Tabula Rasa, by Bridgette

Shannon, my loathing of your ignorance is burning during this episode. Seriously, when she yells about just killing the air marshal so that he’ll stop screaming… wow. WOW.

Now that that’s out…here we go.

Kate. I love her. A lot of people don’t, but I really do. I can relate to her. I am a passionate loyalist to those I love and while I don’t ever condone murdering someone, it pains me to label her as “wrong” for what she did. I guess we don’t know that yet though. Obviously it wasn’t a good choice, but yeah…I’d definitely think about doing the same thing. This episode was kinda boring to me – her back story stuff is much less interesting to me than her on island time or even her future time. The court marshal revealing everything is cool, and as of so far on this episode we think Kate is bad – but we see that goodness when she tries to make sure that the farmer gets his money and she tries to help him as much as she can. Was it necessary for the farmer to have a fake arm? Yes. It was. : )



I love that Michael promises Walt that he’ll find Vincent (by the way, just to reiterate, I LOVE Vincent) when it stops raining, and then, of course, it stops. I’m really starting to think that someone has control of the weather on this island. I think my favorite storyline in this episode is Locke making the whistle throughout the whole thing, finding the damn dog so easily, and then giving it to the man who is accusing him of creepsterness so that he can become a hero to his son. I love that. Random acts of kindness are insanely important. (although this one maybe didn’t seem as random because there was so much involved.) What did Locke have to gain from doing this? Nothing really. I can imagine that being stuck on an island doing things like this would keep me alive. As I’ve said before, Hurley would be my best friend. I’d be right by his side building that golf course.

The Kate/Sawyer/Jack drama starts over the air marshal and whether or not he should be put out of his misery. I don’t know that I’d wanna be put out of my misery, so I don’t know that Sawyers choice was the best, haha, especially since he missed. I find their little love triangle to be really annoying later on so I was really bored by this part. I was probably interested more the first time. Maybe Sam and I were just gabbing, I dunno. Talking about Mickey Rourke or some noise.

So what did we learn? A lot about a lot of people. I forgot to write about the whole Sun and Jin stuff. There’s a lot I forgot to write about I guess. I think the most important part of this episode is that our characters are getting to know each other. Hurley and Sayid become friends. People are finding out what’s going on with Kate. Jin and Sun interact with the rest of the castaways a bit more. John Locke is a good man, not a pedophile. Charlie is adorable, and Shannon is a child.
A rather important moment to end on:

Jack says, "We all died three days ago. We deserve a clean slate." If you’re reading this blog, I’m assuming you know the ending.

Your thoughts?

Tabula Rasa by Sam

Our first Kate-centric episode. Of course it involves her ripping off the false arm of an Australian farmer. Why wouldn't it?

Plot-wise, we know the drill. Kate, a somewhat decent criminal, is watching the air marshal die. I liked this episode on first viewing. Second time? After the finale?

To paraphrase Jack:
"We all died three days ago. We deserve a clean slate."

Initially, I was convinced that season one was purgatory. After being told by all the Lost-sites/writers/etc that it was not purgatory...that little line, the fuckin' title of the episode? Post-finale I feel somewhat foolish for having believed that it was something past "Let's make an interesting little un-world where we can deal with our daddy-issues and move on!" It's a shame that it's shaping up to be exactly what the finale claimed. I'm considering it entirely possible that none of the island stuff ever happened. What a mess, if that's the case.

I'm a bitter-betty today. Better to take it out on Lost than on my unsuspecting husband, right?

The one moment in this episode that is sticking out in a positive way is the part where Kate asks Jack why he can't just let the cop die and he looks at her straight-up and says "Because I'm not a murderer." She doesn't correct him. He just says it and walks the hell away. Ballsy stuff.

Don't go thinking that I'm just hating on Lost for the sake of it. I love this show. I love Locke and Desmond and Eko and I love what so much of the story says about the human condition. But I'm still struggling with how reductive that ending was; I'm not swung by it yet. People finding peace? Yes, that's nice. But some of us liked the whole "keep evil at bay! save the world, save the cheerleader" thing. Reverting back to "it was always a character show" is a shiny version of "what we put our characters through was for their own good in the after life and that's about it."

Boo to that! I'm staying on the side where Sawyer really shot that cop (and fucking missed) instead of just creating a world where he could shoot one because he needed to ascend yea I'm already not interested. It's just plain cooler for this stuff to have really happened. I'll chin-up soon, I promise...