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26 Comments:
The X's will mean something.
What I was wondering is why when Des and Syaid look at the calander Sayid's first reaction is he didn't realize it was almost Christmas.
Why would he-he is Muslim.
Not that he cant know when Christmas is, it just was a weird comment for him to make.
Why not something more relevent to him?
Why are 4 days in October not X'd off?
Yeah, that's what I was wondering- why are there 4 days in october not crossed off?
Looks to me like those 4 days in October are crossed off but in yellow ink making it harder to see.
Are those days significant of some sort of high levels of the electromagnetism? How long has the ship been en route to the island?
The plane crashed in september, and it looks like they started REALLY shortly after the plane crashed, the first week of Oct.
Have they been on the boat for al the xed of days?
How about they mean nothing? Just used the nearest pen?
I think things are being over thought here.
It's already been established that on-island time and off-island time are different (a nice reference to CS Lewis' Narnia series). The crossed off days on the calendar would match the losties perception of the date, but may not necessarily be the actual date.
"losties perception of the date, but may not necessarily be the actual date."
Nope penelope knew des would call on that day.
There's all this talk about Island-time running slower than real-world time, however if this was the case, wouldn't the calendar have been a few months/years ahead? It seems like real-world time and on-island time are running simultaneously based on the calendar.
Man, this stuff hurts my head.
Red could represent the days someone died trying to get to the island.
Black could represent days the couldn't get to the island
yellow could represent days they got to the island and came back without problems
"It's already been established that on-island time and off-island time are different (a nice reference to CS Lewis' Narnia series)."
I'd argue that the opposite has been firmly established- that island time and off-island time are in synch. They've shown it again and again.
You can go to lostpedia and compare the calendar to the timeline if you think the colors mean something. I checked a couple of them and one non-black x is the day after Michael sent a message on the computer in the Swan. Another is the day after Locke blew up the flame. I don't think it means much more in the grand scheme of things than the props dept giving us something to wonder about for a week.
Oct 20 - 23 are the light yellow days in October.
Wed 20th - Scott is found murdered. Ethan is captured and killed. Sawyer hears whispers.
Thurs 21st: Ethan is buried. Sawyer and Kate play "I never."
Fri 22nd: nothing relevant except Sawyer realizes he met Jack's dad in Sydney, but he does not tell Jack.
Sat 23rd: Paulo finds the diamonds. Walt sets fire to the raft.
I'm not seeing anything too exciting except that the first day was the ending of Ethan's reign of terror.
The different colours symbolise the fact that there is more than one pen being used on the boat...nothing else
I think...for once...we're reading too much into something. Me thinks it's just coincidence. A calendar like that, and what must be dozens of different markers around...whomever was doing it, just picked up a different pen some days.
If it really wasn't important, why would they have shown it like that? They made it pretty visible. If they just wanted to show that it was 2004, they could have just had a single page calendar.
Besides, why the heck would the person making the props that was just crossing off calendar dates find like, three different pens on certain dates? And why would they let them if it weren't significant?
Ok. I think that maybe, just maybe. Whoever crossed out these dates was one of those people who likes to cross out dates everyday and reaches for the pen that is closest to them.
This is not real life...it's a TV show. If they're going to show a prop up-close like this, especially on a show like Lost, they're not going to have someone screw around with it and use different color pens. If there weren't those four yellow x's, then it probably wouldn't mean much.
I'm sure it's not extremely important, but it probably means something at least.
Maybe it's just another EE to do with The Numbers? Too lazy to squint to make sense of it. I'm sure it'll be a silly revelation later.
Seems like a lot of extra work to show the calender with the dates crossed off if the object was to just give the date. Desmond or Sayid could have just asked one of the men aboard the freighter if the object was just to give the date.
although it would be fun and swell, even, to try and "guess what the x's mean," I can only assume that they said to the prop guy: "Hey, it's supposed to be December 24th, make the calendar look a bit used."
Hence the different pen colors.
Sometimes, an x is just an x.
I'm sorry to disappoint here - I have no grand visions for the x's - I have my hunches on other stuff, but not this.
I don't see why everyone is analyzing the calendar.
I'm pretty sure the X's are just the result of using different pens.
The whole point of showing the calendar was to bring it to the attention of Sayid and the audience that it was almost Christmas on the island.
days they havent heared from the crash?
Just shooting an arrow in the dark but if you remember that minkowski was a communications officer and that was his room or workplace hense what i think is the yellow crosses are the time when minkowski and the other guy (forgot his name) tried to go on near the island, the black crosses are normal days "as usuals" and the red crosses are his flashes that if you look closely seem to be getting more frequent.
if you had a calender and for some reason you were xing off the days (which i dont think people actually do, this was just to show what day it was) you might not use the same marker everytime, maybe you cant find the black one when you go to mark it, and then you cant find the red one, or maybe they are all in a cup and you just grab one paying no attention to the color. know what i mean.
If you have questions like these in the Mysteries...
then when the show finishes your going to have 100's of unansewed questions..