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solarbirdMassive LOST spoilers are in this speculation, skip if you don't want to know. Nothing else to see here, move along.
Okay, these are the sound fragments over the Swan station loudspeakers, as I hear them:
1: ...sub(?) machine off line.
2: ...please proceed with(?) protocol. please proceed; (test?) begins. <yelling over> <countdown starts, clear at nine> (I suggest that the countdown started at 20.)
Let's think about this from a perspective of everything is working as it "should." So, what makes sense for what we have? I suggest that it's what happens during a resupply run: The monster (or, perhaps, the defense system) shuts down so the airplane (or helicopter, perhaps?) can drop off the supplies safely from not too much of a height. But the presense of a defender implies that there's something to defend against. Therefore, with the defender down, on-island station staff would be vulnerable to whatever that other thing might be. Accordingly, everybody is told to go to secure positions, and protective (blast) doors fall. Resupply gets dropped in, the defender (monster) is restarted, and the blast doors re-open.
This confirms a bit more about the island than we may have known previously. The resupply drop, of course, also makes irrefutable the suggestion that this experiment is ongoing.
Unbelievably clear false-colour filtering of the map seen on the blast door here and a lesser but still interesting variant here. I suggest that others inDelennRousseau's party may have made this map. Perhaps Rousseau herself was involved. I wonder how much Latin she knows.
Also, what happened at the end? Did numbers get entered? I don't think so. There are two timelines available, Locke's and "Henry Gale"'s.
Locke's POV: You hear the timer siren stop and the machine-ramp-up noise start. Then, lights go out, and three seconds into that, the noise starts to fall, to wind down. We have seen it do this in one previous episode, at number entry. Starting from that transition in sound as our 0 second point and as presumed number entry, emergency(?) blacklights come on at +5 seconds. At +17 seconds, we know from back-timing that the clock reset at 108 minutes. This would indicate a clock reset at about +15 seconds into this timeline, but we know that this reset (from audio clues) would have had to have happened at 0 seconds, since that's our reference; a 15 second difference.
I suggest the 15 second timing discrepancy indicates that the clock was not reset.
The blacklights stay on for 30 seconds (to +35 seconds), flickering briefly at roughly 27 seconds. The mains come back one as the blacklights go out, but there is no dark period; the doors start opening within two seconds, at +37 seconds. There is one minute 17 seconds between that and the timer flipping on-screen from 108 to 107, meaning one minute of that was the 108->107 minute.
"Henry Gale"'s story:
"Henry Gale" enters the sequence; the lights are on. (This is a direct contradiction to evidence provided by the noise, compared to previous episodes.) He has time to get back to the air vent (wherever that is). Let's assume this takes three seconds. (+3) the lights then go out. This indicates that his "zero" time is 6 seconds before Locke's zero time, which starts three seconds into the darkness.
This six-second discrepancy may normally not be enough to make the call that the button was not pressed, but combined with the light vs. dark discrepancy, I'm suggesting this timeline also does not permit the numbers to have been entered.
"Henry" does not state he is climbing through the vent system, but this is implied. "10 seconds later," presumably while climbing through the events, "the doors went up." Perhaps he observed this through a separate vent. His time: +13. Locke's time: +7 seconds.
"Henry Gale"'s timeline is missing 30 seconds, which sounds like very little, but is more than twice the amount of time he actually accounted for. Also, if his timeline is honest, then we have the clock reset taking 23 seconds. (17 seconds + 6 seconds). This has never happened previously, even in this circumstance.
My hypothesis is that he probably never went anywhere in the vent system, and certainly he did not reset the clock.
As neither timeline supports the clock having been reset, I suggest it was not. I suggest it cycled over. I also suggest that this is an atypical reset because of it coming during the (proposed) resupply protocol sequence.
Okay, these are the sound fragments over the Swan station loudspeakers, as I hear them:
1: ...sub(?) machine off line.
2: ...please proceed with(?) protocol. please proceed; (test?) begins. <yelling over> <countdown starts, clear at nine> (I suggest that the countdown started at 20.)
Let's think about this from a perspective of everything is working as it "should." So, what makes sense for what we have? I suggest that it's what happens during a resupply run: The monster (or, perhaps, the defense system) shuts down so the airplane (or helicopter, perhaps?) can drop off the supplies safely from not too much of a height. But the presense of a defender implies that there's something to defend against. Therefore, with the defender down, on-island station staff would be vulnerable to whatever that other thing might be. Accordingly, everybody is told to go to secure positions, and protective (blast) doors fall. Resupply gets dropped in, the defender (monster) is restarted, and the blast doors re-open.
This confirms a bit more about the island than we may have known previously. The resupply drop, of course, also makes irrefutable the suggestion that this experiment is ongoing.
Unbelievably clear false-colour filtering of the map seen on the blast door here and a lesser but still interesting variant here. I suggest that others in
Also, what happened at the end? Did numbers get entered? I don't think so. There are two timelines available, Locke's and "Henry Gale"'s.
Locke's POV: You hear the timer siren stop and the machine-ramp-up noise start. Then, lights go out, and three seconds into that, the noise starts to fall, to wind down. We have seen it do this in one previous episode, at number entry. Starting from that transition in sound as our 0 second point and as presumed number entry, emergency(?) blacklights come on at +5 seconds. At +17 seconds, we know from back-timing that the clock reset at 108 minutes. This would indicate a clock reset at about +15 seconds into this timeline, but we know that this reset (from audio clues) would have had to have happened at 0 seconds, since that's our reference; a 15 second difference.
I suggest the 15 second timing discrepancy indicates that the clock was not reset.
The blacklights stay on for 30 seconds (to +35 seconds), flickering briefly at roughly 27 seconds. The mains come back one as the blacklights go out, but there is no dark period; the doors start opening within two seconds, at +37 seconds. There is one minute 17 seconds between that and the timer flipping on-screen from 108 to 107, meaning one minute of that was the 108->107 minute.
"Henry Gale"'s story:
I did what you told me to... I punched in the code and and I pressed the execute button, but nothing happened, other than that clock flipping back. I was just climbing back into the vent when the lights went out. 10 seconds later, the doors went up. I didn't do anything."Henry Gale"'s timeline:
"Henry Gale" enters the sequence; the lights are on. (This is a direct contradiction to evidence provided by the noise, compared to previous episodes.) He has time to get back to the air vent (wherever that is). Let's assume this takes three seconds. (+3) the lights then go out. This indicates that his "zero" time is 6 seconds before Locke's zero time, which starts three seconds into the darkness.
This six-second discrepancy may normally not be enough to make the call that the button was not pressed, but combined with the light vs. dark discrepancy, I'm suggesting this timeline also does not permit the numbers to have been entered.
"Henry" does not state he is climbing through the vent system, but this is implied. "10 seconds later," presumably while climbing through the events, "the doors went up." Perhaps he observed this through a separate vent. His time: +13. Locke's time: +7 seconds.
"Henry Gale"'s timeline is missing 30 seconds, which sounds like very little, but is more than twice the amount of time he actually accounted for. Also, if his timeline is honest, then we have the clock reset taking 23 seconds. (17 seconds + 6 seconds). This has never happened previously, even in this circumstance.
My hypothesis is that he probably never went anywhere in the vent system, and certainly he did not reset the clock.
As neither timeline supports the clock having been reset, I suggest it was not. I suggest it cycled over. I also suggest that this is an atypical reset because of it coming during the (proposed) resupply protocol sequence.
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Date: 2006-03-31 08:19 pm (UTC)With no explanation.
Oh, wait ... it's explained on that old film.
Except a part of it's missing. The part that actually explains things.
Let's not push the buttom.
Oh, shit! Something bad happening! PUSHTHEBUTTON! Negative Reinforcement.
Now ... something different happens. Blast doors drop down, and as part of the reset process, blacklights illuminate blacklight visible scribbling on the back of the door. Scribbling that gives more clues. Okay, someone had time to write it. Lots of time - multiple drops we can say.
Fine.
Why the blacklights?
That door was meant to hold a message, which was meant to be found under rare conditions. But it was meant to look like it had been left hastilly.
Maybe I'm wrong, but more than anything else, it feels like everything there is there as a psychological study in how people react.