Hatch Logos

arcade1

i was just thinking, will they ever explain what the hatch logos and names actually mean?
or are we just ment to figure it out ourselves?

ZiabR

arcade1 wrote:

i was just thinking, will they ever explain what the hatch logos and names actually mean?
or are we just ment to figure it out ourselves?

I am not sure what you mean. We know what they mean, for example The Flame Station was the communication station etc.

What exactly are you asking?

Sinfonia

lostpedia.com probably has it all

Sad Professor

The meaning of the hatch logos are pretty low on the list of mysteries that need to be answered. Most of them speak for themselves. Here are all the official ones we've seen so far:


The Swan, The Arrow, The Staff, The Pearl


The Hydra, The Flame, The Looking Glass

http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Dharma_logos

I really like the one for The Looking Glass, an obvious allusion to Alice in Wonderland. See the hole in the rabbit's neck (down the rabbit hole) with what looks like a clock-face? The time is 8:15 as in Flight 815 and The Numbers. The rabbit in that story is always worried about running late as well.

ZiabR

Nice, never actually paid much attention to the time on the clock face on the rabits neck.

abelard

Did we ever actually discover the purpose of the Arrow? If not, I get a feeling at this stage we may never, and it was just relevant to the plot arc of the tail section survivors.

arcade1

logik wrote:

I am not sure what you mean. We know what they mean, for example The Flame Station was the communication station etc.

What exactly are you asking?

i mean why is the swan called the swan? what does that have to fo with pushing the button?
same goes fo the pearl and the arrow, why those names?
maybe it has been explained and i just didn't notice...

ZiabR

arcade1 wrote:

i mean why is the swan called the swan? what does that have to fo with pushing the button?
same goes fo the pearl and the arrow, why those names?
maybe it has been explained and i just didn't notice...

Ah mate, thats just like saying, why is a pen called a pen. Answer is because it is. They are just names for the stations, don't look too deeply into them.

Sad Professor

abelard wrote:

Did we ever actually discover the purpose of the Arrow? If not, I get a feeling at this stage we may never, and it was just relevant to the plot arc of the tail section survivors.

Well according to the blast-door map it was a storage facility which matches with what the tailies found. However crossed-out writing indicates that it may have once been used for manufacturing. But then in Ben's flashback Horace, a mathematician, was wearing The Arrow station badge on his jump-suit. So I think like the Swan it's probably served several purposes over the years.