okay so basically this is me being an actual conspiracy theorist but I've been hyperfixating on Adam god damn Stanheight for about eight months now and I have some god damn theories about his own game , why he lost , and how he was a vital part of Lawrence's game.
{ Disclaimer , idk what the saw fandom has come up with since 2004 , if Leigh whannell himself said the exact shit from his lips I am not aware and I'm just like rambling }
honestly don't read this if you're not as obsessive as i am because this is about to be long as fuck.
OKAY !!!!!!!!
Let me start this with the main key points of both their tapes, in reference to Adam and Adam alone.
Adam's tape explained his reason for being tested was not just for his seedy job. But for being angry and not ever acting for himself.
If you're angry enough to have it mentioned in your Jigsaw tape, you're too angry for life.
Specifically in Lawrence's tape is the fact that all it fucking said was to kill Adam.
That's where all of my arguments will come from.
We have seen trap victims who themselves were not being tested. We've seen a million of them.
We also know Adam was technically given a key, despite how odd and impossible it seemed for Adam to actually keep it from going down that drain.
He was still supposed to have a way out after the test had ended.
And lets go ahead and say that the key was always supposed to be drained, that entire idea of him being a person used as leverage for Lawrence before he's set free is bullshit, that's fine !!!
Because despite the end of the trap, Adam had very clearly been given his reasons for being tested. He knew Lawrence was meant to kill him.
Adam was told he was a voyeur. He sat back and watched life happen around him, never actively participating. Detached and observing others and implementing him into reality, but never directly.
Adam was told to take control of his own fate.
Adam has everything on his side of the bathroom needed for Lawrence to actively succeed with the help of hints.
He was the only one who could reach the tape player. The saws and photos were on his side.
Lawrence has his wallet and the words on the back of that picture. Should Adam never give Lawrence a thing, all he would have was X marks the spot.
That box. And Adam would know at that point that Lawrence was supposed to kill him had he let Lawrence's tape be played.
He would know better to take anything from that man. To stay alive.
Adam, instead, continued to go through the motions. He let Lawrence figure out where the saws were. He let Lawrence have one of those fucking saws. He let Lawrence know about the X and the lights. He let Lawrence know fucking everything and anything he could to be sure Lawrence had the mentality to get them both out of there.
{ can i add here adam listened to everything lawrence said, about getting the tape player, about giving him a saw, about playing his little acting game I didn't know where else to fit this in but it's part of the argument that Adam didn't do shit for himself }
Sitting back. A third party. Waitng for his trap partner to put pieces together for him, and giving him every God damn piece of the puzzle when they hit a dead end.
The picture of Ali and Diana. Revealing himself and who he was. Giving Lawrence any knowledge he needed if it meant LAWRENCE could move forward with him following behind. Always one step behind
Trusting the man who is meant to kill him to instead take charge of his very life that had been placed in Lawrence's hands -- to save him. Not for him to save himself.
Watching and interacting indirectly or not at all when given the chance to be a sardonic and unhelpful asshole.
So that's the first thing, y'know ?
He was told to take control and save his life, not to watch himself die. And he did just that. He watched Lawrence Gordon saw himself away to a gun, and gave and watched Lawrence Gordon do so of his own free will.
He gave Lawrence the tools to succeed out of a cowardly, dependant nature. Never in his own life. Always in someone else's. Living off of others and exploiting them.
He did the exact opposite of what he was directed towards.
THAT'S NOT IT THOUGH !!!!
Like I said, the fact that Adam's fucking anger had to be pointed out in a FUCKING JIGSAW TAPE.
That means it's bad. Adam has said it in the trap himself about his girlfriend leaving him for it.
And he didn't even have to say it. He spent half the trap screaming at Lawrence. If he wasn't screaming, he was throwing saws, breaking glass, and threatening to cut Lawrence.
Screaming at an unknown figure.
Screaming at his frustrations. Every fucking thing he says is harsh and biting until he silently resigns himself to this shit.
He never wasn't angry. He never was taking charge.
I honestly fucking believe with all my heart had Adam done what he should have, what was asked of Jigsaw. And it really wasn't much. It was urging him to calm down. To take in his situation. His tools. And to get himself out. Lawrence be damned to Hell.
He had the tools. He had a saw. He had the ability to do an Eric Matthews. He had six fucking hours to get his shit together. To get himself out. To save his own life.
The only thing he actively did to move towards his freedom that wasn't on Lawrence's shoulders was kill Zep.
And saying all that he heard that fucking tape and then did
THE EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE.
And you're all like , well what the fuck then if Adam wasn't killed by Lawrence and Lawrence didn't kill Adam, the fuck does Lawrence get to live for?
You know why he gets to live?
Despite the time limit being up, Lawrence showed his desire to live. Lawrence did something unthinkable to save and get to different human lives. Lawrence cauterized his own fucking amputated foot.
John had plans for Lawrence as soon as he took him into his trap, and none of us can deny that fact. So long as he won the game.
He didn't quite so much win, but he did do what Jigsaw always wants.
Someone to prove their desire and willingness to do anything to live or to save anyone else.
And y'know what Adam was?
Adam was a fucking key for Lawrence.
Adam had his ways to win that trap without that key.
And he chose to remain a screaming, closed off asshole who relied on someone else to get him help after watching them do anything that needed to be done in that trap.
That is Adam's game over.
Not the key.
His way of handling that trap.
{ Added ; There is no fucking scenario where they both live. Either Lawrence leaves Adam to rot, or Adam leaves him to rot. If Lawrence Gordon lives, there is no reality in which Adam would be free. }
~ feel free to talk and discuss because this is just my interpretation and I wanted to share ~