The Glass Ballerina: The Monitors Revisited
October 16th 2006 03:05
It was called to my attention that I did not discuss enough the jungle images on monitors one and three, which I said was the jungle outside the Hydra station. It looks exactly like the jungle that Sayid and Jin look at while they are hiding, waiting for the Others in Sayid's ill-conceived trap. My assumption is that the producers or directors of Lost reused footage of the jungle for both scenes. Not everyone agrees with me, so I will elaborate.
The monitors show hallways alternating with jungle. I believe that is showing two different hallways (one on each monitor) leading to two different doors, alternating with the outside of the doors. The Arrow had jungle vines hanging down in front of the door and obscuring it. The tail end survivors used that to their advantage to stay hidden from the Others. The Swan also had vines obscuring the door until the fuselage survivors cleared them away.
This means (continuing on with my little theory here) that the Hydra has two doors--at least in this section. It's probably much larger than either the Swan or the Arrow, considering that it has room to house bears, dolphins, sharks, and maybe other animals.
On the other hand, if the jungle scenery is not being reused, if Ben is looking at the same piece of jungle that Jin and Sayid are, then he has two cameras trained on the same spot. Or he has two monitors receiving feed from one camera, neither of which makes much sense. At some point in the history of the island, someone would have turned that camera to watch the Pala Ferry dock. Then Ben would have noticed that the flight 815 survivors had a sailboat.
None of that happened, so I don't think the jungle scene is a clue. It's just a piece of reused footage.
The monitors show hallways alternating with jungle. I believe that is showing two different hallways (one on each monitor) leading to two different doors, alternating with the outside of the doors. The Arrow had jungle vines hanging down in front of the door and obscuring it. The tail end survivors used that to their advantage to stay hidden from the Others. The Swan also had vines obscuring the door until the fuselage survivors cleared them away.
This means (continuing on with my little theory here) that the Hydra has two doors--at least in this section. It's probably much larger than either the Swan or the Arrow, considering that it has room to house bears, dolphins, sharks, and maybe other animals.
On the other hand, if the jungle scenery is not being reused, if Ben is looking at the same piece of jungle that Jin and Sayid are, then he has two cameras trained on the same spot. Or he has two monitors receiving feed from one camera, neither of which makes much sense. At some point in the history of the island, someone would have turned that camera to watch the Pala Ferry dock. Then Ben would have noticed that the flight 815 survivors had a sailboat.
None of that happened, so I don't think the jungle scene is a clue. It's just a piece of reused footage.
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Comment by Aaron
To get a better look at the screenshots from the show go to a site called www.thetailsection.com they have great galleries of screenshots if you're not able to get them off your own computer.
I never even thought about the images in the screens that Ben was watching so I really have no comment on that.
Aaron.
Comment by Adele
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Thanks for the tip. I hadn't seen that site before. It's quite extensive. You're right that I can't get them off my computer. I can burn them to DVD off regular network air and transfer those images to my computer, but by the time they get there, the quality has degraded. I didn't see on their site if they allow others to use those images.
And, yes, I am obsessive about this show. I think this section of the Hydra is built on a very similar floorplan to that of the Swan.