The rules stated “anyone who finishes all 6 games will win” so in theory there could have been multiple winners.
Weird how nobody asked if that meant each would get the amount in the piggy or if it would be divided up? And maybe something to revisit for the players when they realize that each game swiftly eliminates half of the remaining field? Cmon
I could be wrong but after Red light Green light, the remaining players were presented with the majority rule vote. The Front Man stated that if they voted to leave, the current earnings would be divided up and sent to the families of those that died. I think the logical conclusion would be, the earnings would also be divided up amongst the winners. This is a group of desperate people, you strategize to a point where your group can get you as far as they can. You had 2 primary groups that thought, up until the marble game, that they could all possibly win if they finished all 6 games.
Is there a consensus on what to watch in the genre after this? I saw Alice in borderland referenced itt
I enjoyed alice in borderland, ended up binge watching it and paid more attention than I did with Sg. It’s Similar but different.
Alice In Borderland Thread... https://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/alice-in-borderland.182634/
i liked this but your post also resonates with me watched squid game over the last three days. i found the first part of the pilot (everything with the families) pretty uninteresting but things were better once they were in the games for the rest of the show. breezed through 2-6. - it's generally easy to stay away from these netflix/streamer shows, but youtube auto-played the SNL skit about squid game and that sort of ruined the game 1 "surprise" for me. still, most everything with the games were amazing. - the main three actors - 456, 218, and 067 - were all fantastic. the marble game ep was really fantastic and i found myself caring about 456 + 001 the least out of these actors' pairs.i also liked that the ep didn't focus on all on the dilemma that the wife/husband faced. you just knew that they were paired together and i think you briefly saw them during the game. - not sure what episode it was but i thought the people making their sleeping quarters secure + pairs standing watch was a fantastic ep. - the vip thing was just lame. the dialogue was bad. the concept didn't make sense. you could accomplish the exact same thing showing the games being broadcasted onto a couple of screens in fancy houses around the world. - the doctor/organ harvesting sideplot was sort of bizarre, though i did like how it incorporated the idea that worker #29 was different. i liked the cop plotline. - as someone else mentioned, the glass exploding and ultimately being what killed 067 (she would've died anyways) was lame. they could've had her jump on a broken glass square and catch herself (but cut herself) or something. - the twist at the end sort of takes some of the emotional weight from ep6 away but it's still fine in my eyes because of the "watching is nothing like playing" line that 001 said near the end. - of the family stuff, i thought 218's mother was the one who resonated the most with me.
I loved the show but the final episode did fall a little flat for me. The big twist was just kind of eh..not sure how I feel about a season 2 hopefully it's good and it doesn't jump the shark which I think it has a real possibility of doing
2nd seasons will never top the first. Be curious where it would land here.. does it talk about the workers side? Or is it a continuation and completely away from the games like it's Westworld season 3 or something
Just finished it over the last two days. I thought it was one of the best shows I’ve seen this year. There were a few plot contrivances, but I tend to be a character over plot person so most of it I just found mildly annoying because the characters were fantastic. The only thing I didn’t like enough to actually complain about was the premise of the glass bridge game. All of the preceding games required some element of luck to survive, but they also allowed for players to exercise differing levels of skill that would make them more likely to survive. That game was pure luck. If you were one of the people who choose the first ten slots there was nothing you could do to survive. It was essentially designed so 75% of the people have to fail for anyone to win. I understand the counter argument is that that was exactly the point since it was the second to last game. However, it just seemed like in episode five they tried to hammer home the point that the games were “fair” and something that the players wouldn’t/didn’t experience in the real world. Then again, maybe the hypocrisy of it all was the point. Edit: Also, the way Sae-byeok went out was complete bullshit. In a show that consistently nailed its character deaths that one seemed exceedingly cheap.
The game wasn’t just the glass bridge, it was the selection of numbers by the players. Just like the honeycomb game.
But in the honey comb game, a method could be found for overcoming your bad luck in pick. Unless you're the glass factory worker, you were working solely against chance once you picked a number in the bridge game. (I'm still left to assume straddling the center or trying to balance beam one of the sides was off limits. If I pick #1 there, I'm trying anyway and making them shoot me)
It was fucking painfully cringe. Was wild to go from the pain of watching episode 6 to a very different pain watching every scene with the VIPs in the final episodes.
Why can't anything be great and just be appreciated for what it is and not be exploited till every penny is squeezed out?
The games are the part that shocked people and got them talking so they better have interesting new games. You have to marry the player 456 trying to stop the games plot line into the new season gracefully. I'm generally against unplanned sequels but I am hopeful they'll do a good job with it.