Quote Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch View Post
Well, I'm going to have to strongly disagree with that. Something being improbable in writing is not inherently interesting—if anything the opposite is true. If the execution is anything less than flawless, an improbable story event just comes off as a cheap and lazy attempt to "subvert" the audience's expectations.

As for sparing Zenos because of writer fiat an Echo-based vision of the future, our version of the Echo doesn't work like that. We see visions of the past, not the future. And even if it did work like that, letting Zenos live at all would be wildly out of character for us. Far more likely than that, we'd probably kill Zenos, explain the vision to the Scions, and work with them to find a way to avert it that doesn't involve letting a homicidal maniac go free.

EDIT, More thoughts: Seriously, the amount of explanation we would need to justify the Warrior of Light having a vision of the future, knowing for a fact that it is absolutely real, completely immutable (ie. once it gets rolling there is no stopping it), and completely avoidable if we just don't do a specific thing would warrant its own cutscene as it is. That is a lot of effort to justify what is already a stupid premise: The Warrior of Light sparing an absolutely evil person and then trying to kill or severely injure their own allies to protect him. If we actually did something like that, we wouldn't get to fly off on our awesome dragon mount looking like a cool badass. We would have a LOT of explaining to do, and if we ever heard the end of it, it would be too soon.

And that's what I think this story concept as a whole: It's asking for an arc where the protagonist does something terribly stupid, producing nothing but melodrama, for the sake of an allegedly cool idea.
It's fine to disagree. The subject is, "Would you enjoy it?" so 'no' answers are perfectly valid as well. However, you're simply objecting to any sort of possibility that would realistically exist as extremely problematic for both the WoL and the Scions. You can pass off such disturbances as "cheap and lazy" ploys to subvert our attention, but all you're doing is passing judgment before witnessing its execution. The fact that this entire faction is never at odds with each other, and the WoL's passiveness is extremely unrealistic.

While the blessing of light is strictly defined, the Echo is not. We don't know, nor understand everything about the Echo, and it wasn't until recently that we learned it can foretell future events. They opened the door to the 'chicken or the egg' analogy, and a vision or intervention can come from our future selves if we want to object that the WoLs echo cannot evolve past what we know it to be. Zenos already pointed out to us that we basically use it instinctively, implying that harnessing and controlling the power is possible. Because the full and true power of the Echo is left ambiguous, it's the card that lets the writers pull just about anything out of their butts.

Honestly just sounds like you're pretty bitter about not only the story as is, but also the direction it's headed. If that's the case, then I really don't know what to tell you. These are just ideas being tossed around, and not even headcanon. Since you're so objectionable and apparently know what makes good story telling, why don't you enlighten us to how you would make this group of characters who become continuously more uninteresting, interesting. We know that the current conflict is coming to a conclusion, so how do we keep this story going while keeping it interesting, and avoiding another 'OMG prevent the calamity' premise we've been doing this whole time?