Where the hell is Dr Gordon?

The 1st Saw movie is the one i loved and the one the fans enjoyed the most, and Gordon was always a mystery to the franchise "Did he survive?" "What happened to him?". No one even remembers any other character other than him and Jigsaw. He was the only character for years whos fate we was left not knowing. We finally find out he's alive and working as the new Jigsaw and then they just forget about it?

He was the main character everyone always talked about and wondered about, so yeah i care about his character as do alot, at least he has a connection to the original movie and it makes sense he'd be the new Jigsaw. He makes a hell of alot more sense than this random soccer dad they just shoehorned in the franchise at the 8th sequel.

I don't get why you have a problem with Dr Gordon so much but are perfectly fine with this new joe schmo they shoehorned into the franchise on the 8th sequel. He looks like a 2nd rate Braden Frasier, i'd rather they kept Hoffman alive, i'd take him over this random nobody any day.

I don't think they caved in. The writers have spoken about Saw 7 and what went wrong and basically, the whole movie was rushed even more than all of the previous ones. They had to learn to use the 3D technology in like 3 months so that is why the movie is ugly and the colour is all fucked up, the Saw 5 director was fired and replaced with the editor of all of the Saw movies and director of 6 right before shooting was scheduled to begin (which caused drama because Kevin was to direct Paranormal Activity 2 and it felt like his heart wasn't in the creation of the movie), the writers were force to combine scripts/ideas for 7 and 8 into one movie because 6 underperformed at the box office, so Dr. Gordon got shafted and was just a generic bad guy that showed up to the close the door at the end.

8 was supposed to the be final movie and it was supposed to be about Dr. Gordon and we would have gotten character development and everything for him.

They will bring back old characters in Jigsaw 2, mark my words. Even the 4k blu ray for Jigsaw states that this isn't a brand new franchise that isn't connected to Saw, it says it is another entry in the Saw franchise. I think fans complained enough (hopefully) for the producers to take note that stuff from the older movies is needed for people to still go and care (and to actually make sense continuity wise). Even the directors of this movie (so far) aren't returning for the next after Jigsaw made $100million. You'd think they would still be on board because of it's success.

Hopefully the next movie will feature Gordon, even if it is just set up for a 3rd and hopefully final movie, less continuity errors, more Tobin Bell, perhaps an overall darker and dirtier look like the older movies and a smaller game.