Hey, how about that chosen one motif? The one where you've got this seemingly humble character but there's something special about

them and as the story unfolds a little bit you realize that they might be the

one who fulfill the ancient prophecy or the one that can summon the secret power, defeat

the ancient evil, or wear the Martian battle armor like Alita Battle Angel.

Even that recent horrible movie draws on

the chosen one motif. I mean come on. The Matrix, Harry Potter, every young

adult lit book ever.

And really it goes back a long ways because the sword in the stone.

That's kind of YA lit in a sense too.

Like only the chosen one can pull the sword.

I mean, how is that different from only the chosen one can

wield Mejolner and the Captain America is maybe also chosen? We like this motif

in part because of that diamond in the rough, there we go Aladdin, that diamond in the rough, there we go, Aladdin, that diamond in the rough theme is fun and it

appeals to, you know, our sense of our own humble station in life and maybe it's something that gives us some hope to cling to from kind of a me-centric point of view

But it's also a motif that really comes with hope in general because you know you look around in these situations and it seems like there is no leader there is no hope there is no good thing coming and these kind of stories reiterate the idea that maybe the thing or the person with which hope comes is right in front of our faces and we just don't see it yet but it could be anywhere and of all the chosen one

motifs the greatest one is the one that's in the Bible.

I guess you could argue in a lot of ways that the whole chosen one motif moving forward from the Bible

is all kind of descended from this narrative. I mean, yeah, you from the

humble of the Bible is all kind of descended from this narrative. I mean, yeah, you have heroes of old and things like that, but the humble nature of Jesus tied in with a couple thousand years of prediction and prophecy.

I mean, there's a lot converging on this character.

And really, what we've been seeing, and we're going big picture here,

so step back with me, what we've been seeing in Matthew chapters one, two, and three really is a unique

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