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I’ve had it with all the panting and over-acting. Let’s get on with it.
And that elevator thing just rubs me. We’ve already discussed that and elevator CAN NOT fall, even if the cable breaks. (How could they see that cable when Abby said the top of the cab was all full of debris?) And that door…GMAB. First of all, have you ever seen an elevator with only one door? No, there’s an inner and an outer door and they’d both have to be pried open. And, they had such a hard time keeping it open (with all the debris around, why didn’t they stick something in there?) yet when Abby was getting out of the cab, it stayed open just fine with nobody holding it.
And Lucas passes out because of loss of blood? He seemed perfectly okay after he came to. <sigh>
I thought a good response when Abe asked Theo how he found the girl’s mothers would have been for him to say, "Mommy told me." Wasn’t she a cutie?
A lot of elevator doors have only 1 door but there’s a space in the middle where the pad that seals it and the electronic eye that senses if someone or something is in it’s path is located.
An outer one, that had a wood veneer and they pried that one open and then the metal one that we has been seeing.
but only very old elevators (like the old cage-type ones or very few freight elevators) have one door and on those you will see the wall going by as you move and they no longer need code since the middle 1900sand had to be retrofitted with at least a cage door.
There has to be two, one on the cab and the second on each floor to seal off the shaft. And there is always space between them for the electronic eye and touch-sensitive bar that opens the door if it touches something.
And most elevators no longer have a trap door on top either. But, if that happened to be one that did, how did it get open for them to be able to see all the debris (as Abby described) or the cable they were watching unravel/snap?
BTW, the Mythbusters dispelled the belief that if you jump just before hitting the bottom, you’ll have a better chance of surviving. Physics also disproves it. Supposedly what you should do is lie down so you can distribute your weight as much as possible over an area as large as possible. But, since elevators can no longer fall, the whole thing is moot.
I wondered why Jack did not lift Abby up to the trap door if they thought getting to the trap door would save them (not sure why it WOULD save them, but that’s what they wanted her to do earlier). And Jen basically turned her back to Jack at the end to check on Abby even though she was out the door and he wasn’t. I’m not sure what my reaction would have been had I been in that situation. Jack just basically stood there looking helpless as the doors shut.
Jack would have been right on Ab’s tail to be pulled out. No one would hang back with the cable about to break!
But of course all for da plot.You’re right, I forgot about the door on each floor since they open and close together. But they can both be opened manually as one door. That happened at the hospital I worked at, we were transferring a patient who coded from his room to the ICU on another floor and the elevator got stuck between floors. He coded again and they opened the doors as one. The elevator floor was about 5 feet above the floor we wanted to bring the patient to but the doc who wasn’t in the elevator with him could give orders and at least see what was going on. Also the nurses could pass meds up to them.
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