Totally general and rather pointless comment, but I'm visiting my cousin for the weekend, and we're watching "The Final Destination". However, I don't really get it. I mean sure, this guy had a premonition, and because of it some people who were supposed to die did not. So now Death is out to get them! Yeah, that makes sense on some understandable level.

However! What exactly is Death in these movies? Is Death the (invisible?) Grim Reaper with his cowl and scythe? Or is Death some sort of force of nature? Or is Death fate? Or is Death something like a sadistic poltergeist?

I have two general theories. The first is that Death in the Final Destination movies is actually a whole bunch of entities, and they are all trying to one up each other. Each and every little Death is trying to find a newer and more creative way to take the squirming and fleeing characters out.

In the second and more likely theory, I figure that there is only one Death, and he's going out of his mind with boredom. In the history of humanity, can you imagine how many people he's had to kill with strokes, heart attacks, drowning, blood loss, hypothermia, poison, car accidents, etcetera. Poor death has been doing the same old job for a long time. He's stuck. No one else can do it. His job satisfaction is basically zero. He's trapped forever. So what does Death do? He finds ways to amuse himself, like exploding people inside out from the pressure of a pool drain, or sends rocks flying from lawn mowers into people's foreheads. Plus, Death gets the additional entertainment value of watching the stupid little mortals run around trying to stop him!

Priceless! And for everything else, there's MasterCard.