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We have 2 different statues
Hairs are different
the position of the legs
the dress has different stripes 
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Episode 5.16/5.17 - The Incident - The Statue
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52 Comments:
DUDE, this is a bad error...
This just annoys me. All they had to do was use the same exact one as before, and add more detail on the front. It pisses me off that they have all these continuity errors where most of them could be avoided easily.
Hm, maybe that are really two different statues. :P
I'm not really bothered at all.
What the hell are you talking about, the statues are exactly the same, the legs is just because of the angle, the hair is exactly the same, once again angle and picture quality, and the skirt doesnt look like anything to me
you took the words out of my mouth b3rt4, could there really be two statues??
Calm down. This is a minor continuity error. The important features of the statue are still the same. Of course they would have to render it differently up close. We don't even know what timeline the far view is from anyway so don't jump to conclusions.
Who cares?!
I can't believe anyone is sitting there watching goddamn JACOB and some kind of satanic god sitting there chatting about the meaning of the ENTIRE SERIES so far and all they can think of is "lol omg that skirt is different!!!!"
I won't lost any sleep over it, but it does seem a little dumb to get it wrong.
I only say that because i did notice the difference in the legs when i saw it onscreen. Ah well.
Even if its an error, I don't really care. The storyline is the main reason why I watched LOST.
Been thinking the same as b3rt4 ever since I saw the episode and noticed all those differences. Could be a continuity error, but I didn't think they'd screw up that bad on the statue.
I'm with b3rt4 and singy21. I think there's a good chance that there was more than one statue.
If it's just a continuity error, so be it. It's not the end of the world. But the writers know good and well that a lot of people have been obsessing over this statue for 3 years now. So the fact that they let this "error" happen makes me think they definitely did this purpose.
Now whether they threw us a bone here, or are just messing with everybody, remains to be seen. But I definitely think this was done intentionally.
Ugh..
1.) The legs seemed closed because we are seeing it from a different angle. Make a peace sign with your fingers then turn them, and the gap between them will disappear.
2.) The hair is not different, it just looks that way because the older statue is just getting chemical wear on it. Happens all the time. Her hair ends in the exact same place.
3.) If this annoys you guys, then you need to realize this is a TV SHOW!!
^ i don't want to give the impression I actually care that much about this, but the legs are clearly different regardless of the angle. 'Apart' legs don't suddenly look like they're touching when the angle changes.
Much more annoying is that the four-toed-foot from season2 was the left foot while Locke and Ben entered the RIGHT foot of a statue.
It could be a continuity error or there ARE two statues.
What makes you say that we saw a right foot in this episode instead of a left foot? It definitely looks like a left foot. If it was a right foot, the ankle would look completely different.
@hatebox
Yes they do, make the peace sign with your fingers then turn your hand until they look like they are touching.
The legs are definitely much closer together in the shot we saw Wednesday night. Even when you take the angle into consideration.
The base that the statue stands on isn't wide enough to hold the "wide-legged" version, anyhow. And the base appears to still be intact.
LOL. They're definitely getting exactly what they wanted out of this. Whether there is one statue, or 50, this was no error. They wanted people debating this. And it's working.
I'd say the only difference is that the statue on the left is reversed. Hair is the same, but the sun shines on the left leg (season 2) which it wouldn't if it was in front of the right, as it is i the recent picture.
The statues being reversed would also explain the difference in the loincloth. But this needn't be an error, but could point to there being two statues.
@stintfang
i try ti verify for the left/right foot
take a look here
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/390/cpaslepied.jpg
if you considere free space /green) that's clearly 2 left feet
BUT teh orientation of leg (bleu) and the external toe (red) seem tu be from right foot
seriously guys, who really cares? stop obsessing over little errors and just enjoy the damn show. stop nit-picking and realize that it's just a TV show. just enjoy the entertainment
Anyone who says it is not big deal are on the wrong website.
There is only one problem - the lines on the dress. But that honestly doesn't matter.
Here's the pic on the right blown up:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/2/2f/Fourtoedreconstructed.jpg
You can clearly see the legs are separated, which is again shown here:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/lostpedia/images/e/e6/BramHoldingStatue.png
I agree about the hair, it's definitely rust of some kind.
The only potential thing that's annoying is the width of the platform, but whatever.
There are definitely NOT two statues.
...the trees are not in the second shot either...
@Erik: In the second shot the viewer is on the beach
I cannot believe this is being posted. THERE IS NOT ERROR. Check out where the skirt falls on the leg -- the first skirt IS NOT longer than the second skirt. Just look at where the skirt hits the ankh. The end of the skirt hits the ankh in the exact same place. So one skirt appears longer than the other because it's a close up. When you move closer to an object, things appear bigger.
The hair IS THE EXACT SAME. The first picture is just a blurrier shot, but even there, I can make out the inverted "triangle" of the hair.
If the "hair loss" can be explained by rust/chemical wear/erosion, then why does the statue on the left (the one that looks much more withered) have longer hair, but less detail?
The statue on the right is FAR more detailed. Meaning that the one on the left appears to be the more eroded of the two.
So that argument contradicts itself, entirely.
It's a different image. No doubt about it. I'm not saying there are definitely two different statues. But it's clearly a continuity error.
The only question is did they really not care enough to pay attention to detail? Or did they purposely do it to get people talking?
I'm guessing the latter. And it's working! No matter what your point of view is, you're discussing it like the rest of us :)
i don't have a problem with that but i do have a problem with mouth bleeding juliet error in the incident final scene...I mean...what happened???she's bleeding,she's not bleeding!?
Ross: Noone has said that one "skirt" is longer than the other.
Lincoln: The point about chemical wear/rust is not that it removes the hair, but that it looks like hair. I'd rather say it's dirt or discolouring on the back that in the blur looks like hair.
It has happened before that pictures have been reversed in Lost. Once Jacks tattoo on his left shoulder appeared on his right.
Its clearly the same statue, and anyone who thinks otherwise is blowing things out of porportion in my opinion. I noticed no difference in the episode and I see no difference between these two pictures.
And in the long run, it doesn't matter. People hold LOST up to a higher standard than other TV shows, but the storytelling is superb. Mistakes happen.
It's a TV show!!!!!!! 99.99999999% of people out there aren't watching it that closely! I read this site every day pretty much and even I don't seek out and find this kind of shit. If it bothers you so much, I think that says more about the person watching the show and noticing this shit than it does about the show itself.
Lost has a running track record of flipping shots to show a mirror image of what's actually occurring. Take this into consideration with your arguments.
Also, @OutraJess
It's not a 'Satanic' statue, it's Egyptian... two completely different things.
markus_0000
"JACOB and some kind of satanic god sitting there chatting about the meaning of the ENTIRE SERIES"
Statue =! Satanic God. Satanic God = Man in Black.
for the skeptics of multiple realities
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2909/whhdead.jpg
take a look here (Dharma video "The Pearl")
We are un 1980 the swan is biult but Chang has still two arms
And the B/W logo is reversed :)
as the the last picture of the saeson
there is literally no way that the producers are going to try and shoehorn in another statue this late in the game. its a slight error if it is an error. there are only 17 episodes left, its time to get moving, not layering on multiple realities and whatnot. this isnt fringe.
A bigger problem is the fact that the the foot remaining was the right foot when in Season 2 it was the left foot.
It's the left foot both times. Stop.
I DONT CARE AT ALL!
WHO CARES??
c'mon.
@Matt: I also thought that as well, but look close and you'll see that is the left foot. No error.
I don't really care. It's supposed to be the same statue so it IS the same statue. Also, I think we're looking at the statue at different periods of time. The first frame we saw was a later dated statue in a state of weather and decay, streaking and weathered, it looks a little different. Maybe it's even crumbling. We can't see the base. On top of that we're looking at it from a different angle. Let's just watch the damn show and quit obsessing about the piddles of the statue. LOL
If I recall correctly, in season 2, when Ben and Lock stand on the statue, when Locke has to kill his father, the statue is inland. (Also, during the time travel when they see the whole statue it is the one inland)
So there must be two statues.
One of them, the one on the beach later seen is Jacobs, while the other inland is problably the represenattion/home of the other guy/entity.
If we presume the statues were built by people who worshiped it is only logical there are two sides of the worship, with the all two side thing in Lost.
Tht is why one foot is the left one, the other one the right one.
It's not hair, its a head dress and they are exactly the same.
Well nothing is perfect , but the show is great. fantastic.
i dont give a dame these silly errors.
If i was looking frame by frame i would find out millions of errors.
All these points are moot! The statue is there to push the rich mythology of the show, that's all. LOST isn't about the island at all, it's about the PEOPLE on the island and their fate and how their lives are interlocked. Just call the statue the statue, because there's only one.
To those who keep saying "Who cares?" I think the point of this section is mainly for fun. You know, it kinda gives you little mistakes to look for as you watch. If you don't like the section, then by all means don't visit it.
an error in an error
but when an error ask time and work to make it .That's not an error anymore but a clue
Imagine the guy at his computer why he is drawing a 2nd statue (at least the 2nd is reversed ) what can he justify that?
He can say : " silly i'm i did a 2nd different statue instead the easy way to use the same "
Remember too,the 2 differents landscapes (reversed in the tunisian desert....)
and so many others
Errors usually are there for saving time and not to waste some
I think the errors are done on purpose to show that the time loop has happened before, that things have changed and will continue to change. These continuity issues have been happening from Season 1 and I think it's because they're showing us that what we see initially, isn't necessarily what we'll see the next time around. Whatever happened happened, with changes....
What a bunch of hyopocrites.
What the bloody hell are you doing in the CONTINUITY ERRORS section if you just DON'T CARE for errors?
I don't care if the "first" statue has the left foot, the skirt with lines in one direction, longer haird, and the second one has right foot, opposite lines and shorter hair, or whatever. But I love that we have a whole page for these errors, it's just cool.
Anyone who complains about a cont error (unless it's NOT an error, like it has happened before), should be banned.
Every single tv show has cont errors, because guess what? It's written by humans, and errors are as human as humans are. I'm glad we can catch them and post them here, because it's cool.
In now way it's a critique to the show, and in no way these errors are proof of changing timelines or utter clues. Just errors, and take them for what they are.
OK, I know this thread is dead, but I don't think enough emphasis was placed on the spacing of the legs. Unless these Egyptians (our statue friend in particular) were incredibly bowlegged, there's a major problem with the statue(s).
CLEARLY, the statue on the left has legs that are spread apart (about shoulder-width feet). I HIGHLY doubt that the feet at the bottom of that statue are touching. Again, unless it's severely bowlegged.
When you look at the base of the statue in the final episode, the single foot from Season 2, etc. you will see that the feet are right next to each other. This is a pretty big mistake, if it is, in fact, a mistake...