If you've been following Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse's twitter war at all this week, you knew something was up. After following LOST very closely for six years, and listening to The Official LOST Podcast on a regular basis, I know very well just how crafty these two are, and I by no means actually believe that they would ever have a public spat that was anything other than a ruse to get the fans going. So, of course it was.
This week, they went back and forth on twitter, with Damon claiming that they should prove that they knew where the show was going from the beginning, and Carlton claiming that the show should speak for itself, and that Damon should just let it go. They referred to this proof only as "The Marble Rye," and anyone who followed LOST closely throughout its six seasons, knows that they consistently titled secret scenes in their finales by code names, such as "The Bagel (Season One Finale, Episode "Exodus," Walt's abduction by the Others.)," "The Challah (Season Two Finale, Episode "Live Together, Die Alone," The Listening Station and Penelope Widmore.)," "The Rattlesnake in the Mailbox (Season Three Finale, Episode "Through the Looking Glass," Jack and Kate off the Island flashforward.)," "The Frozen Donkey Wheel (Season Four Finale, Episode "There's No Place Like Home," John Locke is revealed to be Jeremy Bentham.)," "The Fork in the Outlet (Season Five Finale, Episode "The Incident," Juliet detonates Jughead.)," "Sun and Jin's Wedding (Season Six Finale, Episode "The End," Jack Shephard meets his father, Christian Shephard, and realizes that he's dead.)." Well, apparently there was a distinct purpose to this back-and-forth.
On Friday, at San Diego Comic-Con, the place where Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse had put on so many great performances for the fans at their panel during the six years of LOST, they returned once again. Entertainment Weekly held a Totally LOST: One Year Later Panel, moderated by Jeff Jensen and Dan Snierson, and the pair showed up to reveal the new footage, entitled "The Marble Rye" for the audience, which consisted of a scene between the "Man in Black" and Jacob, while Jack Shephard and John Locke are having their conversation about the Island being their destiny, during the Season One Finale episode, Exodus.
The video containing the footage they released at San Diego Comic-Con is below.
