Ability to see the future: Loose plot thread?

[Iscah]

Visions can make for good drama if written correctly. I just would prefer a writer capable of doing them right being the one doing the actual writing.

Yes, you can do interesting things with visions, but that doesn't mean you have try to fit both unalterable and alterable visions into the same plot or the same person's skillset.

Also, I don't think either of those scenarios are good ones, especially if we already know whether they can be averted or not. The first one shouldn't have us trying to stop it at all, if we know the disaster is inevitable, because the audience can see a mile off that if we can't stop it then meddling is probably going to cause it – so I don't think that's the sort of vision you would portray in the first place to make for a good story.

And the second plot doesn't need to be an alterable vision to carry out that drama, and indeed there would be more point to it if the vision can't be prevented: if you see the victim not already dead but about to be killed, then you have a fixed event that the plot can pivot around. You can't avert it but you have control over what happens before and after.