{"id":293,"date":"2006-10-03T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T00:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/03\/why-the-hatch-button-was-bad\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T00:54:55","slug":"why-the-hatch-button-was-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/03\/why-the-hatch-button-was-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Hatch Button Was Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Season 2 spoilers ahead\u2026 Stop reading if you don\u2019t want to know!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been re-watching season 2 of Lost before the season premiere of Lost season 3 on October 4 th, 2006.    The entire season revolved around the Hatch and the Button that needed to be pressed every 108 minutes.    <\/p>\n<p><b>What happens when the button is <i>not<\/i> pressed<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Well, we sure found out what happened when the button was NOT pressed\u2026. The first time Desmond missed pressing it, it brought down Oceanic flight 815 and brought the survivors to the island.    When they narrowly missed pressing the button, a sequence of hieroglyphics came up, which caused all kinds of speculation about what the missing hieroglyphic character might be, and what the whole word or phrase might mean.   When they let it go all the way down to complete set hieroglyphics (which read as \u201cUnderworld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 2 spoilers ahead\u2026 Stop reading if you don\u2019t want to know! I\u2019ve been re-watching season 2 of Lost before the season premiere of Lost season 3 on October 4 th, 2006. The entire season revolved around the Hatch and the Button that needed to be pressed every 108 minutes. What happens when the button &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/03\/why-the-hatch-button-was-bad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why The Hatch Button Was Bad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[333,336],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost","category-television","tag-lost-spoilers","tag-lost-theories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why The Hatch Button Was Bad - Magic Lamp<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/03\/why-the-hatch-button-was-bad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why The Hatch Button Was Bad - Magic Lamp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Season 2 spoilers ahead\u2026 Stop reading if you don\u2019t want to know! 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