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For LOVERS of this season - A safe space.

Marcrisan81

Hi beautiful people

After feeling so alone in my love for this season (it’s getting the opinions and ratings of a really crappy show), I wanted to create a safe space where we can feel at ease sharing what we loved about it. I don’t know about you, but when my heart is so full with the experience of enjoying a good series, I want to share and talk about it with others! Being said that:

*I truly respect everyone’s opinions, but if you need to vent and complain about Netflix, the ending and whatnot, I encourage you to open your own discussion and express yourself there to the max! :)

First of all, I’m a writer and a psychologist myself, so I truuuly enjoyed a well-written story with well-defined characters/relationships that brings some meaning to the soul… not just an empty story for the sake of entertainment. And oh my God if I get that with this one…

From now on spoilers everywhere ;)

Let me talk about “the police on the boats” and “the ending” that seem to attract the most hatred. As much as people think that the story of the police didn’t add anything to the whole, I think it’s a piece that could not be erased. People like me would think “come on, nobody has gotten to them in all these years?” Well, no, because it shows us that the pink suits patrol the waters and the games have strings everywhere (like the captain of the boat). They are portrayed as slow and inefficient because, sadly, justice goes a step behind when it comes to money & power (I don't want to become political here, but we have an "orange example" somewhere). Also this tstory adds contract and change of pace: we are in the claustrophobic environment of the games and then we are in open sea waters; we are at full speed for survival in the game, next we are outside drifting away or drinking while waiting till the night is over and can resume the research. A good story needs dynamism and those elements of contrast…

The ending of a good series is a bad ending for me… because it means the series is ending! I’m going to miss this show so much, even though I was a late comer! I watched the first season last year resisting like a silly rebel to the hype of the media :) The ending is so freaking poetic to me! I knew that the best ending for the series wouldn’t be the most satisfying for my soul. I knew 456 would die standing for his values till the end, and what he leaves behind is a new born that represents hope, new beginnings, new opportunities in the midst of this greedy society. Again, it brings contrast and resistance to the survival of the leader. We are not naïve, we know that these games (that are a gore-but literal-representation of real life in a capitalist world) are not going to stop, in South Korea, USA or my country… So it’s the perfect ending to highlight the whole philosophy of this series.

Wow, why am I getting emotional? Lol. I don’t know… I could go on and on talking about this jewel (in screenwriting, art design, women’s role, music, acting, the assembly of scenes, etc.) but I want to leave space for others to share their take on it :)

Just a special mention for the writing of the 333 character: Thank you, thank you and thank you Mr. Writer/Director! I get sick when I see in kdramas to narcissistic ML “turning around” in a series by the love of a female lead who puts up with so much cr*p until he miraculously becomes the perfect partner. No, ladies and gentlemen, that’s bullsh*t (sorry for the language haha), love never ever turn a beast into a prince. Younger generations needs to see a real portrait of what a terrible man is at the beginning, through the middle and at the end of a relationship –(no matter how much of a pretty face he has!) and how a woman -even in a very vulnerable position- can and should stand up for herlsef (and her baby).

The emotional storytelling of this series was like a rollercoaste, and my spirit is sitting in the car not wanting to hop off. It is sad because the experience is over, yet is so fulfilled by how some characters stand for each other, helped each other and lifted each other in the midst of so much cruelty, greed and nonsense. May we find those people -and may we be those ones for others too- in real life.

Edit: Erika Song posted this link in the comments and it's so worth reading it: https://time.com/7298235/squid-game-vips-season-3/

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dom

It was absolutely amazing. My days are going to feel so empty without it. It was truly a masterpiece. The deaths were so brutal and heart-wrenching. I can't believe these ratings here. Every player dying felt so real. 

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livedrama

im in for it. i loved this season. yes not as much as i loved s1 but a lot more than s2. the games were intense and it's what made them interesting

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Marcrisan81

Thank you guys for showing up and sharing some appreciation for the series :) It feels so good! I cannot stop thinking how the director and the whole team would feel if they came across the comments section. People are totally entitled to dislike it, but actually using words of hate? I cannot believe it. How can people be so ruthless with someone’s creative work?

 dom:
It was truly a masterpiece

I agree! In fact, yesterday I agreed with all your comments (and gave you a heart) before you posted here; so much common sense! Lol. I truly think it’s a masterpiece as well. I’ve rewatched this season with my mother (she is 64 and my partner in crime in the K-drama world haha) and got so much more from it this second time :)

 livedrama:
i loved this season. yes not as much as i loved s1 but a lot more than s2.

Thank you for sharing your opinion! My mother thinks like you :) For me, I liked this one much more, especially for two main reasons:

  1. In the first season, if they abandoned the game, the family of the dead players would have got the money (so they got the motivation to keep playing), but here, if they abandoned it they could have divided the prize amongst themselves! It shows greed on a whole new level.
  2. I love: a) that the baby is the winner (for the reasons I explained in my first post) and 456 didn’t betray his values. Also, in doing so, he saved 2 lifes: the baby’s and the pink guard lady who was about to kill herself and regain back her faith in humanity.

b) that the artist/father escaped the island and the daughter is healed. He was able to pay for her treatment “with the help of everybody” in his community!! Uff, it’s amazing how they show us that we don’t need to get into this bloody-greedy game to resolve things; we can get out of terrible situations, miracles like that can happen, if we actually help each other <3

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livedrama
 Marcrisan81:
In the first season, if they abandoned the game, the family of the dead players would have got the money (so they got the motivation to keep playing), but here, if they abandoned it they could have divided the prize amongst themselves! It shows greed on a whole new level.

for real! the another reason for why i loved this season is also because they portrayed that how an innocent person can turn into money greedy scumbag. they showed how it changes one's mentality and makes them go insane. minsu would be a prime example for it

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Cocktail

Oh I am glad there were a lot of people that had similar take about the ending. I just finished the series and went to mdl to find a lot of people despised the ending when it was the opposite for me. I wrote my opinion on the comment section maybe I cam share it here as well. 


"Idk, overall it's good enough and I like the ending very much. It's a bit bleak but still very much fitting and mirrors the current societal climate.

Gi-hun may have failed to stop the game, but he did save and change the lives of people (or their families) that he encountered along the way. Sae-byeok's little brother, Cho Sang-woo's mother, and he even unintentionally stopped Noeul from committing suicide.

Let’s be honest, he's bound to lose because he's simply powerless against such organizations. But did that stop him? No. Because that is not Gi-hun as a person. He could have left everything and returned to his daughter with the money he won, but he just couldn’t do it. For certain people, even with all the money in the world, they could not simply ignore injustice and hide their guilt, living their life happily like nothing's happened.

And no, I do not agree with people asking, “What’s the point?” The point is, humans are not horses. And Gi-hun proved it with his final sacrifice. Yes, he ended up dead, alone, and didn’t even manage to stop the game but that’s exactly the point. Even if it cost him his life, he stood by his principle. Humans have their individual principles, morality, unique experiences that shaped their motives and thoughts , free will(s) that it's impossible to simply box them all together and expect them to be one thing; like horses.

This further proven by Noeul who was recruited to be the guard but also ended up rebelling and the manager said himself "I judged you wrongly. You should have been a participant".

Gihun's journey, and the testament of other people about him, showed it to us. When Sae-byeok said, "Ahjussi is not that kind of person," the people trusted him and even followed him through the failed rebellion, Junhee trusting him to save her baby. And him not losing his humanity till the very end. I know for a fact that the frontman did respect him for what he stood for.

If you define someone and their life based on the end point instead of the journey and character progression, then you may feel like it has no point. But I see Squid Game as Gi-hun's story first and foremost.

Obviously, there were flaws, deficient in some characters' writing and even illogical plot writing. But I think it's good enough. It's good enough to move me and made the point across"

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boban11

i just realize 2 things while doing my re-watch , look like in the game hide and seek the rooms with the exit were never lock, cause the shaman find one while trying to get away from min-su and she never used her key and hyeon ju find the other one while fighting the other player they both just bust into the room, i'm not sure if i'm right but if the writers did hat in purpose, i think it was a nice little detail.and the second thing it seem jun ho really realized gi-hun had die after he received the baby with the card saying the baby is the winner.but yeah that all i wanted to say, loved the acting, loved the visual,loved the OST, loved the production, this season checked every box for me to be a winner  

ps: if you loved the season like i do send me a DM so we can be friends on IG and share meme about squid game ;)

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dom

Actually they both used the keys; hyun ju used her, geum ja, and jun hee's keys while the shaman searched for keys but eventually found 100 who had 2 keys or 1 key ( i can't remember). I'm really sorry: i don't have IG nor am planning to get one. Thank you for your reply though! :)

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