Final Destination/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

* Why do these movies exist? Seriously, why do they exist? From a purely metalogical standpoint, the premise just makes no sense whatsoever: Someone has a premonition that a bunch of people including themselves will die horribly in an accident, saves some people and themselves from said accident, then they all (mostly) get killed one by one in a series of [[Necro Non Sequitur|bizarre accidents]] by the [[Grim Reaper]]. Either Grimmy is bored with normal death, and is screwing with the vision-bearer ''just'' to cause the Rube Goldbergian deaths and get a chuckle, or he has no idea that the visions even exist, and ends up getting caught with his scythe up his pelvis when the supposed victims avoid their fate. Either way, what's the point?

** Because the writer was inspired by the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Twenty-two" and wanted to expand the story into a full length movie.

*** Let's run with that theory for a second. Under this assumption, does it mean that some people have discovered ways to evade the power of the Death Note (through premonition), or that this dork is a truly sick mind, giving people visions to give them the false hope of escape?

**** I'm going to go with the latter. Never underestimate the human capacity for being seriously twisted.

*** Then there's only one explanation for {{spoiler|why Death gives the premonitions and makes them die later...[[Complete Monster|he's an asshole and he loves toying with humans.]]}}

** And now we've gone back to {{spoiler|the visions aren't Death's plan and there's a way of avoiding your own death in ''6''}}. Can we ''please'' keep a consistent explanation for how Death's Design is supposed to work out, for the love of Anubis?

** We can argue that they were supposed to die a violent death, so Death ''has'' to kill them off violently.

*** Then why doesn't Death find a way to kill them off in a similar manner? For instance, killing the survivors of the car crash in the second movie in vehicle-related accidents (as happened to Kat in the same movie)?

** There's also the fact that if the survivors witnessed the horrible accident they had avoided, then all of them spontaneously keeled over from heart attacks, strokes and other such things... it wouldn't really make a very interesting movie.

* Can somebody explain to me why the main page rarely ever mentions examples from the books? There are SIX of them, plus a few graphic novels (as opposed to four movies). I don't need to read about the same example from a part of a movie constantly being brought up five different times, many of the tropes mean the same thing, and some actually redirect to other examples on that page (such as deaths involving the head). Also, as some are novels, you obviously can't get away with a lack of plot development; many of the books are several hundred pages, so you'd think it would get mentioned MORE then the movies. Even if you don't care about plot, there still are a lot of deaths.

** Obviously because more tropers have watched the movies than read the books, and it is they who add examples.

* I remember something from the fourth trailer about a few nails springing off and big cracks coming up in a racing stadium all leading to a car crash. To me, that's just too audacious, and I just knew that I wasn't one for this series.

** The hydraulics were already messed up. (When the attendant was snapping harnesses down, the pipes underneath the cars began to leak). While the camera wasn't present, Death may have instead found some convenient doohickey owned by another kid on the roller coaster and made it fall while they were on the loop. Or perhaps the emptiness of the back cars upset the balance of the already unstable coster and caused it. There's a slew of reasons.

** This troper assumed that the coaster's post-vision crash was yet another case of Death mucking around, taking out a whole bunch of people from the top of the To-Die list in one go. We just didn't get to see the exact mechanics of it, because we were following the main characters instead of watching the rails' malfunction.

* What kind of a doctor LEAVES while the patient is getting LASIK?

** A busy one?