Squid Game 3x6 | Watch Along
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I can't believe how ass this ending was. From the fantastic first half of this season it went downhill so fast. Gi-hun from charismatic leader wanting to save people and take down the games became a mute baby carrier. The whole motive of his fight against the games just disappeared. The father of the baby became cartoonishly evil. The whole conversation between In-ho and Gi-hun was so disappointing, boiled down to few sentences and growls, meanwhile it should have been the most important point of the show. This was supposed to be what's called in writting high-level conversation or top of the shelf conversation, a high-level, sophisticated, and impactful exchange. It often involves elegant language, deep insights, or meaningful topics, and is usually considered of high quality or importance. Most often it's between characters of opposite point of view and from different sociatal ladder. And we didn't get it at all, the only semblence of it was Gi-hun's "Humans are not horses" when it should have been a 10 minute long conversation with In-ho. Also like besides Gi-hun and the baby why would we give a flying fuck about anyone in the final game? They killed all beloved characters early instead of saving them for the final emotional game meanwhile we have Gi-hun baby and some cartoonishly evil people and stupid at that. And don't get me fucking started with the detective. He was looking for the island for 2 FUCKING SEASONS just to say "why" and get the baby. Literally all his scenes with the boat and looking for the island could've been cut and the result would be the same. I honestly thought he was supposed to be justified dues ex machina since we were watching him for 2 seasons looking for that island. What an absolute joke. They could have at least have his brother be in his apartment and at least have some short conversation where In-ho at least tries to explain himself and talks how the baby won the game because Gi-hun sacrificed himself.
This show ended up being better than I thought it’d be. I remember being on the hype train for season one but lost interest between season 2. After watching it all I’d say it’s one of the best Netflix original shows ever.
Just in case some don't know, they are adapting an American version of Squid Game. I hope they do Red Rover as a game should be intense for this type of show.
I really can't believe how dumb everyone in the last game was. I also just kind of feel underwhelmed? Like I cried this episode, a lot, but nothing seems to be actually resolved. The entire storyline of Jun-ho on the boat added up to him seeing his brother for all of 10 seconds, going home, quit being a detective, and decide to stop looking for his brother? Like he spent three years looking for that island, was betrayed by the one person he thought he could trust in Captain Park, saw an entire squad of dudes get murdered, and six months later he just goes "C'est la vie." The first season he was a competent detective, was able to handle himself while in the games collecting evidence, and nearly made it out. Like I really don't get how he was just so inept in the last like 10 episodes of the show. Choi actually carried him through these last two seasons and he was supposed to be the bumbling buffoon of a henchman. I can't tell if In-ho is remorseful and is going to try to stop the games from happening? Or is he just relocating to LA? That woman, who was Cate Blanchett didn't expect to see Galadriel, in the alley at the end definitely knew who he was. Also why was she playing ddakji in America? Isn't the point of using ddakji because it was a familiar game from their childhood, and by saying there are more games that's how they hooked the players into willingly showing up? Ddakji is mostly unknown in the states, why would anyone agree to play a game that they are completely unfamiliar with, especially when the person who brought it up to you straight up said they intend to hit you every time you lost? I mean its obviously because they just wanted to tease the idea of doing an international series now that the the show is officially done.
I think In-ho was impacted by Gi-hun's actions. They reminded him that some humans are kind and selfless. Although In-ho realizes he went too far to ever be able to go back to being a good person, he still had the power to do one good action for the sake of Gi-hun. As for the baby, he gave her and the money to his brother because it was the only good person he could trust that would take care of the baby. Finally, concerning the last scene, it's unclear. We heard before that there were games outside of Korea, but I don't think we were aware of whether In-ho knew that or not. If he didn't know, then his expression is probably one of shock as he sees that the game exists elsewhere. However, if he knew already, then I think it was him reflecting on what Gi-hun said "Humans are...". As he saw Cate taking pleasure in recruiting that guy, he was reminded that while humans have the potential for complete selflessness (Gi-Hun), they also had the potential to trample on each others. It would actually be crazy if In-ho ended up in the American spinoff as some sort of anti-hero, carrying the torch for Gi-hun and trying to end the games worldwide like the latter hoped to do. I feel like his character could be explored some more, and unlike Gi-hun he would have a lot more power to be able to bring the games down if he played his cards right. Maybe...? ;)
What's the next show? Something stressful I hope!