re: Squid Game (Netflix) Spoilers page 2. Season 2 confirmed

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The glass bridge episode was sort of stupid. The games so far have been at least winnable. The bridge one is basically impossible for anyone other than a few people to win.

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Right. It was dumb to introduce a game that had so much more randomness that late in the competition.

Cursed Squid Game (Video)

Seems like we can all search for SG memes if we wanted to see those. Do you have anything else to add?

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Do you have anything else to add?

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Indeed.

So I just watched this over the weekend. I watched the version without subtitles mostly due to the fact I didn’t feel like figuring out how to change it to show them.

I can only hope it’s much better with the subtitles. The voice acting was over the top bad and when combined w an atrocious script for some scenes, I hated trudging through it.

I mainly wanted to see the games, obviously. The loud obnoxious lady was so unrealistic in pretty much every way that I almost had to quit the show.

So many plot holes and unexplained/unresolved narratives i don’t know where to start.

That said, overall I liked the show but would say 3.75/5. I could easily be convinced to rate it lower, but the marble episode was extremely well done. I also like the overall originality and production value and was entertained.

I wish there was more screen time for the “other” girl who played marbles. She was smoke.

Sounds like I’ll need to check out AiB.

Binged this over the last two nights, pleasantly surprised.

One of the biggest hurdles for me to overcome was the crappy v/o's. Is there a genre of voice actors and specific recording technique called "crappy Asian overlay" or something? Another was the tropes and over-acting of some characters (tropes were the mafia guy and old man... to an extent, over-acting was the crazy chick).

These combined at times to make it difficult to stay in the scene, but even then you could see the overall concept and execution had seeds of greatness throughout.

The revelation of Red Light, Green Light was brilliant (adding in the money drop after makes it even better as you can see the various characters trying to understand where their morals lie between the mass murder they just survived and the potential for winning an insane amount of money), the marble game stories were incredible and the way their eventual return to the game made sense (at least for those who returned) were all extremely well done.

The only problem I had with any of the games was the bridge. My first thought was to spider or tight-rope your way down using the two inner rails holding the panes.



Even if you going from pane to pane was mandatory just standing on the parts of the pane under the rails would have allowed a person to stay up and finish the course (the elimination wasn't that a pane cracked, but that the player fell through it).

Sorry if that's already been discussed, didn't read the whole thread.

I think I would rather the series been a 1-shot season instead of having Seong-gi and his Wendy's hairdo chasing after them in a future season. A big part of the fun of this series was the unknown aspect of the games.

The rich elite had too much screentime (and were shitty tropes), they should have remained at least a bit aloof (if not outright silent and mysterious).

The old man was a nice swerve. I thought his enjoyment at the beginning was odd but chalked it up to dementia and then (once it was revealed) his tumor. The pissing himself and just-off-camera "death" (the camera angling and timing on that was fricking fantastic) were just enough to keep taking the wind out of anytime I would begin to suspect he was somehow involved.

I would love to see this story come back in a decade or so, but with a bit more polish on character development for some of the characters.

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