Counting out our potentials for VII...

Seeing that the pages of our calendars are quickly getting ripped away (yes, it's already May 9th) I started thinking about Saw VII a little bit more. I know it's not coming out until October and we're just starting to get minor details about the film but we have a little bit to work with so far... and like I said, it's already May 9th. It will be October before we know it.

Let's think about the information that we have so far... Betsy Russell, Costas Mandylor, Tobin Bell, and Cary Elwes are the major big names confirmed so far. Our Saw writers, Marcus and Patrick, also hinted at us a couple months ago that not only was Saw VII going to be the last Saw (well, they wrote it as the last Saw) but that it will have the most returning characters out of all the movies in the franchise so far. We also got the official plot synopsis introducing a new character named Bobby Dagen. It describes him as a fellow Jigsaw survivor that will team up with other survivors for a "new wave of terror." This got the gears turning in my head after Cary Elwes' return as Dr. Gordon was made official and after being introduced to Dagen. Who all survived either their own trap or just survived a game in general?

Jeff "

Allison Gordon

Diana Gordon

Dr. Lawrence Gordon (speculation and we don't know this for sure, but I'll indulge the Gordonites for now)

Daniel Matthews

Corbett Reinhart

Morgan

Brit^

Mallick^

Simone

Addy

Emily

Shelby

Pamela Jenkins*

Tara Abbott*

Brent Abbott*

" Was saved from the drill chair in Saw but we've never seen or heard from him again. Presumed alive.

^Saw V ended with them having just finished their game and there was no mention of them in Saw VI. We are still unsure whether they are alive or not but they're presumed alive.

*Saw VI ended with them still in their game but they are alive as of right now.

Compared to all of these guys that have fallen victim to Jigsaw and died in a trap or during a game that isn't a bad list of people...

John Kramer (kind of fell victim to his own philosophy)

Amanda Young

Paul

Mark

Zep Hindle

Adam Faulkner

The man Amanda killed in the original RBT

Det. Tapp

Det. Sing

Michael

Gus

Obi

Jonas

Laura

Addison

Xavier

Det. Kerry

Troy

Jeff Reinhart

Judge Halden

Timothy Young

Danica Scott

Lynn Denlon

Sgt. Rigg

Det. Matthews

Rex

Trevor

Art Blank

Ivan

Brenda

Cecil

Seth Baxter

Luba

Charles

Ashley

Agent Peter Strahm

Agent Dan Erickson

Agent Lindsey Perez

Eddie

Allen

Hank

Debbie

Dave

Josh

Aaron

Gena

Sachi




The main question I have is, which survivors are going to appear, why, and how? I am still going to be really pissed if Dr. Gordon is alive but I have accepted the fact that in all likelihood he will be. The writers have mind fucked us like that before with Det. Matthews and Agent Perez so if he hobbles in on crutches I'm going to try not to be too angry and surprised. It's not right and it's stupid but that has never stopped them before. The survivors I really want to see are Daniel and Corbett.
I honestly think that Daniel was the one to give the police information on Amanda as an apprentice, especially if Hoffman was an officer he was questioned by. Daniel was in the house until the end with her and unless he lost consciousness after he jumped Xavier in the bathroom and didn't know she administered him an antidote he would have seen that she knew the combo to the safe and knew how to protect him the entire time. Even a teenager could see that she hadn't done anything the whole time to work with the other players and figure out the combination. He of all people would know because he was close to her almost every second of the game.
Corbett could open up a number of windows, too. She was told by Amanda not to trust the one who saves her and she was saved by Hoffman. It wasn't until she was saved and handed over to the police that Perez and Erickson went after Hoffman with intensity. Strahm was on forced medical leave and thought Perez was dead. He wouldn't have been communicating with the FBI and giving them any information about the clues he was onto or what he had uncovered about Hoffman and the victims. Plus, Erickson was successfully bamboozled into thinking Strahm was an accomplice via Hoffman luring him to the end of the Fatal Five. It just doesn't add up. It makes the most sense to think that Corbett said some lady with a gun told me not to trust the person that saved me. However, Amanda could have talked to Corbett about that previously. More often than not the keyword "remember" implies that you have already told someone information and you're stressing how important it is to remember it while repeating it.



The more I think about Saw VII the more nervous I get. Seeing that it's apparently the last film I just hope that it's good and that it ties things up correctly. No contradicting information, no last minute connections that don't make sense, no more bringing back people from the dead, etc.. I have faith in Kevin because he managed to produce a winner with Saw VI after 2 extremely shitty movies but the fact that he got screwed out of Paranormal Activity 2 at the last minute and had little to no time for Saw VII pre-production has made me nervous from day one.

I just don't know.