Maybe there really are two groups of Others. I heard somewhere that there are actually two islands with the Others' commune on a separate isle, this would mean that there are another group (Hostiles) on the current isle - the wild ones that Jin & Eko saw. Ben's Others dress up like the Hostiles when they come over because tattered rags are the new In thing this fall season.
But then, from the Opening scenes this season we see that it is actually the same island - or maybe two islands in close proximity... but that doesn't make that much sense, whoever traverses the island would have spotted the other one...
There better be a good explanation, coz it's starting to look a bit iffy.
Actually the only person who has claimed to have mapped out the island is Danielle, none of the Losties have done it - Sayid got captured before he could do it. The island looks Huge...
Either Danielle is a forward scout for the Others pretending to be insane or they manage to keep her running in circles and away from the other half of the island via some device - spooky whispering voices or black smoky monsters (whatever happened to that?).
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