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When the Others have their undoing, say, sometime around the season finale , I'll bet it will have less to do with underestimating the Lost, than overestimating their own. The Lost have been behaving like wounded animals, lashing out violently, acting on base human instinct, while the Others are disciplined and believe themselves to be enlightened in some way. In just about every confrontation between the two groups, the Others make some offer based on trust, and the Lost fight back single mindedly. Sun shooting the Woman on the boat is the latest drastic example.

I believe Ben and Juliette are psychiatrists or psychcologists by training, who hope to save the Lost from themselves, by bringing them around to, well, their philosophy hasn't been revealed just yet, but clearly they want them to give in and listen.

And yet, we've seen hints of discord among their group, and the cracks are beginning to show. I think that over the course of this season, we'll see their intellectual discipline break down under the strain, and they'll begin to act more like the feral Lost. The Lost will drag them down, rather than be dragged up.

Here's a wild prediction: By the end of this season, (setting up the next) the two groups will have completely broken apart and formed new alliances - One mixed tribe of Others and Lost opposing the other. I see Ben and Jack leading one with Sawyer and Juliette leading the second. Egads, how can Kate choose?!? Sun Vs. Jin! Eko vs. Sayeed! We can even have another catastrophic sci-fi machina as either the catalyst or endgame. The mind boggles.

Oh, man I can't remember the last TV show to get me speculating like this. What a great show!

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