Alt-Sayid never crashed. Original Sayid did crash, did travel through time, and did shoot Ben.So yes Leilah, Ben was with the Hostiles at the time. Specifically, he was in a tent, chatting with Widmore. We don't really know how everyone got off the Island.   See 11 other replies

No, all the stuff we saw happen happened. It doesn't make sense to say that one thing happened (the bomb exploded) and all the others didn't.Original Sayid shot Ben, then went back to the Original Timeline. Alt-Sayid never time traveled and shot Ben, but it still happened because Original Sayid did it.Before the bomb there was one timeline, then after the bomb there are two. If someone from one timeline goes back before the bomb and changes something, that becomes history for both timelines because they share everything that happened before the bomb.That's how the show avoids the grandfather paradox.   See 11 other replies

Ben wasn't taken to the hostiles because he was never shot. Sayid didn't shoot him because the plane never crashed and therefore he was never on the island to have shot Ben.   See 11 other replies

But the bomb did explode and changed things. The plane never crashed, so Sayid never shot Ben.   See 11 other replies

Actually, they did NOT 'use a hydrogen bomb'. They used the FISSION CORE of a hydrogen bomb, which is a rather small and relatively low power device - likely not even as powerful as the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs which were measured in kilotons rather than megatons. The bomb they used would certainly not have destroyed the island as some have implied - it would have made a radioactive crater several hundred yards wide, but since it was underground the majority of the island would have remained untouched.The island sinking over time makes some sense - its also possible the island resurfaces sometime after the LAX time period - after all Eloise did describe it as 'constantly moving'.   See 11 other replies

But wasn't Ben still with the others when this happened? ugh, it's so freaking hard to remember things from that long ago. I'm up to speed with everything but this is the one thing still bugging me.   See 11 other replies