246 room shuffle - where’s the missing room? Why so many doors? What is my life?
Okay, answer to the door thing: because this house is an eclectic Mood and I am here for it and cannot let it go until I’ve solved it apparently. Fixated? Me? Nah.
But, curious little detail I picked up on a rewatch that might be helpful to those trying to build the mansion in the Sims: in 1x02, we see young Diego practicing his words in the room across from Klaus’s.
But in 1x10, in her walk of retribution, we see Vanya turn down the hallway across from her room (where only the bathroom should be based on 1x05, but hey that’s an issue for the continuity folks):
Seems like the Even Numbers squad had a bit of a room shuffle between the times of these two flashbacks. Diego, who started in the room across from Klaus, may have wanted a bigger bedroom - so he took what could arguably be Ben’s (previously unseen) room. Ben could have moved into Diego’s room across from Klaus, as it seems they’ve grown inseparable by this time (see below) and Vanya has moved... somewhere else, because Klaus’s room in this same flashback has expanded into Vanya’s old room:
Or, realistically, it could be a decision based on set availability or the fact that this scene was shot after a lot of present-day scenes, so the two rooms stayed as one for this shot. And that would also explain why adult Diego potters around in the room adjacent to Klaus when picking up his old knives etc. If he moved into the other room when he was older, I doubt he’d then move back again.
I’m actually inclined to go with the realistic option there, as there should only be six bedrooms on this floor (plus Five’s upstairs). We know this because the scene in 1x01 where Reginald monitors the children’s REM sleep actually gives us a good hint as the where the kids are situated:
The wire colours coming in from behind the camera in this frame (positioned halfway down the hallway) are as follows:
Luther, blue
Allison, yellow
Vanya, white (ahem)
Klaus, black (obviously)
We have Diego’s room to the right of the frame here, either green or light blue (process of elimination from where Reggie has the wires gathered on his desk).
A red wire creeps from Five’s room upstairs (see how the two wires creeping towards the left side split, one towards the blue light of the hallway and one towards the stairs?
Finally, there’s another wire (again, either green or light blue) coming from the hallway where Diego ducks during the fight with Hazel and ChaCha:
I reckon this hallway leads to Ben’s (later Diego’s) room, and is the hallway Vanya is meant to turn down in 1x10.
Funfact: the door Diego is leaning on may actually be the doorway to (the second doorway to) the toilet we see Klaus crouched over in 1x06:
I told you I had a lot of screenshots, why is this my life? There is a set designer out there laughing at me. If you’re there, sir or ma’am or mx, I love your vision keep it up.
Onto these stairs, I guess.
