Squid Game - battle Royale but adults!

[Soso]

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.

 

[Soso]

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.

 

[Soso]

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

 

[Rudy Coleman]

if you guys liked the concept of squid game and are willing to give anime a chance i would strongly suggest giving this a chance, they even have an english dub.
the games are actually interesting and the thread of death is replaced with debt slavery which i think is more physiologically terrifying

 

[Cactus Concerto]

"whyte people le evil and rich n' sheeit".

I disagree, if only because of how I view Korea's relationship with the west. A lot of Koreans spend butt loads on foreign brands and flash these products around as status symbols. Within K-Pop, acts like BTS (and even TOP's former band, Big Bang, during their heyday) are seen as kings partially because they managed to have success across the sea, a feat the industry has kept attempting since at least 2006 with Rain. Since unlocking the attention of American media and audiences more readily, K-Pop as a whole has more or less abandoned the more unique facets of its genre to chase western money and popularity. In acting, managing to land even a small to medium-sized role in an American blockbuster has elevated actors like Lee Byunghun who are touted as global stars. Though all of this of course circles back to making Korea look good or expanding business opportunities.

Spoiler: Blah, blah, blah.

Though I'm not sure about current day, when I more actively watched dramas there was always an undercurrent of highlighting the west (particularly America) as superior or an ideal: male leads or rich characters often studied overseas rather than 'just' one of Korea's top universities, being able to speak English would be highlighted as a notable or quirky/special/funny skill, even the ability to cook cuisine from the west being shown as a grand achievement in comparison to simply cooking Korea food, which would 'humble or humanize' the chef character.

There's also the fact that South Korea absolutely adores a lot of American cinema (usually older films), to the point of it being memetic, or you could have an American film mentioned by a character with little to no explanation about it - clearly because the writers assume the audience is familiar with this 'classic' already. For example: after the Avengers, lots of male leads with arrested development would have at least one Iron Man or Hulk figurine in their bedroom or study.

I'm in no way an expert on Korean-American relations but I do think South Korea has a fondness for America, and probably some envy and hatred. But, much like Japan, I do not believe this causes them to shy away from depicting Americans as horrible people in their stories. In this case, I think it was just an easy way to contrast the main cast from the 'main villains', and keeps in line with the theme (though I believe it's unintentional) of everyone blaming everything but themselves and their addictions for their problems (i.e. it's capitalism! It's the loan sharks! It's the evil guys forcing us to play these games, not us literally voting to stay!) which is a problem some people with chronic money-centric issues tend to have.

Also, considering how absolutely fucking stupid this show made the Korean police force look, how amazingly the North Korean defector characters have all been treated so far (aside from that one dumbass), and how miserably it depicted almost every single person in the games this time around to the point of me cheering when most of them died in S2-3, I think the only anti-anything message to be found in here that was purposefully shoved in here is anti-drug use (which aligns with South Korean viewpoints).

Now, to the reason I'm here:

Gihun is a piece of shit and he didn't deserve to off himself.

This season left me MATI right at the finish line. I enjoyed a lot of it: the Recruiter was a standout, the Granny's death hit me fucking hard but it felt earned and her story with her son was wonderfully done, I thoroughly enjoyed Inho chopping away at Gihun's hero ideals and morals. I had fun with the thugs turned detectives (it's a staple of the standard K-Drama so I felt right at home), and though her girl bossing toward the end got a little bit much, overall I ended up enjoying the woman who went through so much bullshit just to help a father see his sick daughter again.

Which is a stark difference to Gihun who actively abandoned a chance to reconnect with his daughter to dismantle the Squid Games.

It was a fool's errand from the start but you could sort of go along with it if only because you'd think if he achieved it, he could go see his daughter in peace without worrying she'd be killed and forever monitored or something because of his involvement. The show sets him up as the hero, thoroughly undercuts his savior fantasy at the end of the season's first half, allows him to go comatose, and then almost lets Inho win.

...And then the writer shatters everything and everyone to disrupt Gihun's very clear descent into a darker shade of grey (or just straight up villainy) for an underwhelming throwaway line and lackluster God complex visions.

Spoiler: Sky Squid was some lazy ass naming; more sperging within.

The only time Gihun is truly confronted by the truth of his situation and his failings is when he's strangling an innocent guy for having something akin to a fucking panic attack during his ill-advised 'storm the capital' plan (which would have failed with or without another bag of ammunition), and the guy says, "It's your fault." And indeed, everything that goes array for a fair amount of the characters we're meant to care for goes horribly wrong either directly or indirectly because of Gihun. Largely because the rebellion kills most of the people in favor of leaving the games and anyone with enough morality to try and help the females or weaker players left behind, which more or less directly causes every game after the rebellion to occur and get dominated by money-hungry and violent men.

"But it isn't all his fault!" Except it is. It should be, at least to him. As a character, he carries the load of his first game on his shoulders. So much so we're meant to believe taking care of his daughter and personally seeing to the continued health and care of those left behind took a backseat to all of his guilt. And he sees it as such. Until he murders Not Soldier Boy.

Then suddenly there's a baby and he tunnel visions this random chick's child to be a superhero again and forgets all about what's been handicapping him since the start of the second half, and his muddy motivations which existed since the time jump in S1. Which reminds me:

FUCK JUNHEE. FUCK HER IN THE ASS. SHE'S FUCKING SHIT. I HATE HER. WHO THE FUCK TAKES HER FUCKING CHILD INTO AN AREA WHERE SOMEONE COULD BE TASKED WITH KILLING YOU? WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT?

She was already stupid for doing this while pregnant but the fact we do not even see her at least attempting to negotiate having one of the guards monitor and take care of her child whilst she's out there fighting for prize money makes her even fucking dumber. Her whole spiel before her death largely revolves around herself and her fee-fee's and just showcases how this narcissistic and ungrateful cunt was in no position to be a mother.

I digress.

It makes literally no sense she would trust Gihun with her child when THE CHILD'S LITERAL FATHER IS RIGHT THERE. A man who is closely connected to the main players of the game (Team Blue Gang), significantly younger and thus more athletic, and biologically/emotionally incentivized to keep her and the damn child alive. This fucking shit is where it all went wrong for me because I had found parts I enjoyed in even some of Netflix's meddling additions (like the trans player succeeding purely through embracing his masculine traits, which I thought was a fitting though likely accidental method of showcasing that being one's true self is a good thing).

Her small huddle of support were all dead; now would have been the time to stop trusting people. Why would she jump to Gihun, the guy who led a bunch of suckers to their deaths and then moped for ages, over MG Coin who had consistently attempted to look out for her and the child when possible throughout?

I didn't immediately seethe at this whole circus plot for a while if only because MG Coin ended up being one of the most intelligent and intriguing characters in the latter half of this season. Until it was time for Gihun to be the 'hero', that is.

Gihun offering to kill himself (before mistrust and emotions got high) on the last pillar for the MG and the baby would have been the preferred ending if we wanted to leave Gihun as a flawed but overall good-hearted guy: this dude and his daughter would walk out of this experience with each other and MG Coin would get to experience, firsthand, the good in people directed towards him as well as his kid (because up until that point, no one had given him a fucking chance). I saw him crashing out and demanding the baby as him trying to wrestle his position as a father back into his hands one last time. Gihun was the one who denied him of that and let the timer tick down. No one can tell me MG was playing a long game planning to kill his own child throughout all those games. He wasn't a fucking saint but he stepped up when he had to, (stupidly) respected his ex's distance whilst trying to help if and where he could, and continued to do so even after she fucking died.

Sounds kind of familiar to the man Gihun was at the start of the first season, doesn't it? Him handing the kid off and killing himself to keep that father-daughter relationship alive would have been poetry.

I even would have taken Gihun (somehow) playing the long game, getting the baby, then kicking it off the pillar because the entire experience finally broke him, declaring Inho the winner in their battle of ideologies, and then offing himself after making some nihilistic speech about how humans like them are trash and deserve this punishment. It would have been a nice heel-turn twist, in my opinion. Better than the alternative at the very least.

But no, we have to have our cake (Gihun is the ultimate hero and baby protector and the best hero and we love him, S1 represent!) and eat it too (Gihun is just like God, sacrificing himself for the greater good, what a flawed but beautiful and broken man, he's been through so much!).

Notice how his death does fucking nothing.

Inho clearly already had some reservations or harbored some guilt about the games and his involvement, as almost every leading villain in S2 showcased (The Recruiter in the park and his lust for death, the Boatman leading a quiet life and refusing to use most of his riches much like Gihun, even the Old Man in S1 and his view on Gihun and the waiting game with humanity) whilst the 'trash/contestants' of this season felt like the actual villains. Team Blue's agreement on the pillars and eventual fallout felt like what most Games probably end up being: the most ruthless making it to the end and whatever alliances they have in place imploding in spectacular fashion because they're all truly only in it for themselves, with the worst of the worst being crowned winners. Which would partially explain why rich people liked watching it and how the Game Runners could continuously justify their own involvement; why give a fuck about any of these assholes when they're all as bad as one another? It brilliantly showcased the hook of this whole scheme in-universe in a way S1 didn't achieve; I was cheering the whole fucking way right alongside the Masked Surfer Bro, dude.

I got sidetracked.

• Inho already had enough awareness to question himself and his beliefs, going as far as to invite Gihun and give him a chance to prove him wrong (killing himself and orphaning an innocent baby is not proving Inho wrong; many of the longest lasting contestants, as well as Gihun's actions and inactions throughout these games, proved Inho correct)
• The baby possibly finds a decent home purely because of Inho
• The games only go boom due to a North Korean trying to help a girl with cancer and Junho trying to find his brother again
• Saebyeok's brother is reunited with his mother thanks to no involvement of Gihun's and has been looked after by 218's mother this whole time while he moped and hunted down The Recruiter
• The only closure, however fucking small, his daughter will ever get comes from Inho making a gesture he was in no way obligated to
• The games, whilst not in Korea, continue on; I believe they only stop in Korea because the island they held it on was discovered

I repeat: BITCH KILLED HIMSELF FOR NOTHING.

"But muh VIPs learned the value of human life and stuff." No, I think they were all shocked into silence by how much of a dumb, dramatic, and egotistical fuck this guy turned out to be.

And what grinds my gears the most, above EVERYTHING ELSE, is how he fucking drops his daughter. What happened to the man in season one who used up all his money trying to get her a toy for her birthday? What happened to the guy that was clearly upset another man would be raising his daughter in a completely different country? What happened to the man who struggled with being an inadequate father and a shitty son? What happened to the father figure that tried to help Saebyeok until the very end?

This series is filled to the brim with trash, purposefully at that, but choosing to be a fucking absentee father (twice) when you had the option to win and go see her again (MG Coin killed for his newborn child, Gihun would be completely justified murdering a bunch of strangers for his daughter)? In the SAME season when a dad got outside help and went straight back to his daughter, working tirelessly at his low-paying job to take care of her instead of trying to gamble his way into good luck whilst accepting help given to him because his hard work, dedication, and unwavering love for his child was noticed by the people around him? In the SAME season as a mother trying her absolute hardest for her son before finally witnessing him behave in such a deplorable way it made her painfully acknowledge she'd raised scum? In the SAME season as MG Coin and his entire fucking arc? By the SAME character who lost his mother fucking around and finding out, and helped house an orphan with a now childless mother prior?

In the same season when the first thing he does is ABANDON A CHANCE TO BE WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND DO SOME ILL-ADVISED VIG SHIT ONLY TO SUCK BALLS, GIVE UP, AND LITERALLY ACHIEVE NOTHING?!

Fuck Gihun.

But also fuck the writer(s). It feels like everything I liked about this season was accidental or unintentional because of how abysmally Gihun's character was handled. Had a good enough time but I would not recommend watching it knowing how badly it shits the bed in the final stretch with what is arguably the most important character. Who got outshined by the rest of the case anyway. Fucking hell, man.

Also the Junho/Inho thing truly went nowhere. But it still did more to end the Squid Games than Gihun the Deadbeat Messiah.