Current Events > I just finished watching Squid Game (spoilers ahead)

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Yeah, I know I'm late to the party.

It was not quite what I expected, but I see why it was popular. Good drama, good characters and some seriously brutal moments. That fucking marble game, holy shit. I watched it subbed, but apparently it's available dubbed also? I don't know which is superior.

I had a feeling there was some thing going on with Player 1, and when they didn't show him die I thought "I bet he created the Squid Games." It's easy enough to guess. Old person with very little background, and an off-screen death? Definitely a major player. I saw a Youtube video that went over some hints about it, some pretty obvious but a few harder to spot (like the player profile book starting on Number 2).

Anyway good stuff, can't wait for season 2!

I watched it dubbed and thought it was fine

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I know. I think it's crazy that the show is that old and season 2 isn't even done filming?! I guess this stuff takes longer than I expected these days.

It peaks on the first episode honestly.

The brothers side plot was so pointless and the reveal was laughable

refmon posted...

The brothers side plot was so pointless and the reveal was laughable

Yeah, that really did feel pointless. Some people think the cop (sorry I can't remember any one's names) is still alive, and maybe season 2 will give this plot line some payoff.

Also I didn't really like the bridge game. It had some good moments, but there was 0 skill in it, it was all just luck, and the games coming down to a 1v1 was kind of lame.

I think the point of the bridge game was actually that it was unfair. The people running the games weren't really doing it to find the best player, they just wanted to have fun watching poor people die.

I never watch live action shows dubbed. It always looks and sounds wrong. You can tell when you aren't hearing the actual voice of the on screen actor.

Anyway, I loved this show. I'm excited/nervous for season 2. It could be very good or very bad. I hope they don't fuck it up. If you want to see other good Korean dramas on Netflix, try All Of Us Are Dead. About highschool students trapped in school when a zombie outbreak begins

Also Hellbound is good. About innocent people randomly being dammed to Hell for unknown reasons. An angel will appear and tell you the exact time you will die, and that you are fated for hell. Then when the time comes, these hulking monsters appear and beat you to death and then drag your soul to hell. The show is about society's reaction to this phenomenon

Both shows, like Squid Game, have all announced a second season but its unknown when they will come out

MisterPengy posted...

Yeah, that really did feel pointless. Some people think the cop (sorry I can't remember any one's names) is still alive, and maybe season 2 will give this plot line some payoff.

Also I didn't really like the bridge game. It had some good moments, but there was 0 skill in it, it was all just luck, and the games coming down to a 1v1 was kind of lame.

I really do hope hes still alive so we can get some kind of payoff otherwiseyeahpointless side quest.

I understand that the cop's story was just to give the viewer some info and context about the games that they wouldn't get if the show only followed the players, but yeah, that whole subplot wrapped up in a very meaningless way

I can't bring myself to watch Squid Game. If I wanted to see the rich get their jollies by making the common folk kill each other for the financial equivalent of table scraps, I'd just go outside.

SpawnShadow posted...

I can't bring myself to watch Squid Game. If I wanted to see the rich get their jollies by making the common folk kill each other for the financial equivalent of table scraps, I'd just go outside.

If it helps, they only show the rich assholes in the last few episodes, and not a whole bunch even then.

MisterPengy posted...

I watched it subbed, but apparently it's available dubbed also? I don't know which is superior.

The dub is so laughably atrocious I don't know how anyone managed to watch it.

TMOG posted...

I think the point of the bridge game was actually that it was unfair. The people running the games weren't really doing it to find the best player, they just wanted to have fun watching poor people die.

And yeah, this. It's the whole capitalism critique. The Frontman gives his whole speech about how the rules of the game are so important because that's what makes it fair. Everyone there has an equal chance to get ahead with their own skill and ingenuity, you can't cheat. And then I think it's the literal next episode where he instantly changes the rules when they figure out a game.

I know it's Korean, but the entire show is a parody of the "American dream." They all go in thinking they'll win and be rich, but the game chews them up and spits them out. The only real winners are the rich guys who control how the game works.

Yeah, the show def peaked at the marble game for me. Everything else ranged from "Why are people going so gaga over this? Have they never seen/read the dozens of other stories like it?" to "Yeah, this is okay".
But the marble game had me on the edge of my seat. RIP best character even though it was obvious he'd get ganked at one point or another.

Zikten posted...

Anyway, I loved this show. I'm excited/nervous for season 2. It could be very good or very bad. I hope they don't fuck it up. If you want to see other good Korean dramas on Netflix, try All Of Us Are Dead. About highschool students trapped in school when a zombie outbreak begins

Also Hellbound is good. About innocent people randomly being dammed to Hell for unknown reasons. An angel will appear and tell you the exact time you will die, and that you are fated for hell. Then when the time comes, these hulking monsters appear and beat you to death and then drag your soul to hell. The show is about society's reaction to this phenomenon

Waiting for season 2 for all 3 of those myself. Hope they're much less of a disappointment than Sweet Home season 2.

MisterPengy posted...

If it helps, they only show the rich assholes in the last few episodes, and not a whole bunch even then.

Those were hilariously bad. As in "bad acting". I recall reading somewhere they aren't actually actors but English teachers and the like that happen to live in Korea, but I don't know if that statement is true or not.

Even if Season 2 does good stuff with the brothers, that doesn't change how in Season 1 they were boring and awful and the worst part of the show.

Them and the rich dudes were so badly written it felt like a different show

TheSavageDragon posted...

Those were hilariously bad. As in "bad acting". I recall reading somewhere they aren't actually actors but English teachers and the like that happen to live in Korea, but I don't know if that statement is true or not.

IIRC, this isn't true, they were actually actors. They defended themselves by saying this is the result of a director who only speaks Korean directing an English scene. Ditto for the editors. They probably sound fine in Korean, but laughably bad to us.

Maze_ posted...

Them and the rich dudes were so badly written it felt like a different show

Yup, those were the main reason why I didn't get the massive popularity. Alice In Borderland might be viewed as a lesser similar show, but at least it's consistent.

pegusus123456 posted...

IIRC, this isn't true, they were actually actors. They defended themselves by saying this is the result of a director who only speaks Korean directing an English scene. Ditto for the editors. They probably sound fine in Korean, but laughably bad to us.

Makes sense. Like I said, I had no clue about the veracity of that statement.

BearlyWilling posted...

I really do hope hes still alive so we can get some kind of payoff otherwiseyeahpointless side quest.

I'd like to think for a moment the cell phone got just enough signal to send a little message.

IIR the reason the rich people at the end sounded so awkward and unnatural when speaking English is because that's how they were told to speak for subtitling purposes, or something like that.

TMOG posted...

IIR the reason the rich people at the end sounded so awkward and unnatural when speaking English is because that's how they were told to speak for subtitling purposes, or something like that.

It was such a short part of the series I can't say I was bothered by it even a little.