Snowglobe
From Lostpedia
A snowglobe is a plastic or glass dome containing water, surfactant, and debris resembling snow particles, with a scene or character at the center. It is a trinket, souvenir or knick-knack that is shaken to cause a whirl of debris which mimics that of a blizzard.
In Lost
- In Walt's/Hurley's Spanish comic book, there is a page where there is a dome covering a magical city.
- The Island is referred to as such by Desmond, in episode "Live Together, Die Alone", after attempting to flee in his boat, implying that there is no simple conventional means to get away from it.
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JACK: So, before you ran off, I guess you just forgot to mention that you still have a sailboat. Why'd you come back? DESMOND [laughing]: Do you think I did it on purpose? I was sailing for two and half weeks, bearing due West and making 9 knots. I should have been in Fiji in less than a week. But the first piece of land I saw wasn't Fiji, was it? No. No, it was here -- this, this island. And you know why? Because this is it. This is all there is left. This ocean and this place here. We are stuck in a bloody snowglobe. There's no outside world. There's no escape. So, just go away, huh. Let me drink. | ” |
- A snowglobe can be seen on the counter of the shop where Michael pawns his watch in Meet Kevin Johnson.
- There is a large bluish globe on the top shelf of the bookcase in Aaron's bedroom ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
Cultural references
- In the film classic Citizen Kane (1941), the title character drops a snowglobe just before dying.
- The NBC serial drama St. Elsewhere (1982-1988) featured a Boston hospital and its staff that were revealed, in the final episode, to exist only inside a snowglobe, imagined by an autistic boy.
- In Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen (described by Damon Lindelof as "the greatest piece of popular fiction ever produced"), Veidt's base in Antarctica is a massive glass hemisphere, shielding his tropical utopia from the snow outside.
- Also in Watchmen, Laurie Jupiter as a child was fascinated by a snowglobe. She imagines the inside of the snowglobe as a "whole world; a world inside the ball" and adds, "I figured inside the ball was some different sort of time. Slow time."
- In "The Truman Show," actor Jim Carrey portrays a man who was adopted by a corporation as a newborn and reared in an artificial town under a dome without knowing that his life is always observed for entertainment.
- James Blish's Cities in Flight novels envisioned entire cities able to free themselves from Earth's gravity and travel among the stars. The art accompanying the stories usually featured cities protected by transparent domes.
