Destiny Question

If it was Daniel Faraday's destiny to go back to the Island, why did Ms. Hawking have to work so hard to guide him there? Shouldn't this have happened on its own? This calls into question the whole idea of destiny. If there really was only one possible outcome - that Daniel goes to the Island to be killed by his mother - then she shouldn't have cared whether he spent his time playing the piano, mackin' on Theresa, or solving ridiculously complex physics problems. Same goes for her encounter with Desmond. Whether he bought that ring for Penny that day or not, she should have known that he would end up on the Island regardless.

I think Ms. Hawking didn't really believe in destiny at all, hence why she felt the need to push her son onto a path that led to the Island. And at the same time, she wanted him to develop an expertise in physics so that he could crack the straitjacket of time that binds people into "whatever happened, happened". As a dutiful Other (Or was she? We haven't seen her on the Island in 30 years. Maybe she was banished? That's a topic for another time), she would follow her destiny as she knew it to be, but all the while holding out hope that her son could figure out a way to erase her terrible act. Whether it worked or not, we'll find out in a few weeks.

My faith in the "whatever happened, happened" theory has been waning of late. Since the finale, I've been firmly in the camp that Jughead always explode, that was indeed the incident, and there was nothing Jack could do to reset everything back to September 22, 2004. Now I'm not so sure. I'm still confident that we're not going to start Season 6 with 815 coasting into LAX, nor will the plane crash again with slightly different circumstances or anything like that. But how could an atomic bomb go off in such close proximity to characters like Chang and Radzinsky - two characters whose futures we have seen in the form of orientation videos and blood splatters - without them being killed? It's impossible. The Jughead explosion was not part of the original timeline. I just can't figure out what timeline it will create.