attention to the comments from last week's recap, you know that's two titles in a row that come from the land of Freud. I heard next week's episode is titled Penis Envy. Hiro wakes up and Peter hands him his glasses. Peter says the doctors told Peter that Hiro is going to die of a brain tumor, which Hiro knows already.
I hope Hiro brought his Tamagotchi Industries checkbook. I saw Sicko, you know.
Peter, always the pal, offers to help Hiro die with dignity and grace. He has experience, you know. Thing is, Hiro is on a mission from God and can't just sit around and wait for death. In fact, maybe he's there to save Peter! But no one outsaves Peter Petrelli, and there are umpteen hundred ways to cheat death on this show, so he's going to do the saving, thanks. He grabs Hiro's power and prepares to teleport out of there.
Emma stops Peter on his way out, and asks him if he sent a cello to her apartment. I confess the cello confused me too. But the 10th Wonder guys figured it out. Early last episode, while the carnies were eating breakfast, you could see Edgar wheeling away a big box. Later, Emma comes home and sees the same box in her apartment. It even has the carnival logo on it. I didn't know the carnival had a logo, but whatever. So the cello came from Samuel. Mystery solved. If you caught that last episode, I will make you my official recap researcher.
Emma thinks something is wrong her Emma's power, and I assume she means how she broke her wall playing cello. Peter has no time to talk now, he has to go save his dying buddy, but hey! Hiro will talk anyone's head off about powers and destiny and waffles. So he sends her in to see Hiro and pops out of there. Peter hasn't used Hiro's power in like 2 years. He could end up anywhere. I don't think I'd just take off without a few practice runs.
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Lydia and T-Sam talk about what a letdown Sylar turned out to be. They bought into the supervillain-Sylar marketing, but ended up getting weenie good-guy Sylar instead. Caveat emptor, baby.
I went to the State Fair last week and our Ferris wheel is way better. Plus, chocolate-covered bacon. QED.
Samuel knocks on Sylar's trailer (good thing they had an extra one sitting around; maybe it was Joseph?) and Sylar is confused when T-Sam calls him Sylar. The cops said his name was Gabriel, but Sylar feels more like a Nathan. NOT what T-Sam wanted to hear. He takes Sylar on a tour of the carnival, Sam-babbling about how great his powers are and everyone there can do special stuff. One guy makes a cart full of stuffed animals disappear. Color me unimpressed. Chocolate-covered bacon still wins. Sylar startles when he shakes Lydia's hand. He remembers shaking a lot of hands. Like a politician, maybe. So he can't remember hot and cold, but he remembers what a politician is? Tabula rasa, my asa.
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Comments (8)
Yes, Samuel's accent seemed to come and go through the episode. This season reminds me so much of the show "Carnivale." Not that "Heroes" has ever ripped off any other show, movie or comic book. ;)
1 of 8 | Posted by rj472 | Posted on October 23, 2009 11:14 AM
Great recap as always.
2 of 8 | Posted by craigspr | Posted on October 23, 2009 4:22 PM
Great recap as usual.
It seems odd that Emma has apparently not researched synesthesia. You'd think most people, when they hear about a potential explanation for their weirdness, would go Google it right away. That's what I did when I learned about synesthesia.
Also, random observation: All the carnival people changed clothes several times, but Sylar didn't.
3 of 8 | Posted by Zeem | Posted on October 23, 2009 6:02 PM
I love how this show could give a rat's ass about blatently ripping off comic book storylines, Lost episode titles and HBO now-defunct shows. Although I wish they had thought to bring Clancy Brown on board if they were going to rip off Carnivale. How awesome would he be on this show?
Love your recap as always, Copyhacker. I crack up every week, and also love all the geeky references you manage to throw in as well. I'm such a sucker for geek talk. :D
SWAK, PottyMouth
4 of 8 | Posted by PottyMouth | Posted on October 25, 2009 12:28 PM
Wow, I must be getting lazy. I just realized I titled a House recap "Death Cat for Cranky" last season.
5 of 8 | Posted by Copyhacker | Posted on October 25, 2009 12:52 PM
Lol, Copyhacker. You should have just played it off that yuo were going along with the recycling program that the show is on!
6 of 8 | Posted by PottyMouth | Posted on October 26, 2009 7:06 AM
I get more an more underwhelmed by this . . . ugh! As if killing the one cop from the station would end the man-hunt, and what did they do with his family . . . Slyar, DENIAL is what it's called--oh, oo, that's not me, oo, oh . . . kah!
Anyway, why make sense . . . love the geeky references, Copyhacker, and more ELP I see . . . hee . . .
XOXOXOXO
7 of 8 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on October 26, 2009 8:19 PM
>FOREIGN EPISODE TITLE STOLEN FROM LOST ALERT!!
"Tabula Rasa" was the name of a Buffy episode too.....so this is not the first time it's been stolen. :)
8 of 8 | Posted by Wild Heart | Posted on October 29, 2009 2:54 PM