u/Ririkiyuu

Many of the protagonists save others from death, whether that’s accidental or on purpose, but how can you expect them to do so just like that? At first they don’t realise that death is coming for them. Around 2-3 deaths in is where they notice, and then they have a choice.

I do believe that realistically people would rather save their own ass than someone else’s, and not everyone is smart enough to come up with ideas on how to fool death’s plan. It’s more realistic NOT TO save people than to save them, and even then pretty much every single visionary helps save at least one person. Alex saves himself and Clear (for the time being), Kimberly saves Burke, Wendy saves Julie and Kevin, Nick saves Lori and Janet, Sam saves Molly, and so forth.

You see Sam getting loads of hate for “not saving anyone” but think about it this way—He isn’t present for half of the deaths. The only person he’s consistently with is Molly, who he does save. He wasn’t able to save Peter nor Block because he didn’t know Block was there and Peter was actively trying to kill not only Molly but him as well. There are little to no possibilities that I can think of where he would be able to save someone, and he at least tried when it came to Olivia. Hell, he attempted to save multiple people during the premonition, which would’ve been the exact events of the collapse had he not listened to his gut.

I don’t think it’s realistic to expect the visionaries to save people, but that’s my opinion.