Every Saw movie has a main character detective. A character to root for, someone you hope can somehow stop the traps going on. Saw 3D fails at this. I don’t know anyone who would say they liked Gibson. His acting is weird, to start with. I don’t know if this was the fault of the actor or poor directing but either way it’s bad. Not only is he rude towards Jill in an oddly sexist way, he also has no narrative reason to be the main character. They make up a whole story about him know Hoffman and how evil he is. It comes out of nowhere and is clearly just something the writers made up as an excuse for Gibson being here. This post isn’t just here to talk about how much I dislike Gibson though. I think I could fix this.
Replace Gibson as the main detective with Perez. The only real problem with this is that she died in the 6th movie and I have two solutions to that. Either make her come back from a fake out death again. Or just don’t kill her in the first place I’m making this up so I’ll just pick that one. Not only would this make narrative sense because she already knows Hoffman and how evil he is. But it also makes us want to root for her, the main thing the detective should be doing. She can also just inform people about how Hoffman is bad. This raises the stakes and also makes the fact that Hoffman stops hiding his identity make more sense. I also think the interactions with other characters would be more interesting, not just Hoffman. Perez and Jill would have more interesting interactions that Gibson and Jill did. She would believe Jill and they could even work together. This also matches up with a pattern I noticed in Saw movies. The detective of the next movie is usually in the previous movie. This would also line up, with Perez being in the previous movies with Strahm. That is all.
Lawrence it’s simple and i don’t think it actually counts as a womb tattoo but it sort of feels like the womb tattoo equivalent of a dolphin on your ankle and that’s soooo him
Mandy- it’s just the right amount of soft for her 🫶
Mark- he gets two because the skull is a cover up of the other one, he doesn’t know how it got there he just woke up one day and boom
Strahm: he’s a simple man who’s into the classics you can’t blame him for that
and also quick fire perez mallick and brit who don’t need explainstion 🫶🫶
* I’m excluding Trevor since I’m pretty sure he had no way of saving himself. I’m blaming Saw IV’s poor writing here since it was never clear if Trevor could’ve survived or if Art Blank was the only one intended to survive.
* Hoffman is excluded because (Hello Zepp intensifies)
* Even though Detective Matthews was more a guinea pig for Rigg’s test, he was still given a chance to save himself by shooting anyone who tried to go through the door before the timer ran out. So, he counts.
* Jeff is excluded since his test was already over. He was only really here to get shot by Strahm.
* Brenda counts since, after Rigg saved her, she attacked him as part of her own game.
* Rex is excluded since he was a guinea pig for Morgan’s trap.