Talking and Not Talking

…I know, I know, I missed the day itself. But, alas, being on time is not one of my better attributes.

I have wanted to podcast on LOST for months now, I keep popping up on Twitter and saying I’m going to do it, and then…not.

There are a few reasons. I suppose the main one is that I don’t want to say goodbye, and that that’s what it feels like I’d be doing.

I’ve been rewatching the first season, like so many others. It’s strange, it feels like a whole other show now, whilst, simultaneously, being just the show it always was. I can’t explain that much more except to say that it feels like both more than I assumed it would be, and less, smaller, than it might have been. I could explain in a few ways why that’s such a positive thing for me, but perhaps I should save that for the podcast; it could get rambly.

I also find it odd, with the hindsight its having ended brings, seeing how it might have gone, had the show been cancelled, say after season one or two. I really find that the most interesting thought of all. How would they have wrapped it up, in an emergency?

Another thing is that, well, I miss everyone. I miss everyone very much, talking so often, via the magic of the internet, with various amongst you, and tweeting day and night to you all. I miss that, and I fear that I’ve been so absent for so long, I might be rather redundant now!

I hear that there’s a new layer coming to LOST now, catching it in repeats, mainlining the box sets. This makes me super happy to hear, because, if anything, I think our show deserves a longevity like that. I hope the newer fans are finding the podcasts, enjoying the fact that this show has a vast online archive of everything everyone ever said and thought whilst it was on. I hope there are new podcasts still to be made, and new sites, and new retrospectives, if that isn’t too contradictory.

I bought that ‘LOST Humanity’ book, by Pearson Moore (seriously, it costs very little on Kindle, go, check it out!) and I hear there’s going to be a new Blackwell Popular Culture book on the show. There’ll always be things to say about LOST, I think, I hope. I don’t ever want to be too far away from them.

In the meantime, I have a new blog. It’s very new, but, it’s something I’ve wanted to get started for a long time, and, in a sense, that ‘wanted to get started for a long time’ is all part of the point! What is it they say, the more you do, the more you get done? Maybe it won’t be so long until I hit record again! But in the meantime, please come find me at – I want to get the plates spinning!

~ What Katy Said – Episode the Twenty-Seventh ~

It seems that, once more, I am out of step with the world, with, wait for it, some rants about bits of What They Died For! Yes, that’s right, a touch of negativity crept into this week’s podcast, and you can hear it, along with my ensuing tussles of conscience and context, by downloading thus:

Download! What Katy Said – Episode 27

Things I forgot to mention this week include Josh Holloway’s lovely little moment, where Sawyer ponders his own responsibility for the deaths, Jack’s apparently all-consuming awesome, and the bloody mark on his neck.

In all, a little time, a little relief that pretty much everyone seemed happier with it than I initially was, and the finality of it all, drives me to be more content than I was a few hours ago when I finished this, but, nonetheless, I’m glad I record these before seeing how the tide is flowing! It’s a fascinating experience, sadly, shortly to end.

I also managed to catch the end of Matt/Donald/Heath (in absentia)/Len’s reaction podcast, which surely will be around on Talkshoe/the LPN shortly, and many thanks to them for having me, and also to them for doing such a great, thorough reaction podcast throughout the season.

I can’t believe we’re almost there…

~ What Katy Said – Episode the Twenty-Fourth ~

Goodness me, what a grey day it is in my brain! I try and work my way through a few of the torments and traumas of LOST-fandom in its final throes, eventually ending up the the usual goo of adoration for all and nervousness the nearness of The End.

Contemplating the hard times and the emotion or lack thereof, you too could listen to me panic all over 49 minutes of your life that you’ll never get back! Come, share my tiny crisis and hopes that everyone will be gloriously happy with their final episodes, however they may be!

Download! What Katy Said – Episode 24

Normal service, hopefully lighter and brighter and more interesting, will resume later in the week =)

~ What Katy Said – Episode the Twenty-Third ~

Yeah, so…yeah. That’s kind of how I feel, post-The Last Recruit. An enjoyable watching experience, and now I’ve got a headache and am not exactly sure as to what to say about it!

Much to discuss in the coming fortnight, I feel, so…let me know what you thought, and then perhaps I can better work out my own feelings!

In the meantime, hear my instant reaction at:
Download! What Katy Said – Episode 23

It’s but 29 minutes of your Earth time, and felt like a lot longer to me as I was endeavouring to make sense of it all XD

P.S. – the weekly corrections! Yes, ’tis true, and I am most thankful to those of you who’ve pointed out – MiB isn’t tied in Locke until after Jacob’s death thus could easily have appeared to Sun and Lapedis thus, and, further, isn’t on the boat at the same time as appearing to them nor constrained by water before! Nonetheless, I hope there’ll be a little more to come? A little? Still confused about some of the cabin stuff…

~ What Katy Said – Episode the Twenty-Second ~

45 minutes of pondering Everybody Loves Hugo awaits within!

Download! What Katy Said – Episode 22

Much thinking about Ilana’s book and its potential pertinence, the well, Desmond’s place in the flash sideways, the ending of the show, the craziness of John Locke, what it means to talk about the island as a home for lost souls…not much more, and, already, I know I meant to talk about several things that I didn’t! I didn’t, but meant to, mention the child Locke sees, yet again…I still wonder if he’s Jacob, or a young Desmond, or a young Christian Shepherd, or a young Man in Black himself, or if he’s a child, sacrificed in the name of the island…I hope to enjoy that conversation again, even if we can’t necessarily take it much further! Also, why is it that Hugo gets a paleontology wing, eh?!

As always, I can’t wait to hear everyone else’s thoughts on this episode, and, I hope, to discourse upon them with anyone else willing to do so! Feel free to, as always, contact me with anything on your mind re. my thoughts, or your own, and, I hope, I’ll have a chance to chat more about this all before the next episode airs.

~ What Katy Said – Episode the Seventeenth ~

So! After Season Six, Episode 8, I was left with what can only be described as a touch of indigestion…a newish experience for me with LOST, and my attempts to reconcile this with my overbearing optimism for the intentions of the show may be found within this episode!

Download! What Katy Said – Episode the Seventeenth

As always, do feel free to send me your thoughts and theories at the addresses mentioned in the podcast, or via the links in the Contact Me! page on the sidebar. I very much intend to do a feedback podcast edition of What Katy Said after Episode 9, which is, obvs, next week, so do get your comments to me!

~ 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 – Episode the Ninth ~

With great apology for any technical sounds here – occasional silences, thumps of my flailing around overexcitably, and the fact that I might have made a bloody great mess of this when Audacity crashed just as I finished recording, and I was forced to find out how to try to put files together. If it starts in the middle and finishes at the beginning (I jest – it oughtn’t to – I checked!) can we just consider it somehow fitting?

Also, I find listening to myself so bemusing. My accent doesn’t know whether to do pub or telephone…

Anyway! In today’s pre-Season 6 excitement, I spend half an hour talking:

– Season 6 predictions

– Do I think anyone will die?

– Reflections on moments from Follow The Leader and The Incident; how my first main theory found its mirror image

– general flaily joy

– Season 2 bullet points

And that’s about that!

Download! What Katy Said – Episode the Ninth!

Again, I apologise for any fail sound here, and I hope it’s listenable and not too much overexcitement. Much love to all for your support for this podcast, and I will see you all again after S06ep01 of LOST !

…countdown…

Still spoiler-free, still working damn hard on staying that way, kthx!

This evening, we are watching the episode ‘?’, which is instantly poking at earlier curiosities I had, in the journey through all five seasons, come to forget. I’m hoping to podcast this weekend and talk a little about all the things that have come to mind that I haven’t remembered to put elsewhere, and to make a few more predictions for S6.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for the release of anything, bar the Lord of the Rings films. Just. Can’t. Wait!

~ What Katy Said – Episode the Eighth ~

Aaaand, with a little help from many people and a lot of coffee, I have just finished another podcast! A little excitable, I fear, not aided by messy notes, but I hope not too off-putting.

Download! What Katy Said – Episode the Eighth

Contained within!

– Bullet Points: The LOST Disney ‘ride’ petition, Season 5 rewatch, Damon and Carlton interview

– LOST guest stars – those we’ve enjoyed, those we’d like to see

– LOST as ‘grand fiction’ – why LOST doesn’t fit the mould of epic storytelling, and yet captures many of us in a similar fashion. Disparate fandom and why I find this curious

– LOST – Season 6 – What If I Don’t Like The Ending?!

and a note on my forthcoming plans. With many thanks to all those who contributed, apologies to those I didn’t, and a request for any more such contributions (but NO spoilers plskthx) to the usual addresses, all available in the Contact Me section!