Re: "Destiny, John, is a fickle *****."

On May 9, 7:15=A0am, "MikeMWired...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> =A0 =A0 * =A0I know Keamy's a cold-blooded killer, but damn. That is one
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> mercenary.
> =A0 =A0 * Geronimo Jackson strikes again. Teen Locke had a poster for
the
> band taped up in his locker. We saw one of their albums in the Swan
> station as well as in another of Locke's flashbacks.
> =A0 =A0 * The Mystery Tales comic gave us some intriguing hints about
the
> island's future. The cover read, "What was the secret of the
> mysterious hidden land? Does it pay to ignore the voice of warning?"
> The main image--a city with another city floating above it on a cloud--
> resembles Locke's new plan for the island. There was also a man
> looking out the window, terrified at the sight.
> =A0 =A0 * Locke's love of backgammon goes back to his childhood. Back in
> the pilot, John tried to teach Walt the game.
> =A0 =A0 * Why didn't Locke remember meeting Alpert as a child? I know he
> was young, but it was a strange moment in his life. Why did Alpert
> pretend not to know Locke when they met on the island?
> =A0 =A0 * Michael Emerson's delivery--half bored, half annoyed--when
> Hurley asked Ben about shooting Locke was too perfect.
> =A0 =A0 * It's strange that significant people are behind the 815ers'
> presence on the flight in the first place. Jack would never have been
> on the plane if Christian hadn't died in Australia, Claire was
> convinced to take the flight by the psychic Malkin, and now Locke and
> Abaddon. Did someone (maybe Widmore) want those specific people on
> Oceanic 815?
> =A0 =A0 * "Destiny, John, is a fickle *****." Best line of the episode.
> Ben has become a bitter man.

Destiny: a predetermined course of events often held to be an
irresistible power or agency
fickle: marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability :
given to erratic changeableness

So a predetermined outcome is erratic?

I thought this was a clunker of a line.