I guess that’s part of the reason to keep tuning in. Especially if they end up making a series.
No, the coat was hanging in the closet in The Room. No telling why it hadn’t already been taken.
No doubt. You’d think that everything that wasn’t nailed down would be hauled out of there and then you’d start bringing a hammer. I wonder if at some point, though, like when you start removing bits of the wall, the Room starts to lose integrity or something.
Presumably. She just couldn’t go with him since Finder Lady doesn’t deal with The Legion.
I believe they did have The Key. Lost In Time Lady used it, with some combination of Objects, to open the door to Room 9 way back when (what was she trying to accomplish again?).
I’m not sure you can speculate too much on what the three Objects in combination did since the Object Combination effects seem to be as random as the individual Object effects. At least, that’s what I got from The Watch story Ticket Guy told (need a refresher there, too: egg-cooking Watch + ??? Object = ??? effect). I think it’s a safe guess, though, that Object Combinations tend to be more powerful than the individual Objects. Of course, it’s also possible The Watch Plus Whatever Combination has a more logical connection than we’ve been lead to believe.
The one thing that bothered me was that they seemed to be gloss over how Our Hero knew to use The Key, The Clock, and The Comb together. Maybe I missed something.
I need to rewatch this part again, but I think it had something to do with Jennifer’s brother. Remember that he had tried to do something in room 9 and it obviously didn’t work out well for him. When she saw him at the hospital, he had scribbled an image of a comb onto whatever was in his lap. She realized that the comb was what he had been missing when he went to room 9 before. Presumably she knew what other items he had tried to use.
Okay, I just flipped past this and started watching for a few minutes, then realized I’d better just set the DVR to keep them because there’s way too much back story to have missed. What’s the first one? Will it be shown again?
To answer at least one of my earlier questions, The Watch (hard-boils eggs) plus The Knife (unknown effect) gives the user some form of telepathy. Not seeing much of a connection there, so who knows what any Combination will do.
Also, earlier I wrote The Clock when I should have written The Watchbox. There’s a handy list of objects at Wikipedia that includes all of the objects revealed in the show plus several more revealed in the online game that Sci-Fi was running (over now).
Well, the ending was pretty anticlimactic and didn’t give us many of the answers that the build-up promised, but otherwise I really, really enjoyed the whole thing. Very cool idea, and for the most part it was very well executed. The best miniseries I’ve seen in a long, long time. If they do make it a series, I’d definitely tune in. And I’d want them to do story arcs that are several episodes long (as is the current trend) rather than ‘object of the week’ stand-alone episodes.
Agreed on the anticlimactic bit. The ending seemed a bit rushed and didn’t seem to even attempt to make much sense, but overall it was a great ride. This was one of the rare Sci-Fi mini-series that actually lived up to its hype. I would definitely watch a series, too.
reappeared inside room 8, after Joe reset the room with the key in it at the end. I thought it would have been cooler id the key was the ONE item that reset itself outside the room – where you ask? Behind the front counter of the motel. Would have made for a better ending in my opinion
should keep The Room from resetting at all while The Key is inside, at least until some Final Act of restoring the entire Room. Having the door to room 8 open and The Room was gone, main characters drive away, then the door opens again and The Room is back didn’t seem to make any sense at all, but was just put there to leave the ending open for a series.
But I’ll hope for a series and see if the writers can weasel their way around it.
Maybe there’s some combination of the objects that are still out there to open the door to room 10? It just doesn’t make any sense using the rules they’ve set up in the previous six hours. It seemed pretty obvious that the ONLY way to access the room was by using the key. Also, didn’t the old black guy say his wife just found the key, along with the other nine keys? Since there never was a room 10 (at least in the version of the world as they know it). So, it should have ended up where it was the second the event happened (like the other objects), which was, ostensibly, outside the room.
Finally finished watching this a bit ago. Overall good but some kind of glaring problems. The worst of which was Ms Kang. So here’s this random woman who can find Objects pretty much at the drop of a hat, yet there are at least three factions (Legion, Order and Kreutzfeld) seeking Objects and not getting them? If Margaret Cho knows where the Scissors are, why wouldn’t the Order know that and send a team to get it? Why let the junkie lady have it for three years?
I didn’t buy the Joe/Jennifer hookup at all. Those two have zero chemistry.
Not sure if I’d want to see a series based on this mini. I wasn’t a huge fan of the cursed object of the week formula of “Friday the 13th: The Series” and this has the potential to devolve into that.
What I found interesting was that while room 10 was where the key went, and all the stuff they did was in room 9, when he threw the key in the room and shut the door, why did it show up in room 8? Did room 9 vanish?
Joe kills The Occupant by way of room 9’s door, comes out the same way, then walks over to room 8’s door and retrieves his daughter. Then he ditches The Key through the same door. Not sure there was much reason for using a different door other than too much “bad shit” associated with room 9.
I’d say the key isn’t in Room 8, the key is in room 10. The when the door out of room 10 opens, it opens a real door in space, so it opened the door of room 8, but the inside of the room was room 10.
The conceit, I would assume, is that the objects don’t “like” to stay lost.
We just finished watching and we quite enjoyed that.
I LOVE stuff like this program. I’m a collector at heart and am totally fascinated by the Objects’ properties and potential combination-effects. I’m so hoping for a series. I wonder if there’s a listing of all 100 or so Objects and their known effects. It would be great if there was some kind of logic behind each effect, as opposed to a seemingly random run-“the comb”-through-your-hair-to-stop-time-for-five-seconds (??), because then fans could ‘work out’ combinations independent of the program. I’d love to see some analysis on how the effects of certain Objects were discovered.
Really, I’m surprised by the lack of speculation here on the dope as to origins of the lost room and the objects’ functions in this cosmological riddle. It’s really the hardest science show I’ve seen in years, this is theoretical physics and fiction fused. Great premise, wish I’d thought of it.
