Headscratchers / Final Destination

• The FBI finds Alex at the cabin and chase him. They are yelling that they want to help him. At first one might assume they are just saying that to trick him, but it really comes across as the next parts play out that they have had a Heel–Face Turn and really DO want to help him. So what's with that? Orphaned reference from where they changed the ending?
• In the alternate ending, they had Clear temporarily cheating death when she was pregnant with Alex's baby, then death coming back for her (implied) after she gave birth, thus implying that it doesn't kill the innocent and uninvolved. Okay. A few questions: Why, then, did it let the plane, with children on it, explode? And, if Clear wasn't meant to live, then that baby wasn't meant to be born, so why was it chill with that?
  • It's to do with the whole "New life defeats death" thing, they explore in Final Destination 2; it is theorised that if a woman who cheated death manages t have a baby it "resets" the list, or something because that baby was never part of the original design. It has nothing to do with how "innocent" the survivors are.
• Te twist was that Alex got the order wrong and Clear was supposed to die before him, because he was supposed to change seats and didn't. This makes no sense to me, because the fact that he didn't change seats shouldn't affect the order at all; if he would have died before Clear if he'd changed seats, that means he would have been before her on the list.
  • He was thinking the whole time of his original seat on the plane (his ticket would say his planned seat number). It's not until he sees the article about Blake and Christa that he realises they asked him to switch seats. In the vision they ask him to switch, and he goes to another seat that's much further away. In the original plan, he was supposed to move and get killed that way. When he was remembering who sat where, he accounted for his assigned seat on the plane, forgetting that he moved. The order went Tod, Terri, Ms Lewton, Carter, Billy, Clear and then Alex.
• Why does Death make the strangling death look like a suicide? It literally retracts the water it used to make him slip.
  • The directors initially were going to have all of the deaths look like accidents or suicides but decided against it after filming Tod's death.
  • It also might've been an Homage to Rod's death in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street.
  • Death might've done so in an attempt to obscure its doings from Alex, who'd already messed up its plans once already. After Alex and Clear caught wise to how Death was actively intervening to ensure people died, there was no point to concealing the improbable nature of the "accidental" deaths.