English citations of Skate

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Kate Austen from the television series Lost" edit

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  • 2009, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost, Season Five, unnumbered page:
    The Suliet and Skate “shippers” (those who want to see Sawyer and Juliet or Sawyer and Kate together) went to war about whether Juliet was right or not.
  • 2010, Robert Dougherty, Lost: It Only Ends Once: An Unofficial Last Look, page 294:
    But 'Skate' fans ended the series quite disappointed in him, as it seems that even after leaving with Kate, they couldn't be together.
  • 2010, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost, Season Six, unnumbered page:
    (I've never subscribed to either of the Kate ships on the show, but even I was almost a Skate convert in that moment.)
  • 2015, The Take2 Guide to Lost: The Ultimate Compendium (eds. James O'Ehley & Erin Willard), unnumbered page:
    And while, as a Skate fan, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed that my side of the love square ultimately didn't win out (Sawyer ended up with Juliet, Jack ended up with Kate), I have to say I adored this small scene between my couple!
  • 2015, Jon Warech, "Evangelical", Ocean Drive, January 2015, page 175:
    ("I love the ending," [Evangeline Lilly] says. "I'll never put myself in a 'Jate' or a 'Skate' camp," referring to her character Kate's two on-screen love interests, Matthew Fox's Jack and Josh Holloway's Sawyer. []