The Chosen One (in its most common iteration) removes a crucial part of a conflict: the hero. If he’s been Chosen by Whatever, he can safely assume that he is right and everyone else is wrong, that he does deserve to rule and get the girl and exterminate the orcs and whatever.http://samsykes.com/2011/01/the-chosen-jerk-jam-session-with-n-k-jemisin/
Sykes adds that something often lost is "the conflict of {the protagonist's} own morality", something which has some interesting possibilities in tense situations.
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