So, yep, done that, rather blown away by the end of the marathon quite honestly. Wild speculation has been uppermost in my mind for the past couple of days, and I’m rather waiting for the new series to start in October.
But thanks to the boboss family’s kindness and generosity, I have the tie-in novel, ‘Bad Twin’ to help me through the long, lost without Lost summer.
It’s a fun little read – I haven’t read a telly tie-in since the dale cooper and laura palmer ones about fifteen ears ago or whenever; the second of those two still sticks in my mind as a very effective little slice of horror-fic.
Spoilers?
The core Lost themes of family issues (esp. dodgy dads and brothers), ‘fixing’ things, faith vs. don’t-be-a-bellend, and of course ‘mystery’ are all there. Only about sixty pages in, but we’ve already met a whole bunch of Widmores (none of them are described as looking ‘just like Jim from neighbours’ though), had a very brief peek into the Hanso Foundation’s offices, and been made aware of a connection between the Widmores and some kind of old school Scottish clan bullshit like Desmond was hinting about.
The bit that’s interesting me most is how the book meshes with the show, and with our world too. The Widmores are, in the Lostiverse a real, wealthy family of industrialists (Sun’s pregnancy test ), and the Hanso Foundation is some ‘benevolent’ future-solutions think-tank thing. But Bad twin is fiction set in that world, which has been published in that world by the company since the author went missing on oceanic flight 815, and mentions Hanso and the Widmores in a way that I think at the very least would open the publishers to libel suits. The ‘author’, Gary Troup, (presumed dead – but it’s perfectly possible he’s one of the twenty-odd still-unnamed frontend survivors, or even that it’s the pseudonym of someone we do know – though that seems very unlikely) is described as having written non-fiction in the past, with the implication being, I suppose, that his ‘fiction’ books might be where he dumps all his factual research that’s too incendiary to be published.
Anyway ‘bad twin’ – I reckon there’s a bit of a clue on the cover to what the upshot of the book might be, it is a gumshoe book that’s got to have a few twists after all… More perhaps when I’m a bit further along. |
