LOST - Season 3.5

There are about 8-10 more episodes this season (presuming the show ends in May). Here is my prediction of what will happen:

- Ben is no longer assumed as the leader of the others; Ben is the man under the leader, kind of like Darth Vader and the emperor.
- There are two methods to becoming an other: brainwashing, and the voluntary way. Jack is a voluntary guy. Evidently, all the kidnapped passengers are voluntary also, but only after getting over the trauma stage of being planewrecked on an island and captured by a group of savages.
- The LOSTies will meet with Jack and ask what's going on? and he will respond only with, "It's not what it looks like. These are GOOD people!"
- A third faction will be fully introduced, along with the current OTHERs and LOSTies.
- They will go back to the Russian scientists, but only for the season finale.

QUESTIONS:
- If the others are so super-human, then why do they want to kill themselves so willingly? And any super-human powers they have only seem to be intelluctual or psychological to them. They die alot and get schooled by LOSTy violence. And I guess if you are "angry," "scared," or have any negative traits, you cannot gain this super intellectual and pyschological power.
- Jack and that grey haired overweight guy really get along good after 2 days of being back on the main island. They forgive Jack for almost killing Ben, betraying the others, blackmailing them, and all that. There's no better way to settle it than with a game of touch-football!
- How can that French lady live on the island for 16? years, not ask questions, not explore beyond a 2 mile radius of jungle, and then not explain everything she knows to the only new friends she has?
...MMM...