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Leaving the Room thru the windows?

posted 15 years ago by mentalpix
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One of the things that occurred to me is when they look out the front windows Joe and Jennifer apparently see .the 'outside' of 1961. Since the room always resets I think I would have at least tried to open the window or tossed the tv out of it to see what would happen.

It would seem like an obvious thing to me that if the room was torn out of space-time then maybe it's always a moment of 1961 'outside' those windows. It seems odd that Joe wouldn't at least try to open the windows and call to his daughter to see if she was perpetually 'out' there.

Of course the thing that makes the plot compelling is what isn't 'explained' or postulated on screen. In a way the logic holes in the plot allow the viewer to fill in with their mind what is 'truly' going on.

A variation on the idea could instead of the Occupant being separate from the Room, making him a guy with amnesia who every week leaves the Room in search of who he is and how to get back to his resident space-time. As it was everything takes place in the same linear space-time, but what if you use the same story to flip back and forth through all the years from the 'present' to the time of the Event back in 1961?

The premise could still be mined with many variations for nifty sci-fi series.

[–] runner-15 15 years ago

Wow, did I write this?
I have wondered this since I saw the miniseries, Why did no one test the windows, I would have thrown something out that would be detectable in the future and then returned in the current time line to see if it was still there. A very small marked rock could verify if the room exists in our universe or another one.

In fact that being said Why, Why, Why, in every science fiction or fantasy show or story where someone is presented with a McGuffin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuffin) that could enable them to live on easy street for the rest of their life they always mess around and fark up the situation and end off worse than when they began. There are so many possibilities for the key alone that I wont even begin to list them here.

[–] craigmaramilan 15 years ago

I didn't think anything could be destroyed though? I've just started watching it so I'm new to it, but that's my take on why it wouldn't do any good to break the window.

[–] magiciennko 15 years ago

You can't destroy any object while being in the Room, so you can't break the windows and you can't open the windows either... Just get imaginative and fill the gaps...
In the series nobody fully understand how the lost room works, why it's there and how, it's up to you to fill in the blanks if you find any. There is no point in going outside anyway. The outside is irrelevant.

Another explanation is that when you see Joe looking through the window, you only see a tiny angle of what is outside, but not what he sees, maybe he sees that far away is emptiness, void or something that let him know that there is really nothing outside

And as I said maybe he alrdy tried to open the windows and couldn't, just didn't put it on screen...

It's a movie

[–] bobbykanae 15 years ago

If the series had gone on I'm sure they would have answered a lot of these questions, in each part they were revealing more and more to us.

as for the Macguffin thing, it's not interesting unless a character has a good story.

[–] BigMac8000 15 years ago

You can destroy any object while within the room.

However, destroying the window will produce an unknown effect. Maybe you'll find yourself looking out a window of a 100 story skyscraper, maybe you'll BREAK THE UNIVERSE, maybe you will walk out into 1961, maybe the glass is unbreakable.

They do basically show you what happens if you do something strange.

They nailed the items to door 9 and that caused a rip in the universe, I don't think anyone would have the gall to destroy a window. Some nails and objects caused a woman to suffer in purgatory for 30 years, I wouldn't mess with that glass either.

[–] UltimaGabe 15 years ago

If you're going by the aired miniseries, it's unclear whether you can destroy an Object in the room or not. (It's hinted at, but never said.) If you read the original script, however, there are some small changes- one of which being that they make it clear that ONLY the Occupant can be destroyed (in order to transfer the properties from one object to another, such as turning Joe into the Occupant, requires a will- which only the Occupant has, and because of Conservation of Objects, you can't destroy one object without creating another... and therefore, only the Occupant can be destroyed in the room). This is further made clear in the script (and likewise hinted at, I suppose, in the film) by the fact that certain things in the room are only still there because they're nailed down. The phone, for example, is described in the script as missing every part that could have been removed- and yet the TV is chained down. Considering how almost everything that wasn't nailed down was removed, if it were possible to break objects, someone would've broken the chain to remove the TV at some point.

That (sort-of) explains why nobody broke a window- because they couldn't. However, apparently one of the writers stated in an interview that they know what would've happened if you opened a window and jumped out. They didn't say WHAT would happen (of course :-P), but they made it clear that you would NOT find yourself out in 1961 New Mexico.

[–] Dyonus 15 years ago

I kind of imagine it as being like what happens when you do noclip in a game and you fly into the background. After awhile, you run into black space because the background is only on the outer perimeter of the map. Same thing. You go outside and you go through the background only to find empty space.

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