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Grabbed mostly from a reply I made on someone else's LJ.
Okay, so, "Doctor" Filmguy has a working right arm in this video. What's that mean?
Well, for one thing, I think it means this video is older than the film. (There's some sense to that; c.f. a first name, rather than "Doctor." However, could the "Doctor" title have been fake, and used simply to insure that he's respected and speaking from authority, in the later, Swan film?)
Also note that in the vid, the upper-left (from our view) screen is on, and is looking at the terminal desk in the geodome room of The Swan. (And, for that matter, someone is sitting at that desk. I think it's the guy half of the pair of grad students mentioned in the Swan film and seen also briefly in the video. But that's just a guess. Note now nice and clean and shiny the dome room is. Heh.) So at very least, we know at least two of those screens were pointed at areas in the Swan - the one we saw still active, the one we see active in the video. There are six more unknown, and the last is connected to the VCR.
(I still strongly suspect that guy is going to turn out to be Zeke.)
Small other notes: during Eco's first dream sequence, the flipthrough of quick images between the beach scene and the section in the geodome is accompanied in sound by the same noise as the timer resetting.
Further note that the two-island theory is active again, as this video talks about the Pearl crews taking a ferry back to the barracks at the end of their three-week stint.
The video monitors seem really old to me. That's kind of before my time, but I didn't think giant silver bevels were in fashion anymore after about 1970 or something. (You see them in Lost in Space, but not in any sciffy after that.) Am I wrong on that? I do know that when they turned on, they made a noise I associate with vacuum-tube circuitry. But as I understand my electronics history, televisions were all solid-state by the 70s. Am I wrong about that? If not, is that plot-relevant? I've certainly been thinking that the complex was built in the middle and late 1970s (the Apple ][s, for example) but maybe the project is older than that and it was operating for some time before the Incident.
Also since both films are (if this is true) from 1980, there's some implication that the Incident - which I tend to think is what cost Dr. Filmguy his arm - took place in that year. But we don't know whether we can trust those years.
Historical trivia note: black Apple ][s - ala the one in the Hatch - existed. They were made by Bell and Howell under license, for industrial purposes. If that's what they were picking up upon for that bit of set kit, I'm very impressed.
Finally: The Pearl is awfully reminiscent of a mirrored version of that larger symbol, in its traditional form. If it has a mirror centre, it's used to reflect bad influences at entry areas. Or so I've been told; I don't know whether that's actually true. Pearls are somewhat reflective, but are also clouded; given that this station is the eye of the island, is that pearl white akin to a cataract in the project's vision? (This would be on a purely symbolic level, of course.)
ETA: I wonder if the Swan film was shot in the Barracks. It's interesting that it was not shot on location, and the video for the Pearl was. Also, I wonder if the two people from the grad school were on the island in that calisthenics shot?
Okay, so, "Doctor" Filmguy has a working right arm in this video. What's that mean?
Well, for one thing, I think it means this video is older than the film. (There's some sense to that; c.f. a first name, rather than "Doctor." However, could the "Doctor" title have been fake, and used simply to insure that he's respected and speaking from authority, in the later, Swan film?)
Also note that in the vid, the upper-left (from our view) screen is on, and is looking at the terminal desk in the geodome room of The Swan. (And, for that matter, someone is sitting at that desk. I think it's the guy half of the pair of grad students mentioned in the Swan film and seen also briefly in the video. But that's just a guess. Note now nice and clean and shiny the dome room is. Heh.) So at very least, we know at least two of those screens were pointed at areas in the Swan - the one we saw still active, the one we see active in the video. There are six more unknown, and the last is connected to the VCR.
(I still strongly suspect that guy is going to turn out to be Zeke.)
Small other notes: during Eco's first dream sequence, the flipthrough of quick images between the beach scene and the section in the geodome is accompanied in sound by the same noise as the timer resetting.
Further note that the two-island theory is active again, as this video talks about the Pearl crews taking a ferry back to the barracks at the end of their three-week stint.
The video monitors seem really old to me. That's kind of before my time, but I didn't think giant silver bevels were in fashion anymore after about 1970 or something. (You see them in Lost in Space, but not in any sciffy after that.) Am I wrong on that? I do know that when they turned on, they made a noise I associate with vacuum-tube circuitry. But as I understand my electronics history, televisions were all solid-state by the 70s. Am I wrong about that? If not, is that plot-relevant? I've certainly been thinking that the complex was built in the middle and late 1970s (the Apple ][s, for example) but maybe the project is older than that and it was operating for some time before the Incident.
Also since both films are (if this is true) from 1980, there's some implication that the Incident - which I tend to think is what cost Dr. Filmguy his arm - took place in that year. But we don't know whether we can trust those years.
Historical trivia note: black Apple ][s - ala the one in the Hatch - existed. They were made by Bell and Howell under license, for industrial purposes. If that's what they were picking up upon for that bit of set kit, I'm very impressed.
Finally: The Pearl is awfully reminiscent of a mirrored version of that larger symbol, in its traditional form. If it has a mirror centre, it's used to reflect bad influences at entry areas. Or so I've been told; I don't know whether that's actually true. Pearls are somewhat reflective, but are also clouded; given that this station is the eye of the island, is that pearl white akin to a cataract in the project's vision? (This would be on a purely symbolic level, of course.)
ETA: I wonder if the Swan film was shot in the Barracks. It's interesting that it was not shot on location, and the video for the Pearl was. Also, I wonder if the two people from the grad school were on the island in that calisthenics shot?
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Also, Monitors used tubes longer than tv's did come to thing of it, better color response, don't know if any of that is important though.
last of all, are you sure the pearl they are referring to get's its name from the gem? Back in the late 70's early 80's Janis Joplin was very popular for example. Just something to think about.
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Apple ][s shipped in 1977, though. The Apple I was 1976, mostly (entirely?) sold as a kit. Later there was the ][+, and maybe that was post-1980, but the cases were the same - they just had a new label. (And more RAM inside, and more graphics and a couple of things.) When I had the library job, I came across a whole set of old Creative Computings from the dawn of the microcomputer era and I read through a lot of 'em.
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This is such a fucked up show. I love it. ^_^
And I don't know that it isn't Janis Joplin. That could kind of be in character, too, depending. Hmmmm.