#this concept is soooo funny its got my brain in a twist

[chimerahyperfix]

ooooo I'm writing a fic ooooooooo sneak peak bevause idk when the fuck it's gonna come out ooooooo

[erizee]

diversity win! local nerd accidentally writes a 855 word letterboxd review for jigsaw (2017). oops lol

anyway here it is

its a good movie! its just not a good saw movie my enjoyment rating gets so messy because of that because i Did enjoy the movie on its own (aka 3-3.5 stars), but i hate it as a saw movie (0.5-1.5 stars) so i guess that makes it a 2. i think thats fair.

this review is 855 words long lmao i have THOUGHTS about this

things i like about this movie - the MUSIC yea thats saw. charlie clouser never misses - its saw so thats a plus either way - i like anna in theory i think shes a fun main trap-storyline-character - the concept of a jigsaw fanclub is sooo on brand lol i wish they would have connected that to the jigsaw survivor group or even better, introduced the fanclub TOGETHER with the survivor group in 3d already but this is a nice start anyway - the fact that jills family had a pig farm where they had an outbreak of some pig disease aka they had to get rid of the pigs explains where they got the pigs for the pig vat - 2 big slidey doors get slided shut :) like in the bathroom :) - "jigsaw lives forever in the works of his followers" is a Great line and it should have come from an apprentice instead of the fanclub. "you have a choice. scream or dont" is also funny and on brand for the saw-typical "jigsaw apprentices dont follow any of jigsaws rules" and i think thats funny :)

things i dont like about this movie - zero connection to the previous movies which sucks because those connections are one of my favourite things about saw. literally all they do is bring in tobin bell, mention jill once and thats it :( i get that they wanted to restart it all & make money off a new series or whatever but a) clearly that didnt work out and b) the least they could do was mention more characters. wheres lawrence :( he never got caught they could have done so much with him. and the way the one pighead we see p much wears hoffmans outfit and yet he doesnt even get mentioned DESPITE THE FACT that this movie is about corrupt cops (not as well done as other saw movies did it but still. spiral gets a pass for this because its just better in general). disappointing - it also doesnt fit into the timeline at allllll it fucking sucks, i spend so much time thinking about the saw timeline and making sense of it based on complete bullshit hints lmao and it does all makes sense! but this movie just doesnt give a fuck about any of it apparently. the flashback with the mislabeling shows a brain tumor but it started as COLON CANCER (which lawrence mentions in saw i). why does eleanor have The Saw if clearly no one ever found the bathroom. theres no way the first trap john ever made was a huge group trap thats bullshit. im fully aware im the only one that cares about this but still it bothers me lol - logans backstory makes ZERO sense and john is soooo ooc in this movie. hed never let someone survive because it was "an honest mistake" lmao. that man put people into traps for depression and for mourning their dead child before like. sure sometimes he tests actual bad people but for the most part hes just a self righteous and bitter old man. its so out of character i genuinely dont concider this movie canon (that plus how the timeline doesnt make sense) - they tried to fit logan into the previous timeline and it COULD have worked! hoffmans flashbacks in v worked and they could have done sth similar here! but they didnt and because theres no sequel to it they didnt fix it either. where was logan during the other movies? did he retire from being an apprentice or what. lmao. - stupid boring traps that dont make sense. i like the reverse boom stick but thats it the rest is lame. theres practically no cool machines and BARELY any gore or at least fake blood :( come on this is saw. we need gallons of fake blood in these movies. i also have no proof for this but i think they used less practical effects than before too - the plot twist is that john is dead which. yea no shit lmao thats not as creative of a plot twist as you think. he literally got neck-sawed to death in the THIRD movie. - nothing looks dirty enough AND theres no weird green/blue/red filter on anything. sucks. - it feels soooo hollow - they rly chickened out by making eleanor a fan of jigsaw without letting her actually be Evil. she doesnt have to be an apprentice just there should have been more - WHY did he not say game over. im disappointed

anyway yea. good movie. not a good saw movie though and that makes this wayyyyy less enjoyable than it deserves to be.

[djsherriff]

Here’s redesigns of the other 3 new warriors , more in depth comments under cut 

B-negative is now Blood Saint!

When he was born ,instead of being a bundle of life ready to take on the world, he suffered from extreme blood due to complications from the labour, meaning he had to have a blood transfusion.

Though unaware at the time, doctors actually used the blood of a vampire to save his life, causing him to become a living vampire of sorts. (So yes he can still age)

It’s his life long mission to learn who his mysterious blood donor is and master his dark powers, but it would be much easier his parent stopped bugging him about him wearing 4 layers of leather in the summer and his loud music. “augh , my parents are the REAL blood suckers around here”

You’re probably curious why he would go by “blood saint” , well besides sounding cool, it’s also a bit of irony for him.

See , unlike other vampires Saint can actually heal people when he bites them rather than turn them, which also works cause he actually can’t stand the taste of human blood (no matter how much he loves to push the brooding vampire aesthetic), he eats foods like any other kid his age, though his diet consists of more meat than the average teenager.

Besides that , he has the standard vampire traits like turning into a bat, weak in sunlight , can’t stand garlic , you know like the classics!

Artist comment:

Since Marvel has a bunch of other vampires they rarely use, I rewrote his backstory a bit so he wasn’t tied to a well known superhero , as well as have a chance to have more original vampire characters in the marvel universe.

The only thing I really pushed design wise was tone down the red/pink and use it more sparingly throughout to make it pop more (hence his hair colour being changed), as well as add a few more punk aesthetics to it such as spikes.

I imagined that his your standard punk teen who trying way too hard to rebel against everyone and everything besides what he personally likes, you know the “its not a PHASE mom” kinda teenager. I thought it be hilarious if besides the vampire thing he has going , his got the most normal home life outta everyone on the team and thus the most “boring”. Yes he totally makes up ridiculously tragic backstories for himself when meeting strangers , his a complete drama queen and is definitely a theatre kid.

Speaking of hilarious, I also made him the team’s medic with his healing bite, cause I also thought that was funny and also a great opportunity for both good comedy and some good character development for him.

His greatest character flaw is his tendency to overdramatise EVERYTHING and he needs to learn that sometimes , life is that simple and that’s not a bad thing.

Trailblazer is now Void Caster

Void Caster is a young teeenager from a family who regularly travels through the universe to explore the wonders and to gain a living , though her mother decided she needed to stop having her head up in the stars so much and return to Earth- literally.

She comes from a long line of space witches : witches ...... but in space! The deeper history is that her ancestors were witches who came into contact with aliens and decided to use their magic to explore beyond the world of earth , which lead to a brand of magic that’s more “sci-fi “ aesthetic than its earth counterpart.

Thanks to a life full of space adventures, Void Caster is what most people would describe as “quirky” as she very new to a lot of concepts on earth , like selfies! She always has a smile on her face and a sparkle in her eyes, though those sparkles can be seem almost forced sometimes. But she generally curious to the world around her and always open to learning new concepts!

You wouldn’t think it , but Void Caster’s seemingly mundane mother has a lot more in common with her daughter than either of the two release, though what remains a mystery.

Void Caster main ability is to create worm holes to transport to one place to the other, which is the main form of transportation for the whole team, she is also capable of making items shrink and grow whatever size she wants and effect gravity of those said items. The limits of her powers though is that she can only effect the size of an object as long as she can see it without straining (so she can’t turn people into the size of an atom or make someone be big enough to sit on the sun) she also struggles to change her own size (she’s very self conscious of it) her portal powers also have a similar size limit (she can’t make a planet size portal but making one a size of a tank would be possible, but straining for her)

Artist comments:

So with Trailblazer’s redesign I could’ve went with one of two options:

Make her a Native American and very likely make her a stereotype due to my lack of knowledge on the culture.

Or

An obvious Dora the Explorer knock off

I went with making her an obvious Dora the Explorer knock off , with a bit of a sci- fi twist to her. Her hair being a short bob is an obvious nod to Dora, as well as sticking with a pink and purple colour scheme which was also a way of ditching the all neon palette she originally had.

While she still has pockets , I completely ditched the bag all together and instead made it so she had space themed powers instead. I went with the weird idea of “witches but from space” since I didn’t want her to be a mutant as there were already 3 mutants on my redesign of the team, but adding onto the weirdness I also made it so her style was more “quirky” in comparison to her teammates , as well as stand out as the leader of her team.

I like to think that she’s a very outgoing girl but doesn’t grasp social ques all that well and usually ends up feeling like an annoyance to people when she tries to connect with others, though she also struggles with her more negative feelings and tries bottling them down to avoid bothering people , only for those feelings to explode at the most inconvenient time.

So naturally her biggest character flaw would be that she tries too hard to please people and fit in and that she’ll have to learn that she can find friends without sacrificing her own quirks, and that expression negative emotions isn’t a burden to anyone.

Screen time is the worst so I made him Brain scan

With the others I made in depth backstories and such for them as well as some notes on their rewritten character.

But here I didn’t, I honestly hate screen time , his the worst character outta everybody if you ask me and the first I would throw off a cliff if given the chance.

This is less of a redesign and just me making up a straight up oc here cause what the hell is “internet gas”???

Soooo uh, Screen time is now brain scan.

His an autistic kid who spends most of his time online cause his power of telepathy makes it extremely difficult to be around people. He learns to control his peers and socialise more

I’m sorry , that’s literally all I could do here.

(If I do turn these redesigns into my own ocs, I would 110% make “him” a “she” ;) )