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would it kill you to give a little hope to the world
this was... something lol where do i even start? Firstly, the acting is genuinely incredible, almost any role in Squid Game requires intense emotions and everyone did so well, especially Im Si Wan in the last few episodes. But the VIPs RUIN EVERY SCENE THEY'RE IN like it CANNOT be that hard to do it right. The English is straight from a textbook, everyone's soulless, and the characters were fucking weird, like misogyny is not a personality trait and it's not funny.
moving on, everyone has criticized the plot so much i have nothing more to add except GO THROUGH THE DAMN DOOR, like WHY are you standing around for half a minute oohing and ahhing at the exit or with your back turned in the middle of a fucking death game. like duh you're going to get killed! and kill smarter, not harder, like really Myung-gi, did we have to push everyone off? i know it's supposed to be greed or whatever but that was so idiotic it was out of character.
speaking of characters, the whole Minsu "doing drugs to escape your trauma is also bad, don't do drugs kids!" arc was more compelling than like half of the main characters' arcs. Hyun-ju's and the mom and son duo were the best. I have absolutely no idea what Dae-ho's purpose as a character was??? Jun-hee I was ambivalent about at that point because it was obvious she was gone. Myung-gi became cartoon villain levels of evil, like fine you want to be the sole winner but Gi-hun was literally willing to sacrifice himself, why would you turn that down? I thought the implication throughout the season was that he did care about Jun-hee and the baby, to some degree, but no i guess he's fine with killing his own child now?? Gi-hun is a whole thing, like really? I know it's the reality and bad things happen but there were so many ways to avoid getting to that point. Even if the winner was a baby, which is probably not what they were looking for when they started the game, the game was still completed, so to me nothing was really accomplished? I was waiting for Gi-hun's "fuck you" moment but it felt like he was just defeated in the end. I guess he's supposed to show the good of humanity but he also hunted down Daeho and strangled him a few episodes back so...
Junho really did all that (nothing actually) just to scream 5 lines and get a cryptic stare from his brother...Junho if you know what that was supposed to mean please tell me I have 0 clue. At least a few people got some form of happiness but like nothing was resolved? They're still out there in LA (PLEASE don't do squid game LA i'm begging) and it's still happening, so idk what I'm supposed to take away from all this honestly. Overall, I get that the world sucks, trust me I'm well aware, but even if the games still continued, I feel like there should've been a moment where it felt like the good of humanity shone through. I guess Gi-hun's death was supposed to be that but it didn't hit for me. In conclusion, Squid Game is kinda wack lmao, might as well watch for the conclusion but it's not all that satisfying.
also the baby took me out everytime it appeared. and it also would've died within like a day because no one did anything except hold it, which is not how babies work LMAO
moving on, everyone has criticized the plot so much i have nothing more to add except GO THROUGH THE DAMN DOOR, like WHY are you standing around for half a minute oohing and ahhing at the exit or with your back turned in the middle of a fucking death game. like duh you're going to get killed! and kill smarter, not harder, like really Myung-gi, did we have to push everyone off? i know it's supposed to be greed or whatever but that was so idiotic it was out of character.
speaking of characters, the whole Minsu "doing drugs to escape your trauma is also bad, don't do drugs kids!" arc was more compelling than like half of the main characters' arcs. Hyun-ju's and the mom and son duo were the best. I have absolutely no idea what Dae-ho's purpose as a character was??? Jun-hee I was ambivalent about at that point because it was obvious she was gone. Myung-gi became cartoon villain levels of evil, like fine you want to be the sole winner but Gi-hun was literally willing to sacrifice himself, why would you turn that down? I thought the implication throughout the season was that he did care about Jun-hee and the baby, to some degree, but no i guess he's fine with killing his own child now?? Gi-hun is a whole thing, like really? I know it's the reality and bad things happen but there were so many ways to avoid getting to that point. Even if the winner was a baby, which is probably not what they were looking for when they started the game, the game was still completed, so to me nothing was really accomplished? I was waiting for Gi-hun's "fuck you" moment but it felt like he was just defeated in the end. I guess he's supposed to show the good of humanity but he also hunted down Daeho and strangled him a few episodes back so...
Junho really did all that (nothing actually) just to scream 5 lines and get a cryptic stare from his brother...Junho if you know what that was supposed to mean please tell me I have 0 clue. At least a few people got some form of happiness but like nothing was resolved? They're still out there in LA (PLEASE don't do squid game LA i'm begging) and it's still happening, so idk what I'm supposed to take away from all this honestly. Overall, I get that the world sucks, trust me I'm well aware, but even if the games still continued, I feel like there should've been a moment where it felt like the good of humanity shone through. I guess Gi-hun's death was supposed to be that but it didn't hit for me. In conclusion, Squid Game is kinda wack lmao, might as well watch for the conclusion but it's not all that satisfying.
also the baby took me out everytime it appeared. and it also would've died within like a day because no one did anything except hold it, which is not how babies work LMAO
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