I need help or another opinion. (Indiansummer you said you could zoom in)
Is someone able to look back at the photographs on Anthony Cooper's mantle
There is a kayaking picture and then the next picture is Anthony and down in the right corner is another man, is it Lenny? (There is no screen cap at Lost-media)

We have been talking about all the red in Deus. Well it's just not the red, it's the primary colors, red, yellow, blue & green (not so much).
Red VW License plate on Locke's VW* 2ABM487
Mousetrap - Red, Yellow, Blue, Green (it's not the army man it is a green diver)
Locke's Blue Vest
Anthony's Blue Chair
Anthony red belt when hunting
Red Folder & Yellow Folder
Yellow Plane
Blue & Red Mary
Yellow Flowers by Locke's bed
Emily's red hair
Red glasses in the tray of glasses Jack look through
Yellow shirt on line
Blue Tarps
Sawyer's blue towel
Red Tractor in field
We know from all the information we got from Emily's license & admission papers and Hurley's name tag that Emily, Lenny and probably Hurley were all in the Santa Rosa mental institute. To make sure we got the connection all through Numbers, yellow, red and blue show up, they stick out at you.
Lotto game on tv Red Yellow & Blue
Yellow Hummer
Red bandana on mom
Toomey's ranch shot very Yellow
I know there are more but I found enough to prove it to myself
Connect 4* Red, Yellow & blue
I put the connect 4 last because I think that is what they are asking us to do.(Main cast members)
I connect Hurley, Lenny, Emily Locke, Locke and if that is a picture of Anthony w/Lenny.

Then to make it more interesting there is another person that shows primary colors that I rememberd right away and that is Walt COMIC BOOK, as a baby he is playing with a big yellow, red and blue toy on the floor and he has on a red and white shirt. Vincent's leash is red. Walt had a shirt with a yellow stripe through it. I'm looking for the connection the Walt connection to the rest. As we see, it can be pretty jagged.

Someone suggested that Kate sewed Jack back up with red, yellow and blue thread, plus the black. I don't remember that I just remember Jack saying standard black.

We have been shown young adult books, young adult games, there is only one young adult on the island Walt.

Next week we see Claire with A Blue shirt in the promo

This is some very good observations, but what do you think all the primary color connections are for?

I think the colors are another way that the writiers make sure we don't miss a connection between people. There is a very brief hint between where Emily Locke was institutionalized and Lenny = Hurley. We can look at Emily's admission papers but in the screen caps there is only one shot of Hurley's visitor's badge where you can see Rosa. If Lenny is in the picture with Anthony we have another concrete connection. The screen time for both is so brief, I think the colors are making sure we pay attention so we can remember that we've seen these before.

As I said the books are young adult, the games are the same. It's got to do with adolescence. We are being shown things but not how to connect them.
Jack & Sawyer we've seen flash backs of them at about Walt's age. Then we've seen Michael's part of Walt's

Colors are just pointing to things. I'm trying to connect them.

ah, i see. This also goes along somewhat with someone else's post abut lamps being used a lot in scenes as ways to connect stuff. Interesting ideas people are coming up with. Good job. :)

ah, i see. This also goes along somewhat with someone else's post abut lamps being used a lot in scenes as ways to connect stuff. Interesting ideas people are coming up with. Good job.* :)

Heck, it'll come back around. That would be me too. It was before the colors started to come into the episodes. For a long time we only had the comic book. Then we had the Numbers episode Lotto, Conncet 4. All the colors came up again. Still isn't special until it hits the 3rd time. Mousetrap. Then you can see a connection.

Its not colors but
Locke, Sawyer, and Boone had experience of a death of someone close to them in their early years

Walt maybe. How do we know that Susan is dead?

There are 4 pictures visible on the mantle:
1. Someone kayaking
2. Cooper and what looks to me like an old man in a wheelchair. But, It could be just a man in a chair. The face is not really clear but seems broader than Lennie's (I seem to vaguely remember his face being fairly narrow). The only thing really distinguishable is that the man in the background has what appears to be a ballcap on. The picture looks like it's taken on a veranda (maybe at Cooper's house given the Hacienda style architecture).
3. A scuba diver approaching an octopus
4. A picture of Cooper in what looks like safari gear.

No primary colors in that segment...

There are 4 pictures visible on the mantle:
* * 1.* Someone kayaking
* * 2.* Cooper and what looks to me like an old man in a wheelchair.* But, It could be just a man in a chair.* The face is not really clear but seems broader than Lennie's (I seem to vaguely remember his face being fairly narrow). The only thing really distinguishable is that the man in the background has what appears to be a ballcap on.* *The picture looks like it's taken on a veranda (maybe at Cooper's house given the Hacienda style architecture).
* * 3.* A scuba diver approaching an octopus
* * 4.* A picture of Cooper in what looks like safari gear.

No primary colors in that segment...



Lenny & Connect 4 (http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage-305-328.html)

In the scuba picture, isn't the octopus/starfish yellow? On my TV it looks that way. The guy in the 2nd picture looks like he's wearing Blue.

In the scuba picture, isn't the octopus yellow? On my TV it looks that way. The guy in the 2nd picture looks like he's wearing Blue.


The octopus looked pinkish on my screen but you're right about the guy - he was wearing a blue wind-breaker or coat. I was looking for larger stuff and missed that one. As my wife would say 'if it was a snake it would have bit me...' and it would have been right on the end of my nose since it was pressed against the screen trying to see those little details you seem to see so often... ;D

Honestly, Sam. Do you really think they're THAT clever, devious, obfuscating, and other verbs too numerous to mention? :angel:

The octopus looked pinkish on my screen but you're right about the guy - he was wearing a blue wind-breaker or coat.* I was looking for larger stuff and missed that one.* As my wife would say 'if it was a snake it would have bit me...'* and it would have been right on the end of my nose since it was pressed against the screen trying to see those little details you seem to see so often... ;D

Honestly, Sam.* Do you really think they're THAT clever, devious, obfuscating, and other verbs too numerous to mention?* *:angel:

The only other proof that Lenny & Hurley were in the same psyche hospital as Emily is this screem capture. I don't know if you would be able to read it on TV. Another connection would be nice the photo on the mantle just up TPTB alley.
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage-305-326.html

Interesting.

I've had a theory for awhile that something traumatic/influencial/life-altering happened during these character's childhoods. Perhaps these events all occured during primary school? Just a thought.

Games and children... Children playing games? Walt is playing games with someone? Michael? Burning the raft? Does Walt think it's all just a game?

Sorry, just train-of-thoughting.. It's a bit late and I tend to ramble occasionally..

It is threads like this one that brought me to sign up and post. I watch the numbers and colors very closely, it's good to see others who are on top of it more than I am! Can't wait to see if these clues we pick up all actually connect to each other in the ways we see them connecting.

Interesting.

Games and children... Children playing games? Walt is playing games with someone? Michael? Burning the raft? Does Walt think it's all just a game?



Or Walt is playing games with everyone :o

"when I was a child me and my brothers favorite game was mousetrap" paraphrased. Hmmmmmm.

not to nitpick - but green isn't a primary color. It's a secondary color - yellow and blue combine to make it.*

But, I like this color thread....kgmaus and I explored the colors a while back on another thread...can't remember which one.

As for the thread - in the box there were different colors - we saw red, yellow, blue and black. Jack picked the black one.*


Take a look at the color wheel - http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/g_color_wheel.html* *what would be interesting is to see where the secondary colors are - for example, we saw Locke eating an orange, and Hurley had invested in orange futures. Orange is a secondary color made from yellow and red.* *Anyway...not sure where I'm going from here...

Interesting none the less!



No Green isn't a primary color but it was in the Mousetrap game. I am working on the secondary colors, Kate often wears an orange t-shirt and a light green one, Michael wears an orange one often and a dark green one. Locke had his Orange Smile. The thing is, there is alot of neutral color on the show so when a bright color shows up I think they are making a point.

One thing I have been wondering about. Where did all the blue tarps come from? I thought for a while they might be the emergency inflatable slide from the plane. The more I looked, they have rivets and look to be exactly what they are. If they were holding cargo in you'd think they would be ripped. They could have been in cargo being sent but I don't think it likely. Just another thing to think about.

One thing I have been wondering about. Where did all the blue tarps come from? I thought for a while they might be the emergency inflatable slide from the plane. The more I looked, they have rivets and look to be exactly what they are. If they were holding cargo in you'd think they would be ripped. They could have been in cargo being sent but I don't think it likely. Just another thing to think about.


Me too - I've been wondering that for quite a while. Scads of consumer-grade blue tarps, plenty of rope, and no hairbrushes. ???

do you think any of these colors point to the death?

do you think any of these colors point to the death?


any one of those colors could point to death, it all depends on things such as your culture, your education, your beliefs

black : emptyness, void, the end
white : light, paradise, the light at the end of the tunnel, god
red : blood, heat, hell


as far as green is concerned, it depends what you define primary colors

color codes are often represented as RGB* (Red / Green / Blue)
on your computer screen each pixel has a color that is determined by its amount of red, of green and of blue

in a computer world, Red, Green and Blue are the 3 primary colors
printers also use those colors, and actually if you think about planes, inflight movies used to be projected on a screen by a 3 lamp projector (red, green and blue)
and that's about the same thing in your TV set

Sam- Thanks for posting about the pictures on the mantle. I had posted before asking if anyone caught a glimpse of the pictures. Did anyone else see if there were any other pictures displayed?

Thanks,
LilBurgz

Sam- Thanks for posting about the pictures on the mantle. I had posted before asking if anyone caught a glimpse of the pictures. Did anyone else see if there were any other pictures displayed?

Thanks,
LilBurgz

There are 4 pictures they show. I'm pretty sure, now, it's Lenny in the lower right corner of the 2nd picture. Wearing Blue. I watched again on a big screen tv.

I Just finished watching Solitary and the primary colors pop up around the golf game.
Walt and Shannon are both wearing the right color blue
Red flag
Shannon had on a Blue, yellow and red bathing suit when she was told about the game

Do we have a screen cap of the photos on the mantle? Can somebody post it?

Do we have a screen cap of the photos on the mantle?* Can somebody post it?*

I haven't found any screen caps of the mantle. None on Lost-media.
The first one looks like, probably Anthony,* kayaking. The second is Anthony and another man, in blue(who looks to me like Lenny), on a veranda, the third is a man skuba diving with a large yellow octopus or starfish in the picture, and the third is Anthony with a Bush hat on. All of the sports related things could have happened in Australia.

I wonder who took the pictures? Who was with Anthony's? Maybe Sam Toomey, Lenny and Anthony Cooper were all together and Anthony knows about the numbers also.* Maybe......

Locke's license plate was blue, red & yellow. The screen capture is a little fuzzy but it looks like California is written in block letters which makes it a plate they started making in 1982 -1993 in 1993 California was changed and written in script. I cannot tell if it has a yellow renewal sticker on it or if it is the yellow from the sunset. They did not start using colored stickers until 1997 and each year the color changes per CA DMV. If there's a sticker it has the year it expires on it.

In Do No Harm, Jack is wearing a grey tank top with green and orange, with a sailboat?

The tailor in the tux shop has a yellow measuring tape around his neck.

Red,* yellow and green flowers at the wedding.

When Sun takes the white cloth away from Boones mouth, there is a bright red splotch on it

Claire is wearing blue and the baby is swaddled in blue, on the final beach scene.

Jin was wearing a nice blue shirt, and whacking away with the axe. (stripe of red?)

Boones blue eyes were close in death

The pool blue where Jack and Christian sit

We are working on a theory and Summer Solstice's colors are blue,green and yellow.

It might mean something later.

not wanting to burst in on your subject the source could have been in the cargo area holding down some of the larger cargo in place and they found them after the crash...but i so get your color theories please continue

Don't forget the black tuxedos, the white wedding dress, the blue ocean, the green plants on the island, or the beige sand.

I think all the bikinis were multicolored, but I confess to not having focused on that aspect of them.

I know this is in here, but that blue tarp bugs me.

I think it has more meaning, but what , I don't know.

It was a beach scene, maybe when Sawyer had the headache??? and there was no color in the shot except the Big Blue tarp???

In Homecoming, right after Sceve is offed, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley all stand around in very BLUE shirts. I have tried to figure out what that meant. I wonder if blue somehow didn't suggest that they would be on "Jack's side", that they were still optimistic, or what. It was very noticable. Especially since I think Kate and Hurley were wearing a different color when we saw them earlier in the epi. Sawyer's worn the blue shirt more often, but I think that's just because Josh looks good in blue.... :D

I know this is in here, but that blue tarp bugs me.

I think it has more meaning, but what , I don't know.

It was a beach scene, maybe when Sawyer had the headache??? and there was no color in the shot except the Big Blue tarp???

Blue tarps and Sawyer hold a blue towel to his head. It does look like Oceanic's colors had primary blue as part of it's color scheme. Blue seats, Blue blankets etc, etc.Yellow oxygen masks. What's strange is that the same colors appear vivid in flashbacks.

There is so much neutral on the island and lots of green. My brain says make a connection.....

Claire was wearing blue and the baby was wrapped in blue.

Well, blue is always associated with water, and water is always associated with life... just pointing that out. ;D

I think a kind of aqua blue is a standard color for plastic tarps. At least, that's true judging by my garage.

Some of the colors of individual items are chosen because the props people went to Home Depot and those were the colors available.

Better screen caps are up and it is Lenny in the picture,on the mantle, with Anthony Cooper. That makes things more interesting.

Better screen caps are up and it is Lenny in the picture,on the mantle, with Anthony Cooper. That makes things more interesting.

Do you have a link to this picture?
I've gone through the ones on lost-media and can't find this one.

Do you have a link to this picture?
I've gone through the ones on lost-media and can't find this one.


http://www.livejournal.com/community/lost_tv/620090.html
You have to download the caps. i would have linked directly if I could it's in part 2 or 3

Better screen caps are up and it is Lenny in the picture,on the mantle, with Anthony Cooper. That makes things more interesting.


Definitely more interesting!

Better screen caps of the car that backed into Locke, Emily's admission, Locke's license plate, the instruments on the plane. That's as far as I've looked. Still want to check to box out with the tool company in the Bronx.

I still can't be sure that it's Lenny in the mantle photo. It's blurry and looks like it might be someone older than Lockesevildaddy, while we are pretty sure that Lenny is younger. However, thanks for the great site. The screen caps there are far more complete than on the Lost-Media site.

Anthony has a beard. I'm pretty sure it's Lenny with his big glasses.

It now seems to really be spring around where I live. While I was out doing errands today, I noticed a boat in the driveway to a house. It was wrapped in a plastic tarp of exactly the turquoise/aqua color that I think is pretty standard for tarps these days. I also have an old mover's blanket of a similar color lying around my garage, and I'm pretty sure we also have a plastic tarp of that color somewhere around the house here.

There are a lot of good thoughts in here. Just wanted to add that there were red flowers in a vase on top of the cabinet the nanny took michael's cards out of in Special. Just thought I'd throw that into the mix.

Take it from me, waltisfuture, RED is the color of Summer Solstice. I say that not just as a Wiccan (Spring/East/Air is Yellow; Knowledge, Intelligence, Communication, Travel, Birth - Summer/South/Fire is Red; Strength, Power, Lust, Protection, Health, Adolescence - Autumn/West/Water is Blue; Emotions, Dreams, Psychic ability, Sleep, Old Age - Winter/North/Earth is Green; Home, Family, Money, Death, and Rebirth), but when the Christians absorbed the pagan religions they took their colors. Spring/Easter is yellow, Winter/Christmas is Green - Summer/Pentacost is Red. Christians kind of ignore Autumn.

And I agree with you, "waltisfuture!"

BB,

Vilya

Hi Vilya

Cool, even better if the color is red.

Are green and red significant, because red is summer and green is winter?

Bringing this thread back up, cuz the colors are important.

Blue tarp was what Boone got buried in. The cooler in Born to Run was blue, and it held the tainted water bottles.

Bringing this thread back up, cuz the colors are important.

Blue tarp was what Boone got buried in.* The cooler in Born to Run was blue, and it held the tainted water bottles.


I wanna know why they wasted a perfectly good tarp to bury Boone~ I mean, it's a bloody miracle that the plane crashed with all these tarps on it to begin with (I doubt they were packed in anyone's luggage), but to waste one on a dead body? I mean...it doesn't matter to Boone if he had a plastic shroud or was just dumped into the ground.

Maybe they did retrieve it after he was dumped. Off-the-handle-Jack drew us away from the funeral before we even got 5 minutes into it.

There was something about the primary colors in BTR, however. The 2 plates Kate used, the Nebraska and the Ohio ones, were done in primary colors only. The Nebraska tag had all three, blue red, and yellow (the gold of the grain). The Ohio tag was navy lettering and red lettering on a white background. I don't know of any significance of this, but I did note it.

Maybe they did retrieve it after he was dumped.* Off-the-handle-Jack drew us away from the funeral before we even got 5 minutes into it.

There was something about the primary colors in BTR, however.* The 2 plates Kate used, the Nebraska and the Ohio ones, were done in primary colors only.* The Nebraska tag had all three, blue red, and yellow (the gold of the grain).* The Ohio tag was navy lettering and red lettering on a white background.* I don't know of any significance of this, but I did note it.


Red baseball cap, Minnie Mouse.

I wanna know why they wasted a perfectly good tarp to bury Boone~ I mean, it's a bloody miracle that the plane crashed with all these tarps on it to begin with (I doubt they were packed in anyone's luggage), but to waste one on a dead body?* I mean...it doesn't matter to Boone if he had a plastic shroud or was just dumped into the ground.


Good one Flora.* I will be watching for the blue tarp, in the upcoming epies.* I wonder if the term you used "plastic shroud", might have more meaning?

http://www.lost-theseries.com/screencaps.php?view=cap&ep=25&id=NONAME_003_000_051.jpg

Red plastic piano and a woman with a red shirt?

www.lost-theseries.com has BTR screencaps up but the pictures aren't very big.

Thanks Sam. I don't see the shot of the chambermaids watch. They focused on it for a reason.

http://www.lost-tv.com/pictures/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=151
There's the thread from the pilot episode

Looking at the HDTV screen caps in White Rabbit
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lost_tv/167461.html
Suitcase that they put the water in was red
Young Jack when he goes to see his father in the library the lampshades are red.

WTCMB the radio pieces (?) that are in front of Shannon and Sayid you can see blue, red and yellow pieces inside. When they are working on the translations of the map.

I thought I'd bring this back up. Primary colors have been mentioned in the Black Rock mining thread, in reference to the Hudson Bay Company:

http://www.thefuselage.com/threaded/index.php?topic=17809.105


and here's the link to the Hudson Bay info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Bay_point_blanket

bump for Bess

bookmark

Sayid bought a yellow necktie at the airport then tied it to the raft mast. It was in the episode guide on the abc site but the scenes were apparently cut.

I had thought of The Four Horsemen before Red, White Black and Pale (green) but we had so much blue Today I found this http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/Fritz_Hirschberger2/The_Fifth_Horseman/the_fifth_horseman.html
" The Fifth Horseman operates in the shadows of the Fourth. Common belief, especially during the Reformation, was that one could not defend oneself or one's faith against those things that you are unable to discern with your physical senses. But do try to understand that the war that will be waged against you by the Fifth Horseman will occur on a different plane. It is a plane that the physical senses are not able to discern."

Hey coupons...the image of the headless horsemen, or the 4 horsemen of death, Creeps me out.

Good catch. Did you bring that to the senses thread?

Only 1 of the horseman is death, some of the other horsemen as worse in some ways . . . war, famine, pestilence . . . passing away quitely in your sleep might well be better than living through these things.

Vincent was carrying a yellow tennis ball on the beach (WR I think)...

Notice the blue item to the left of Jack

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Sam G
http://www.lost-media.com/modules.phpname=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=47&pos=548
Jack in mouth of caveWhat are the 4 red rectangular shaped things to our right (looking at pik)? The front one looks like a mask.

Notice the blue item to the left of Jack

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Sam G
http://www.lost-media.com/modules.phpname=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=47&pos=548
Jack in mouth of caveWhat are the 4 red rectangular shaped things to our right (looking at pik)? The front one looks like a mask.

I try to link to that and it says 403 forbidden?*
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage-47-548.html

I think those are the boxes that the dolls are in. AH.....Like the pile of Dolls at the toy store with Locke in DEM

That's wierd, it worked this am. What do you think is happening? Is your computor bringing up New Replies now?

Bizarre, it's working again.

Bizarre, it's working again.


on the link there's supposed to be a ? between php?name

Sam G what would we do without you ??? Thanks ;D

The knife that Locke gives Sayid in "Confidence Man" has a red handle.

Kate, Hurley, Michael and Sawyer have been the people that have been wearing the primary colors and sometimes Walt and Jin and Shannon.

Kate - light green and light orange
Michael - Orange, Green and Blue
Hurley - Green and Blue
Sawyer - Blue
Jin - Blue
Walt - Yellow
Shannon - Yellow

This may be on here already, but I noticed Vincent has a blue dog tag.

I wanna know why they wasted a perfectly good tarp to bury Boone~ I mean, it's a bloody miracle that the plane crashed with all these tarps on it to begin with (I doubt they were packed in anyone's luggage), but to waste one on a dead body?* I mean...it doesn't matter to Boone if he had a plastic shroud or was just dumped into the ground.


i think they did this encase Boone gets dug up by an animals or the ground erodes. that way, if it happens, they wont have to deal with a rotted body.

Justed wanted to bring this thread back to life.

Sometime ago I posted about a possibility of bio-sensors on the Island that trigger the security system. I got the idea from this:
http://lost-media.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=486&pos=590

It's from Exd III. Right after Jack crosses the invisible line between the flowers (when I look at it now again, it looks like a gate to me) the security system is on. (btw this is the only time, the entire season, we see 2 "natural" flowers in one scene on the Island)

Now I can link it to colors, a red flower and a kind of yellow flower.
I have no idea as to what it might mean, but this does not look like a coincedence to me.

It totally looks like a gate. Good catch

I saw an episode of the 4400 ans noticed that they used alot of red , yellow and Blue also.

Wasnt diary girl's bag blue? For some reason I think blue fits somewhere with her. Maybe she mentioned a color...I cant remember though.


And did anyone mention Walts yellow life jacket?

Anthony has a beard. I'm pretty sure it's Lenny with his big glasses.
Another thought occured to me. If it isn't Lenny in the picture with Anthony Cooper, maybe it's Sam Toomey.

I hate to be a cynic, but the color stuff seems way too complicated for someone to do. Sometime a prop is just a prop.

Another thought occured to me. If it isb;t Lenny in the picture with Anthony Cooper, maybe it's Sam Toomey.
Sam:
Do we have any idea how Sam Toomey looked like? Have to check his place in Australia, don't remember seeing any photos there.

Sam:
Do we have any idea how Sam Toomey looked like? Have to check his place in Australia, don't remember seeing any photos there.
I don't think we see any pictures at the Toomey's. I was wishing we got a look at the scrapbook Sam kept with all the events that he thought were his fault.

Went over that scene with Hurley and Sam's wife, no photos, just lamps again, but this time none of them is on....

Over on "Juice, the Theory" were connecting things about Locke to Kate. Orange, to me, has always been Kate's color but it appears that Red is Locke's, form his read VW to the red shirt he gives Boone, Emily and Helen both have red hair. I think it was Naughty Paws said that Red was associated with anger (bingo).

The other person, on the show, I have a color for is Michael. Green. When Naughty Paws mentioned anger, the green fell into place with Michael, it is ENVY. I think it will bcome more apparent but I think Michael is envious of Jin and Sun. Locke and the connection he was starting to have with Walt.

http://www.lost-media.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=814&pos=250 The Yellow list of the 9 that were taken, on the 14th day after the crash, ot the Tail Section.

in Collision:

red golf tee
blue candle in Swan hatch bunk
yellow mug or cup in Swan hatch bathroom

red, yellow, blue and green lighting (OK green's not primary but...) in dark bar scene
when Ana sits at the bar waiting for Jason to leave

http://www.lost-media.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=820&pos=398 Red bowl on the shelf above Kate.

There is commentary on the season 1 dvd set about the use of color. I can't remember word for word what was said, and it would take awhile to find it again because there is so much material.

Anyway, in a nutshell, because there in so much blue and green in the island scenery, other colors are used for impact: in the flashbacks to put emphasis on things our losties are having to learn to live without, such as red lamps, yellow sofas, whatever. And, on the island, especially in the pilot: the first red blood we see is the man with the crushed leg being pulled out from under some of the wreckage.

There is commentary on the season 1 dvd set about the use of color. I can't remember word for word what was said, and it would take awhile to find it again because there is so much material.

Anyway, in a nutshell, because there in so much blue and green in the island scenery, other colors are used for impact: in the flashbacks to put emphasis on things our losties are having to learn to live without, such as red lamps, yellow sofas, whatever. And, on the island, especially in the pilot: the first red blood we see is the man with the crushed leg being pulled out from under some of the wreckage.
Yes, I listened to that on the DVD too. Color is used to draw your attention to something that means more than just what it is.

I even associate certain colors to certain people. Kate is Orange. From Orange Juice on the plane to the orange t-shirt she wears.

Locke I associate with red. His mom and Helen both had red hair, his VW was red and red is the color of anger.

Michael I associate with green or orange. Those are the 2 t-shirt colors we see him wear. The Green I associate with envy or jealousy.

I was watching the Orientation film again at The Hanso Foundation website and notice that when they got to parapsychology they had 3 balls there, one red, one blue and one green.http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage-737-213.html

23rd Psalm
There is a large red umbrella in front of the church the first time Eko goes to the Church.
Young Eko in wearing green.

It seems that orange has become one of our primary colors. Claire was wearing Orange in ML and Sun in the Long Con. It was also the color of love for Jin.

It seems that orange has become one of our primary colors. Claire was wearing Orange in ML and Sun in the Long Con. It was also the color of love for Jin.

Sam did you see the post with all the mentions of the color orange so far? I didn't copy it, and I'd like to find it again.

Sam did you see the post with all the mentions of the color orange so far? I didn't copy it, and I'd like to find it again. Is it on the LLL? I ran across the mention of Claire wearing it and I had noticed but just remembered this thread and thought I'd stick it on. I think I can tell you who has worn orange.

Rose (pilot episode)
Shannon, Bathing suit
Kate, many times and green
Michael, many times and green
Tai,Yes, love will look... orange. (To Jin) (L&F)
Sun (TLC)
Claire (ML)

Locke's Orange Smile
Hurley's Orange futures

Lockdown

More and more people seem to be wearing Orange.
Hurley
Henry
A-L
Helen - light orange

Claire had on Green
Another red car Nadia's
Besides mangos and papayas are pretty orange inside when they are ripe.

http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage-1250-570.html

Ha! The colors do mean something!

MoSMoF
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?pid=45554&fullsize=1 the counter is gray
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?pid=46014&fullsize=1 the counter is blue (not the best screen cap but in the episode you can see the counter is bright blue)
The same thing happens in Through the Looking Glass
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?pid=102206&fullsize=1
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?pid=102235&fullsize=1