Squid Game - battle Royale but adults!

[Mayoush]

finalists were a little disappointing

I was surprised that they were all male it would have been interesting to see a women and what decision they would have made also the shy kid was used as an easy sacrifice I liked how they made it so that they can’t just throw MC because he has the child and they would have turned on each other which is what he pointed it out also I was surprised on how rational they were and they sacrificed one of their gang because the other two had weapons it would have been a perfect ending but we saw how greedy they were and that’s why they killed as much as possible.

I think the main twist was the guy with the pole turning against the gang and wanting to sacrifice his baby for the money

But I still don’t understand the MC motives he is reluctant to kill people but when he forced he does it without hesitation and in a brutal and at the end he kill’s himself while he isn’t sure what would happen to the baby

Idk why the media is obsessed with pregnant ladies in tough situations like in money heist and this show she birthed a child during a hide and seek death game and like someone previously mentioned that in season 1 they were fair when they spared the contestant without a partner and why in these shows ppl are so attached to random stranger that they are willing to raise their kids I can understand helping them but you have to look out after yourself first and you barely knew the other person

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I just finished the last season and I have pretty mixed thoughts about it

Spoiler: Squid Game Season 3 Spoilers

Stuff I liked:

- I think 100 and 124 (Old Guy and Thanos' sidekick) honestly did a good job taking up the antagonist roles in place of Thanos' absence, and were both pretty entertaining.

- The new games were all pretty good especially with how creative the hide and seek one is.

- Gi-hun's revenge quest against the fake marine was cool

- The subplot with the No-Eul and 246 was pretty good especially the action scenes where she's fighting the other staff.

- I did like some of the endings like how Gi-hun's daughter got the money from her dad and the families of the finalists from season 1 reuniting.

- In-Ho being touched by Gi-Hun was pretty nice.

- Thanos' cameo was nice

- At least the Korean branch of the games pretty much ended

Mixed:

- I liked Gi-hun's ending in concept since I think its cool that he'd sacrifice himself to save someone innocent, since it fit his character. But given how cartoonishly evil the other finalists were, he should've just taken In-Ho's advice and killed them all, would've been more of a fuck you to the VIPs as well..

- The character deaths of a lot of the mainstays for Season 2 (like the mom and son, Jun-hee, shaman lady, and the transwoman) were good but at the same time, I feel they died far too early.

- In-Ho should've had more interactions with his brother and Gi-Hun, I felt he was underutilized this season after how prominent he was in season 2. I liked his backstory and how the games really reflect the test he is giving Gi-hun, but he still felt like he didn't have as much of a presence.

- I'm fine with the baby being added into the game, especially since it does fit the theme of what In-Ho wants to test in others and I can see the VIPs doing it out of petty bullshit.

Dislikes:

- The VIPs were even worse in this season, they really overstay their welcome and are horrendously shit villains since they just point out the obvious and are not really interesting, not even in a love to hate way. It also took me out of the moment when they were playing in the games especially with their horrendous acting.

- I really hate Min-Su. Him tripping balls is funny, but my god what is the point of this character at all, he's just a pathetic guy and while it is the point, he still fucking sucks.

- 333 also kinda falls flat for me. Okay I can see him being ruthless to everyone else, since he's also very selfish, but I thought at least he'd care for his child. It seems like he did want to keep in touch with Jun-hee and raise the baby, but he suddenly wants to kill the baby even after Gi-hun offered to sacrifice himself. It's a turn that feels out of nowhere since even when he tried to connect with Jun-hee, there was no pragmatic reason for him to do so.

- Again I wished at least some of the finalists were some of the good people we followed, killing almost all of them early really does suck, and it would've added more of a moral dilemma to the final game than Gi-Hun going against a bunch of assholes (especially since outside of Gi-hun, we only know a total of 4 of the non-baby finalists)

- I am honestly not a fan of tying in the American spinoff to the Korean show. Like unless they actually cook, it just doesn't work since I feel In-Ho's story should've ended either with him dying in the games, or giving up his position after giving Gi-Hun's money to his kid. I could be fine with this if he becomes a more heroic character, but if he's still the villain, I don't see how he can get any good dynamics with some of the American cast, and again he really should've had more of a dynamic with Gi-Hun and his brother.

- The boat subplot was painfully slow especially with how it took until the Captain was fucking shooting people for Jun-ho to figure out how shady he is. It didn't even have that good of a payoff beyond ending the games in Korea.

Overall this is the weakest season but it isn't completely terrible, but it's a 5/10 from me.

 

[Lovely Kin]

I was surprised that they were all male it would have been interesting to see a women and what decision they would have made also the shy kid was used as an easy sacrifice I liked how they made it so that they can’t just throw MC because he has the child and they would have turned on each other which is what he pointed it out also I was surprised on how rational they were and they sacrificed one of their gang because the other two had weapons it would have been a perfect ending but we saw how greedy they were and that’s why they killed as much as possible.

If I had to choose the finalists for me it would be MG Coin, Gi-hun, Geum-ja, 100, 098 (and expand on him more during the season at least , but don't know who else. Shaman lady? She wouldn't make it past game five. I know Se-mi didn't do much in season 2 besides be there for Min-su's development, but I'm curious how she would have handled games four and five.

like the mom and son, Jun-hee, shaman lady, and the transwoman

Man, I wish Seon-nyeo lasted longer. I got the hint from the trailer by the way they were showing a lot of her, that it wouldn't be the case. She could have tackled Min-su

 

[snowdunes]

> Player 100 having the biggest debt
> nobody mentions it to select him as a kill at the final game
This was something characters picked on in the previous seasons, now they all forgot about it?

> games supposed to have a fair game policy
> baby is thrown into the game + moral faggotry
Cheap McGuffin writing.

> pro tranny shit
It's Netflix, not surprised

> Christian is an "empty faith" visuals (empty box --> dead player + VIP's screaming "Jesus" right after)
> "feeling shity because of this"
Probably commissioned by a kike.

> middle aged woman in a male corporate outfit (except for the high heels) hitting a (male) bum on the streets.
come on...

> classic "nothing changed, nothing really happened" goyslop plot.

This show was so fucking retarded, too many "stupid moments" to make the show end like it did, a very forced plot. The anti-European (or "White" for the Americans) visuals made me realize that South Korea should be annexed North Korea. I know it's Netflix, but it's too on the nose (VIP's coming in as "guards" killing for fun and betting on a baby etc). With the troon, poojet and the "anti-capitalism" commie shit in this show, I really hate NPC's (and KF users) even more for liking this slop. With Alice in Borderland, at least they don't propagate the anti-European shit directly in your face.

 

[Mayoush]

anti-European

What’s anti European about this show

 

[Raiken]

the VIPs are so cartoonishly evil, like, none of them even object of the baby being a player? well, some did, but not like an actual human by how immoral it is.
the final game makes this even worse in how all remaining players are just evil bastards outside of the cowardly kid and Gi-Hun. there just needed to be one more neutral player in the mix.
the dad just straight out killing number 100 was also retarded, he was not going to kill himself, and the "lunchbox" would be a pain to carry to the next pillar.
i don't think the season was actualy bad, but it is going downhill fast. i'm dreading the spin offs, sequels and prequels it will get.

 

[Lovely Kin]

the final game makes this even worse in how all remaining players are just evil bastards outside of the cowardly kid and Gi-Hun. there just needed to be one more neutral player in the mix.

Even though Geum-ja somehow making it through jump rope would be unrealistic and difficult for her, it would been interesting to have her as a finalist even though she wouldn't be neutral and be on gi-hun's side. Killing off a lot of characters during Hide and Seek, and not developing the unnamed characters made it hard for me to feel anything about the finalists.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Even though Geum-ja somehow making it through jump rope would be unrealistic and difficult for her, it would been interesting to have her as a finalist even though she wouldn't be neutral and be on gi-hun's side. Killing off a lot of characters during Hide and Seek, and not developing the unnamed characters made it hard for me to feel anything about the finalists.

Honestly if they needed evil people, they should've just kept Nam-Gyu and Yong-sik around. Like Yong-sik could've killed his mom and grew more depraved that he lost the only person in his life, and would've given him more of a reason to kill the baby (given he's a manchild he would blame it), and Nam-gyu is just an entertaining guy, its not like Min-Su really added anything near the end (maybe he could've grown a spine and helped Gi-Hun, but nah we needed the Infant Death Formation for him to deal with).

I think the cryptobro really shouldn't have been evil, like why even flirt with pretending he'd be a good guy. Even with him being evil, he at least is smart enough to be pragmatic, so he could've won with the baby, the money would've just been his anyway since he's the dad and could've abandoned the baby. He could've just lied to Gi-hun, it just felt like he became stupid for the sake of things to happen.

the VIPs are so cartoonishly evil, like, none of them even object of the baby being a player? well, some did, but not like an actual human by how immoral it is.

Would've at least made them more interesting, hell theoretically they could still object for evil reasons like grooming the baby as a successor to The FrontMan or some sort of player just for fun.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

After the Jump Rope round I had trouble giving a shit, since most of the characters I cared about died during Hide & Seek. They totally blowed their load in that episode. Half of the people in the final game were background characters who we knew nothing about.

Finally, the detective b-plot had no pay off, yet in the epilouge they acted as if their mission was a success.

Overall, 3rd season wasn't a terrible series finale, as far as most series finales go; it gave some closer to the North Korean girl from season 1, with her little brother being reunited with their mom (which came out of nowhere), and Gi-Hun's daughter relieved his winnings from season 1. I give S3 7/10 stars.

 

[Raiken]

i actualy had to look it up who the kid and mom was, they pull it out of their ass for no real reason but to soften the blow that gi-hun sacrificed himself, but good god tie it better into the season.

thinking about the ending, it's weird how the frontman used the symbols and actual uniforms to the relatives of gi-hun and his brother.
like, would it not contain the dna of the players who dissapeared? making it that there is actual evidence now that something had been going on? or am i overthinking this to much now that they most likely abandoned the korean branch?

 

[Nobunaga]

Watch as the US season becomes Epstein island/Diddy party X Takeshi's challenge: the season

 

[The Crescent King]

Finished the series today, and it shit the bed as I suspected it would. Squid Game's writer struggles badly with endings; even though S1 was great I remember thinking the final three episodes were weaker than the preceeding six, and the last two episodes of S3 were terrible.

I agree that the final game should have had some characters we cared about to raise the stakes; while Hide and Seek was fantastic and I wouldn't change it, the other side characters should have been developed more. I think Nam-gyu, Geum-ja, Geum-ja's son and the shaman lady could have been possible final additions while still keeping the tension of Hide & Seek and Jump Rope intact. Player 100 lasted too long and should have been eliminated during Jump Rope. I despise how the writers decided to ruin 333 AND Gi-Hun in the last moment; 333's entire arc was him nutting up to protect Jun-hee and his baby and he has killed over half a dozen people to accomplish this, yet in the end he decides to turn evil and sacrifice his baby? What sense does that make? He had no reason to distrust Gi-hun's offer to sacrifice himself as Gi-hun had fought off multiple men to protect his daughter and even gave her to 333. What was the point of his character and his entire arc? I also don't understand why they decided to make Gi-hun stupid and agree to draw lots. Yes, he is compassionate to a fault, but if he's able to kill Dae-ho during Hide & Seek I don't see why he mightn't decide to kill willing baby murderers to protect her and her father. I don't have any issue with Gi-hun's sacrifice; it was a fitting end to his character, but I wish it hadn't been the follow-up to so much stupidity to make it happen. I think Gi-hun's sacrificing himself to allow 333, the baby, and other potential finalists like Geum-ja to live would have been far more poignant; while he couldn't save Sae-byeok he managed to save those who had something to live for. While I did enjoy all of the parallels drawn between Gi-hun and In-ho, I dislike how in a sense all Gi-hun accomplished was allowing In-ho to believe in humanity again. I don't know if from that perspective his sacrifice could be deemed worth it as the games were about to be discovered anyways.

None of the other subplots ended meaningfully. Player 246 is living proof that the Squid Games are real given his microchip - where is the big government investigation? Where's the scandal and fallout? Are you telling me they found zero intact evidence on that island? What happened to Hwang, is he no longer searching for his brother? The North Korean lady destroying all the other records was completely pointless as well - why didn't she take some with her as a means to expose the Games, or as leverage/blackmail? She had no reason to believe that the Games would end and she put a massive target on her back by rescuing 246, and she does literally nothing to protect herself?

Obligatory - the VIPs were shit and should never have been featured.

I just don't think that's how actual human beings would act if placed in that situation. Most people do not have it in themselves to kill a baby for money. Yes, three people need to die, but if we're speculating on what would happen in real life: I do believe the baby would be left out of it.

But the issue isn't with the final game in particular, it's having the baby in the game at all. It undercuts the logic the games are predicated on.

I'll give you an example: In season 1, a player can't find a partner for a game. We're led to believe she was killed - but no, she returns unharmed. Since she couldn't find someone else to play the game with, she got to sit it out. The point of including that was to show that, while the games were lethal, they were ultimately fair.

So why the fuck are they now throwing a baby into the game, that couldn't consent to be there, that can't even participate in the games at all? That's not a different form of morality, that's amorality. You can't justify that outside of simple sadism. With season 1 you could say, "The people running the games are evil because they're willing to kill people, but they're operating under a set of rules that make it justifiable". In season 3, they're just straight-up evil.

I will defend the writers on this. The games were never fair, and the show always made that clear. Take the Marble game from S1: the players are told to pair up. Naturally most people pair up with friends to work as a team only to learn that only one person from each pair can survive. How is that fair? Moreover, in the same season the Bridge game had people pick their order unbeknownst to them, with the early players being at a massive disadvantage. The game's rules were always abitrary and organised in such a way to cause chaos - we were even shown this when the organisers gave the players little food to incite a riot. And no, you could never say the rules were justifiable.

 

[Raiken]

i get that the entire idea of the baby winning was to symbolize that even in a terrible place like the squid game some good can happen, as all other people slowly turn into monsters just to save their own hides, but it's just so absurd that the VIPs, the supposed sponsors, are so outlandishly evil that they would agree to see an infant die.
at least the ending shows that the game master might turn a new leaf or starts to show disgust at the entire thing, but the question now is; is he still part of it?

 

[Oilspill Battery]

In the tag, the 9 month pergnant women and old woman (two most helpless characters in the season) go with the tranny, they trust the tranny with their keys which are their sole lifeline, the tranny single handedly protects them against MULTIPLE men, AND straight up intimidates one into walking away, they thank the tranny for being such a good protector and tell it that they're such a burden for it, and the tranny also helps her give birth, and the old woman says that she knew they were gonna best friends with the tranny since they met in the bathroom.

At that point you're being a little too fucking heavy handed dude.

Its such an obnoxious shitstain on what is otherwise probably one of the best episode across all 3 seasons. At least the fucking troon dies in the end which would have been a cathartic moment if it wasn't, for both women weeping over its corpse for their tremendous loss and sad music playing in the background.

Also cult leader getting wasted in the same way she wasted her followers was great.

 

[Jex]

Well that was shit.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Honestly if they needed evil people, they should've just kept Nam-Gyu and Yong-sik around. Like Yong-sik could've killed his mom and grew more depraved that he lost the only person in his life, and would've given him more of a reason to kill the baby (given he's a manchild he would blame it), and Nam-gyu is just an entertaining guy, its not like Min-Su really added anything near the end (maybe he could've grown a spine and helped Gi-Hun, but nah we needed the Infant Death Formation for him to deal with).

I like that one with Yong-sik being one of the evil ones, or even put Seon-nyeo with a cult follower in the finale. Really hard to give a shit when it's mostly background characters that I forgot existed. Min-su was wasted potential, and I know it's stated way too much, but I wish Se-mi was the one who moved on. However she wasn't that developed too, and just used for Min-su's development. But Min-su's character has less of an excuse if he lasted that long.

The second the baby was born, I could easily predict what was going to happen. Especially when they added it to the game.

At that point you're being a little too fucking heavy handed dude.

I was relieved the gary-stu passed away

 

[snowdunes]

What’s anti European about this show

The players, game master and guards are portrayed mostly by Koreans, being victims/exploited by a system, said system is due to the wishes of the VIP's, that were exclusively portrayed as people of European descendants. That the whole reason you, as a viewer are seeing a bunch of Koreans dying on your screen is because "whyte people le evil and rich n' sheeit".

They only have a single Asian VIP for plausible deniability for the nooticers out there, but she "happens" to be portayed by a Chinese actor, Jane Wong. I know that people will say that Oh Il-nam (the founder) is the reason for the fucked up shit in the show, but in the show for most of the screen time, he's portrayed as an innocent old Korean dude also being in the game, so in the peripheral for the audience, he's not as bad as the other VIP's due to said portrayal.

The casting is NOT a coincidence. They are deliberately pushing a message that Koreans (and one Indian guy, because it's Netflix...) are being exploited by systematic oppression (muh gambling and capitalism) and it's because of "white" people. Throwing in a baby where the VIP's are debating on having it killed, is purely in the show to ingrain an image in the viewers eye that white/Europeans are the worst people imaginable. I would also remind you of the "almost gay-rape" scene in season one, which further assess the "old white men are evil" message in the show.

It's an anti-European TV show.

i get that the entire idea of the baby winning was to symbolize that even in a terrible place like the squid game some good can happen, as all other people slowly turn into monsters just to save their own hides, but it's just so absurd that the VIPs, the supposed sponsors, are so outlandishly evil that they would agree to see an infant die.
at least the ending shows that the game master might turn a new leaf or starts to show disgust at the entire thing, but the question now is; is he still part of it?

Read the respons above. The game masters "code" is to keep it fair, he sees the game as a "FAIR second chance" in life. He was in the game himself, and there was a flashback of him killing everyone in the last meal part to win the game. So in a way, since he won and got a new opportunity/chance, he sees it as the reason for being part of it. We see this with killing of guards in season one for rigging games.

He will "show disgust at the entire thing" when he realizes the games are not really fair.

 

[Mayoush]

almost gay-rape" scene in season

I don’t remember it

Indian guy

I was surprised they weren’t more of foreigners in the show to talk about racism

only have a single Asian VIP

Yeah they do it on purpose and they were also awful actors I also think some of the VIPS are Jews pretending to be white

innocent old Korean dude

that was the most unbelievable part he is responsible for all of these deaths and yet he acts so innocent and cute

I wonder if they made it without the involvement of Netflix if those themes would still be present like the tranny felt so out of place that they didn’t even hire a proper troon and just put a wig on a guy and we are supposed to believe that’s a women , it would have have made more sense if the VIPS were mostly Koreans or Asian at least

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Even though Season 3 shit the bed, I'm still thankful for all the kino Season 2 gave us, especially this scene

Goes to show the best seasons of Squid Game need to have a lot more Gong Yoo

 

[snowdunes]

I wonder if they made it without the involvement of Netflix if those themes would still be present like the tranny felt so out of place that they didn’t even hire a proper troon and just put a wig on a guy and we are supposed to believe that’s a women , it would have have made more sense if the VIPS were mostly Koreans or Asian at least

I guarantee that without Netflix, the show would have been completely different. I haven't even touched much on the anti-Christian hints as well, but I have already sperged enough. The troon shit is an exclusive Western kike made trend. LGBTQ and multicultural themes is not prevalent in media outside the West on its own, it's actively enforced by people located in the West.

I don’t remember it