Final Destination: Bloodlines, this is actually giving me avengers level threat energy(Spoilers!!!)

Final destination as a franchise has a single appeal, catching together a bunch of clueless idiots who are caught up in the plans of the most incompetent depiction of death ever to grace the screen.

I call him incompetent because my man literally has supernatural abilities to make coins bend against the laws of physics and get get stuck on train tracks to derail a train but he constantly has these extremely Grand plans to kill multiple people in a single go and then when this extreme approaching darkness triggers the latent psychic abilities in someone and grants them a vision causing them to of course escape, desth acts like an angry incel rrejected by the object of his obsessions and goes full ham on killing any survivors.

Well obviously I am being a little unkind here, because the thing is, in this movie it is finally revealed that deaths design isnt random, in other words, it isn't a completely conscious entity or if it is it has rules that it needs to follow, rules that you can interpret and use to predict its next move.

"It's like math" Stef says in this movie.

Now to give some context every final destination movie begins with a character having a premonition that causes them to escape a place where some strange series of events was going to cause a massive accident killing multiple people in a single go, but due to the premonition a lucky few survive but eventually death start ticking them off the list as they are not supposed to exist anymore.

Now why the premonition right? Well if you dont know, Final destination was originally going to be an episode of the X-files and in that episode a character from the show was going to explain this latent psychic ability as a genetic anomaly, a mutation.

And that actually makes sense, in a general sense in nature traits that lead to longer survival and therefore higher chance of offspring are naturally passed down the generations and spread through the population in a phenomenon known as natural selection.

And I like this idea because it gives the whole franchise a whole new meaning, there isn't some supernatural force trying to save these people or it isn't death taunting them just to stretch its own creative muscle, no this is something far deeper.

It's the natural cycle of life trying its best to fight against death.

Infact it makes sense that if death was this obsessed with who is and isn't supposed to exist that It's "over sanitization" of life would cause natural mutations to pop up in people to counter this and offer a chance at survival.

It's the same reason one mustn't rely too much on antibiotics, you do that and you simply speed up the development of antibiotics resistance in bacteria.

But the thing is right if this is a latent psychic ability one can reasonably assume that the Larger the event the more likely it is that an onsite person will randomly trigger their psychic ability and cause further spread of "supposed to be dead" people causing events that aren't "supposed to happen" and also spreading their own annoying mutations through the population. So why does death rely so heavily on these large events?

Well often times, It's just playing clean up, we learn in final destination 2 that many of the victims in the beginning car crash were saved by people who did but weren't supposed to survive the planet crash in Final destination one.

And as a result, since their saviors weren't supposed to exist, neither were they supposed to be saved, and so they should be dead as well, but they are not and every once in a while either due to human incompetency or naturally occurring random events, but mostly due to human incompetency death has these absolutely golden opportunities that it cannot resist taking in wiping multiple people off of it's list.

We see it in the poor construction of the roller coaster in three, in the problems in flight 180, the distracted drivers in 2 and we see it in the absolutely piss poor construction of the Skyview restaurant and its way too early openning without any checks or balances no doubt done by the company making it for a quick buck.

Capitalism!

I mean there were so many instances in this film where I was like "that would never happen in a resort like this they would have checks and balances against this..." and then i remember how businesses operate and how little they care for human life.

It turns out man was the true monster all along...

Anyways...

In a natural progression of events from 1 to 2 we see this go from survivors of an incident to those saved by the survivors, to then the survivors being able to pick up on signs to keep surviving in three and then 4 until finally in 5 which is actually a prequel we learn of the latest rule of death survival, you kill somebody, you get their remaining years.

Which may not be that many because death is a ruthless bastard who gets to everyone eventually.

As we see in the two people who "survived" 5 this way.

Now the only obviously natural progression that I can see is what if the survivors go on to have a family? Births that were never supposed to happen?

Well in 2 it is revealed that new life screws up death's design and apparently a new life is supposed to stop death then and there.

But that's not how shit works says final destination bloodlines as it reveals what happens when survivors have kid, death goes down the family tree from oldest to youngest killing everyone eventually.

The incident in the beginning of this movie is so massive that death takes years to get to them all, and then to their families.

And in these years they all have lives, grow up and prosper and we learn that one of the people who survived the Skyview disaster was non other than William James Bludworth.

A recurring figure in this franchise who gives cryptic hints to the survivors in every movie.

And this really adds a new dimension to this guy, as we realise who he is and why he does what he does.

He chose to be a coroner to be close to the potential survivors of such incidents and so he can guide them and learn more about deaths design, making the most out of the life he has been given by Iris, the grandmother to this movie's protagonist Stef.

He tells us another rule, since death has to go in the order that has been preset if a person who has it to be their turn, dies and is brought back to life then the cycle has to stop there, because technically the person died but technically they are alive so technically its still their chance and the ones down the line are still safe. Because as we have learned so many times, you dont control when you die if you try to kill yourself before its your turn, death will intervene.

So revival is a way to tie deaths hands but it would seem that if we are going as per this movie's and the previous movie's depiction of death, then death is a vengeful figure, i.e. it gets pissed when you mess with it, keep escaping it and eventually it throws something so big at you that you just can't escape it.

And it does not care about collateral once it is in that state.

Final destination two the giant hospital explosion, this movie the death of Erik who was no where in deaths design so much so that he survived his tattoo parlour burning down, is killed for his attempts to stop death in its tracks.

And he is killed brutally.

Infact I believe the flight 180 disaster was to kill Sam and moly and the others were just collateral that desth also wanted for some reason.

But it got pissed that he didnt also get the collateral and then started going after them one by one.

Infact going by this assumption that death is vengeful we realise why death goes after so many with this mutation to have visions, he is trying to root out the biggest threat to him.

But here we see how death failed so spectacularly that three generation were born before he could get to them.

The grandma iris singlehandedly kept death at bay, but in the end she go cancer, she was gonna die anyways so she decided to give into a death that she knew was coming to prove to her grand daughter once and for all how death is gonna come for them all.

And it loves to toy with its victims as we see it let's Stef think she has died and been brought back to life just to lull her into a false sense of security and then kill he anyways.

And this time an entire train derailed, I wouldn't be surprised if there were survivors that were "supposed to die" this time as well.

And we know what that means.

All in all Final destination bloodlines is a worthy entry in this franchise that adds a lot to the lore, gives us some clarity on previous events alongside some deliciously juicy and gory deaths and also the most horrifying way to learn your father isn't actually your father when death skips you because your mom actually had an affair so you technically were never a life that isnt supposed to exist.

But also you die anyways trying to defy death for your brother.

Peak.