What Tru Calling Reveals About Coming to Terms with Fate
The moral case for realizing that you can't fight fate.
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Fate is a tricky thing.
Most people have some conception of it. Some believe that it doesn't exist, while others believe that it affects everything and anything they do. That their whole lives are governed by it. Then there are those who believe it's a much more complicated thing. Perhaps there is such a thing as fate but people can still make their choices within the different elements of fate. Only the big events like who you fall in love with or how and when you die are determined by some force beyond our understanding. Whatever your conception of fate is, it's hard to find someone who doesn't have an opinion on its existence or lack thereof. The problem is that there's no way to really tell which is true and which isn't. In most cases, attributing something to fate usually happens in the aftermath. You meet the love of your life and live happily ever after, hopefully, and then you tell people who ask that it all came down to fate. Or you or someone you love dies and at the funeral, people talk about how there really wasn't anything that can be done. That it was fate and no one could've done anything to stop it.
But what if you could? What if you knew whether or not fate had plans for you? That your life had been planned out ahead of time or that it wanted you to do certain things and not others? How would you know what the right thing to do was? Especially if the outcomes aren't necessarily what you would've wanted? If you had the chance to make fate play out differently for someone around you... would you? Or would you choose to let things play out the way they're supposed to? And what if even though you tried to make things work out a certain way, it didn't? Could you live with knowing that despite everything, you didn't have any other choice?
Finding a way to live with this realization obviously wouldn't be very easy. Knowing that those around you might need help and there's nothing you can do about it. People who don't know for sure whether fate is real struggle with whether or not they could've done something. At a certain point however, it becomes counter productive to worry endlessly about what fate has or doesn't have in store. You just have to come to accept that you'll never know for sure.
Tru Calling at its core is about coming to terms with whether or not fate exists. Tru Davies, as played brilliantly by Eliza Dushku, is given an incredible gift. The ability to change the outcome of fate. To make sure that the lives of the people around her play out differently and give them a second chance at a better life. Or at least a life that doesn't end prematurely. Where they can choose differently and make what might be considered a better choice. But this doesn't mean it's an easy thing to come to terms with. She is after all changing people's lives. Affecting the outcome in ways she can't possibly know will be better for others.
Ultimately, she has to learn that her ability to affect people's lives doesn't mean she has full control. Some decisions are still out of her hands. She can't make people do things she wants, even if it's supposed to keep them alive. They will choose for themselves, and she has to live with the consequences of it. She has to accept fate.
Explore the reality of coming to terms with fate by checking out Tru Calling as soon as you can.
Currently, the only place you can check out Tru Calling is on YouTube and not every episode seems to be available at this time.