Board Thread:(Re)Writing "Merlin"/@comment-5674726-20141115233659/@comment-24762954-20150510154943

You missed ''defined by some outside force part. ''I dislike only certain concepts(which seem to be prevalent) of fate. And they all inevitably come to something like that:

On Merlin, I think that fate, destiny and a predetermined future was not only contradictory within the show but that it also somehow absloved every character of their wrongdoings. All that pushing to make Merlin the wizard he was supposed to be seemed to be unnecssary because everything was supposed to turn out exactly the way it did. You know, "Merlin" actually has one redeeming quality - if you assume that there is no destiny and characters(most of all Emrys) have different motivations it will make much more sense(or will be much more interesting at least). I wrote about it in "Merlin" thread. Most notably first post - deliberate inaction of incredibly powerfull being. It would make "Merlin" somewhat of the spiritual successor to "Dune"(by Frank Herbert) - "The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better [to] rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes." and "Dune was aimed at this whole idea of the infallible leader because my view of history says that mistakes made by a leader (or made in a leader's name) are amplified by the numbers who follow without question."