I don't know why the Frozen Donkey Wheel is such a rediculous idea - we've seen an ancient heirogliphic covered door that somehow controls smokey, a four toed ancient statue, and somehow an ancient "donkey wheel" seems rediculous? We are dealing with an ancient force here as evidenced by not only the ancient technology used to control it, but by the ancient nature of all the ruins on the island surrounding the stations, the portal beneath ben's house, richards people, etc. Why does it seem so unreasonable that a huge, old looking wheel in the wall would be used to somehow move a mechanism that somehow manipulates the exotic matter in the area to move the island?

Also, I haven't heard this referenced yet, but if this show is obsessed with time loops and whatnot, why hasn't the correlation been made between this wheel acting as a literal manifistation, or representation of the wheel of samsara? In hinduism and bhudism the point is to make up for you bad kharma (dharma) or eventually become detached enough from the world by following the fundamental truths that you get unstuck from reality, and escape the wheel of samsara, or reincarnation. I thought this perfectly fitting into the shows religious themes and not out of place or lame at all.