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Thought/question on the long death setups

posted 10 years ago by alexaw9
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The ones like the pervy guy, sorry I can't remember his name, who gets accupuncture, the needles go harder into his back, falls on the ground ... I can't remember what else happens before this, but ... the statue falling on his head.

Or Evan in FD2, hand in the garbage disposal, not being able to get it out or turn the disposal off, the fire, not being able to stop it, but it getting worse, the fire escape not working, he jumps on the ground, falls on glass, then is alive and gets the ladder through the eye.

I guess the second one is more of a good example of what I mean, actually. But you get the point. Does death mean for every part of that to happen? Every near-death in the death setup, every injury, every almost-death? Because it seems not, it seems like every part of the setup is another way they escaped death, as in the second example, if the garbage disposal I don't know, cut off his arm? Lol or more like, dying by fire. It seems like escaping death time after time. Then shouldn't they be put back to the top of the list? And if death IS controlling the whole sequence, it seems death knows Evan would put his hand down the garbage disposal with the watch on, getting it stuck, make the fire worse ... and that seems like death has control over the people completely. If so, why let them escape the bridge/plane/pileup in the first place, if you can control them?

These setups are fun, but putting thought into it seems to kill it a little.

[–] mjn-seifer 10 years ago

I think it's usually (if not always) a way to get the victim to where he or she needs to be in order to die. I will use Evan's death as an example;

Evan is to die from the ladder to the eye, this is Death's plan for him now. Evan needs to be outside for this to work, so Death creates a fire so he will take the fire escape, but in order to make sure Evan can't escape through the door, or extinguish the fire while it's weak, Death makes it so Evan can't move until the fire is too strong and blocking the doorway. In order to achieve this Death makes the magnet fall into the food, which makes microwave oven spark or whatever, and startles Evan so he'd have to put his hand in the hole.

I'll explain better when I can, as I know there were other things you said.

[–] alexaw9 10 years ago

That sounds like an interesting explanation; I like it. Let's say, though, that even though Death puts the fire in front of the door, Evan covers himself up and runs through the fire and opens the door and runs out(I don't know if you know what I mean ... people trapped in fires, run through as quickly as possible and cover themselves up with more clothes, whatever they can, reduces fire damage). Now, does Death start a new plan? Is this another escaping death so he goes to the bottom of the list, even though he did it himself and no one pulled him out of the way to save his life?

[–] john_stevensfiredragon 10 years ago

I don't think the characters can "intervene" for themselves in these movies.

That means, if they were able to escape Death's plan #1, Death will still chase them. It isn't only when other people INTERVENED that they move to the bottom of the list.

I think sometimes this is the case while sometimes Death has this convoluted elaborate set-up and misleads the viewers until they get to the 'real death plan #1'.

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[–] Oddark123 9 years ago

Death in this series also operates as freak accidents. Which in real life sometimes are just odd coincidences of things going wrong.

As a fictional movie about the subject they clearly love to play that aspect up to the eleven, but let's not write off things too easily.

If a bunch of minor things all screwed up in short order, a real human being could be as dead as a FD character. And if it does happen, most people just chock that up as "accidents happen".

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