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.
I think about Matt Gibson’s “Yer crazy. You know that? I knew you were crazy the minute I laid eyes on you. Crazy” and “She’s crazier than a sack of cats” quotes at least daily. I love that man!
Easily the most under appreciated character in Saw, in my opinion.
I always find it funny when people put certain saw characters in apprentice aus. Like my guy all of those character should actually be in an anti jigsaw friend group
Just imagine the interactions between Adam, Peter, Lynn, and Gibson guys
Even better if you add ships in there I’m just saying