- Aliens are dumb. Or at least that's what our narrator tells us. Okay, then.
- By "aliens," she doesn't mean the Others, who are the aliens in this story. Those guys are super smart (much smarter than humans).
- The dumb aliens are just humans' idea of them in pop culture. Little green men—that sort of thing.
- In the movies, those dumb aliens are always defeated by humankind.
- But it sounds like that's not how things have been going with the Others.