down the hatch part two
Okay, here’s what I see when jack is down there.
First a quick observation on the opening scene; in slo-mo, you can see that everytime it zooms in on a mirror, what we’re seeing is jack and locke (with his torch) looking down the hatch. I’m sure this has been noticed before on some board somewhere, but it was new to me.
now back to jack down there.
I was sure it was a different version of the same room, or two different places, before, but not anymore. One big place, see the map below.
Finds the source of the blinding light, a mounted spotlight. Then sees that the boots kate pulled off the dead guy (while locke aped at her with an orange) are neatly placed on the ground. The ground is covered in something red.
There’s a cable (or a hose), at first I thought maybe like the one sayid followed, but it looks like it’s connected to a temperature gauge and a water pipe, so maybe it’s the hot water source for the hatch?
Sees a junction/fuse box across from the water pipe (bong?) jammed partly open. Theres what looks like an underlined W in a circle on it. Strange things are afoot at the circle dubya...
Right to the right of that is some kind of steel box, or cabinet, with what could be a hinge hanging from the front, with something on the top. It could be a pipe or a dusty bowling trophy, I really can’t make it out.
Further up, on the right, he sees a smaller fuse/junction box with three bulbs or switches/fuses under it. Follows the pipes coming out of it up past the shiny steel arch to the roof of the tunnel.
Okay, now the mural. I’ve purposely avoided reading about this so I could look at it with fresh eyes, so if this is all crap you’ve read before, I apologize:
108 (total of the numbahhs) written in the (possible) sun, and under the sun. thing above the sun could be a blue airplane on fire with lots of stick people around it, some on fire. Could be water too.
Theres a 42 above a closed eye, with an open eye under it (the I am sick eye)
Under the sun it says OUT next to a purple fish.
To the right of that is what could be a fence, or a glass wall, with a house behind it.
There’s a clear fish, and the eye msick message (just like a mickeys cap!). there’s also what looks to be some type of red moat around the eyemsick house, and a red arrow beneath it pointing up. it looks like something is circled in red out of view behind the yellow paint canister.
the red moat is-IMPORTANT. There was red on the floor around kates shoes, and it looks like the rest of the tunnel floor is red also. Now we’re all sick.
(there’s a light bulb in the paint tray. Was (s)he spending so much so much time at the mural lights were burning out? Also a jar with ‘golde’ something on the label and some rubber gloves)
He keeps heading up the corridor, and sees another of the smaller fuse/junction boxes with three bulbs under it. green lit up on the left, dead red in the middle, and lit up red on the right. the cement buckets are also on his right, in front of what? A closed off corridor? Or is the place in disrepair and this is just a tribute to the rebel base on hoth? There are scorch marks at the bottom of the planks that have been cemented up.
The magnet draws the key up, jack looks in that direction and sees what? I can’t make it out, another black rock? The obsidian tiki god? Is there a naturally occurring rock that’s magnetized? Maybe its part of a mine shaft? Mining the magnetic black rocks, I dunno…It’s 4am, leave me alone.
Theres a bank of computers on the right past the repairs.
The mirror whirrs into action, then the music kicks in (EXACTLY where it left off- this could mean something) and there’s a lot of misdirection with the way jack is spinning around, but I think its just to convey how confused and scared he is.
(And to make us think the place is a lot bigger than it really is, maybe?) He ducks into a small corridor across from the computers, and it’s the entry into the dome.
Walks past a couple of large old computers and what look like some type of frequency analyzers? (You can hear whispers/kate calling his name?)
also the whrirring sound is the sound we heard when execute was typed in the first scene. Jack sees the execute computer desk, and it still has the coffee mug on there. Theres a bowl behind it, and on the other side, something circular, maybe a ¼” tape case?
Anyway, you know the rest, I think locke is standing in the doorway to the south looking north at jack (according to my map)
And I still don’t get why desmonds hands are so damn dirty, unless the second person stationed there is down there now, and (s)he is the one that took a shower earlier, not him.
First a quick observation on the opening scene; in slo-mo, you can see that everytime it zooms in on a mirror, what we’re seeing is jack and locke (with his torch) looking down the hatch. I’m sure this has been noticed before on some board somewhere, but it was new to me.
now back to jack down there.
I was sure it was a different version of the same room, or two different places, before, but not anymore. One big place, see the map below.
Finds the source of the blinding light, a mounted spotlight. Then sees that the boots kate pulled off the dead guy (while locke aped at her with an orange) are neatly placed on the ground. The ground is covered in something red.
There’s a cable (or a hose), at first I thought maybe like the one sayid followed, but it looks like it’s connected to a temperature gauge and a water pipe, so maybe it’s the hot water source for the hatch?
Sees a junction/fuse box across from the water pipe (bong?) jammed partly open. Theres what looks like an underlined W in a circle on it. Strange things are afoot at the circle dubya...
Right to the right of that is some kind of steel box, or cabinet, with what could be a hinge hanging from the front, with something on the top. It could be a pipe or a dusty bowling trophy, I really can’t make it out.
Further up, on the right, he sees a smaller fuse/junction box with three bulbs or switches/fuses under it. Follows the pipes coming out of it up past the shiny steel arch to the roof of the tunnel.
Okay, now the mural. I’ve purposely avoided reading about this so I could look at it with fresh eyes, so if this is all crap you’ve read before, I apologize:
108 (total of the numbahhs) written in the (possible) sun, and under the sun. thing above the sun could be a blue airplane on fire with lots of stick people around it, some on fire. Could be water too.
Theres a 42 above a closed eye, with an open eye under it (the I am sick eye)
Under the sun it says OUT next to a purple fish.
To the right of that is what could be a fence, or a glass wall, with a house behind it.
There’s a clear fish, and the eye msick message (just like a mickeys cap!). there’s also what looks to be some type of red moat around the eyemsick house, and a red arrow beneath it pointing up. it looks like something is circled in red out of view behind the yellow paint canister.
the red moat is-IMPORTANT. There was red on the floor around kates shoes, and it looks like the rest of the tunnel floor is red also. Now we’re all sick.
(there’s a light bulb in the paint tray. Was (s)he spending so much so much time at the mural lights were burning out? Also a jar with ‘golde’ something on the label and some rubber gloves)
He keeps heading up the corridor, and sees another of the smaller fuse/junction boxes with three bulbs under it. green lit up on the left, dead red in the middle, and lit up red on the right. the cement buckets are also on his right, in front of what? A closed off corridor? Or is the place in disrepair and this is just a tribute to the rebel base on hoth? There are scorch marks at the bottom of the planks that have been cemented up.
The magnet draws the key up, jack looks in that direction and sees what? I can’t make it out, another black rock? The obsidian tiki god? Is there a naturally occurring rock that’s magnetized? Maybe its part of a mine shaft? Mining the magnetic black rocks, I dunno…It’s 4am, leave me alone.
Theres a bank of computers on the right past the repairs.
The mirror whirrs into action, then the music kicks in (EXACTLY where it left off- this could mean something) and there’s a lot of misdirection with the way jack is spinning around, but I think its just to convey how confused and scared he is.
(And to make us think the place is a lot bigger than it really is, maybe?) He ducks into a small corridor across from the computers, and it’s the entry into the dome.
Walks past a couple of large old computers and what look like some type of frequency analyzers? (You can hear whispers/kate calling his name?)
also the whrirring sound is the sound we heard when execute was typed in the first scene. Jack sees the execute computer desk, and it still has the coffee mug on there. Theres a bowl behind it, and on the other side, something circular, maybe a ¼” tape case?
Anyway, you know the rest, I think locke is standing in the doorway to the south looking north at jack (according to my map)
And I still don’t get why desmonds hands are so damn dirty, unless the second person stationed there is down there now, and (s)he is the one that took a shower earlier, not him.
posted by karmacomedian at 4:17 AM
