Something Lost with the Foot?
Hey, guys… I noticed something while taking another look at that underwater scene.
Check out to the far left of the camera. There seems to be a large looped stone. Is that one of the Ankhs that the statue is holding? If so, that would indicate the statue collapsed relatively close to it’s base. I also noticed that while the camera was approaching the foot, several things, including the shark and some seaweed, seem to be purposefully obscuring the area in front of the foot’s base. So it’s hard to see if it’s there.
Thoughts?
On another note, does that base look a little strange to you? How would the other foot even fit on that thing? Take a look at the version of the base that Sayid saw. It’s much wider:
Is that underwater version just shoddy CGI- well I mean, Lost is certainly not known for its groundbreaking CGI- but do you think it was designed that narrow on purpose? Is there something to this?
Hmm……….
Jeeze! The more I look at that underwater foot, the more it looks like a muppet’s foot.
just_linda on 06 Feb 2010 at 2:27 pm #
Muppet’s foot! Awesome! I noticed the looped stone but didn’t think on it too hard until you mentioned the ankh – which I think it very well could be!
For some reason that foot gives me the heebies every time I see it.
Mélanie on 06 Feb 2010 at 3:08 pm #
If I look at the underwater picture and the other one, I have hard time seeing if one is left or right!
I agree with you that something might be strange about it. To me, the under water foot looks bigger (wider): bigger ankle, but it could be just because of qualitie of that image and water distortion… But.. what if there WAS a 2nd statue?
Pauline on 06 Feb 2010 at 3:52 pm #
That foot looks like the foot of a diabetic after the bone starts to disintegrate after years of bad circulation. The sole of the sandal looks like a round pizza crust and the base is missing here or obscured. It makes it looks like the statue came to rest on a wall of large bricks. And why would there be all wall of large bricks under the ocean? Wait a minute…
I hate you right now Cabrera! I hate you. You couldn’t go and leave well enough alone. You had to PRY into why this foot looked a bit off. I’ve been looking at some screen caps of the foot and statue that we know Jacob likes to kick it near… those aren’t the same foot. The one underwater, Jacob’s statue, is a right foot. The one Sayid saw in S2 is a right foot. You can tell because that on the S2 foot, facing the ocean the leg portion is leaning to the right hand side… the S5&6 foot, facing the ocean, the leg portion is leaning to the left hand side. http://www.undertwilight.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lost_statue.jpg
ARGH!
I have stuff to do today… and you go and dangle this foot-shaped carrot. Grrrr… 2 statues. Great.
P.S. good eyes there J!
P.S.S. I don’t really hate you.
Pauline on 06 Feb 2010 at 3:58 pm #
Sorry.. I just noticed… that on the S2 foot. If it were the same statue… there would be a really really long black rock off to the right hand side in front of it. (when facing toward the ocean.)
John Cabrera on 06 Feb 2010 at 4:25 pm #
Well, P, I’m not sure if there are or aren’t 2 statues, but all three of these pictures show a left foot. At least the two pictures in my post do. Not sure how you’re seeing a right foot. The big toe is on the right of both feet. And while it’s hard to see it in your S5 pic, I suspect it’s also a left foot…. even though yes it does seem they’re leaning in slightly different directions.
To me the bigger clue is in the base rather than in the foot itself. All three feet are left feet and all three have similar sandal characteristics, even if they’re slightly different in each. But I’d blame that on the CGI before I’d go saying it’s because the feet are different. But those bases are completely different. The rocks in front of the base, as well.
Molly on 06 Feb 2010 at 4:35 pm #
Not sure if the base thing is intentional but I’d like to point out the algae growing on the foot’s ankle. It seems to have quite a bit of stuff growing on it so it’s probably been down there for a while. Just another tidbit that supports the theory about Ben’s wheel turning or Desmond’s failsafe being what submerged the Island and rebooted everything!
Pauline on 06 Feb 2010 at 4:46 pm #
Okay… but the photo from S2, while a right foot is just not the same foot. The sole of the sandal is different… the toes are different… the foundation that they are on is different.
Is it at all possible that the foot that we saw under water is the OTHER foot of the S5&6 statue that might have ended up underwater at the time the statue originally bit it into the ocean?
Though, I’m not basing my argument on the foot under the ocean. I am looking at the foot that I linked to my comment up there… and the S2 foot that Sayid saw. They are leaning in opposite directions.
Pauline on 06 Feb 2010 at 4:56 pm #
I meant to say left foot about the S2 photo. The other foot I think is a right foot.
But you’re right… the bases are different even if you are looking at the rocks near the bases.
and I still think that the S5 foot is a right foot.
Have you noticed how stubborn I am. But when I know I’m totally wrong… I’d admit it.
Pauline on 07 Feb 2010 at 8:30 am #
Oh. I forgot my role as Aztec spokesperson…
Not sure if it is too relevant but Tezcatlipoca had his foot eaten by the Earth Monster when he and Quetzalcoatl were trying to create inhabitants of the earth. The earth monster kept eating everything so Tez used his foot as bait to get her to the surface so they could kill her. In sacrificing his foot to save the world the gods gave him the first turn at being the sun in the newly created world. But he only shown half as bright as he was supposed to because he wasn’t good in nature. Though, he was the sun until Quetz screwed him over and knocked him out of the sky with a big club.
The foot he lost… was his left. And this is how he came to posses the “Smoking Mirror.” It took the place of his foot.
Rae on 08 Feb 2010 at 9:49 am #
The toes on the foot under water are worn down a lot and while that could just be the CGI, it could also be that the water itself has broken it down even more than it was when Sayid saw it. I’d say that’s probably what’s happened to the base as well, the force of the water has knocked some of it away.
Which would mean there’s more to the foot than meets the eye, right? Or, rather, more to it than just the looming room we saw Jacob using. Unless the round thing got washed OUT of the foot itself and just came to rest there on what’s left of the base?
I dunno, I think this is the very definition of mystery that is built into the show for folks like us and will probably never be answered. Sometimes I envy my friends who just watch the show and don’t go crazy trying to figure out WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!
Johnny Hugel on 09 Feb 2010 at 9:32 am #
While I would love to debate the foot endlessly, I think it’s a case of poor CGI. That whole shot kinda bugged me cause it took me out of the element with it’s videogame-like quality.
Patrick on 24 May 2010 at 2:49 pm #
Johnny, I agree wholeheartedly with the ‘videogame-like quality’ comment.
The production value of Lost is generally amazingly high, but this entire segment underwater was like a slap in the face. CG has gotten the the level where even amateurs can produce some convincing results, and to include this cheesy segment alongside the breathtaking vistas of Lost seems like a shame and just laziness.
I was really surprised last night to see a segment of this scene shown in the recap. I would have thought the producers would have been embarrassed of it.
The underwater scene and the cop-out ‘great beyond’ alternate reality ending are the two blemishes on an otherwise stellar series.