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Originally Posted by sa226
I think it has to do with Desmond being the key. Whatever it was with him he was the only one that could withstand going "into the light". I think that is what Widmore was doing with him with the electromagnetic testing.
So Desmond removed the plug thing allowing the smoke dude to be killed, but also destroying the island. When Jack went down the light wasn't technically on, he turned it back on, and saved the island in the process.
As for him lying in the light pool thing after he replaced the plug....I don't know why that didn't do anything to him....maybe that is what killed him, not the stab wound.
Just guesses
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How did Widmore know that the ability to survive the electromagnetic blast is crucial so that one could withstand going into the light?
Yeah guesses is all we have left. The end was a success emotionally and "spiritually," but they did not bother to explain a single thing from the previous 5 seasons.
Walt being kidnapped by the others, statue and symbolism, why the island time travels, why did the purge occur, healing powers of the Island (could have saved Jack,no?), did Sayid die in the temple or in the bomb explosion, why was he killing people for Ben in the outside world, how could Desmond's conscience shift from dead to alive,...
Nothing was explained, it just "happened" but at the end it wasn't important why and how it happened, what was important were the characters and their group as a whole. They experienced it all because that was their purpose in life before they could all meet again for the last time. I guess...
PS So in a nutshell, the writers couldn't explain anything that happened on and off the island so they created a FS purgatory waiting room where the characters roamed aimlessly till life/death shifting Desmond brought them together so they could re-experencie the most crucial moments of their lives, remember and let go and die for good?