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Originally Posted by Jeritron
In the afterlife the island is a distant memory, and I guess that's why it's dead and not a factor. That's just a way of showing it.
The Bomb didn't have anything to do with anything in the afterlife though. The Bomb either never went off, or was neutralized by the electromagnetic pocket.
Whatever happened there was The Incident, and the Dharma initiative just sealed the area off and finished the hatch, and remembered it all as a bunch of crazy bastards causing mayhem.
Jack and Co. magically travelled back to 2007 right after. I don't know if The Incident caused that, or just The Island's will. Probably both.
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Also, Richard says he "watched them die" regarding Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Jin, Juliet, Hurley and Miles in 1977.
He was definitely referring to The Incident. Him and Eloise Hawking helped them find the bomb to use, but then split up from them because Eloise was pregnant.
She is the one who insisted on going with them, but Richard knocked her out to protect her. He said he was going to bring her out of that cave through the main entrance, instead of going through Dharmaville with them.
It's highly likely that when she woke up, she wanted to go see what was going on and her and Richard went to watch The Incident from a safe place.
Richard obviously thought this meant they were dead, since they were gone afterwards.
When they came along in 2004, he knew that was the versions of them that would go to 1977, but thought they would die there since that's what he saw, and didn't know they would be coming back to 2007 soon after.
Pretty awesome stuff. Time travel is great, but tough to pull off. I think they did a damn good job in Season 5.