Does she succeed tho? If not, it's commentary on the state of public education*; you shouldn't really fault an uneducated human for trying to reason by analogy.
(*The first big argument my pooner ex-sister and I had was when I told her that no, you can't blow up the Vatican with antimatter.)
Personally, I think seasons 3, 4 and the first half of 5 of Lost are really, really good. Its the point of the series where they decided to stop fucking around with season long mystery boxes and gave people an answer for every question the series raised. Its good, solid genre television.
Then the second half of season 5 happened.
In season 4, the series protagonists get off the island. Jack, who was a hero and a leader on the island, realizes his life off the island sucks, so he guilt trips all the other survivors into CAUSING A SECOND PLANE CRASH so they can get transported back to the island.
The vast majority of the people who stayed on the island were killed off. However, those who survived, were transported back in time to the 70s and were stuck there for years. They eventually integrated themselves in the time period, formed families and were generally living happy lives.
But then Jack comes stumbling in and guilt trips everybody into returning to the present. And how does he plan on doing this? How else, by detonating a nuke on the island. And for some reason, everybody on the island who had moved on and started families and made friends in the 70s decided, "yeah, let's kill everybody so Jack can maybe get teleported to the future."
Of course they immediately fuck up the 'nuke our friends and family' plan and that's how Juliette winds up in a ditch hitting the nuke with a rock. She does succeed in her retarded plan. The nuke goes off and they all get teleported back to the present (where they are all subsequently murdered by a demon).