But behind the scenes, while the pilot was being filmed in Hawaii, Braun's bosses were furious at the cost and had decided to pull the plug on him. Iger, insisting that it would never work as a series, saved the worst of his sarcasm for the fact that the writers still did not even know what the mysterious presence on the island was. Eisner was equally scathing, describing it as another ''crazy'' Abrams project. He gave it two out of 10.