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Okay, it's nice that people are still debating some of the finer points of the finale, but I'd like to try to settle the current polar bear dispute. First, very few things are "obvious" on this show. That's the appeal for some of us, that we are not given the whole story, and that there are often multiple plausible explanations for what we see. That being said, why can't both phantom and his critics be partly right? A polar bear was once used to turn the wheel (whether by rope, or harness, or pully or by direct pulling/pushing on the spokes), perhaps on an occasion when the island had to be moved but noone wanted to be the person jettisoned off the island, and it went poof into the desert where it died and decomposed in the sand and was later found by Charlotte. But, polar bears were not always used to turn the wheel, and were not on the island just for that purpose. There are no absolute answers here.

Just because it's cold doesn't mean that polar bears were needed down in that tunnel, nor does the fact that the wheel only turned halfway before you hit the wall mean that polar bears could not have been used. That Halliwax's jacket was in the locker doesn't have to mean that he turned the wheel often (he could have been studying the wheel's properties). And, the fact that Ben blew up the pod to access the tunnel doesn't necessarily mean that it was the only entrance to the tunnel. It simply means it was the entrance that Ben used on that occasion (maybe the other one is blocked by that pissed off polar bear). There is usually a back way (remember the Swan hatch).

I hope everyone is laughing as much as I am that there is a much too serious debate about whether or not it makes logical sense for a polar bear to be turning an ancient wheel that can move an entire island and its immediate surroundings in time and space. If not, you guys need to go have a stiff drink, or get laid (or both).