#Squid Game spoilers

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

[tsundere-freak]

Yo, that picnic “gotcha!” was so disrespectful. Hiding it behind a reward? Like… people have talked it into the ground way better than me. this whole “squid game in real life” was already pretty scummy, but this first half of the season makes me hope that the producers get seriously injured.

[animentality]

Those two girls from squid game had so much fucking chemistry.

They literally couldn't save each other but I wanted them to fucking live and go to Jeju island together.

Kill me.

They had more of a romance than like, shows with 8 seasons of queerbait.

[call-me-remi]

Watching Squid Game really makes me want to buy an S&W model 10 and 19.

[proseinborderland]

✨ This is so hilarious! ✨

credit to: moviemenfes on twitter

[weberina]

You know what Season 2 of Squid Game should be?

That old guy having told all his gazillionaire friends "How Fun" it was to play and all his buddies signing up for it in the next game.

Then someone lets slip that the old shitheads are amongst them and the other players gang up to eliminate them by any means necessary.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I’m actually not opposed to the rumored/proposed American version of “Squid Game”. Apart from a straight-up remake (which I’d be disappointed in), an interesting direction they could take the show is if they use the American version to illustrate just how big the conspiracy is. We saw that the VIPs come from other countries, so there’s a chance that other countries have hosted similar games.

So, what we end up with is a sort of loosely-connected universe where the characters don’t necessarily meet, but are dealing with the same Illuminati-esque group that’s running these battle royale games. And both the American and Korean versions can highlight societal issues that are specific to either country, but all share the same root of capitalism.

Plus, it’d be in line with the show’s parody of reality game shows. If a game show is popular in one country (for example, The Circle), chances are that another country will make their own version. Also, the entire “Survivor” franchise features different countries each season. I guess what I’m saying is, I wouldn’t like a full-on remake, but I’d be down for a loosely-connected spin-off.

[qwainte]

Reading comments from people who hated the ending of Squid Game is so funny because all of their proposed rewrites are just 100x worse

i.e.

[rogueofrageedits]

SORRY for squid game posting in 2023 but i just finished it again and these shots in the final episode are great.

[ID: Two screenshots from episode 9 of Squid Game. Both show Il-Nam lying in his bed, with Gi-Hun standing at his feet. In the first shot, there is a lamp with a white light above Il-Nam. Gi-Hun is in darkness, backlit by the blue lights of the city.

In the second shot, Il-Nam has died. The light above him is still on, but the angle has changed - now only the lampshade is visible. Gi-Hun is still totally in darkness, but behind him is a table with a vase of roses and a table lamp. The lamp is yellow, and is the brightest thing in the shot. End ID]

visual metaphor! lots of colour! shapes! truly a perfect piece of media

[none-shall-caricature-me]

Some people hate on Sangwoo for not wanting women in his tug of war team because a) men tend to be physically stronger on average and b) be real, was there a single woman there who looked like she actually lifts or could take on the bulky men there who lift ? All of them were skinny little things at a huge size disadvantage.

If you, even as a girl, were in his situation would you really want to risk death by joining a team that has THOSE dainty girls on it ? Come on. Anyone with a sane bone in their body would prioritise survival over hollow goody - goody rhetoric. That old man's strategy worked out, but what's the guarantee that it would in real life ?

Fake feminists like to pretend that Hollywood - thin women without real training and without a good amount of muscle can actually take on thugs or men who work out when it comes to raw physical activities, but that's the height of delusion.

Such basic stuff isn't misogyny. It would be if there were clearly muscular, physically very capable women among the participants and people still refused to take them. But even the ones who WERE fit (eg Sae Byeok) were at a considerable size and weight disadvantage.

[proseinborderland]

Oops! Wrong Fandom.

BUT - STUNNING FAN ART!

I had to share.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[gleefully-macabre]

Okay, so I finally watched Squid Game. My takeaway:

The red hair isn’t nearly as bad as people keep saying.

The rules of Squid Game (the singular game, not the competition) made sense once I clarified that the Offense can only enter the “squid’s” “body” from the large circle opposite the “head”.

Wish I could give past-me tug-o-war advise.

Track record of being an absentee dad continues unbroken (and like, I get it, but his daughter is just going to see another broken promise).

067’s brother is in need of some serious therapy he likely isn’t going to get (lol stigma).

So does literally everyone in the show, survivor or not.

The recruiter who played that game in the subway for 100,000 won is an absolute hottie (and total sociopath, jeebuz!)

Where was all 456’s care and consideration when it came to his poor mother? He treated 001 miles better than he ever treated her.

Also, she definitely just died like the second he walked through the door. A corpse looks different after a really short amount of time, especially after dying of sepsis. I don’t even want to think about the smell.

I sure hope 212 was a better con artist outside the games than in. Though considering she was millions to billions of won in debt, probably not.

[animentality]

I just finished Squid Game and while I understand that some people didn't like the ending, I really think it was great and those people are wrong.

And I don't mean the beautiful narrative of Sang Woo killing himself in the end so Gi Hun could have the money or how he killed Sae-byeok because he knew she and Gi Hun would stop the games as the majority.

That was great.

The old man's death and explanation were also great. The capitalism critique was fun, if not terribly deep.

I specifically mean the ending where he chooses to not see his daughter in America.

I get that people wanted him to not abandon her, but think of it like this, right?

His daughter had a father and a mother who cared about her and would make sure she lived a great life in America.

Gi Hun loved his daughter, but he needed her. Not the other way around. She was the only thing he cared about before the games.

But that was selfish, because she didn't need his money or his meager gifts. He needed her love and attention and love because he had nothing else. He needed HER.

He also lived off his mother at the time, so it was kind of a statement about him as a person, where he relies on his family and has no goals of his own.

And also, it was a little pitiful, how this grown man can't take care of himself but he needs his mother and daughter and even the husband of the woman he divorced to potentially pay for his dying mother's surgery.

But that's the whole point.

That's why the end of his arc was so satisfying to me because the reason that he decides to go after the squid games is not because he was being selfish.

He's actually standing up for people like himself.

Like the drunk man on the street, who he bet would be helped.

He realized someone had to do that for people like him. He didn't use the money because he was still one of them, and never one of the rich careless people who left others to die.

This was even foreshadowed as far back as him explaining that he went on strike at his old job when he was let go.

He is a man of the people.

It might seem silly and it might seem callous to not visit his daughter.

But I think it was fitting. Cheesy, maybe, but criticizing it because you wanted him to reunite with his daughter...well.

I loved his daughter too, but I understand that Gi Hun, even when pushed to his absolute limits, was still a good man, despite everything that happened.

He had the opportunity to kill Sang Woo, but he didn't.

He had the opportunity to live in America and forget about the poverty and the games and the cruelty that he escaped.

But he chooses to stay.

He chooses to stop being selfish. To continue being good, outside, where the games are just as real as the squid games.

And I honestly like that ending.

His arc was deserved. It was fitting.

And it was beautiful.

Someone had to make a difference. Someone had to stand up and help others, even if it didn't advance one's own goals.

Someone had to say I shall be the one who reaches out, even if no one else reaches back.

Gi Hun deserved his ending and he made the right choice.

I just hope they don't go too silly and have him John wicking his way through season 2.

[jeeaark]

I couldn't really think of any fun shenanigans for this incident, but! I did think of a sad silly. Or at least Greygold is trying to make their situation seem silly. Neither of them are conflicted at all~

Anyway, everything is ✨fine✨ as long as nobody talks about the hollyphant in the room and they both entirely focus their short reunion together with returning Greygold back home.

Bonus cheesy goodbye:

[hyfinart]

ii17 trailer spoilers!

"a BATTLE!"

[4ceily]

DRDT SPOILERS

Sigh…the new episode is not real, is just part of my imagination!!!