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Here is my opinion on what The Hatch was.

The Hatch as Isolation Tank. http://www.tempcity.com/bitchless/index.php?showtopic=608

I’m just going to flat out state that The Hatch was nothing more than an isolation tank experiment that went wrong and/or got distorted (i.e. the original subject of the isolation tank experiment passed along the instructions he was given to Desmond without Desmond knowing that the whole thing was an experiement).

If you place any human in an isolation tank, that human will start hallucinating within about three hours (or about 180 minutes). The only way to prevent a person in isolation from hallucinating is to create a reality for that person, i.e. to create a routine for that person so that that routine would function as feedback from his environment. What we saw with Desmond in the Hatch waking up every day, playing the same record every day, eating the same food, taking his vitamin shot and exercising was Desmond’s routine. Desmond’s routine functioned as feedback from his environment to keep Desmond oriented and to keep him for hallucinating. The Hatch was probably created as an experiment to see how long a person could go (with routine replacing human contact) before that person eventually started hallucinating.

Again, I think 99.9% of Lost is crap, but tonight’s episode was simply brilliant.

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99.9% of Lost is crap, yet we're in to season two and you still watch/care enough to post comments about it on the internet...

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*woopw* I screwed up the editing. We're uploading a new version of the podcast momentarily, so if you grabbed it before now, grab it again. Tom is updating the post, etc... Sorry.

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Well, it doesn't seem that Desmond plays the same record everyday, if he did, why would he have had to take it out the sleeve? He would just keep it in the record player.

If the hatch is an isolation tank, explain the link between the "zoology experiments" with polar bears and the polar bears on the island... I mean... come on.....

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there are some things about the Hatch and Isolation tanks and distorted realities that anyone who has ever taken a psychology class would recognize.

First, having to "check in" every three hours with a code to prove that you are still sane (not hallucinating). Second, the clear and elaborate display of a ROUTINE. Desmond's routine in The Hatch took up two episodes and was shown from two different perspectives. And Third, we saw what happens with someone's reality is shattered. Desmond running through the Jungle, like a madman, was a classic display of someone whose reality has been shattered, it was a classic display of someone who is dis-ORIENTED.

We are watching Jack's hallucinations, I think the producers have made that point very clear. And, Jack KNOWS that he is hallucinating.

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I'm a little bit confused by a line from the argument between Jack and Locke after the terminal gets shot out. Jack says "Because last time I saw the computer that was going to save the world, it didn't look like that!" What did he mean? Anyone?

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