What is the "fork in the outlet" and will it make the audience "eat its own soul?"

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The showrunners are calling this season's game changer the fork in the outlet, as we told you in an earlier post.

What do you think it is? How will it change the show forever?

E!Online is reporting that Michael Emerson (aka Ben) is saying: that the ending is : "enough to keep an audience eating its own soul for the whole hiatus."

We've had the bagel and the snake in the mailbox. Both weren't literal.

But last season's frozen donkey wheel certainly was.

Speculate in comments!

What's the code for the game changer in the season finale?

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We've had the bagel. And then there was the frozen donkey wheel.

What's the code for this season's game changer, you ask?

How about "the fork in the outlet," says Watch With Kristin at E!Online.

Last year we had a literal frozen donkey wheel.

Any guesses what the fork in the outlet could be? Post in comments!

Watch with Kristin's guess: Sounds like the Losties are going to be messing with the electromagnetic power of the Island, to return to the future or to unleash the metal-shavings monster.

Michael Emerson's (aka Ben) guess: "I think it all has something to do with metallic dust. I think the smoke monster is connected to that ring of powder that surrounds Jacob's cabin. They've established that there are supermagnetic forces at work on the Island, so what better medium for those forces to work through than through fine filings of metal."

Where are Bernard and Rose?

What happened to Rose and Bernard when Ben and then Locke turned the frozen donkey wheel?

Are they alive? Are they dead?

Did they end up in another time?

Are they the Adam and Eve the Losties find early in the series?

Are they living in Dharmaville unseen to us so far?

Post your rank speculation in comments!

SPOILER: Where is one of the Dharma Stations?

UPDATE: Watch With Kristin issued a correction: "A very good source tells me that the information I received about off-Island Dharma stations is not quite right: There is one and only one off-Island Dharma stations—the show hasn't filmed any of those scenes yet—and that station may or may not be the key to returning to the Island. Argh! My sincere apologies. Reuniting the O6 with the Left Behinders is going to be harder than I thought."

Watch With Kristin at E! Online provides some scoop about where we might find one of the Dharma stations in the outside world. There are apparently six stations off the island that could be a key to getting back.


Amanda in St. Petersburg, Fla.:
Where is the powerful place we've already seen that might have a Dharma station in it?

In the words of the sage Hugo Reyes: "Australia is the key to the game." I'm told there's at least one off-Island Dharma station in Australia, and I personally love and believe your guesses were right: The station is specifically in or around Ayres Rock/Uluru, the place Rose and Bernard visited on their honeymoon.

POLL: Do you think Ben is lying about not being able to go back to the island?

Well, do you?
Our choices were:


1.Yes, of course. It is Ben we're talking about.
2.No. He changed the island, so he can't go back.
3.Who knows.
4. Even Ben doesn't know. The island does what the island wants.


The voters have spoken. Most of you -- 57 percent -- say that the island does what the island wants. While the rest of you think Ben is a big fat liar. OK, more of you probably think he's a liar. But the rest thought he was lying in this case.


What do you think Ben is up to? Discuss amongst yourselves.

SPOILER: Learn Why the Oceanic Six Must Reunite

UPDATE: Watch with Kristin issued a correction: "A very good source tells me that the information I received about off-Island Dharma stations is not quite right: There is one and only one off-Island Dharma stations—the show hasn't filmed any of those scenes yet—and that station may or may not be the key to returning to the Island. Argh! My sincere apologies. Reuniting the O6 with the Left Behinders is going to be harder than I thought."

From Watch With Kristin at E! Online:

"In particular, I can now tell you why it is that the Oceanic Six must all reunite in order to get back to the Island.

Want to know why Kate (with baby Aaron), Jack, Sayid, Hurley and Sun are going to have to put their differences aside and go "all for one, and one for all" this year?

Well, remember what Michael Emerson recently said about Ben's statement that if any of them are to return to the Island, everyone who escaped has to go back too? He said, "I think [that dictate is] a scientific condition of the mechanism by which the Island operates. I don't think it's an esoteric or spiritual issue, I think it's science."

He wasn't just talking pretty. What I'm hearing is that the reason Jack, Kate, Sayid, Sun and Hurley need to reunite is because the Oceanic Six need to fan out to a group of Dharma stations.
Even more intriguing? According to my source, these stations are not on the Island, but in other locations, and these off-Island stations are believed to be the ticket to getting back to the Island.
(Remember, the Island moved in the finale. The Island may have gone to another place...or it may have hopped into another time.)

So how does this all work? And where in the world are these stations? We'll have to tune into what is looking like an exciting fifth season in order to see."

Thoughts?

Lost, a quiz

So, Michael Ausellio over at Entertainment Weekly is dropping hints about what happened to the island. In the form of a quiz.

Says Ausellio:

We will come to learn that one of the following is true in Lost's fifth season premiere.
A. The Island moved forward in time.
B. The Island moved backward in time.
C. The Island did not move in time, but it did move in space -- to another location on the planet.
D. The Island did not move in time or space -- it's still there, but Dharma tech renders it invisible to the naked eye.

What do you think happened?