Radzinsky freaks out that Sayid knew the name of this top secret new station, The Swan. We see it's location being hidden and anyone who approaches it IN A DHARMA VAN that is not LaFleur being held at gunpoint. Ok, I get it. It's super hush hush.
Shouldn't Dharma put the plain Dharma logo the just says their name on all the non-station specific stuff like cleaning products or wine bottles. We just saw the Dharma notebooks have it's own unique logo, but the glass cleaner, nope, that's Swan station specific.
Perhaps thats where the resupply drop actually came from and perhaps that is where things got packaged. Putting a label to include one or another dharma logo on something doesn't really mean anything, does it?
Also, like I said in the other thread, why aren't we looking for the Chef Hat Knife and Fork station? If we saw a can of beans with a dharma logo that had a foot in the middle, would that seem suspicious? One with an eye? A hand? I think that is the sort of frame of mind you have to take when thinking about the labels from the perspective of Joe Dharma guy. It's just a design. I know I certainly don't suspect there to be a secret chef hat station. And I wouldn't expect someone not in the 'circle' to suspect there to be a secret hatch called the Swan.
As to why the glass cleaner would have the swan on it, it is consistent with just about everything else in the hatch having that logo. We just assumed it had it because it was in the Swan hatch. In hindsight, maybe it's just coincidence. Or maybe Radzinsky or Chang named it after their favorite Dharma ravioli dinner or something.
Last edited by RoyBatty; 04-20-2009 at 07:51 AM.
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Back in season 3 I noticed that all the food stuff in Bens fridge had the Swan logo, and I thought maybe all that food was intended for the swan and the others stole it.
Maybe their thinking is, If people get used to seeing the swan logo on food stuff and cleansers, maybe they wont think twice if they happen upon a Swan jacket, they'll assume that person makes their Dharma twinkies and Dharma Window cleaner.
we know that the hatch has a quarantine sticker on the inside of it meaning that everything on the outside is infected so they probably started making products with the swan logo on them so the people inside the swan do not stop eating or cleaning etc. for fear that the products and food is infected.
In the Flame Orientation video, Dr. Chang has already lost use of his right arm. There are also interposed images of the Swan dome etc.
I believe the Swan was intended as the primary communication station, and the Flame was re-purposed into the communication station after the Swan was repurposed into the "controlled release of EM" station.
The Sri Lanka video has Alvar Hanso discussing the Island and the V equation etc. [COLOR=#77c96b]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-eHEYswgK8[/COLOR] . The creation date of the video (based on the audio transcripts and the creaton date shown on the video) is 1975. Alvar discusses the stations...
ALVAR: "We have constructed several stations on the island, underground laboratories with the facilities you will need to do your research,....etc".
The logo's of the Swan and Perl stations are then displayed on the screen.
Back in season 3 I noticed that all the food stuff in Bens fridge had the Swan logo, and I thought maybe all that food was intended for the swan and the others stole it.
Maybe their thinking is, If people get used to seeing the swan logo on food stuff and cleansers, maybe they wont think twice if they happen upon a Swan jacket, they'll assume that person makes their Dharma twinkies and Dharma Window cleaner.
I agree. I think that maybe they are using reverse psychology. By displaying the Swan logo all over the island, the people in Dharma get used to it and don't think that much of it. Then if someone gets captured by a hostile and they ask, what does this logo mean? They'll say oh it's just our common logo.
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