Normally, I wouldn't think of this as any big prediction to be proud of (because it's hard for me to fathom how it wasn't obvious to everyone) but it seemed apparent to me that the time-traveling Losties were going to be the ones to cause the incident, to cause Ben to become Ben, and that nothing they did back then was going to change the present in any way whatsoever. And, in fact, they'd be the reason for the present to be how it was.
I remember being baffled at how anyone would think otherwise (I mean, this is classic time-travel story stuff). But, nevertheless, people were actually debating this. Many were thinking that Sayid actually killed young Ben, or that Jack's ridiculous plan may actually change the future (wtf did they think the final season would be if that happened? Them just living happy lives off the island? lol). I felt pretty confident from the get-go that "whatever happened, happened." And, as it turns out, that was the case.
True, "whatever happened happened" is such a classic time travel trope (in movies and TV, not necessarily in books) that it's shocking anyone thought otherwise.
HOWEVER
Faraday, the supposed expert, came back at the season 5 finale with the proposition that free will or "loooooove" could change the past. But it turns out he was wrong, and got his stupid self killed by his own mom.
So yeah, I wouldn't count that as a big prediction per se, although any number of smaller predictions could spring from it (i.e., the Losties causing the Incident, Sayid "creating" Ben by shooting him, etc. -- all of 'em could've learnt a lesson from ol' Oedipus Rex)
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