Originally Posted by boo boo

One thing I want to know is, how can Ben still be alive and off the island in that alternate timeline? If Jack's plan to blow up the whole island succeeded and created an alternate timeline, then shouldn't Ben be dead since he was on that island as a kid? How did he survive? I also want to know how in the hell ANYONE is alive right now. I mean the f*cking island blows up and yet... it didn't, and everyone gets nothing more than a bad headache.