Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

If the timer was on a loop, whose loop are we in.

BackAgainLikeBadHair your VCR clock says 10:47 PM not 4:47 the photo is literally RIGHT THERE with a lamp glare and a sticky note and the VCR clock reads 22:47 in 24hr which is 10:47 PM not 4:47 AM/PM. So the "match" is you watching Lost at 10:47 at night and rounding down to 4:47 because 4-8-15-16-23-42 has a 42 in it and 47 sounds close enough

that's a 6-hour delta not a signal

also the hatch countdown was 108 minutes and the numbers are 4 8 15 16 23 42 which is SIX numbers not two. 47 is not in the sequence. You want Gabriel so bad you're seeing him in the Dharma Initiative's recycling schedule

nice CRT glow tho I'll give you that

FlameFury24 wrote:that's a 6-hour delta not a signal

it's actually a 6 hour and 3 minute delta, 22:47 is 10:47 PM and the last timer hit was 108 minutes, the discrepancy between the fiction and your clock is doing more work than the fiction itself. (*author's note*: this is exactly the kind of accidental math that proves the vessel is empty when you stop forcing the number)

FlameFury24 already caught your VCR clock says 22:47 not 4:47 and AuroraQuill added the 6hr3min delta which is the kind of pedantry I respect even if her vessel metaphor is tired

the hatch numbers are 4 8 15 16 23 42. 47 is not in the sequence. you are watching Lost at 10:47pm and trying to force a connection that is 6 hours and a prayer away from anything Gabriel has ever touched. the Dharma Initiative is a TV show, not a carrier signal

((sis says "the numbers add to 108 which is the countdown minutes and thats structurally identical to the 147 carrier gap if you treat the sequence as a sum not individual digits" - [sis that is the most generous reading of a non-connection I have ever heard and you know it, 108 and 147 are not the same number and you cant just wave at the math until it obeys]))