SAW fans: Let's discuss & compare favorite characters (and films)

Warning: Kinda long post. Excited and happy post.

The year is 2025! I know similar discussions have been made before- on multiple subreddits, and on multiple Discord servers, too- but I want to make my own contribution!

My take:

I am a relatively new fan (compared to some), and after spending much of my life being a massive fan of the Final Destination franchise, I super randomly opened the official SAW wiki one day out of boredom, and randomly decided to read Mark Hoffman's character page- for no reason.

I WAS BLOWN AWAY by the sheer amount of information... one just one character wiki page! I then proceeded to watch most of the films (in no particular order) and here is what I will say, speaking only for myself and my relatively-beginner-level-love but love nonetheless for the franchise:

1) My favorite so far: SAW TWO. The second film. I have literally watched it over, over, over, over and then over again. I love the writing. Well, most of it. Personally, there is one specific character who for me (Can you guess which?) his/her/their acting just did not work for me at all... but I just swear that overall, acting = great, cameras = great, casting, editing, the sets, the lighting. All of it. Sooooooo good. The people who made SAW TWO are SO TALENTED, all of them.

(Yes, even the ones who clocked in to work just to remove the real needles off of the syringes to replace them with the bendy soft prop needles.)

2) The main "titular" open debate- my favorites, characterwise! Tell me yours but my top picks are Addison Corday, Daniel Matthews, Eleanor, Amanda (Sometimes. It sorta... kinda sorta depended on which film lol) Carly and Matteo and Anna. Logan and Ryan. Yes we all hated Ryan, I did too, but he did a good job of... idk, I guess, being Ryan. He did a good job of making me yell at him lmfao. Definitely a fun character with a lot of... character (I have words I swear).

My absolute favorite so far has to be Kerry. I just love her. I think for me it's her voice actually. I just love how she talks. Her voice and her whole vibe.

3) More random thoughts you can challenge/attack/debate about/discuss openly:

  • Why did Obi not just reach across

  • The movie with Luba was not that memorable to me personally

  • The movie with the fake I-Survived-Book-Guy did not work for me that much

  • Holy shit that pecs workout at the end though right before the yummy weekend barbecue with gravy

  • SAW TWO for me was more of a psychological gore/horror and DRAMA with so much character depth; that is probably why I love it, I literally watch it to sleep lol

  • The bonus content from Lionsgate called "SAW TWO IN SIXTY TWO" made me laugh so hard I lost my voice for several days

  • More obsessed lads and gals and nonbinaries: In which film did Shawnee Smith have THE BEST acting in your opinion?

  • I was so happy to see Addison Corday again in films after the second one! Even if they were all flashbacks. Any character from two, really lol.

  • The dream sequence eye trap, in my opinion, wasn't the "best" opener trap for the trap album of the film and maybe should have been like... idk fourth, somehow lol idk

  • Does anyone here have any background at all to the random 2 dudes chained in the morgue(? I forgot what it's called) one muted and one blinded

  • I felt literally nothing when Jill was killed by Mark which... which may possibly state I may have had little character attachment to either of them

  • Why did y'all kill Kerry I mean come on, the films would have (they are all successes in my opinion) been a tiny bit more prolific with more Kerry

  • I was strangely okay with the trap the writers chose for Kerry, like... okay well she isn't being tortured as slowly as some others. I love her so I'm happy it wasn't Obi's or Matteo's or Valentina's trap

  • Idk why but since I watched 3 before 2... I was so happy when Amanda was finally killed, 3 did NOT make me like Amanda at all. In 2 the characters mostly all had souls or emotional depth/background kinda at least in my opinion

  • (Controversial cus apparently lots of people hated him?) I kinda fell in love with Logan. I am just being honest

  • Though I fell in love with Eleanor even more which makes no sense cus I am literally gay and she is a woman

  • The "The Rack" bone-breaker trap was more vicious on the wiki than on the screen in my opinion

  • I didn't even catch the stairs leg-breaker-trap until it was mentioned in the BTS

  • Literally the first film just confused the shit out of me (We love you James)

  • I'm not sure why the needle pit trap was so controversial or popular... is it because of the idea of drugs and addiction? Would you have wanted to see Amanda "swimming" in needles rather than the rather shallow three layers of syringes and slime (Yes I watched the BTS I already said that but just reminding cus long post lol).

4) THIS IS A "4)" why is Reddit making it a "1." Anyway, FOUR- Literally I think that I am a sadistic psychopath now. ☺️🥰

tl;dr

Loved Two

Didn't remember all the films

Loved Amanda's and Kerry's character portrayals

Your turn! List and rank your favorite films and the characters, tell me what you disagree or do agree with here!

Happy big big fan-of-the-franchise noises