I'm a huge fan of this franchise. It's a very intriguing, intense, creepy and so gruesomely entertaining series but I still don't get the importance of those visions. Almost all characters are dead. What power (or Force, or God) caused those visions???
shareNo explanation and, IMO, I really don't think they should try explaining. It's better that way
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You just don't wanna think deeply! OK, that's your choice & opinion
share You do realize I love Sunshine and Game of Thrones, right?
I don't want an explanation because there's no way for it to be natural AND logical AND satisfying.
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Maybe for you but not for me. I found it intriguing but again, to each their own.
And by the way, Sunshine & Game of Thrones didn't need any additional explanations, everything was clear
If it is some kind of force or entity it's a dick because it knows by now that you can't cheat death and still show people the future and gives them hope.
shareI don't know if you ever saw Lost, but the overall storyline for that series might help with this one. In five films, we've seen enough of the very creative, gory deaths--now's the time to advance the story. If the antagonist is Death, then the cosmic protagonist is whatever entity that supplies the visions. When the last of the series is made, that entity should be revealed, team up with the latest victims, and fight Death, the coroner.
shareMaybe it's an error or they have these visions by chance. I mean, a person's thinking actually comes several seconds before since the neurons move so fast. If you take that into account then every action we make is predestined. This may also explain their violent deaths - only the visionary should have lived but changed the course of action for others, therefore bringing an opposite force/reaction.
shareThis is what the 4th film KINDA supported on towards the last scene:
The premonitions are to get the group of people out, because they aren't meant to die in the disaster. They are meant to die somewhere else.
For example, Alex and the others are meant to die in different places, other than the airplane. So, Death gives him a vision to get them off the plane, because they realy originally AREN'T meant to die on the plane. In Alex's case, Alex was meant to die from a falling brick. Clear's final fate was to be blown up in a hospital.
If taking that theory to truth, that means no one really intervenes in Death's order. They are supposedly MEANT to be saved. So for example on that, Clear's final fate is to be blown up in a hospital. So death sends a premonition to Alex which gets her off the plane, and then Death sent more signs to Alex at the end of the 1st film so that Alex could go and save Clear at her malfunctioning electricuting house.
So, all in all, Death's plan has never ever been messed up with. At least according to that final line in the 4th film, "What if we didn't change anything? What if us being here was the plan from the beginning?"
Personally...I don't like to think it this way, lol.
But it does give a plausible explanation for the premonitions.
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very well put asouer8 kind of annoying they didnt stick with that theory. then again it does make it all rather moot i suppose
shareDitto, I much prefer to disregard 4's idea, mostly just because it completely contradicts the events of 2.
The idea that Death is sending them these visions and that it "wants" people to cheat death so they can die the "intended" way is completely incongruous with the fact that in 2 Death very clearly despises the Ripple Effect, and will go so far as to reverse the entire list just to seal the rift caused by these visions.
4 was just a mess in general then again haha, I think leaving it ambiguous works much better.
If you're going to use any film to argue about FD, I suggest not using the worst, most clumsily written of the sequels.
Your theory directly contradicts the whole premise of Final Destination 2, which explicitely makes it clear that all of the characters that should have died in Final Destination 1, but events in that second movie were screwed up the survivors of the first being cleaned up. I know we're talking about a mystical entity that doesn't need to obey human logic, but I gotta question the premonitions used to move one set of people around if it clearly already had plans for other people to die in the future.
I also don't believe that there's some good 'opposite force' that's trying to help these people, because frankly with a few exceptions, the deaths in each of the major disasters are far more quick and painless than what they ended up with when Death went back for them. Falling to a quick death is a much better experience than being roasted alive in a tanning booth, for just one of many examples.
"Working backwards to seal up the rifts" has always bothered me. It happened once in 5 movies. If it's doing it to seal the rifts, then 4 should be backwards too, to work backwards from 3. Or technically 1 should be backwards to work back from 5. It should be every other one.
shareI always thought God or a good messenger was trying to warn them, while maybe a spirit like "godparent death" or some rotten grim reaper was effectively trying to play God. Btw, the tanning girls were ultimately electrocuted, not burned to death; once the glass broke through, it was just a matter of time.
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hah yeah, millions of years, quadrillions of death, Death needs to shake it up a little.
shareThis is what the 4th film KINDA supported on towards the last scene:
The premonitions are to get the group of people out, because they aren't meant to die in the disaster. They are meant to die somewhere else.
For example, Alex and the others are meant to die in different places, other than the airplane. So, Death gives him a vision to get them off the plane, because they realy originally AREN'T meant to die on the plane. In Alex's case, Alex was meant to die from a falling brick. Clear's final fate was to be blown up in a hospital.
If taking that theory to truth, that means no one really intervenes in Death's order. They are supposedly MEANT to be saved. So for example on that, Clear's final fate is to be blown up in a hospital. So death sends a premonition to Alex which gets her off the plane, and then Death sent more signs to Alex at the end of the 1st film so that Alex could go and save Clear at her malfunctioning electricuting house.
So, all in all, Death's plan has never ever been messed up with. At least according to that final line in the 4th film, "What if we didn't change anything? What if us being here was the plan from the beginning?"
Personally...I don't like to think it this way, lol.
But it does give a plausible explanation for the premonitions.