User blog comment:Merlaa/Is Kilgharah realy wise?/@comment-4683199-20121227212418

Discussions about destiny tend to get pretty philosophical. This is why:

Let's say, someone tells you it IS your destiny to become a millionaire, then logically, NO MATTER WHAT you do, you WILL become a millionaire, even if you don't don anything. So, if Kilgharrah said it was Arthur's destiny to be a Great King, Merlin really didn't have to do anything...all the episodes were useless... since no matter what happens, IT IS his destiny.... Really, the dragon could do nothing about it, there was actually no point of even telling Merlin his destiny is blah blah, sine IT IS HIS DESTINY.. If something is destined to happen, then that means it's been decided from before the actual event destined, and IT WILL happen. This is obviously not the case when destinies can be CHANGED.

If that is possible, then how do you know WHICH destinies can be changed or not? They said in the show that the future is unclear, but for some things it's certain. In that case Kilgharrah would have had to have known which destinies could be changed... So did he know? And if so, why didn't Kilgharrah tell Merlin the different destinies in each category?

Also, in most cases, the talk of destiny would involve God(s). So, if it IS possible for a God to change someone's destiny, (I think it was said in The Disir,) which Gods can, and to what extent? If God(s) create destiny AND it is unchangeable, then why would a person even try to change his destiny?

Coming back to the main question, if Destiny IS certain, then Kilgharrah, and basically the whole show was useless. If normal people can change it, does Kilgharrah know which destinies can be changed? How does Kilgharrah even KNOW all this stuff about destiny anyway? WHICH prophecies foretold all of this? Was it from the Disir in the past? AND, why was Kilgharrah so indirect to Merlin the whole time (or at least series 1-2)? Why did he always talk to Merlin in riddles, if he already knew which destinies are certain, he should have told Merlin about them.

But I will still NOT blame Kilgharrah, because of the complications of destiny, fate, and  prophecies. It's pretty much the writers' fault, since they put in all this stuff, and TRIED to make it simple, while it's not...(or maybe it IS simple and I'm just complicating it too much?)