Talk:Kate Austen

message: I don't think the way you referred to Kate releasing her dark side is an effective representation of what happened. She merely starts holding Claire's hand and stares at her affectionately. If the intent of what she was doing was just illuminating some bisexual carnal desire, please confirm with the developers. It may look like that, but without a source to say exactly, who knows?
- Also it doesn't add up that she suddenly gets attracted to Claire and then in the afterlife she's back with Jack as if nothing ever happened.
~~ P  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.181.91.55 (talk) 17:17, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Kate's last scene

message: Just excised this rather trivial speculative section:
She revealed in Walkabout that she is a vegetarian, so she presumably survives on the island by eating fruit, possibly from Sun's garden, or perhaps bananas and other fruits that grow naturally on the island (mentioned by Claire in the episode Raised By Another), although many of the trees on the Island have been "picked clean", so this is probably becoming more difficult.
—LeFlyman 05:40, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Speculation

message: Almost every show has a lust icon in it, from 7 of 9 in Star Trek through to .. well, you get the point.  I feel that this article should address the fact that she is a contemporary sex symbol as far as this series goes, she has quite a cult following of male fans out there from what I have heard, so it might definately be worth a mention.
::Done. OGRastamon (talk) 00:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, speaking of that, if anyone has any naked photos, my email address is ... Jachin 02:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Did anyone else catch Alex (Tania Raymonde) grab her breasts in the finale? Joffeloff 21:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kate: Sex Symbol?

message: More and more keeps getting added to this bio in particular--to my mind, these bios are not intended to contain everything that has ever happened to the character.  We're badly losing the forest for the trees here.  I'm going to pare out unnecessary detail, and leave the plot summaries to other pages.  Would welcome any thoughts before I start paring. --PKtm 01:38, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it seems like these things get on a roll, and if we can start stemming the tide early, it'll be easier than doing it all later.  I agree about the importance of the Season pages, of course, but I'll still probably start paring down the most egregious of the excessive bios...--PKtm 19:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More is not better

message: Why is Kate Austen linked from the "list of anarchists" page?
:A confusion with anarchist writer  Kate Cooper Austin perhaps? OGRastamon (talk) 02:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ummmmm....what? 

message: In The Other 48 Days Bernard is found in a tree, strapped in an airplane seat, so he is apparently not in the bathroom when the plane crashes. It is stated in Walkabout that Bernard was in the tail section when the plane crashed, but not for which reason. I don't have access to "Walkabout" so I cannot recall her exact wording. But these facts do not add up, unless they were separately seated. The only explanation I can think of is that Bernard grabbed an empty seat and strapped himself at the first sign of airplane malfunction - but empty seats on 'round-the-world flights are not that abundant, right? Also, from "The Other 48 Days" and later, Bernard does not appear such a resourceful person.
Is there some other information available in the series that explains this, then it should be cited. Until then, the bathroom story stays here:
Though the writers abandoned this idea for Kate's character, Rose, who Jack is sitting across the aisle from in the plane, is separated from her husband Bernard, who went to the bathroom when the plane crashed.
Arru 20:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bernard going to the bathroom 

message: Just curious what episode Kate wasn't in because according to the page she didn't appear in one.
*Abandoned and The Other 48 Days.  --154.20.217.225 05:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What episode was Kate not in? 

message: She was in a flashback.  Sergeant Major Sam Austen (her father) is holding a picture of her.  Check the trivia on its page.  --154.20.217.225 05:05, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  One of Them 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kateandhorse1.jpg

message: I just LOL'd after reading this. I guess we haven't seen her having any real jobs though. -Henry W. Schmitt 06:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Same here. - Mark Jensen (talk) 22:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Profession: Fugitive 

message: I don't know how old Kate is, but is Evangeline really supposed to portray someone who is 34 old? I would've believed 24.
* I remember Shannon saying "What are you, like two years older than me?" in Pilot: Part 2. Shannon is 20 (I think it's in "Confidence Man," when Hurley approaches when making his list of people on the island. She says she's 20 years old and lives on Crap Hole Island.)
* Also, the actor was 25 when the show aired the first time, and she's 28 now.
* I just went through some of the article history. Her age (in Season 1 section) changes from 24 to 27, and now 34 at the Before island section.
:* Age 27
:* Age 24
So, as I see it. There should be a source or the age should be removed.
- Mark Jensen (talk) 22:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: * And now, 8th of March, she's written as 29. This is a mess IMO. - Mark Jensen (talk) 12:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age 34? 

message: In All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues Kate makes a comment to Jack about her childhood.  She claimed that her dad had been stationed at Fort Lewis, WA, and that she used to go hiking together with him (hence the reason for her tracking skills).  This seems to contradict where, in this article, it says "Born and raised in Iowa".  Thoughts?  Shimawa zen (talk) 16:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fort Lewis, WA? 

message: In the section for Season 1, I discovered this curious and seemingly irrelevant line "She later informs Nikki and Paulo of its original whereabouts." As a Lost newbie, I looked up Nikki and Paulo and discovered that they are not introduced until season three, yet there is a season one reference. This line seems irrelevant and may possibly be out of sequence.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Radmod (talk • contribs) 03:28, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification Needed 

message: Done to prevent possible edit war.  As we saw in the episode "The Incident", Jacob visited 6 of the Oceanic 815 Survivor's going back as far as the 1970's to as recent as just a day before Aijiri Airways flight 315 left.  While I can't say we know exactly WHY Jacob visited them, or under the circumstances that he did, there must have been a reason for it, and it deserves to be noted that Kate was visited by Jacob, even when she was a young girl. Whippletheduck (talk) 03:34, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Like I said before, the reason why Jacob visited Locke is very important, but the ones of Sawyer and Kate aren't still important for them.Tintor2 (talk) 13:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I could not disagree more.  The fact he visited them is VERY important, albeit I admit I don't know why he visited them in the manner he did as opposed to Hurley.  There is obviously a reason for it, and it is better to keep it in the article (and remove it later if it turns out to be for no reason), but if you have watched the show, we know that NOTHING happens on this show for coincidence, and that there is definitely some reason for Jacob visiting them the way he did.  Whippletheduck (talk) 14:02, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe in the next season it is explained, but now it remains unimportant and pointless.Additionally, the plot section in this article is very long and adding this unexplained meeting would make it longer.Tintor2 (talk) 18:22, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If there was no point to it, it would not have mattered. When Richard visited John Locke when he was 5, did they explain things?  Not really.  Hell, when they revealed Jack and Kate had escaped the Island at the end of season 3, they did not say how, did they?  Season Finale's are often for cliffhangers (especially with this show).  So Kate's meeting with Jacob is noteworthy, as I am sure there is a point to it.  Of course, if I am wrong, and by the end of next season nothing is explained then by all means remove the reference.  Whippletheduck (talk) 21:50, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Kate's Visit from Jacob