Complexities of time… strange new acquaintances… uncharted territories… just a few of the challenges of shooting the brand new season of The Lost Initiative. Nevermind wrapping our brains around that premiere episode.
We’ve got some new members of the TLI production team who, creeping around in the shadowy corners of our new studio look bloody terrifying: think Silent Hill – but not those saucy nurses. However, walking out into the light of the set, we see that they’re just armed with tools, cabling, several packets of chocolate biccies and a vat of coffee, so they’re alright by me.
Moving into our new Dharma lab was a ton of fun, although Tom and me kept getting the urge to switch on machines we were told to leave well alone… which, beyond causing some kind of electromagnetic anomaly, would ruin continuity and really annoy our boss Dan.
Ahh, it’s great to be back with Messrs Tom and Iain – although we did manage to meet up and have some dinner and great gaming sessions over the summer. Tom’s still as loveably grouchy about certain aspects of the Lost, and Iain’s still as loveably grouchy about Tom’s loveable grouchiness.
I thought the premiere was astounding. I wish we had an hour-long debate show to go over the thousand-and-one talking points it threw up. My favorite scenes were probably the Juliet and Sawyer ones: I was a wreck after watching the season five finale last year, and having to go through the trauma of watching Sawyer lose Juliet all over again was devastating – but that’s what I love about this show. All those scenes were fantastically acted and heart-felt. I’m gonna miss Juliet though – Liz Mitchell is an astonishingly good actress.
I don’t agree with where Iain and Tom are taking their theories about the alternate reality stuff, but hey, it wouldn’t be the same – in fact, it wouldn’t be Lost – if we just smiled and applauded each other’s ideas. I’m keen to know what everyone watching is theorizing: so do get in touch via the usual methods.
And it wouldn’t be a classic TLI record session without the strange Lost-themed gaffs: we had own very own sequence of scary power cuts… coupled with an angry roaring sounds from just outside the studio entrance. Except, rather than this being a time skip/pocket of energy and the smoke monster, ours was down to classic dodgy electrics (you’ve gotta love the older parts of London). The roar outside? An angry driver revving his clapped out diesel engine to remind the world how masculine he really is.
To wind down after the brain-warp of the premiere and the high-energy rants with the boys, it was a chilled train ride home accompanied by a re-read of Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted (a very poignant and amazing novel – but also very twisted in places, so not one for the easily shocked), some tunes (Aereogramme), with the reward of a take-away and gaming in sight. And I feel that clock ticking… bring on the next episode: what is it that Kate does…?
