Why the bomb didn't explode until the end

[Flight 815]

I remember a while ago some criticism about the bomb not exploding until the end. Was Sayid a little incompetent hooking it up and so on?

To me, the answer is simple. The bomb wouldn't explode because Jacob wouldn't let it. He used his hold on the island to keep the timeline the same.

Because of the way the passengers were split into two times from the same plane, the two times are somehow linked together. So, when Jacob is killed in 2007, suddenly his hold on the island is broken. This is also represented by the breaking of the ring of ash outside Jacob's cabin which means the loop is broken. Now the bomb can explode, changing the timeline.

BTW, I think the reason Sawyer "changed his mind" and decided to help "stop the incident" is because he bought Mile's theory that exploding the bomb would actually cause the incident. So this seemingly inexplicable and out-of-character change of heart is not really a change of heart at all.

[losttime]

I remember a while ago some criticism about the bomb not exploding until the end. Was Sayid a little incompetent hooking it up and so on?

To me, the answer is simple. The bomb wouldn't explode because Jacob wouldn't let it. He used his hold on the island to keep the timeline the same.

Because of the way the passengers were split into two times from the same plane, the two times are somehow linked together. So, when Jacob is killed in 2007, suddenly his hold on the island is broken. This is also represented by the breaking of the ring of ash outside Jacob's cabin which means the loop is broken. Now the bomb can explode, changing the timeline.

BTW, I think the reason Sawyer "changed his mind" and decided to help "stop the incident" is because he bought Mile's theory that exploding the bomb would actually cause the incident. So this seemingly inexplicable and out-of-character change of heart is not really a change of heart at all.


I thought he had a change of mind even before Miles said anything.

When Jack was walking with the bomb to the site and he saw Sawyer and they looked at each other and Sawyer still let him go, Miles hadnt made the comment yet about the whole incident thing. It wasnt until Jack was over there looking for a way to get to the tunnel created by the drill did Miles make that comment and a few seconds later Phil and gang are driving over to the site.


Or am I missing what you are saying?

[Flight 815]

No, you're not missing it. It's a side comment. I didn't remember the exact order of events. Nevertheless, if Sawyer had any doubts, that would've finally decided it for him I reckon.

The main point of my post was about why the delay in the exploding bomb.

[losttime]

No, you're not missing it. It's a side comment. I didn't remember the exact order of events. Nevertheless, if Sawyer had any doubts, that would've finally decided it for him I reckon.

The main point of my post was about why the delay in the exploding bomb.

I think that will be simply chalked up to be so that Juliet can get pulled into the tunnel and dramaically explode the bomb.

I dont think there would be any other reason unless TPTB are going to say that its because it landed in soft mud, doubtful.

[Beckstabber]

I don't think the bomb exploded at all.

If you remember, turning that frozen donkey wheel unleashed the energy in a pocket under the ground causing the time flashes. The drill at the swan site was drilling into a similar but larger pocket of energy. I think as Juliet was hitting the bomb and trying to make it explode, the drill broke open that pocket of energy for good and that flash of light wasn't the bomb, but was a time flash instead.

:eek:

[chester]

I don't think the bomb exploded at all.

If you remember, turning that frozen donkey wheel unleashed the energy in a pocket under the ground causing the time flashes. The drill at the swan site was drilling into a similar but larger pocket of energy. I think as Juliet was hitting the bomb and trying to make it explode, the drill broke open that pocket of energy for good and that flash of light wasn't the bomb, but was a time flash instead.

:eek:

I agree that the white flash at the end of the finale is probably not a nuclear explosion, in isolation. But is more like whatever happened when Desmond turned the failsafe key.

I think that the release of the energy, as you described, happens at exactly the same time as the bomb gets detonated. And these two things combined don't result in an explosion (nor 'the' incident), but rather an implosion (a new kind of 'the' incident?). As well as some freaky things happening to the people in the implosion's vicinity.