Erik Campbell (Final Destination Bloodlines)

Okay, first of all, I literally haven’t seen a single person on here talking about Final Destination Bloodlines. Where are all the final destination fans??

Anyways, that movie was so fucking good and everyone should watch it (if you’re okay with blood n gore n all that fun stuff).

I should also say that this blog post contains spoilers !!! So if you haven’t watched Bloodlines yet and intend on watching it, don’t read this unless you don’t care about major spoilers. Idfk, it’s your life, not mine. It's also missing a few details so it might not make total sense if you haven't watched it anyways.

Now that I’ve gotten my disclaimers out of the way, allow me to begin my long winded (positive and negative, but not neutral) rant about Erik Campbell because I love him so fucking much.

I knew I was going to love Erik from the get-go. He played John Murphy in the 100, and I used to be obsessed with that show when I would watch it with my dad when I was younger. Not to mention, I was attached to Erik's character from his “death” trailer. Y’know the trailer where we see the chain get caught on his septum ring and the tattoo parlour catches fire? Yeah, that one.

I was basically preparing myself for him to die from that moment on, and when it got to that scene, I was distraught. Literal tears in my eyes, my hands were clammy, I felt nauseous and I was like “yeah I fucked up breaking my whole rule of never get attached to a final destination character” which it’s not my first rodeo. (Looking at you, Ian McKinley.)

But then, after that scene where he was going to supposedly die, we see him walking down the street just drinking a juice box as if he didn’t almost die the night before. Like okay man??? The whole time after that fire in the tattoo parlour I was freaking the fuck out about him. I felt so nauseous when Stefani mentioned the whole chain of events that could’ve been triggered by the tree trimmer. And it did get triggered because of the tree trimmer but it was to kill Julia, which I was relieved but also really sad about cause when Stefani was trying to save her she told Julia “Don’t be scared, you’re not next” when she infact was next, but thats besides the point. This blog is about Erik, not Julia.

So y’know after Julia dies and the family is all gathered inside, and it’s revealed that Erik isn’t even Howard’s biological son which meant he wasn’t going to die I got so fucking excited. I had so much hope for him.

Worst mistake ever. ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN HIM AND IAN MCKINLEY. (I’ll make a blog about this tomorrow, probably)

Cause y’know I was like “oh hell yeah, I can stop worrying. He’s literally not on deaths list! He’s gonna live! Party time!” and then the conversation with Bloodsworth when he told them ways to hold off death and like stop the curse… and how after all that he told them things get messy when you mess with death. Yeah my dumbass didn’t clock that at first when Erik started plotting a way to make Bobby flatline so he could be resuscitated and stop that curse. I was just focused on the fact that Stefani, Charlie, and Darlene were giving up on Bobby because it was too risky.

Erik didn’t care that it was risky. He could’ve told them they were all up a creek, but instead he decided he was gonna try and save his brother.

And with that whole plan and everything I was like “Okay so like this is going really well. But that MRI machine is making me anxious. Guys hurry it up and get away right neow.” cause that whole scene was so sweet it had me tearing up but it also had me stressing because of that damn MRI machine.

That scene was the worst of the entire movie for so many reasons. Like, Erik reassuring Bobby he’s gonna be the one to take care of Paco? Oh my god. Erik had so much hope, it’s horrible. I hate it.

And then when I saw the teslas of the MRI keep rising, that’s when my dread set in. It was suffocating I wanted to walk out of the theater so damn bad. Like my hands were instantly clammy, I was nauseous, shaking, I felt the colour leave my face, dude. In that moment, I processed everything.

Erik was messing with death, and JB warned them that when you mess with death, things get messy. Eriks piercings started to stand up and I was just telling myself “It’s gonna be fine, Erik is gonna realize whats happening and hes gonna turn around and leave and he’s gonna save himself and Bobby” and that just made the entire thing worse, because as I was telling myself that, the wheelchair he had for Bobby pinned him to the MRI machine.

I was still trying to make myself believe he was gonna manage to get out of it, even though it was clearly impossible, and he was going to die. Bobby saving himself only to die right after also made it worse. Just one thing after the other, it was all so devastating to me.

Erik didn’t have to die, but he did because he wanted to save his brother. He wasn’t supposed to die yet had the worst death out of anyone in that damn movie. I’m never going to get over it.

Another thing I want to talk about is people talking about Erik and how they don’t like him because it was “his fault” Bobby died. While you can argue that it is his fault, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not Erik's fault at all. If anything, it's Erik's fault Bobby died the way he did, and nothing else. I don’t blame him for that anyway, since he was literally the only one trying to do something to save Bobby and everyone else in the process when he wasn’t even involved in the whole bloodline thing.

Bobby was going to die no matter what, and who knows, maybe Erik fucking around with the vending machine and getting the spring dislodged spared Bobby from a worse fate? We’ll never know. (Unless the creators say something, but even then it wasn’t mentioned in the movie, so I’ll ignore it.)

Erik is quite literally the best character of the franchise, along with Ian McKinley, but it's not shocking I say that since they’ve got so many parallels.

Which sucks cause I loved Ian and it was horrible when he died, seeing Erik die because I let myself believe the false hope I was given was like Ian dying all over again, but worse cause I atleast knew Ian was gonna die since I didn’t let myself have false hope with him. (Sorry, Ian.)

Okay, that’s all about Erik for now. I’ll most likely find something else about him to yap about and post that later.

The post talking about the parallels between him and Ian is definitely coming as soon as I get the chance to write it.

Anywho, bye-bye!!!

xo, Dylan

Look @ him b4 you go </3

BTW OH MY GOD THIS PHOTO IS FROM THE SCENE WHERE HE'S REASSURING BOBBY RIGHT BEFORE THEY BOTH DIE. UGH I LOVE IT SO MUCH EVEN THOUGHT IT MAKES ME SAD. (vvv)