Calendar in Freighter

What, if anything, can anyone make out of the crossed out days on the calander. Some are crossed out in black and some in red...some looked like they were erased or clear x's or something...
Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Desmonds Brother

What, if anything, can anyone make out of the crossed out days on the calander. Some are crossed out in black and some in red...some looked like they were erased or clear x's or something...
Thoughts?

I don't know, but I think the x's you refer to as clear or erased were made with a yellow marker. That is really odd though, nice catch! It reminds me of when I was a kid and I marked down the days until christmas. It might be a countdown for when they were waiting for orders. But why in different colors?
very interesting.

I thought some even looked blue. So does this mean that it is 2004 in the real world? I know a lot of people suspected that island time was 4 years or so behind the real world.

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Originally Posted by Lost in Hazzard

I thought some even looked blue. So does this mean that it is 2004 in the real world? I know a lot of people suspected that island time was 4 years or so behind the real world.

Actually it's almost 2005! break out the Dharma champange!

Daniel at one point said it was 2004, and I think the calendar seals the deal.

Some of the days are also marked in blue or purple.

I looked at the timeline for events that Lostpedia.com has and didn't see anything consistent with the different colors used to x out days on the calendar. For example the days marked with yellow x's are Oct 20, 21, 22, and 23. Here are the events that took place on those days.

Day 29 - Wednesday, October 20, 2004
"Homecoming"
Scott is found murdered on the beach.
Ethan is lured into an ambush and is captured. Charlie shoots him four times, killing him.

"Outlaws"
Sawyer hunts a boar that ransacked his tent. He hears whispers in the jungle repeating Duckett's last words.

Day 30 - Thursday, October 21, 2004
"Outlaws"
Sawyer tells Sayid he heard whispers.
Charlie and Hurley bury Ethan.
Kate offers to help Sawyer track down his boar in exchange for access to his stash. At night, they play "I never".

Day 31 - Friday, October 22, 2004
"Outlaws"
Sawyer confronts the boar but lets it live.
Sawyer returns the gun to Jack, and realises that he met Jack's father in a Sydney bar.

Day 32 - Saturday, October 23, 2004
"Exposé"
Arzt, Shannon and Kate argue about the guns from the Marshal's case.
Paulo retrieves the diamonds but doesn't tell Nikki.

"...In Translation"
Walt sets fire to the raft as he does not wish to leave the Island.

wow, folie, you did a lot of leg work there...

i was looking at the calendar and briefly toyed with the idea that the different colours might mean something, but i don't believe that they do.

remember minkowski was saying something about them just sitting around being bored out of their minds. i can't remember the exact wording that he used. it looked to me like someone was just marking the calendar to mark the passing of the days, maybe to avoid losing track of time given the propensity for people in that area to have time lapses and maybe lose track of time.

I think it was simply a prop decision. Like darnzy said above, the Xs remind me of someone counting down to christmas. i think if it was all one colour, it would be more deliberate, like someone counting down to something, but the different colours suggest that someone just marked the days as they passed, maybe when they got around to it.

I think that calender is an estimate of what they think the island time is. I do not think freighter time is 12/24/04. I think it's a while later. Just my opinion.

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Originally Posted by BeefJello

I think that calender is an estimate of what they think the island time is. I do not think freighter time is 12/24/04. I think it's a while later. Just my opinion.

It matches up with how long they have been on the island. I think it's like faraday said " your perception of time is different than it is on the boat" or something to that effect. Time off island is running the same. time on the island is running differently but still matches up with how long they have been there. Does anyone get this gist?

Maybe the black X's represents the times when the island was "invisibe". The yellow is when they believe they found the island but they could not reach it. The red is when the island is "visible" and attempt to reach the island but fail in some way (most likely travelled off the 325 bearing).

Another theory is, is that the colors represent some sort of contact being made with the island. Black being no contact, Blue being audio, red visual and yellow physical contact. Who knows though. Could just be the color of markers laying around the boat.