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“Uh, Freckles?  I was talkin’ about MY fork in YOUR outlet.”

The cult of “Lost” secrecy and impossible-to-decipher “clues” has always been a part of the show’s character, and it continues with the revealing of the name of season finale episode.  It’s too complicated for me to re-hash, so I’m just going to break out the blockquote from TV Guide:

Since Season 1, the producers of ABC’s Lost have assigned a “code name” to the season-ending twist that sends jaws plunging to the floor and heads a-scratching. It started with “The Bagel” (Walt is abducted by the Others!), and most recently we had the “Frozen Donkey Wheel” (a nod to the apparatus Ben uses to “move” the island, but in actuality referring to the reveal of Locke’s death).

Oh yes, “Frozen Donkey Wheel” was almost too obvious.  You see, I figured it was an ancient-looking wheel in a freezing sub-basement used to move the island across space and time, but it was actually referring to Locke’s death!  Fooled again by the “Lost” geniuses!

Anyway, the Season 5 finale is called “The Fork in the Outlet.”  The outlet is obviously a metaphor for the polar bear, while the fork is the smoke monster, and when the smoke monster attacks the polar bear it induces an electrical storm that opens the cross-dimensional portal for the aliens to attack.  It was the aliens all along!  We were just too blind to see!