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What the fuck went on that writing room
They spent a whole entire season making us love the new characters, learn things about them, connect with them... to have them all killed in the first 3 episodes and leave us watching a final game full of random people?Hide and seek was by far the best game in this season, we had the characters we liked and cared about, the set was absolutely stunning, editing was amazing and the music, sound effects, ambient... it all played its role perfectly. The story worked, we got to see an aliance of Geumja, Junhee and Hyunju that was beautiful, the birth scene was extremely unrealistic, but it worked, having Hyunju be there in such a sacred, protected space for women was beautiful for her character, she got to experience acceptance in womanhood before dying. Gihun and Daeho's part was just character assasination for Daeho, his character did a whole 360º in an episode and it made no sense at all, most of the characters forgot about him too like, does nobody care that he died? He was part of like the main group but they didn't gaf when he died? It was weird. Geumja having to kill her own son was a good plot, she saved him of the guilt he was going to live with for killing a mother and potentially her baby. I also like the narrative of her stopping her son of becoming his father, overall, kind of unrealistic but heartbreaking. Hyunju's death was absolutely devastating, she could've abandoned Geumja and Junhee multiple times, she had all the keys, but she decided to stay, and because of her good heart, she went back to get them and died protecting them. I feel like her character wasn't done justice with her death, she was the strongest character, an amazing fighter and she went down with a stab on the back by the baby daddy of the girl she has been protecting the whole game. Her final scene with Geumja caressing her face and showing her earings, giving her a mothers love that we know she didn't get, heartbreaking. Player 100 and the shaman were funny, played well in this game. Minsu's arc was fine, it was interesting but at the same time kind of random. Overall, heartbreaking game, they took out Hyunju because they know she would win.
Jump rope could've been fun, but it wasn't, when the random guy 1 started pushing random people off we were suposed to feel the tension, get nervous, but the effect was fully lost because we didn't know the people playing, we didn't care about more than a half of the characters playing, Gihun passed with the baby, Junhee was waiting, Namgyu had already died, tbh I didn't care about Minsu and we all hated Myunggi, so who am I supposed to be nervous and anxious about? Geumja was out before getting to this game and the lack of women was loud. If they kept Geumja, Hyunju or Daeho for this game and they were jumping as the guy was pushing people we would have gotten anxious and nervous but because we didn't care about the players it was kind of whatever. The baby passing this game is so unrealistic, you can't shake a newborn baby because they don't have a hard skull, she would be gone at the first jump and Junhee killing herself is also giving the baby away to death. How the hell did player 100 pass? That's someones grandpa, I know his knees aren't that strong. But well, game ends and we're officially out of women (but the baby). The set is still amazing, the color of the scenes was beautiful, Junhee's death had beautiful colors and again the music, sound effects and ambient were on point, editting was still great. Main problem with this one is the lack of characters we care about
The final game, was boring as hell, I know the baby is not gonna die, I know Gihun is gonna survive at least till the final tower so this whole 15 minutes of random characters that popped out of nowhere talking was just boring as hell, I couldn't even bring myself to care it just felt like it was wasting my time. Minsu's hallucinations were fun i guess, but he went out in like 3 minutes so the rest of the game was just player 100 talking about democracy, Myunggi trying to be Sangwoo and throwing people with a stick and the rest of the guys just complaining. They kill everyone in tower 2, I didn't care, we move to tower 3. Myunggi was SO annoying throughout this season but damn, he was annoying in the end, idc if he wasn't gonna thow his child out, he threatened to and literally put his daughter at risk by holding her in the edge, Gihun had already said he would jump so he could win with the baby just take the deal and accept it, live with your daughter, but no, he had to spend the whole last scene of this game being stupid, insinuating Gihun cared for Junhee because they had an affair? Threatening to throw his baby off a tower? And in the end when he was gonna fall, he put sad eyes like noo i dont want to die, girl i dont care, his character was all over the place, one moment he cared about Junhee and her baby and was willing to die for them, next scene he's going on a killing spree reducing the blue people the reds could kill and making it more likely for her to be attacked, then he joins the useless uncle squad and acts to protect the baby, then he wants to throw out the baby? He makes no sense. When Gihun realized the button hadn't been pressed, plot armor to kill him cause he could've just called a vote and leave with the baby (I found funny how he cared for every girl like they were his daughters, like anyone but HIS real daughter) because leaving the baby to the people who organized the games where people die every two seconds is obviously extremely smart. We're not horses period, final game was boring as hell but at least he ate that final line.
Now that we have covered the games lets see the side plots;
Noeul saving this random man who did nothing in the show but show us that he had a daughter that was sick was entretaining only because of Noeul, Gyeongseok was so boring, when they parted ways so he could like escape on the boat his scenes where so boring. Noeul carried this season tho, she was determined, amazing, we felt bad for her and we wanted her to win and to survive when she fought with the square soldier. Solid plot, loved her ending too.
Junho was just doing nothing the whole entire season, wasted character, he got into the games in season 1 and you're telling me he couldn't do it in seasons 2 AND 3? Like yes the man who saved him was thowing him off and everything but in season 1 he got in under one of the cars, why couldn't he do it again? The reunion with his brother was one of the things I was most excited about in this season and we just got HYUUUUNG WAEEEE? WAEKURESOOO? and Inho not gaf and leaving the scene with a baby who later apeared on his dinner table like, hi junho you're my papa. Okay. Wasted potential everywhere, he was one of the best in season 1, they should've used his character better.
The so promoted, very exciting confrontation between Inho and Gihun was so dissapointing I could just laugh, "OH MY GOD YOU'RE YOUNGIL?" "yes, sorry about jungbae. You know? I've been thinking, what if you kill everyone and I let you leave with the baby?" and Gihun leaves in silence that's literally the scene. I liked how they match cut the present Gihun with past Inho, great editting and part overall, we should've seen more of that. Overall dissapointing, Gihun didn't even find out his real name, or that he was Junho's brother.
Inho's character was abandoned, he made no sense, he had a whole scene traumatized because he shot his brother, feeling guilty and giving room for learning about his love and care for Junho and we start the season by having him being like, omg girl yes kill my brother if you need to, that makes no sense, his confrontation with Gihun was so souless, he deserved better writting.
The whole going to the US to give Gihun's daughter a BLOODY jacket of the games that ruined her father's life, like okay interesting choice I guess, and then just finding Cate Blanchett playing DDAKJI in the US was ridiculous.
Anyway, such a dissapointing season, characters killed off early, character assasination every 2 minutes and the VIP's had way too much screentime for how annoying they are, please make them shut up god. The cast did an amazing job, all of them have outstanding preformances this season. Very sad that it ended this dissapointingly
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