Why It Is Always The Last Of Bloodline In Thrillers Like The Protector

 I have just finished an amazing series named The Protector available on biggest digital platform Netflix, that took me back to the history of great Ottoman Empire, and while I was watching the streets of Istanbul and the life in that wonderful city (obviously on screen) I was feeling at home.

The Protector is based upon Turkish novel A Strange Story of Charcoal and a Young Man by Kara Kalem and the first Turkish Netflix Original, it is a story of a young man named Hakan, who owns an antique shop in six hundred years old bazaar of Istanbul, but he has big dreams as he wants to be just like Faysel Erdem, a business tycoon of Istanbul. Our hero Hakan eventually finds a job in Faysel's company as a member of security crew.

But his destiny is to kill the last immortal as Hakan happens to be the last bloodline of the protector, for whom the Loyal Ones are waiting with patience. In the very first episode of the series a lady named Suzan Bayraktar comes to Hakan's shop looking for a specific shirt, but the adoptive father of Hakan Neset denies he has any such thing, to this Hakan is puzzled as the shirt is available in the shop and the lady is willing to pay huge amount. In desperation Hakan takes the shirt without telling his adoptive father and contacts the lady, but before the deal is finalized, Neset finds out Hakan and turns off the deal, during that an ambush takes place and Neset is hit with the bullet and it is revealed to Hakan that he is the last bloodline of an ancient warrior, who defended the city of Istanbul in the time of Mehmed the Conqueror. Using a virtue ring, a special dagger, and shirt of armor, blessed by holy prayer, and since then all three artifacts are passed to his bloodline to save the city.

Well....well....well.... now the million dollar question, why it is always the last of bloodline in such thrillers that have a connection with history. The dragon in The Adventures of Merlin was last of its kind, Sophia in The Davinci Code was the last bloodline of Christ and Robert Langdon from the Knight Templers and now this, our very Hakan is also the last bloodline of the protector. Why to put whole responsibility on just one shoulder? Can't this responsibility be shared? Why do these thriller writers mess up with our minds by creating the last bloodline protagonists? What if the last one died in a fatal road accident even before coming to know he is the last one, or what if he committed suicide finding out his girlfriend is cheating on him, or what if this last one died in youth due to a fatal sickness?

Don't they understand that it is we, who suffer while reading or watching the last one falling in troubles again and again, it is we who pray for the life of the last one during a scene where the last one gets himself into the trouble, though we know very well he would get out from it somehow, yet we take the tension. 

To be honest with you my dear readers, I have promised a hundred times while reading or watching the thriller that I won't pray for the last one any more but again and again I have failed to control my feelings for this last one thing, as I was unable to control myself for Hakan, especially when he went into the museum to get the special draggier, automatically my heart started praying for his safe escape.