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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Can someone explain the red hair thing though still lost on that bit As per the writer, it's supposed to represent his anger. But you can just as easily read it as him deciding to clean up before meeting his daughter, but feeling so disconnected and defeated that he absolutely does not care and just simply adopts the first look he sees.
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Why not red hair? Also, some squids are red.  E: perhaps it's a red herring! 
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Oct 28, 2021 16:30
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Just pretend everything after the mother dying was a bad dream.
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I had some thoughts on the ending. Obviously this is a big fan-ficcy, but minor things that I think would have improved it. Okay, so let's say everything happens the same all the way up to the old man's bet about the freezing homeless man. I would have preferred if the main character had a jolt of compassion and realized that he had to stop participating in the "system" (including playing another game set up by this horrible dude). I would have liked him to just leave the building and be the person who actually goes and saves the dying man, winning the bet in the process. Now, let's change the very end to cap off the series instead of teasing a second season. We could just end it there on a hopeful note that, with Gi-Hun's compassion as an example, society may someday rise above the crooked form it's in right now. Or, let's double down on the dark satire: Let's show that the cop survived or his notes and evidence made their way to the right people. Have a dark ending where the public finds out about all the atrocities of the game and the people running it, and yet do nothing, instead thinking it's a good idea and Squid Game suddenly gets an influx of new contestants and spin-off games. I think either of those possibilities would have been more interesting than the conventional revenge story sequel-bait we got that kinda loses the allegory it was going for.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Can someone explain the red hair thing though still lost on that bit It's pretty easy if you know anything about Korean culture. After he won the Squid game, he joined a Kpop boy band as the bad boy. That's what he's been doing in the intervening year and also why there are so many seemingly "loose threads" like why he didn't go to the orphanage earlier or see his daughter earlier: it's because he was on tour.
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Oct 28, 2021 17:26
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going personally to save the freezing man is the predictable expected thing not doing so breaks the audience expectation
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Oct 28, 2021 18:16
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punk rebel ecks posted:This show so horrible for some many reasons: Late because I just finished this, but well done my friend
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Oct 28, 2021 18:18
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the old man isnt dead and is going to reappear to say he won the bet and the freezing man and the lady helping him were paid actors
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Oct 28, 2021 18:20
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$40 million isn't enough to enter the ranks of the mega rich, but it's a hell of a lot more than even a prosperous working class lifestyle. It's not enough to make someone a global elite, but you can absolutely become a local elite, and the posters here really undersell what shits the local elite can be. It's enough to make rape cases and "accidental" hit and run cases disappear in the local town or small city. While it can't buy large amounts of national power, it can absolutely bend the ear of the mayor and the state representative. And as Texas and other places show, state representatives can greatly change the quality of life for people in their state, even if they don't have the reach of Federal government. The posters here really undersell what it means to be a local elite and being able to push every local and regional politician to show up at the local Eagle scout ceremony just because your son is part of it. The local gentry can't compare to the wealth of the true lords of parliament, but there's still a obvious gap between the middle class and local gentry. It goes struggling > comfortable > local elite > global elite, and the squid games absolutely award enough money to jump up to local elite. golden bubble fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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Oct 28, 2021 19:32
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I thought the grand prize was only $85,000 US after conversion? That isn't exactly much to retire on.
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Oct 28, 2021 19:40
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Re Cop Plot and VIP, assuming he does indeed come back for season 2, the fact that he knows the VIPs face would almost certainly play a factor in how they attack the games. If anything I'd expect the cop to show up in that VIPs home or lair, probably to the surprise of his brother at a very opportune time.
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Oct 28, 2021 19:47
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I thought the grand prize was only $85,000 US after conversion? That isn't exactly much to retire on. The grand prize was around 45 billion won, which is 38 million USD https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/09/29/how-much-is-squid-games-45-billion-won-prize-in-dollars/
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Oct 28, 2021 19:51
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Can't believe everyone killed each other for the price of a single big mac
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Oct 28, 2021 19:51
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I'd kill for a Big Mac right now
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Oct 28, 2021 20:01
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I took the red hair in stride as kind of a nouveau riche idiot thing, where Gi-hun finally took to spending the money and figured getting dumb hair was something rich people do. Definitely for the first two or three episodes I was like "this is alright, looks really nicely filmed/costumes/decor but I can take it or leave it". I think it was the marbles episode where I really got into it. Even though it was very telegraphed I was super sad to see Sae-byok die. The homecoming was super sad too, but past that it was eating me up that Gi-hun just spends a year moping as a bum while completely ignoring Sae-byok's little brother and Sang-woo's mother, let alone his own daughter. Like yeah, you went through some poo poo, but there's a little boy whose only link to his family just disappeared forever, you gently caress. Overall a good time was had, but I don't think I want a second season nor have much hope for it being good.
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Oct 28, 2021 20:06
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I would bet sprinkled into the red hair decision is they were probably hoping it would make him look cool and iconic or something. Probably didn't work very well.
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davidspackage posted:I took the red hair in stride as kind of a nouveau riche idiot thing, where Gi-hun finally took to spending the money and figured getting dumb hair was something rich people do. I mean, yeah it sucks but gi-hun probably has some severe ptsd at the least.
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Oct 28, 2021 20:26
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Money doesn't make you a better person. Gi-hun's selfishness made him ignore his daughter before he had millions and right when he was going to see her to try and fix things he got distracted again
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Oct 29, 2021 07:11
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I can confirm that Jeju island is very nice.
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Oct 29, 2021 09:12
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The game just broke Gi-hun even more than he already was. The money sure didn't solve anything for him, and the experience only traumatized him more letting him slide into a different kind of obsession/addiction, but it sure didn't help him get over his poo poo.
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Oct 29, 2021 15:07
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Winning at capitalism isn't actually winning. If he'd have gone to see his daughter, the moral standing of the show would be quicksand.
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Oct 29, 2021 18:23
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are you winning son
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Oct 29, 2021 18:29
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I'd be down to watch a sequel to this story, but I think the real money will be in retelling the story in its own cinematic universe, where a version of the games occur on every continent and/or several countries, using the childhood games existing there. Perhaps the real squid game is signing up to be in a show, and finding out if you get to be one of the stars or just die
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Oct 29, 2021 18:35
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the real squid game is the friends we lost along the way
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Oct 29, 2021 18:41
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this thread has become sicker and more depraved than the squid games themselves. mods?
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Oct 29, 2021 18:49
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Squid Games/Guns Akimbo crossover where they help each other end both death game organizations. Gi-Hun provide the cash, Guns Akimbo provides the gunning.
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Oct 29, 2021 19:02
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All you guys’ theories about the sequel are making me laugh because the creator said he has no idea what he wants the next iteration to be like, he’s making it up on the fly because this was so successful
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It should follow the Hunger Games model. S2 is the squid game but wackier and Frontman is in it. S3 Gi Hun is using advanced red light green light gameplay tips to bring down the system and hurling marbles at helicopters.
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Oct 30, 2021 02:12
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S2 will be the same thing except this time it's on a peninsula.
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Inner Light posted:All you guys’ theories about the sequel are making me laugh because the creator said he has no idea what he wants the next iteration to be like, he’s making it up on the fly because this was so successful Yes, this is the thread to talk about that
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i want squid game but in a different country so we get to see kick the can but the can explodes sometimes, ball in a cup (the cup will kill you if you miss it), i spy (or lose an eye), with the final game with our last two players being pat-a-cake.... to the death 
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I'd be cool with other countries as long as it remains rooted in a distinctly Korean vision. Japan or China would be cool but I feel (know) that would be an international incident so a softer target like the US would be good. Korea has a complicated relationship with the US, especially as it relates to the false promises of capitalism and the failures of communism.
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Oct 30, 2021 04:19
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Welcome to the American squid games. The first game is called, machine-gun Kindergarten
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Oct 30, 2021 06:48
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The next season is probably staying in Korea for the continuing adventures of Gi Hun. Really doubt they put him in a new country. But I can definitely see spinoffs in other countries that the original creator of the show has nothing to do with.
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Mu Zeta posted:The next season is probably staying in Korea for the continuing adventures of Gi Hun. Really doubt they put him in a new country. But I can definitely see spinoffs in other countries that the original creator of the show has nothing to do with. OK wet blanket saying what will happen and be bad. Let us dream while things are still limitless.
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Oct 30, 2021 07:24
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squid game antarctica. the first game is just 'survive getting mauled by these four polar bears we let loose into the arena'. 
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Oct 30, 2021 07:31
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squid game north korea since the show reminded me so much of north korea
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Oct 30, 2021 07:51
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I like the idea that someone had where gi hum is trying to do the shogo kawada and trying to bring the game down from the inside so he recruits people before it starts, but then is immediately killed in the first game and they have to figure it out on their own
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Oct 30, 2021 11:04
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The final episode will have someone as the top boss with the most fancy mask and quote this post, gi hun will end the show wearing that mask
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Since the first season had legally distinct from Darth Vader, the second season will have legally distinct from Darth Maul. Or, in a more controversial twist, legally distinct from Gremloids.
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