Why didn’t Cho Sang-Woo tell him not to pick the umbrella when he knew what game it was. It was obviously the worst choice. At the time they were teammates. Did he really see Gi-hun as a threat that early??

This comment blew my mind

@italkcrab am I getting the games mixed up or was Game 5 the bridge one? I don’t get how he helped there.

That's when I lost faith in him. He KNEW. Maybe not for sure but he had a strong feeling.

@@griffinj1204 That seen was the beginning of his character Arc. He didn't share information to prevent players from winning thus keeping him ahead. Notice how he said are you sure when 0456 chooses umbrella. The only timed he shared information was to help himself like during tug of war.

hooooly crap

and in red light green light when we see through the doll’s perspective, illnam and the people around him arent highlighted in green like everyone else, showing that even if he messed up he wouldn’t have been shot. the people around him probably aren’t in green either just in case there’s a misfire. also in tug of war, there arent locks on his wrists, showing that if his team had lost he could’ve slipped the bracelets off and stayed on the platform while everyone else was dragged off the edge. in marbles, i’m pretty sure everyone in charge thought no one would want to be his partner, so that’s why the extra person wasn’t going to get killed. but alas, gihun is too nice so that’s why the old man stalled the whole game, faking dementia and running the clock down while trying to find his old house. illnam probably figured out that if he waited until the last second to lose, then no one could see him not get shot. these are all the safeguards i saw to protect him, tho i’m not sure what they would’ve done in the 5th and 6th games. hed probably suggest throwing their shoes at the glass or something, since they never said it wasn’t allowed and i’m actually surprised no one really tried to get around the rules on that one.

oh and i forgot, the bed he was standing on was the only stack that didn’t get tipped over during the school yard brawl

@@laurenmaring2924 he’s definitely outlined in green during red light green light, i just slowed it down to check and it also looks like he’s locked in during the tug of war but still! Lots of fun hints throughout the show about him

Also when the cop went through the list of players for that game it started at 002, not 001. And there is a slow motion video of tug-of-war and he does not have a lock on him.

But the players were carefully chosen.. All of them were society outcasts living in "hell" every single day. The game just offered them one more chance to live the dream, or just instantly die. In a way, the VIPs are saying : "your existence is worthless anyway. Might as well entertain us before you die and we'll reward one of you with a spot next to us". And the poor didn't really have a choice. Most of them would've died anyway if they didn't join the game (the mafia chasing that bully deok-su/ the contract gi-hun signed etc Also, when most of the players came back, the front man ordered his minions to "closely watch over the others who didn't come back". He knows they'll either die on the streets or they'll come back crawling to play the next game...

The people that died during red light green light didnt really have much of a say...

@@Mikereno5653 they still chose to go but to be fair they didn't know losing meant death yet

Yeah when he first did that , I felt it was a little inconsistent .

Because people were definitely making an educated decision when they joined? The truth is he had to trick everyone to think they would just be 'eliminated' but not actually explaining what that means lol

If u want a well written show, watch season 1 of Sex Education… Not season 2 or 3, but szn 1 is rly good

Well written show, except finale.

That's because they don't make well written shows anymore, they make identity politic propaganda

@@jamesstudley1166 I watched it and it sucked

@@GenesisXTRM Ahh yes, because shows that depict the complexity of the human experience for anyone other than straight white cis people are propaganda. As opposed to, you know, a more accurate depiction of the world we live in than stories featuring people with a minimal range of identities and experiences.

And the emotional impact of that whole ass scene was thrown away by the final episode ._.

@@popyrocklomejor567 yeah, but that scene also proved Il-Nam's point. Gi-Hun resorted to underhanded tactics to put his life before his friend. Like Cho Sang-Woo

My favorite scene proving how roting humanity was. Noticed II-nam was beating him at marbles effortlessly. He played dumb to see what Gi-hun would do. If he had won he would of gaved gi-hun the marbles anyways.

Well 1. He wasn't really his friend. Even if Il-nam wasn't the creator of the game the whole time he still should have died there. He as old with a brain tumor, was going to die soon anyway and all that money would have been wasted. What Sang-Woo did to Ali is far worse then Gi-Hun to Il-nam. Old man was going to die either way, Ali was healthy with a wife and child.

@@brittanylewandowski6200 I like how people feel bad for Ali but miss alot of things in the show Ali stole the money from his boss. And almost killed his boss in the process of doing so. And took off like nothing happened why do people skip over his sin. And Ali was willing to take out Sang woo as well.

it’s okay the writers already forgot

Yeah, that one made me more sad and angry than HoYeon's (NK defector) death at the end. They were both pretty messed up because they both won the game yet got screwed over... Then again he was hella naive - too sweet of a guy for the game 😔. Which makes it more sad.

I mean, he gave them money BEFORE he left (smartest character in this show) and told them to go back home because he didn't know if he would come back. If I was his wife, I would've taken the money and left. If I went back to my home country and he came back, he would know where to find me.

The wife was sold by the Taliban. The kid grew up and joined ISIS.

@@Jeremy-ql1or damn jeremy, that’s pretty baller

Beats off riding trains with zombies in it. Slapping hobos is where the money's at!

They probably hired him specifically because he was so fucking good at the game too. Like "yea I can flip that shit everytime I play".. ok your hired.

This is how you build character

@@arzeey That's what abusive parent would say

@@impactQuake well if it's coming from a parent then it's definitely wrong. But if kids get roughed up playing with each other (willingly) it's fine. And rough play does build up character. I actually miss it

@@eyob.t1389 Well I had kinda "though" childhood because of other kids so I don't think it was good for me.

@@impactQuake that's why I said "willingly". If you were bullied or abused I'm sorry for you but that's not what I was talking about

I think we’ll see Ali is season 2. They didn’t show him get shot either…

@@KaeShenni Nah we won't, they already brought back the old man, they'll probably bring back the policeman too, if they bring back Ali as well it's too much already, it would feel really stupid.

@@KaeShenni They showed his dead body in the next episode

Ilegal immigrant, and the ‘privileged businessman’ was in crippling debt.

@@silver6540 My name is from an anime called overlord. What does it mean to you?

@@CriticalHater mw2 campaign

@@CriticalHater My favorite part here is that you assume he was "illegal", just because he was an immigrant

I just seen it between a smart guy and a stupid guy personally. Not like Sung came from privilege given that his mum sells fish on a market.

Yea but they still made it unnecessarily stupid. The old guy dies exactly at 12 a clock, at the exact moment help comes for the hobo, just before the protagonist gets to kill the old guy himself. What a specific set of wonderful circumstances, right? Yea give me a break, I can only suspend my disbelief so much. It's a decent show, actually until ep 6 it's an amazing show but afterwards there are so many stupid moments.

@ Bruh its a show. The theatrics are hieghtend. The end was on the fight of the ruthless capitalist who believe humans are just pure self serving narcissist while Gi hun stands for the belief in humanity .

​@@eangartvapakp6801 yea no shit it's a show, does that mean they had to use 5-6 clichees in a single scene? no

@ lol what the old man said about people having no fun is evident through your comments ahahaha

@@MetalBassist1000 right, you squid game fanboys are something else, god forbid someone criticizes the show even for the smallest thing, alright the show is perfect it has no flaws, it's best show in history and nothing will ever surpass it, happy now?

Yeah never cried on one movie/ TV show I'm a gangster lol. But that scene had be me wiping tears away 😢

100% I hate betrayals like that but if I was in their shoes I would probably do the same

I did shed a tear or two

Ali got did dirty

It was emotional, but you gotta be lying if you didnt know what was gonna happen way before it did.

I seemed to always have my eyes closed during the headshots.

@@egarran Bruh you must've been blinking like you were having a seizure during the first game.

@@DeepThinker193 Sometimes I also just happened to look at other things in the room.

Beautiful smile yes. But the way she opens her arms when shes falling to the ground is fking distracting... i mean the brain is fked up with the bullet, still she moves. I thought daaamn why didnt they try another shot? She should have just fall arms down like a bag of sand, heavily... that would have look brrrrutal.

Me, too!

Sang Woo actually said this himself in the last episode.

He wanted his mom taken care of.

@@xFuzzyLove Don't credit him too much. He didn't even know about his mom being sick until well after he had done all the embezzling etc. He had already ripped of a bunch of people and done a lot of criminal acts. He joined the game not to help his mother (again, he didn't even know she was sick when he joined the game, his brother Gi-Hun finds out when they vote to leave. Note that his brother was NOT one of the ones who voted to leave. He wanted that money and he was willing to stay there to get it without any clue his mother was even unwell), he was there to try and get himself off the hook by getting money to pay back his debts so he wouldn't go to jail. His final act might have been to aid his mother but up until that point he was willing to brutally murder anyone who got in his path, including his brother, if it meant satisfying his own needs.

It's not really a missed detail since he literally explains that after killing her.

@@Mandrake42 I believe you're confusing relationships in the series. Sang-woo and Gi-hun aren't brothers. They were childhood friends who grew up in the same neighborhood. Their moms are friends, too. Sang Woo's mom runs the market stall and sells fish (remember her giving Gihun the mackerel to take home?). Gihun brings Sae-byeok's little brother Cheol to her at the end. Gihun's mom was the one who was sick and ended up dying. The reason Sang-woo wanted Gi-hun to take care of his mom was because he'd stolen from her. He'd put everything she had - her home and the market stall business - up for collateral to pay his debts. She was going to lose everything and be homeless and destitute, and she had no idea her son had done this to her. In the end, Sang-woo decided saving her was more important than all that money he'd killed people for. It's interesting that they both stole from their mothers to gamble, and both endangered their mom's lives by doing so. They both had questionable moral compasses. The only difference was that everyone knew what Gihun was - a liar, a thief, a deadbeat dad. But Sang-woo was able to hide his even bigger crimes behind his shiny façade of education and job security.

Especially the part he was aware of the main dudes cheating and was hyped on red light green light

@@tonito_el_tigre yeah, no wonder the robot didn't detect the old man

And the fact is he number 1, I kind of thought something was up with him when he was counting the participants.

I knew I have seen too much of this type of shows/stories where, within the first minutes of us seeing that old man, my first thought was "he's probably the one who organized this, isn't he? Like, the oldest person there, number 1 aaand he has a braintumor that killing him? Yeah, this is the oldest cliche in the book"

@@megamcee honestly I just thought he was the over powered old man character that most likely already participated in the games and won. He just decided to join the new games hence why he was number 1, he was the first volunteer but nah.

So basically, they might have just been badly hit with writer's block at every instance of the show? 😂😂😂

I needed to read this! Thanks

as someone w writers block right now I really needed this

Meh

The final fight between him and Gi hun was brutally amazing

i still hate sang woo, sae byeok was my fav bruh :(( but no hate towards the actor, he's very good at his job. but the show is amazing

@@ccarlos645 I hated him too. The minute he betrayed Ali I hated him more than anything

For all those who hate Sang-Woo, I do implore you guys to take a moment to think about it. You need to look at the motivation of those who decided to play the game. The very fact that people decided to come back implies that their lives outside is so bad that they are willing to die if it means a chance to get that prize money to pay off their debts. It doesn't make sense for you to come back to the game without the mindest of doing whatever it takes to win. So I think Sang-Woo is justified in that. Also, in the case of Sang-Woo, while I do agree that he seems more ruthless compared to Gi-Hun, in the end his life was on the line (and his mother's aa well) and let's be really honest here, 99.9% of us would succumb to that survival instict and use whatever way to get us out of the situation. I don't think it's fair to call him evil at all and as his last act shows, his goal wasn't just greed and desire to be rich. Hell, people forget that no matter if he won the money he would still go to jail for fraud since there was a warrant for his arrest, so his life wasn't gonna be heaven either way. In the end, he would rather die if it means that Gi-Hun will get the money to help his mother. I think Sang-Woo was a pragmatist who understood why he was there and was determined to achieve the prize by any means necessary. I would even dare to think that inside he would rather if neither Ali nor Gi-Hun was playing because I don't think that given the choice, he would want to cause their deaths. Sang-Woo's self-interest behaviour wasn't unique compared to other players in the game who wanted to eliminate the competition and win the prize, and whether or not we want to admit it, he represents how a lot of us would act in the same situation. I personally would lke to believe I'll be that hero who looks out for people and would sacrifice myself to let other players win. But in reality, if I fucked up and was deep in debt, and my family's wellbeing as well was my life was on the line, boy being hero and maintaining the moral compass is gonna be a tough tough sell.

@@quanganhvu6791 The only thing I really fault him for his the second game, if he had an idea of what the game was then he should’ve told his whole squad to pick triangle.

@@quanganhvu6791 I agree with you. He was realistic. His actions made sense. I mean no matter how much I liked Ali, he was way too kind to make it through that game and not think for a moment he might be betrayed. I know WHY Sang Woo did it. My problem is he's selfish. Never mind Ali, the whole reason he's in such a desperate situation is because of the terrible investments he made and the fact that he put his mom's shop as collateral WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT. He does whatever he has to for his own benefit. And yes, most of the people were there for their own benefit including Gi Hun and Ali, but at least they didn't let their self interest rob them of their humanity like Sang Woo did. The other people there to an extent made absolutely no secret they would do whatever they had to to win. But Sang Woo put on the nice guy act almost till the end. Not to mention he killed the girl ( can't remember how to spell her name) when she was ALREADY DYING just so the game could continue. The only selfless thing he did that whole time was commit suicide so he didn't have to live with the guilt of all the people he killed.

Yeah honestly im jumping him idk if he is old as hell and sick as hell its on sight

😂😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂

I knew he was a sheister

Check out DARK or Lovecraft Country

@@wiiplaya25 Lovecraft Country was terrible, and I wanted to like it

@@daddydog9275 terrible how?

I was expecting them to get picked off one by one, but the way most of them made it to at least the 4th game was way better, I think. Watching how they all form bonds and break them as the stakes get higher and higher and we know them better and better - it's heartbreaking.

I loved all the characters! But my 2 favorites sae byeok and Ali. 😭😭😭

Ughh, I hated the writing of characters, not characters. It’s a very cliche and poorly written show.

@@kylevernon cliche may be true but its not poorly written.

@@uncrstbl The cop plot that went nowhere. Him finishing every game the last second. Plot armor. Cliches. Predictable. All symptoms of bad writing. Sure there’s great moments, it’s a pretty fun show, just don’t pretend it’s anything but that.

@UCJ2TdNkUpPWLXEZisZGKy0A Especially that annoying woman. The other dude with the tattoos was pretty well written. Same with Sang-Woo.

Also I think that's part of the reason why he kills himself. For him, murdering people to get absolutely nothing in the end was worse than dying.

@@RazielBR Also he ask the Main guy to take care of his mom. If they end the game neither of them get any money. Better for his Good-Guy friend to get all of it. Safe bet he would take care of the guys mom.

Not to mention that they were sitting together and were obviously going to team up against him. Even if she's severely injured, depending on the game, it could potentially be a MASSIVE advantage for them.

I hope Jeremy reads any of these comments

If Sang Woo was smarter, he'd have gone straight for Gi-Hun and won the next game automatically. Gi-Hun wouldn't have heard the footsteps with all that banging, and the girl was done for anyway. I thought he was obsessed with winning.

You clearly didn't really watch the show. Even if the old man was the creator... he wouldn't have "died" just because he didn't find a partner. That one really annoying woman who slept with the gangster... did not die just because she didnt have a partner and was the odd one out.

@@zeehongkooey1566 you clearly don't know how quotations work He was saying that they were going to pretend he was eliminated if he was the only one without a partner. Just so he can get out of the glass game.

He didn’t have to PLAY the glass stepping stone game. He was LIVING the glass stepping stone game. Every day he was alive was like a random chance between stability and a long fall.

@@zeehongkooey1566 "eliminated" not eliminated....

Watch the show

Tbf, he’s still a good for nothing. Only difference now is that he’s rich.

@@TheArcher143 Yeah... this is the bait and switch that elite critics will try to pull. They'll paint the show as "rich people abusing poor people," but Gi Hun started at as a loser and ended the same way. He was his own enemy the whole time.

@@sivad1025 gi hun wasn't perfect by any means, but he was likely suffering from ptsd after that violent strike & witnessing someone die. he wasn't a loser by the end, he was going through another ptsd/depressive spell ontop of grieving his mother. he was conflicted about taking blood money, & by the end it seems like he's becoming a vigilante & making a choice to stop the cycle of accepting the system, even if it rewards you.

@@nalad9387 I'm not saying he didn't have motivation for his actions. I just think it's easy to blame everything on circumstances and overlook the fact that he willingly engaged in a game for money where he knew he would have to indirectly kill hundreds of people to get that money. That's absolutely wicked.

@@sivad1025 Uhmmm care to explain how the show is *not* about rich people abusing poor people? In the very first game over 200 people died before knowing death is a possibility in this game... They were poor people allured by the promise of debt relief that were slaughtered for some rich peoples entertainment.

That for me was when I realized there was something else going on with 001. It could have been a red herring but I just figured he had to be in on it, or close to someone in on it

and the fact that the beds he was standing on were the only ones that weren’t tipped over

I read it as “they got sympathetic towards the harmless old man” before the twist lmao

Yeah i kind of assumed that the guards were getting ready to stop it anyways

@@duncan3932 same

It really made no sense that the man did not sacrifise himself for the woman... only to then kill himself x)

@@duderRechthat unless she gave him no choice like the two girls. Maybe the woman was jobless and couldn't take care of the children.

@@yrsruby5396 well that still makes little sense, because if they agreed that he would take care of the children he shouldnt/wouldnt have killed himself..

@@duderRechthat I'm referring only to the former part. The latter part doesn't make sense unless he didn't have a choice in surviving and she pushed it on him.

Maybe she was terminally ill.

I thought i was the only one that found that scene fucked up

Same here. literally made me feel a little sick, something about people showing no allegiance and murdering for the sake of it makes me so disgusted.

I blame Gi-hun. I’m pretty sure it only happened because his licking method on game 2 was too successful. They had to remove more players before tug of war. I bet the guards killed some of the wounded survivors to ensure a multiple of 10 was left for game 3.

I watched it on my phone at night. It really pissed my wife off who was trying to get to sleep

That scene was so hard to watch

Same. I was so mad. I wanted him to go see his daughter and finally be a father to her 😢

Yeah. It would've been a good ending if he just went to his daughter. The current ending not necessarily bad but it left the story felt unfinish.

i’m seeing a lot of hate for the main character and i’m honestly wondering if we watched the same show. while he did want to start to be a good father he doesn’t want to go back to the games till his mother becomes sick with no way to pay for treatment that he agrees to go back. then surviving through the games and watching people die by the hundreds even watching people he cared about die or in sae’s case turn into a monster. after the games end he’s extremely traumatized and probably suffering from survivors guilt as most 95% percent of normal people would he comes back home to find the reason he went back to the games gone, probably just missed her by a day. he knows his daughter will grow up with a full family that can take care of themselves as evidenced by her stepdad offering to give him all money he asked for but whos gonna stop the squid games honestly? while being a father involves being able to financially provide, it’s just one of the many things that goes into into you also need to be in the right state of mind be a father, seong is nowhere near the right mental state to be a father by the end of season one.

sorry for the essay .-. just wanted to give my view

@@joey7184 Omg this is actually so well said, I never looked at it from that perspective but I think you're right. it's a shame he was on the phone with his daughter at the very end right before boarding the plane, he kinda broke his promise at the end in my opinion too, so i was conflicted with how to feel

i honestly hate that guy more than the gangster dude. at least with the gangster you knew exactly where he stood

It's a fucking death game, kill or be killed, they knew the consequences

The only villain in this show was san woo

@@hadokenl5762 Lies the true villain was Greed sang woo did what any of the humans would do if we were in his place.

@@hadokenl5762 naurr the villains were the rich people playing with people desperate for money.

wow- I haven't heard this theory yet. Someone who's fluent in Korean on Tik Tok also mentioned that there a key translation in this scene. She said it's closer to, "there is no ownership over the other", so in your theory, it still works. If a pair are truly "gganbu", you can't actually own "their" marbles.

The shake hands represents you are partners and trust each other. Everyone can survive the game, sadly humanity selfishness outweighs friendship, the whole point of the marble game.

But the rule was one player had to have full position of all 20 marbles before the time ran out. If they each held 10 at the end of the time period, they both would have died. But then again, not really. I highly doubt Oh Il-nam would have been killed. Since he's the boss and all.

the rules said you have to get your partners marbles without violence there is nothing mention on what to do with your own marbles. The act of exchange by both players has to be executed in front of the Squid guard

@@plainOldFool I watch dub did not mention that 1 player to get 20. Rules said get the opponents marble w/o violence within time limit. I think there is no mention of the Number 20. You cannot say get all the opponents marble = 20, there is only 10 marble in your opponent so ( the All applies to 10). The rule did not said get all the marble of the game. That is why Squid is a Physiological film you think you need all the 20 but its not the film force u to figure it on your own.

yeah, his whole impetus for returning was his mother, and she died because he went

Yep, the show is pretty much an allegory of what it takes to amass the a huge fortune. Just like in real world, it’s a pile of bodies that you will be stepping over, very often quiet literally.

I think it goes deeper than that. It's not just a "money doesn't buy happiness" deal.. It's a critique of a system that sets up everyone's lifes to depend on that one imaginary resource. And the top dogs exploiting the ones at the bottom for entertainment. Basically, fuck capitalism.

Yeah, when he's drinking at night I'm like " he lost everything "

I thought it was out of respect. I didn't want to see his body either. Clever move.

Nobody wants to see an old guy get shot lol so nobody questioned it. The cop is definitely alive

@@hammondmay7545 a friend on the coast guard might come for him

Interesting. I missed that link.

I never understood that. My best guess was that he changed his mind as soon as he saw the prize, he looked at that giant piggie bank like he was seeing God himself.

Its like one an anime

@@theyoutubeanalyst3731 he wants to fix his situation. He doesn’t care about anything else. He stopped just short of letting people know he was as toxic as Deok-su. Unfortunately for him, though, best friends can tell.

He might be a shady pos but he’s also ruthless and logical. Say what you will but I thought he was an amazingly complex character that spoke to a very real part of the human mind that would’ve told us to act the same way he did

Pakistani guy, not Indian but yes agree with what you said.

@@imaliazhar Thanks for the correction.

Fun fact: Actor is Indian, name Anupam Tripathi.

What a brilliant analysis. I’m going to share it with my friends.

I don’t see how Gi-Hun’s “true self” is to manipulate. The marble episode is about the only time on the show he manipulates someone. Unless you wanna count fibbing to his daughter as manipulating. In fact Gi-Hun’s whole thing is he is too trusting of people, that’s the whole point of the last conversation he has with Il-Nam when he makes the bet. Also calling Ali (btw he has a name and is a major character, not just “that Indian guy”) gullible as his “true self” reduces his character to be a dangerous caricature. Ali is specifically Pakistani as he is supposed to represent the problems Pakistani immigrants have to deal with in Korea. His boss his actively fucking him over by not paying him. He’s not necessarily in that predicament because he’s gullible. The only thing you’re correct about in your analysis imo is about sang-woo, but that is obvious, of course sang-woo continually manipulates the rules and people.

RIGHT! RIGHT! LIKE OMG SANG WOO WAS BUSY STABBING SAE BYOK but how come no one absolutely no one noticed those giant prints on the walls. Like hmmmph

it's because the the beds were covering up the walls and you only notice them once most of them were removed. The drawings being black would also blend with the bedframes.

@@AlessaParker I mean I see your point, but like at least halfway through I was like "What's that on the wall." Like if you're in that room for hours and hours you're not gonna notice it? Like out of hundreds of people nobody noticed it?

@@thelaughingrouge they were too busy trying not to get stabbed in the throat... in their sleep

They were covered up by the massive ass bunk beds. Also people would have been far more concerned about staying alive, especially at night (where the lights were off)

@Phoenix 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE I only hated two things. Deok-su because he is an ass and Ali for letting himself get played so bad.

How did the guards incite violence? It just seemed apart of the game no matter what. It wasn't THAT many who survived because of him.

Good ole parasocial relationship!

@@b00psn00t this is why I hate calling KZfaqrs by their name cause then there’s always someone who’s like “stop acting like you know him”. Would just feel weird saying Mr. Jahns or anything like that😂

Same lmao not even 30 minutes ago

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Same here

I doubt they will rush it. There is still a pandemic going on and just look at how long Stranger Things is taking.

Also this concept took like 10 years for a studio to pick it up and create it,

@@thotslayer9914 Considering how popular the show is, I think it will definitely encourage them to release it sooner rather than later. #1 in 90 countries apparently 😲

Netflix Exec: So I had a great idea, the next season should be all about the VIP's I heard people really like those characters :P

@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 I thought they were the worst part of the show and had incredibly stilted and unbelievable dialogue 😂

With how many other years of squid game there were, how are we not sure that the old man didn’t play already in previous seasons? On top of maybe playing it as a kid, maybe he also had years of experience watching the best tug of war teams win to learn that strategy!

True, I guess its open to interpretation

It's a very basic strategy in Tug-of-Wars. Like introductory tutorial... I guess you never played TugOfWar ever.

@@brokeguy5607 I played Tug Of War many times but I never think about this strategy anyways. Me and my team and most people in my country always go with the most basic and generic strategy ever for Tug Of War

@@BryanCostner Well most people go with the rhythm-strategy but we've always played it like in the series since childhood. We were always told to tire the opponents out first, and we used to scrap the surface to dig in our heels in order to not be pulled forward. Once the frontman notices anyone slipping amongst opponent, we started pulling in rhythm each second in unison so as to exert maximum pressure on them. And the standing left to right side of the rope was also taught to us during childhood cos it prevents the back line from swaying into one direction. Only different thing in the series was when they let the rope go for like a second in order to disbalance them. Anyway, it's a good one-time watchable series but I wouldn't put it under Masterpiece or Excellent list. It was "good" at best.

@@BryanCostner same. I've played, but never this intricately. I didn't know anything about the tug of war meta.

@@brokeguy5607 I mean, I don't know that most people know that strategy. I've played plenty as a kid, but Squid Game was the first I ever heard of an actual strategy. Which I imagine is the case with many viewers.

Sang Woo trying to commit suicide and ended up actually doing it

Ali also steals his bosses money and ends up losing since Sang-Woo stole his marbles. Gi-Hun swore on his mother’s life only for her to die in the end. The foreshadowing is so well done in this show.

*I keep seeing people say Gi-hun swore on his mother's life. This never actually happened. But everyone's just repeating this.*

@@AzNightmare So when they vote to leave the game and they drop him and Byeok off he swears on her life then to let him free then tries to act her. And she says “ That’s what you think of your mother”.

@@AzNightmare it did happen though. In episode 2, when he got dropped off with 067, he swore that he would forget about the prize that was stolen from him

The marble game showed both acts of altruism and self preservation. The complexity of human nature.

Yes it was but none of them had to die if they simply exchanged each other's marbles for the sake of the others. No one had to die in any of the games besides tug of war.

@@truffle6082 That's interesting. But I thought the goal of the marble game was to acquire all 20 marbles, so the partner would have to die right? I could be totally wrong but that's what I remember lol

@@JCW7100 you're right. The person before probably forgot the rules of that game

@@truffle6082 No. Someone had to die in all of the games. The games have an illusion of being fair but they're anything but.

Same. Even though I saw it coming a mile away it still got me lol

Why would you say something so controversy, yet so brave.

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Damn you said it

I was thinking about that.

Except I'm broke.

Ask soilders how they feel coming back after seeing things people shouldn't see, just to find the world has both moved on and stayed exactly the same. And who's going to help when they can't know what you've been through?

Depression is a bitch

@@OppositeofHATE7 ty

you ever been depressed? It makes doing thing very difficult, and it weakens one's convictions. He just watched someone he admired for years kill himself in shame after 500+ others died before his eyes. I agree that it was disappointing for him to take so long, but it does make sense.

Exactly. That is why they chose legendary Byung Hun Lee. His role was minor here in preparation of him being a lead in season 2. EDIT: We might even get to see his story of how he won the game in 2015 and became the Front Man. He must have proven himself to be brutal.

@@lullaby508 what if season two is the prequel? of how the front man became the front man after the games

@@lullaby508 Yeah I knew none of the actors (I think? 😂) until he took his mask off and when he did I was like "oh shit! I know him!" 😂 definitely someone to build at least a part of the series around for as long as it goes/his character is required.

If there's Season 2, Front Man might get a redemption arc because how he feels guilty to kill his brother because he hallucinated of his brother. Or maybe his cop brother survived the fall or somebody will help him but he got amnesia

@@TheDestroyer73 the writer-director did say if they have a second season, they will delve into Front Man story more. So they might have jump back and forth in time.

Underrated comment!

Ooooo good catch!

It's because of the voice dubbing

If you enjoyed the show you are essentially a VIP.

@@NukemDukem facts

It’s because Korean directors don’t know how to direct English speakers. No hate tho, just how it is

I really think maybe it was parody

A 10 foot drop seems reasonable.

@@TheArcher143 very reasonable

@@Assassino275 a little too reasonable…

It was more like 100 feet lol

I hated his character so much and I’m a Christian myself lol. The main character by the end of the show was a better representation of how a Christian is supposed to be.

And the host is actually right. What are the chances of you having 45.6 Billion Won in the real world? Thats a long ass process and you have to be fortunate enough too so that is basically what? A one in a million chance? (Extreme lowball) At least in the game it is a one in 456 which is obviously a MASSIVE improvement.

@@omnipotiscience7251 yeah but the difference is it's either 45 billion won or DEATH, in the real world it's not that drastic, but tbf all the people were in such high amounts of debt thats its believable they would risk their lives for this

@@sammy3347 I think for them it's the choice between being dead or being as good as dead. So in a way they were choosing the easy way out. After all I'm sure in the case of many of them the loan sharks would have whacked them anyway.

@@sammy3347 Exactly. Of course if your debt was not that big or not comparable to those guys, you wouldnt be risking death over it.

It really struck something in me when that lady said something along the lines of "this place may be hell, but even so here is still a lot better than being out there[in the real world]"

Me too. I'm so shock when he received card from friend on the last episode.

That twist was very well done, I was genuinely shocked at his reveal at the end.

Master class writing with that, and also as Jeremy mentioned them panning away from him in the Marble Game to hide not his death, but mask the ‘no body no death’ theme. Genius writing

It was completely unnecessary and forced af

@@hellodumplings8564 for real, it made zero sense if you actually think about it

That's a good point someone else In this comment section made. Noticed those who died only died when they had zero marbles.

You were only allowed to play with your partner. I believe they got 10 marbles each so it would of been impossible to both make it out.

@@johnathanhedgepeth5276 They never stated how many marbles you should have in the end, so 20 marbles weren't needed. The rules were to use your marbles to get your opponent's marbles, so techinically you could use your marbles by exchanging them for all of your opponent's marbles. That way both players get their opponent's marbles, but they never reach zero marbles.

@@devilskind92 That is a reasonable assumption, but only if you think the VIPs would be entertained with that outcome or that the games are designed for people to survive them.

Bingo. The games weren't about being fair, fairness was only in service to entertainment. Like on the Glass Bridge the guy who could discern the difference was playing fair, but it stopped being entertaining so they changed conditions to make it "fun" again.

I've been watching him since 2010 :)

Damn so you’ve literally been here since the beginning lol

I fell in love with Jeremy circa 2012, when I watched his original "Batman Forever" review. I've been here ever since.

I'm subscribed since his Mass Effect 3 Ending video. He was as 70k back then. Crazy how he grew, but well deserved. One of the most entertaining guys on YT.

@@MsNotzi What first won me over was his Ninja Assassin review. If you haven't seen it, please change that. It's absolutely hilarious and one of Jeremy's best videos.

Oh. I had forgotten about that particular contract!

me toooooooo

maybe not everyone has to be slapped. The girl who just got out of the prison wouldn't care enough to play that game. They probably approached her because they knew she would say yes since she has nothing to live for.

I had guess it from the first time jun ho know his brother missing, but i hadnt guessed that in ho, front man really shot jun ho

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@@ardiansyahnugraha9688 lol me "am I suppose to know who that is?"

This show really makes me think if it should dethrone Breaking Bad as my favorite TV show of all time..

@@JayForsure If this is all we get, maybe. If they do make a season 2, we should wait and see how it goes. Hopefully they take their time and flesh the whole thing out.

@@st_raziel2283 I completely agree with you, and you've changed my mind. Because ALL of breaking bads seasons were great. Now we gotta wait and see if ALL squid game seasons are great as well.

@@JayForsure no…..

Now the show is huge. They can bring him back for a bigger role. Also Byung Hun Lee is going to be a lead character in season 2 if it comes back. With what Netflix did with Money Heist, won't be surprised if they try to get 4 season out of this show.

For me ,Gong yoo is having G Man vibes from Half life 😅

I *hope* I look that good at 42. Man hit the genetic lottery.

The director said on CNN recently that he had something left for that character if he'd do season 2

A Chris stuckman fan I assume .

@@THOMAS2910able what happened to him?

@@carolinaa.4407 if anything, he's getting bigger. His videos about the problems with today's action/horror movies have been cited and shared like crazy. He's even working on a full-production film of his own. The only thing I can think of is that he doesn't grade movies any more, he just reviews them. Idk if that has decreased his viewership, but he's still making videos and being seen

Do you wish most channels will die?

@@JM-us3fr do you assume stuff about most people? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@@suzygirl1843 it ain’t that deep, a person can be naive just because they are naive

@@suzygirl1843 ive seen it, it has no relevance

@@suzygirl1843 well at least he's portrayed as one of the best characters but I get what you're saying

Damn!

way to miss the entire point lol. or did you forget that killing people for selfish gain is not something for any gender to aspire to? also did you forget that the most misogynist character was brought down by a woman he used purely for sex?

@@Haldered I didn't miss the point, just pointing out the writing style, settle down noob

Totally interpreted that differently - note how the characters who were all strung out on "no girls" wound up being the two primary antagonists. It just highlighted that Sang Woo and Player 101 are jerks, and if anything how flawed and short-sighted that line of thinking was, because the tug of war team our protagonists were on wound up having a few women, who were up against a team of men. Also, lets not forget that Player 101's whole "no girls" tirade ultimately wound up costing him, because that's when his lover turned on him and eventually lead her to shove him off the bridge.

@@powderbunny14 well the 2 men Sang Woo and Old man’s ideas are what saved the team in tug of war, not having girls on the team

@тαρ мє αи∂ ѕєχ ωιтн мє Riley Agreed

I thought that was because it would be seen as cheating and then they’d get shot?

Someone watched a how to survive video

I just thought why couldn’t they just grab there shoes and throw it at the glass

@@b00psn00t There are no rules though. People cheated all the time😅 From Sang Woo cheating on Ali to Gi-Hun on Oh Il-Nam

YES!

That’s a large amount of coping instead of saying the voice acting was bad . I’ve seen people criticize westerners and it’s either very funny or intelligent. This was neither

Also you could clearly tell the actors weren’t American they all had different accents Russian being one of them. They didn’t really push any racial stereotypes so I don’t o ow where you got that idea from

@@chrischika7026 don’t even bother dude. Those people are fanaticized, they can’t even admit that this show has any flaws whatsoever. If you dare criticize it or say you don’t like it, they gang up on you as if the show is the cinematic masterpiece of the century. It’s just an ok show. It was predictable, boring and cliche with bad writing/acting but it was still fun. I really don’t get all that hype though.

@@zedero8 alright so what do you recommend instead

@@zedero8 I kind of agree. It was more than your average entertaining fluff but I don't think it as wonderful or complex as everyone is saying. I did think the performances were excellent though!

No dude why is everyone saying this, if you’re using the rules the rules said you needed to use your marbles to get your opponents marbles, sang-woo didn’t use his marbles in any way. There’s a reason everyone showed 20 marbles, and it could prob be something lost in translation as well

@@TrueGamer22887 The rules never said anything about needing to have 20 marbles though. They just that the player that manages to take all 10 marbles from their opponent wins

Keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen.

@@tannerparks6030 you’re selectively using the rules, the rules also said you need to use your marbles to get the other marbles, howd he do that again?

Even if it was possible, do you really think Sang-Woo wanted to do that? We see him murder a couple of people to even the odds. Knowing sang-woo, he probably did consider it, but didn't want Ali to survive either

It would've been clever if the original language was English, however I don't know if it's a saying in Korean. Edit: It certainly isn't a saying in my native language and it's a germanic language just like English

@@jyhina But: the show's creator has an extensive knowledge of western film and even received his Masters Degree in LA. so he probably knows the phrase "lost his marbles"

The contestants don’t know about his position so this doesn’t hold up.. him not being shot when told to get up off the bed multiple times is because his position

@@tonito_el_tigre the contestants didnt stop for the old man tho they stopped because of the enforcers running into the room, the old man pretending to be scared and asking them to stop was the signal the people running the game were waiting for

@@tonito_el_tigre Dude, frontman heard him and ordered them to stop, lights went on, soldiers went in and people stopped

The old man also wasn't apart of any of the drugged van scenes and the clothes changing scene. He also clued he was important when he refused to give his name.

@@omaralkharraz2410 I only watched it once and binged it in one day so I probably remember incorrectly!

Update: turns out he had an exit plan. Check his shackles at the end of the game.

Holy shit, now this is a good. 👍

Its green tho not blue

@@reynaldoadriel3694 Think about it though, clearly the enforcers are there for money, why else would those few be harvesting organs for extra money. And what's green, the paper square or the outfits?

@@branzeegaming6458 the director disproved this theory but its still interesting to think about

@@Willty64 awwww well that's sad