Tabula Rasa is a Kate centric episode and the back and forth between her backstory running the Marshal and the Marshal struggle to survive a shrapnel wound is the first time we see what the normal flow of a LOST episode would be.
These are selected snippets of the live-tweets and some follow on twe-hashs of the Tabula Rasa episode. Add more in the comments. (I'm pulling out hastags and the irritating v___ bot messages, content of tweets are unedited otherwise)
@justinkeyes: Tabula Rasa: Kate has the 1st pre-plane flashback, detailing her time meeting Ray in Australia as "Annie" and working his farm
@ASHATL: S01e03 1 so what happened with this interesting Kate? 2 Should we believe the marshall...she is bad?
@ASHATL: jack is + concerned w kate than french loop messg. 4 hurley: awesomness. These r my thought so far
@jstueve: Kate, "Put your gun back in your pants Sawyer"
@ASHATL: so WHY didn't the island cure the Marshall but did Naomi? Bad for bad...
@ccollinsmith: @jstueve (Tabula Rasa) Not merely Latin For blank slate but also foundation for epistemology of John Locke (philosopher). Nurture over nature.
@jstueve: Sayid, "Hope is a very dangerous thing to lose" (@ccollinsmith added: I caught that too. How prescient)
@ASHATL: I am not a murderer, Kate...hum ate these words back quckly ha Jack?
@ccollinsmith: Catching same things! RT @justinkeyes- Debut of "Freckles" nickname. 1st group decision to lie (re: Danielle's distress signal)
@jstueve: Lost Aussie boss had prosthetic arm. wasn't there an early theory about fake limbs and such?
@ASHATL: @jstueve Saywer and guns don't mix
@ccollinsmith: Anybody else totally lose it in Tabula Rasa final scene? After Sayid tossed Sawyer fruit, looking at all those faces. Wallop! (then she added: Irony is that scene used to make me cheerful. Feels very different now.) (later @justinkeyes added: Yep. Charlie: Dead. Michael: Dead. Claire: Missing. Locke: Dead.)
@ccollinsmith: LOL! RT @jstueve - imagine is Miles was on the flight... he'd have a time talking to all the dead people in the fuselage.
ccollinsmith: Notice it was the dude (ed. Sawyer) who "made a life" for himself in Dharmaville who was at first keenest on being "in the wild?"
@ccollinsmith: Notice how haunted Sawyer's face looks after he wounds the Marshall. Not quite the sociopath he (and we) thought he was. (@justinkeyes added: Yep. I think this was the first hint that Sawyer wasn't a bad guy. He really wanted to put him out of his misery.) (@MrGobert added: Yeah watchin Tabula Rasa I noticed just how much Sawyers character has evolved my wife noticed how cuter Jack wa)
@ASHATL: Did anyone hear the monster noise when th camera pans to Locke?? That's where it started my friends (@ccollinsmith added: Def heard something. Hint of monster. And that face!!! S1 Feature disc commented on face. Didn't mean anything then.)
@ccollinsmith: Notice Locke's face in closing half-circle shot. Like some implacable idol. Foreshadowing?
@ccollinsmith And his 1st being the marshall - RT @jstueve Jack, "I am not a murderer" how many people has Jack killed?
@jstueve "One bullet left, be damn near poetic" - Sawyer
@jstueve rofl @ccollinsmith rofl RT @ASHATL: So sawyer killed the bear so he could move into his cage later (ASHATL added: it took him 11 hrs to kill and 2 days to figure out how to get fish bskit..Sawyer: not the coldest beer in the fridge)
@jstueve: Jack certainly thought the worst of Kate, so much for tabula rasa.
@ASHATL When he finished all the cigs in the island// RT @jstueve when did Sawyer stop smoking? (another tweeter said: Sawyer never stopped smoking. -ed. I don't think she was referring to cigarettes though)
See wasn't that fun?
We'll see how this changes over time, I wanted to get some shout outs to the other re-watchers and a sense of how a live tweet flows. Its asynchronous, so I tried to bundle conversations together. There may be a better, different way to do these summaries.
Now its your turn, readers. If you were unable to watch it with the group, what things did you catch? What things can you add, agree with, disagree with? What made you laugh, tear up, yell with frustration? Lets hear from you.
Remember next live tweet is Tomorrow, Wednesday May 20th at 10PM CST(you'll have to adjust your timezone)
Its not too late to start. Because this next episode - Walkabout - is probably the best episode in season 1, and definately sets the stage for all that comes after it. Join us, or meet us in the comments.
