The Lost Room/Headscratchers
- When Kreutzfeld entered the room his son should have disappeared, because objects don't work in the room and his son is dead except for the effect of the swallowed quarter in Kerutzfeld's gut.
- I had this thought as well, and the best rationalization for me was that once a memory is brought back using the quarter, it persists in reality, no matter what happens to the quarter. The only "using" of the object is to bring life to the memory, and past that, they don't require the object for the memory to persist.
- Analogously, if the pencil were brought into the room, would all the pennies it created fade out of existence? Obviously a living memory is a different thing, and will disappear in time, but I think the idea is the same: what is created by an Object is not an Object, and is unaffected by the rules of Objects.
- Given that using the Bus Pass makes you appear on a road, isn't there a significant probability that using it on someone would cause them to get run over?
- Who's to say they haven't been? Although, as it's implied that Wally has used the bus ticket a large number of times, that road might be mostly unused now, since people falling out of the sky is implied to be a well known problem in the area.
- Well, the reason it bugged me is that Wally wasn't shown to be that bad a guy; I don't want to think of him as someone who would risk people's lives like that.
- Well, there were those times that they landed on the lawn.
- One of this troper's friends bought the pen in an auction after the series finished. It doesn't work. This troper finds this annoying.
- See Weirdness Censor on the main page. Why didn't the government confiscate the extremely dangerous weapons and lock up the order a log time ago? Even if no one believes the objects have power, they must have linked their trafficking to the strange deaths/disappearances surrounding them. Or noticed the mental patient who hasn't aged in forty years.
- The most reasonable answer is that the cabals have agents working at every level of government throughout the country. If one finds evidence of an Object, he funnels the info to his cabal and covers up the details so no one else will go looking for it. The mental patient remains a bit of a puzzler, though.
- What if... and I'm just wondering... somebody were to just jump out the window of the Room? Where would they be? A vast empty wasteland of nothingness? Just... what would happen?! And for that matter, isn't EVERYTHING in the Room already an object? The Bed, the Water Faucet, the Television, the Door, the Blinds, the Medicine Cabinet... what do they do?
- Why would they all be objects? It never said that the Event turned everything in the Room into an object. As for what would happen if someone jumped out of the window, it would probably be bad. I don't recommend it.
- The canon Objects are mostly small and all easily carried around. Probably nobody removed the furniture just because of how difficult it would be to move, especially because of the way a lot of motels have televisions chained down, beds screwed to the floor, and things like that. If someone were to climb out the window, perhaps he'd be able to wander the world of 1:20:44 PM on May 4, 1961 pretty much indefinitely.
- If you climb out the window, then you're immune to the effects of the Total Perspective Vortex. Obviously.
- Not all of the things left in the room were particularly big. The pillows on the bed for example.