The Impact Crater on Lost Season Premiere

It dawned on me that people who watched this weeks show on standard
television may have in fact missed something you can only see when
viewing the entire 16x9 frame in widescreen.

The very last frame of the opening before the screen goes black you
see an entire overview of the island with the housing compound sitting
in the middle of an extremely large crater. It takes up the full image
so its very possible that when this was framed for 4:3 standard
television the fact that it was a crater was lost on the viewer.

weberm...

Actually, it's a cauldera, not an impact crater.

et472...

Of course, you could read the subject header like I think I read
it for a while, "The Impact of the Crater on Lost Season Premier".

Brandy Alexandre...

Okay, I'm not a LOST obsessive, how do we know it's a cauldera and not
an impact? Does it say so someplace else? Because I was thinking it
was the nature of the body that made the crater that's causing the
problems.

et472...

People are quoting dictionaries, that's why.

They are saying that volcanoes don't make craters, and generally that's
what people are thinking of here.

The only other thing to create a crator would be some big body
smashing into the earth, and that's not likely to happen.

Brandy Alexandre...

Well, if people want to sit down and get all scientific, it's only a
caldera (I didn't pay attention to the spelling before) if it's an
active or dormant volcano a la Yellowstone. If it's extinct, it's a
crater. But quite honestly, the discipline uses the terms
interchangeably.