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

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> * "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.
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I agree that it's a clunker.  But I don't think the concept is off at all.

It's a very poetic juxtaposition of apparent contradictions.  The problem 
(for me) is that it just sounds awkward and contrived.