Just like Steven Spielberg worked in Star Wars figures in a split second showing in his TV drama Falling Skies it's now clear that Da Vinci's Demons' creator and writer David S. Goyer is a fan of Lost - he's worked in the enigmatic Dharma Initiative into Da Vinci's Demons' most mystically tantalising episode yet.
South African viewers will be able to see episode seven of Da Vinci's Demons on Monday 17 June at 21:45 and it is good. The best episode yet - and not just because a major character is unexpectedly killed off.
Leonardo da Vinci makes it into the papal secret archives, meets the pope and then they journey even deeper on the papal elevator down into the papal secret chambers and then into a grotto tunnel holding even more mystical secrets. It wonderful and tantalising to behold.
Inside viewers will see what the Roman Catholic church have managed to find and keep deeply secret according to the mythos of this show: a real dragon skeleton, the legendary Spear of Destiny which killed Jesus (and then turns out to really work!), green glowing Kryptonite, the Sword in the Stone of the Arthurian legend (which Leo reaches towards to pull out), the golden Ark of the Covenant and a golden Egyptian mummy mask.
The best thing however is a mysterious piece of parchment which - when light is flashed over it - reveals writings and symbols - but never ever the same writing twice.
(The constantly flashing and changing page encased between glass with different languages, symbols and lettering reminded me of the Iconian gateway and an episode of another awesome show but let me not mix the TV arcana too deep for the uninitiated.)
When Leonardo flashes his torch to and from over the parchment as does the pope, the writings and lettering changes, and in a brief flash the symbol and logo of the enigmatic Dharma Initiative shows up - back in the Renaissance period!
For true television watchers and TV treasure seekers, that brief micro second as a fun on-screen shout-out is awesome if you look very, very closely.
