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Paperback Writer posted:the Western VIP actors were all really poo poo. Really one of the only glaringly bad things of the show for me. It's nice to see the Anglosphere getting a taste of their own medicine for once. I absolutely adored this show, easily one of the best in its genre. The problem with these shows/novels/whatever is always that my interest starts to wane as more and more people die and the cast gets down to just the protagonists but luckily the show doesn't overstay its welcome in this regard. My favorite death is the mathematician guy calculating his odds and just deciding 'gently caress it, let's speedrun this thing' in the glass panels section. What a great show. 
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Finished the show last night. Loved it, but I had a chuckle when I realized the ending was basically the same ending as Escape Room. Which reminds me, I still need to see the sequel to that.
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Vandar posted:Which reminds me, I still need to see the sequel to that. 
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I'm assuming that means it's good.
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Oct 10, 2021 02:12
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The true message of Squid Game: never trust a boomer
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I wonder if they’ll address the small private army the games employ in season two. I guess looking back at the games, not a whole ton of people are eliminated ambiguously, but some mentioned earlier that Ali could technically still be alive makes me think it might be interesting if other losers got conscripted. The games look like they’ve been operating for a few decades.
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I asked my mom about bbopgi (the honeycomb) and she said it was common for kids to lick the backside
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Regarding ambiguous deaths: Episode 7 opens with a shot of Ali with a gunshot wound in his head. I dooooon't think he's coming back.
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Chamale posted:In the first episodes, I was wondering when someone would try to grab a gun from a guard. During the Squid Game, there was a point where the guard slowly turned with his holster in reach of either characters - one of them could have grabbed the gun and shot his opponent if he wanted to, but neither one did. That's the genius of the majority vote rule - without it, the show would devolve into a 'protags vs the evil system that compels them', but the vote affords them the illusion of choice. (It is, of course, only an illusion, yay capitalism) They aren't struggling to escape or survive against their oppressors, they're struggling to win against each other. They all "chose" to return, even fully knowing the stakes. They were afforded a chance to escape it but they choose to go back, and that modicum of agency invests them into the nightmare. Any thought of subverting the rules or the system itself is gone at that point. With all that said, expectations for season 2 are rock bottom. It feels like something that was conceived as a single arc, there's not much else to explore beyond that. It reminds me of True Detective in that regard. That said, it's too hot a property to NOT continue, so I guess we'll find out. I dunno, maybe if it were the exact same setup but with a new cast it could be pretty good, but I doubt they'll be able to bottle the lightning again. McKilligan fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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McKilligan posted:That's the genius of the majority vote rule - without it, the show would devolve into a 'protags vs the evil system that compels them', but the vote affords them the illusion of choice. I loving adored the fact that some people decided not to return.
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This guy gives some interesting historical context https://mobile.twitter.com/hermit_hwarang/status/1446848977056456705 Unfortunately he also seems to believe that Korea should reunify but with the North running things because American imperialism is apparently worse than living under the DPRK.
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Oct 10, 2021 14:56
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Sounds like half the people that post on these forums.
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Question, were the hanging button on the detective's jumpsuit and the loose screw on the vent cover in the bathroom ever revisited or addressed? The camera lingered on them for a while but I don't remember any payoff to either of them. Were they red herrings or maybe dropped/cut plotlines? I binged it all in one go so I might have missed it.
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As Nero Danced posted:Question, were the hanging button on the detective's jumpsuit and the loose screw on the vent cover in the bathroom ever revisited or addressed? The camera lingered on them for a while but I don't remember any payoff to either of them. Were they red herrings or maybe dropped/cut plotlines? I binged it all in one go so I might have missed it. I wasn't exactly on my phone while spinning in an office chair, but I'd wager I missed some shots here and there.
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Wasn't the hanging button from passing notes to the contestants? Or maybe it was a way to show who the cop was?
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As Nero Danced posted:Question, were the hanging button on the detective's jumpsuit and the loose screw on the vent cover in the bathroom ever revisited or addressed? The camera lingered on them for a while but I don't remember any payoff to either of them. Were they red herrings or maybe dropped/cut plotlines? I binged it all in one go so I might have missed it. I thought the hanging button was just a device to allow us to easily distinguish the detective from other guards, not that it would be important later. Dunno about the loose screw though. My opinion is that the lingering shot on the screw established how precarious the coverup of the grate entry was - and that any further attempts to skirt the rules of the game could easily result in death. I'm pretty sure neither of these details specifically came up later.
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Robobot posted:Or maybe it was a way to show who the cop was? it's this
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I still couldn't distinguish the cop from the others despite that button thing.
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HOMOEROTIC JESUS posted:I thought the hanging button was just a device to allow us to easily distinguish the detective from other guards, not that it would be important later. Dunno about the loose screw though. My opinion is that the lingering shot on the screw established how precarious the coverup of the grate entry was - and that any further attempts to skirt the rules of the game could easily result in death. That makes sense to me, my own guess was at most they were just details we/the characters were aware of but couldn't do anything about, just to keep us worried they would get caught and exposed. I figured with as much care had gone into the writing (you can tell the writer spent a decade tweaking the little details, it's a masterpiece) it couldn't be something like an abandoned plot.
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Just finished the show and it was good. I really liked that you got to see the whole thing from multiple perspectives - both from behind the scenes thanks to the cop and from the pov of the contestants. Good stuff
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Elite posted:
Hunger Games is a clear reflection of society, just not one that many Goons are likely to agree with. You have hard working salt-of-the-Earth people who love god and each other on their farms oppressed by a cabal of effete urban homosexuals who both mooch off their work and celebrate their deaths. A brave hero who speaks truth to power gets an unstoppable following and they kill all the urban homosexuals. The movie and book have a quick fig leaf where one of the proud noble Republicans is black. You'll note the meltdown fans of the book had at her blackness in the movie because in a book its easy to just imagine the character is white.
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Oct 11, 2021 02:17
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The best death contest game in a movie/TV series is still the original Battle Royale.
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I wonder if part of this shows massive success is how incredibly visually striking it is. When you've only got that 10 second Netflix autoplay segment to grab peoples attention you've got to really stand out and I think the set design, costuming and bright primary colors really do that. Certainly it's what got my attention. I can't help but feel the more conventional design would be to be grim and dark or clinical and white, and if they'd done that the show would have sunk without a trace among the thousands of other similar, forgettable shows.
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I think the show would’ve been a hit without the production design, the story is just too compelling I’m also confident in saying that Squid Game surpasses Battle Royale as a death game, the episodic format really gives you time to get attached to characters and flesh out their stories, making each loss way more painful. I’m also way more fond of the criticism of capitalism in Squid Game
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Random Integer posted:I wonder if part of this shows massive success is how incredibly visually striking it is. When you've only got that 10 second Netflix autoplay segment to grab peoples attention you've got to really stand out and I think the set design, costuming and bright primary colors really do that. Certainly it's what got my attention. Get ready for a lot of O,X and △ halloween costumes
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Steve Yun posted:I’m also confident in saying that Squid Game surpasses Battle Royale as a death game, the episodic format really gives you time to get attached to characters and flesh out their stories, making each loss way more painful. You should read the manga and/or novel.
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No one is going to read the manga.
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I don't think I've ever seen a death game thing where I've given a poo poo about more than one (at most) of the characters who dies.
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screaden posted:Get ready for a lot of O,X and △ halloween costumes Please. All you need a shirt & a hoodie with 3 numbers on it. Costume done! You can even just sew on the 456 to your shirt, easy as poo poo.
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Oct 11, 2021 05:52
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It's a culture not a costume.
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Squid Show costumes are cultural appropriation, don’t do it.
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Random Integer posted:I wonder if part of this shows massive success is how incredibly visually striking it is. When you've only got that 10 second Netflix autoplay segment to grab peoples attention you've got to really stand out and I think the set design, costuming and bright primary colors really do that. Certainly it's what got my attention.
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Paperback Writer posted:the Western VIP actors were all really poo poo. Really one of the only glaringly bad things of the show for me. Jerkface posted:Or if they used that voice style but said stuff that was less cringe, it'd be fine. 
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Maybe that's just what Korean's think American billionaires are like? Or maybe it's a bit of casting payback for all the American TV shows and films with bad Asian actors?
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yea man elon musk is hella cringe but if they had a slightly dorky guy with a Afrikaner accent going on saying cringe stuff it'd be better than what we got. Its kinda like how trump is a big huge weirdo in how he talks and what he says, but its really hard to actually mimic it effectively, which is why the best "impersonation" of trump is that guy on twitter who rambles about random poo poo like pokemon in trumps speech pattern. theres just something authentic missing in the performances
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withak posted:Squid Show costumes are cultural appropriation, don’t do it. It’s celebrating a popular show from South Korea. It’s fine as long as people aren’t racist about it. The natural conclusion from your statement is that Non Americans dressing as the majority of superheroes is cultural appropriation and that is crazy.
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withak posted:Squid Show costumes are cultural appropriation, don’t do it. Yea, also don't participate in any cosplay or comic cons!
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Jerkface posted:theres just something authentic missing in the performances Yeah, I'm not bothered that VIPs are portrayed as awkward dipshits talking in cliches. The problem is that it comes off as the show's production failing, rather than a deliberate choice in the characters' writing.
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