Well, with the lack of podcast last week, I decided to download a bunch of other Lost podcasts. . just to fill the void. Good idea, right?
Noo!
Lostcasts is so much more in depth and I actually walk away with a few new ideas instead of just a recap of the show. I watched the show myself. . I don't need anyone to tell me what happened!
Big thanks to you guys for all the research you put into the podcast.
I must have listened to 5 or 6 other podcasts and not one of them was anywhere near is interesting, informative, or organized as Lostcast!
I agree and even though I don't like the idea of bashing the other people who do podcasts and charge me NOTHING to listen to them, but Lostcasts is the only one I find tolerable. Here are the reasons I think Lostcasts is good.
1. Understand their audience: They realize that people are listening because the show(Lost) is interesting. Lostcasts crew simply has a conversation about the show as and lets you sit in on it. Very few attempts at forced humor and no unnecessary personal anecdotes.
2. Organized but loose format: A lot of the credit here goes to Keehler. He keeps the show moving along but does not dismiss or overlook an "interesting" aspect of each episode. He makes Matt and Brian's job easy in my opinion.
3. Prepared:Always cover the obvious and bring something you might have missed into the equation as consistently. Also they have quality lostlinks and spoilers for people who are into those angles. _________________ Jackie
Oh, I wouldn't bash the others either!! I'll keep listening to the other ones too, just to take up the week! I get that they are doing it in on their own time and for free.
I just didn't know how informative Lostcasts was, until I listened to the other ones!
Most other Lost podcasts are recap shows with a little bit of theory.
I have listened to some of them and they're ok.
But Lostcasts, for me, is the best and look forward to it each week.
With other Lost podcasts I download, listen then delete them.
But I have ALL 62 Lostcasts shows still on my hard drive and go back
and listen to them on a regular basis.
I like this podcast because it takes it to the next level - past the recaps, past the basic guesses and into the nitty gritty with the references and hints that normal people seem to miss because they are watching it like it's a sitcom or a law and order episode.
I mean most of the casual viewers never even heard of the valenzetti equation, but we all know what it is as if we watched in an episode because it's so engrained in this type of community. _________________ "I don't give a damn for a man who can only spell a word one way." - Mark Twain
1. Understand their audience: They realize that people are listening because the show(Lost) is interesting. Lostcasts crew simply has a conversation about the show as and lets you sit in on it. Very few attempts at forced humor and no unnecessary personal anecdotes.
2. Organized but loose format: A lot of the credit here goes to Keehler. He keeps the show moving along but does not dismiss or overlook an "interesting" aspect of each episode. He makes Matt and Brian's job easy in my opinion.
3. Prepared:Always cover the obvious and bring something you might have missed into the equation as consistently. Also they have quality lostlinks and spoilers for people who are into those angles.
Jacked, not to turn this thread into the Heterosexual Mancrush Hour, but you've hit the nail on the head in all regards. I can't improve upon your statement for #1 other than to say that's it: a Lost discussion that we fans sit in on. As for #3, even though they have gotten more intelligent than that "we read the forums so you don't have to" motto (given that their smarts drive the podcast), they stay amazingly well connected.
As for #2, I say with no disrespect to Matt and Robert (and Tasha, and in the past Brian), that the absolute foundation, structure, and lifeblood of the show is John. He's the one reading (and occationally answering) the emails, he set up Lostcasts.com (which now acts as a fine place to get the show, click the links, and get us to the lovely LostcastsFanForum created by you, sir!), and he's the one who keeps the pace of the show moving when it's slow and lets us ponder when we should.
Further, though I have no proof off the top of my head, John is very, very, very often right. When I went on my honeymoon in the summer (incedentally, to an island in the South Pacific), I loaded up all of the season 3 podcasts on my MP3 player. Week after week, there would be a very promising prediction from someone or another, and John would give his ideas about the future of the show, and I'd be listening to it having seen the whole season going "How'd he call that one?" That's part of the reason why, hate the "Abaddon is smokey" theory, if he's called it... then maybe! _________________ "So we saved the world together for a while, and that was lovely." --Desmond
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