…no news is good news…

Decided not to do a second podcast this week as, wonderfully, other podcasters have pretty much covered my thoughts on What Kate Does and I have nothing of great entertainment to add – plus I’m spending most of the day waiting for the phone to ring (terribly dull) and can only guarantee that it would do so halfway through my podcast! Perhaps this is an altogether new kind of podcast I could come to XD

To round up a couple of points, though, which I may well mention in the next reaction podcast, depending on how exciting or not that episode is – I definitely enjoyed this episode, I find the reaction against it rather bemusing, and am glad to hear many people, on second and third watchings, came to enjoy it, or at least to get more out of it than expected.

I also didn’t pick up on the Doctor Goodspeed thing, and am torn as to whether that would always have been his name, but he would tell others who might know about DHARMA that his name was something else, or whether it signifies that whatever happened on the island is over, done with, and that to be associated with the place is no bad thing in this new world.

Also, also, the baseball Mr Temple Master had – goes with the glove that Richard took to young!Locke, no? When he asked which things belonged to him? Also, definitely agree with the comment on one of the podcasts I heard, which said that the sand in a bottle was the same as the sand in the hourglass – absolutely definitely was. Curious times, perhaps? Maybe the whole show is the aftermath of a really unfortunate baseball dispute XD

We were rewatching the Season 5 opener with Darlton commentary the other day, and I remembered them saying there how S5 was intended to be a bit of a break for Jack, because of ‘what was coming for our hero’, or something along those lines, and I thought, yes, well, the first time I heard that, I didn’t imagine I could have such a reaction to Jack as I did in this episode, which was, YAY JACK. Not since the ‘Sawyer needs glasses’ scene, I think, have I thought YAY JACK. Goodness.

~ What Katy Said – Episode the Eleventh ~

An unexpected necessity! So much to say about LA X and the ensuing discussion, I find myself chatting endlessly on the many wonderous and fascinating things I have been asked to! Thus, within:

– “alternative” timelines?

– John Locke: is dead, dead?

– The Official LOST podcast

– Should we be worried?

– Sun & Jin – the adventure of the missing wedding rings

– Greater Forces Are At Work Here

– What IS going on with Sayid?

– Disappointed in who, why?!

Download! What Katy Said – Episode the Eleventh

Many thanks to all those who tweeted and emailed and so on – your contributions and considerations are a joy to me, keep them coming =)

Let the ace times roll!

~ What Katy Said – LOST podcast – Episode the Fifth ~

A new podcast! A new podcast!

Download! What Katy Said – Episode the Fifth!

This week’s edition:

– Desmond and Penny – The Perfect Couple? Why? How? Really?

– LOST and The Prisoner – similarities, influences, thematic complexity and how to end a cult TV show – inspired by five days of contemplation in Portmeirion (photo blog post forthcoming, too)

– Brief paragraphs on LOST’s lack of mundane dialogue

Many many thanks to those who’ve contributed this week and to everyone who emailed/tweeted me with the love and encouragement – I can’t tell you how silly and happy these things make me, feel free to contact me any time (no Season 6 spoilers please!) – details all in the Contact Me link in the sidebar.

The paintings…

If less than 200 paintings are truly available through the ‘websites’, with each being a limited edition of 300, then where will the others go? I like the idea that some form of ‘reward’ for following everything that’s going on would involve this, or perhaps there’ll be a further event, somewhere, somehow, enabling.

Is anyone planning to buy any of these, were they to become available any time soon?

If this were to be a way of getting people excited about the potential opening of a shopping cart enabling us to buy LOST-related paintings, I would genuinely have to laugh…

Also (note to self, really, I’m sure this is the kind of thing all people know!) ‘Actually, it’s ketchup’ is what Hurley says to Ana Lucia in S5Ep02, The Lie, when he appears to be covered in blood, but, in fact, isn’t.

Wondering what other characters’ websites would be named. http://www.donttellmewhaticantdo.com ? (Locke, obvs) or http://www.imcomingtoo.com ? (Kate) http://www.ithinkiknowhowtofixit.com (Sayid) http://www.catchafallingstarandputitinyourpocket.com (Claire), http://www.livetogetherdiealone.com …you get the idea XD Any ideas anyone?

ETA: There’s another ‘typo’ in the blurb for the Hurley pic – another weird spacing. So, from the first entry at the Hub, there’s “s taying”, “a s”, and from this one “shippi ng” (which, if you put some letters together in a not-altogether-arbitrary fashion, gives you ‘sang’)…and then there’s also “o f”. Accident? Deliberate? Who knows?! ETA again: The text seems to have been altered since the painting was made available to buy, with additional spacing for “ot her” and there’s a ‘t’ missing from “there”.

I can think of no other time I have been so daft about potential typos *facepalm*

ETA2: I hope that incorrect possessive apostrophe is also some kind of deliberate clue…misplaced apostrophes make me angry…

ETA3: Pictures from last night at The Hub. Looks like fun, and still like bizarre fun at that! Love the DHARMA jumpsuit and the hatch – of all the things to put there, why the hatch? Did anyone get a look down inside?!

Also, two misplaced apostrophes. Hmmm =P

The Hurley painting is now showing up as available to buy, which is rather nifty. If I had the money, I’d be very, very tempted…