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Randy had so many chances to survive

posted 16 years ago by AlphaMale87
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When Deke, Laverne and Rachel are swimming to the raft, Randy is the only one who witnesses a duck getting devoured by the oil slick from a far distance. By his expression, Randy knew something was up, but kept on going. As soon as he witnessed that, he should've 1] warned the others and 2] turned back around and hauled ass to shore instead of proceeding to swim to the raft. Also, when the tarp snatches Laverne, Randy uses his head and makes a swim for shore while the tarp chases after him. After making it to shore, he sits by the water and taunts the oil slick by saying "I beat you!" instead of getting his ass away from the shore and getting in the car. The ending to this segment still surprises me till this day as Randy could've easily made it out alive. Good sequel though.

[–] Danimal_77 10 years ago

You say he had many chances, yet you only listed 2 and one of which is pretty obvious.

[–] umiryuzaki26 9 years ago

Randy didn't passed the most basic morality test, he DID have to die one way or another.

What surprised me about this segment was the amount of subverted tropes. Final Girl poster girl Rachel is the first one to bite it. Our Good Guy turns out to be a creep devoid of any common sense (you are being chased by a man-eating blob, and two of your friends just *died*... YET that's the moment you choose to go all rapey on sleeping Laverne, handing her over to the creature in a silver plate, while you are a it?!), and EVERYONE DIES is directly linked to the necessity of avenging the usual irrelevant Party Girl's demise.

I was actually VERY pleased when the glob engulfed that poor excuse for a human being.