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

On Fri, 9 May 2008 06:30:25 -0700 (PDT), ejt789_99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> On May 9, 7:15 am, "MikeMWired...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <tehMottJu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> >     *  I know Keamy's a cold-blooded killer, but damn. That is one hot
> > mercenary.
> >     * 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.
> >     * 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.
> >     * Locke's love of backgammon goes back to his childhood. Back in
> > the pilot, John tried to teach Walt the game.
> >     * 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?
> >     * Michael Emerson's delivery--half bored, half annoyed--when
> > Hurley asked Ben about shooting Locke was too perfect.
> >     * 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?
> >     * "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?

As perceived by at least some of the individuals subject to it?
Probably.  As perceived by someone who can see the forest for the
trees?  Probably not.

--
Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI