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Squid Game 3x03 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

Love the splashes of pink in the bracelet and the necklace. And I hear you on the annoyed and then sad cycle in this show. No worries about the lack of sleep, as I’ve had shit sleep lately, so there’s the shared suffering. This is as far as I’ve gotten thus far, so I’ll have to watch the next episode tonight. The episode title and mantra being “It’s not your fault”, and the fact that it hits infinitely harder than when Robin Williams repeated the phrase is a goddamn impossible thing for this show to have pulled off, and they pulled it off. Maybe not the cleverest thing to deduce, but you deduced it all the same. Start by talking about the boat plotline. Good that whilst still skeptical, Jun-ho is still listening to Woo-seok, whom you live for. Big progress is made by finding the one island. Props to Woo-seok for getting into Captain Park’s house. Shame about the dog, though I love how you were telling the dog to not go for Woo-seok. First saw the dog, got nervous, particularly as when I saw this, no warning could be given if necessary. Then the dog is in the house, has Woo-seok cornered, two and two makes four, and I said with dread, “...ah, darn.” Knew you’d hate that part, even if you do acknowledge the life-or-death nature of the scene. Similar response to seeing the dog dead, I yelled, “Show, Jess does not need THAT image in her head!” Woo-seok got some good evidence, though now is arrested. Makes me ask does South Korea have the one phone call thing like we have here in the States? The opening was a jolt. Similar feelings of being taken aback though we both had with the opening, you caught on faster than I did with the VIPs. Half thought I clicked on the wrong show for a second. And when establishing that they were in fact the VIPs, we again play the Blue Danube to lean into the Kubrickian of it all. I reiterate that the Shostakovich waltz would be more appropriate, but maybe they think it’s too on the nose. No-eul seems to be making progress in getting the dad to safety. Can’t fully say I’m living for No-eul as you are. Without knowing how this all ends, I am not calling this a redemption arc for her. Give her that she is making the effort to save the dad, and that gets her points. She still doesn’t seem to give much of a shit about anyone else in the games, so I don’t see how we find her TOO sympathetic. You are living for her, as you say, ok. By contrast, Jeong-dae really cements his irredeemability by voting o even after seeing the baby. I do believe that your surmise of Min-su having the goal of “I’m going to watch this bitch die.” was an accurate one. Geum-ja shattered all our hearts with her plea. Loved her last scene with Jun-hee. Then there’s the absurd emotions of her scene with Gi-hun that actually starts to snap him out of shit. Your reactions to all of it have now exacerbated said emotions. Ae-shim wins every major award for that scene, if there’s any justice. She got both of us so bad when she talked about Yong-sik and his previous suicide attempt. Brought back memories of some of my darker times. Never have attempted suicide, mind you. There has a been a time or two when I’ve gotten close; when the voices in my head have made some fairly convincing sales pitches. Seeing Geum-ja talk about what she went through provides a good demonstration of a major reason why I never have tried. And she demonstrates as others do the one theme of some of the characters The subjecting yourself to the self-flagellation in these games. Bringing me to something I am going to aggressively side with you on, Jess. The thing of Geum-ja “killed her son” and are you alone on not thinking that statement is wrong. No, you are not alone. We agree, Jess, on the refutation that Geum-ja “killed her son” despite what Geum-ja, the VIPs, and you said people you talked to asserted. Among other things, my brain got literal by noting that the guards were the ones to kill Yong-sik. Yes, Geum-ja, you get why she has the response that she had. But we reject that statement and idea. Shame about what came next. And indeed, it is not terribly surprising that she then takes her own life, and it’s a moment of humanity when everyone doesn’t say a word in response. The guards’ body language seemed somewhat subdued, suggesting that even they were affected by Geum-ja’s suicide as well. Somehow, I managed to get through the scene. Don’t know how. Sort of think I went into a dissociative state of some kind. All of this, again, hate that they dropped this all on my mom’s birthday, and it is exactly why I avoided watching past the first episode right away. That and fear of spoiling shit for you, Jess. Makes me realize, by the way: Been forgetting to say what spoilery images I inadvertently caught. Saw the image of Gi-hun handcuffed to the beds, see that’s a recurring thing. Saw him and Hyun-ju in the vests, which I thought meant the glass game again, though I was wrong on that one. And I did catch somewhere the image of the jump rope dolls. Seen a few other images from the internet being unkind/other reactors have the thumbnails that show a few things. Yes, now we get to a crazy jump rope game. Jun-hee showing remarkable courage, moving like I did when I had the bad gout flare up. Had to use a cane my dad used to use to help. And her ankle very much resembles how bad my dad’s ankle looked at times, and yeah, you admire her resilience. Addressing a few questions. Again, not seen the next episode or onward, but I wouldn’t put past them to have the rope increase in speed as the timer runs down. The visibility of the gap: Might not be as easily seen head on, only at an angle can you see the gap. Like the bridge in the leap of faith scene in Last Crusade. Rather like how in response to Jeong-dae sounding like a chicken by saying that he could go first. Instead, the rapper wingman gets fucked over big time, and we loved to see it. We both had strong responses to that one, and I loved how you shouted in response to the karma. You made the comment, “Min-su went HARD this episode!!”, and you had the comment, “Don’t fuck with people in this show with that stare”. And it fits as me, I yelled, “You see what happens, Nam-gyu!? You see what happens, Nam-gyu!? Do you SEE what happens, Nam-gyu, when you FUCK!? A STRANGER!? IN THE ASS!? THIS is what happens, Nam-gyu!! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!!” Loved your commentary of the absurdly difficult timing with the jumping that you’d have to do on the bridge; it’s like playing the water temple in Ocarina of Time. And Gi-hun stepped up and got himself and the cgi baby that is far less terrifying than that fucking Gollum baby in Twilight across the board. How you see In-ho convey through his body language, “STILL he fights!? INCONCEIVABLE!!!” is a nice touch. Alas, there now is the problem of people being people and are awful, leaving us on that cliffhanger. And Gi-hun might need to worry about crypto fucker. Crypto fucker is starting to do the stare game, so that raises the blood pressure. The VIPs, I’m sure, are rooting for him, for they likely say that he’s a man who will go far. You, of course, refute that as you say he’s gone TOO FAR. And we enter into the second half of the final season. My two favorites of the whole show are Geum-ja and Mi-nyeo so the pressure is off of the emotional devastation going forward, favorite character-wise. Think of who’s left, In-ho might, and mind you, I say “might” be the highest ranked of favorite characters left. I am that fucked in the head with the love of villains, so I won’t mind if you read me to filth on that one. Please, by all means, go for it. Guess that’s about all I have to say for now. For being your assessment that your thoughts were on the rambly side, you still sound so much better than I when I’m in the same boat, rambly-wise. In any case, you had another particularly magnificent reaction to Squid Game, Jess, and I thank you so very much for it.

Ryan

Enter the VIPs, to which I can only say, can't we get some better actors, even if it's only for the Gordon Street monologue? And I know it's been a while, but as silly as they were last time, I don't remember them being so obviously dubbed. I keep expecting them to talk about how three spider women will throw them out a window. Luckily, it's all saved by how at this point I have absolutely no problem believing this really is how these people act without an audience. So they're not making any attempt to keep the baby hidden, there's kind of a load off the few remaining episodes having to waste even more time than the boat takes up. I was impressed how soon you called what was going on with Geum-ja, since I didn't get it until we actually saw the body (and well done having the first reveal be in the background with just barely enough detail to make clear who it is, letting our knowledge of what she's been doing do the rest). And I prided myself on nailing a certain character in Treme was going to kill themselves long before it happened, so this was quite a wallop. She even gets her picture removed without any beep, like those times in 24 when a major enough death would be followed by the clock in silence. I think I've said before here that I was able to sit through all ten Saw movies without ever looking away, so it really says something that everything with Jun-hee's ankle just makes me say "Oh, mommy." All down to the actress giving such a believable physicality of it, and makeup work that looks so real I would believe they actually brought in someone with a broken ankle for the close-ups. Though I also got a bit of a laugh when Gi-hun says he was a bad father immediately after he takes hold of the baby. It unfortunately comes along with some real "How do you do, fellow kids" energy with the VIPs bickering about Marvel vs. DC, and the insane choice to make Damien Thorn a player. I'm perversely interested in how all the logistics there will work. And they make the smart choice to keep the baby totally covered for the most important sequence, I guess to free up the CGI budget for that dog, not that it looks any better. But that did make it not so hard to see it get shot, so I'll count my blessings. I can't stop thinking of Hwang constantly telling the actors "Just keep holding that zucchini in a jacket, I promise it'll look real." I'll go ahead and say it: I'm pretty sure I could nail this game. And I'm a bit mystified that not one person seems to figure out they can combine jumping over the rope and the gap into a single motion. It really doesn't seem like that much of a leap, so to speak. But before then we get the fun of Not Thanos acting like Judy Davis without her bug powder, and dude, how exactly did you think this would end? I'm sure I'm far from the only one who just replied with "Man...fall down. Fun-ny." But of course the whole time you also can't help thinking of how Jun-hee could possibly handle this. Linda cannot walk with her leg like that. See can even tand tup. And before we can even worry about that, there's the killer cliffhanger of 96 going rogue. I looked him up on the wiki and we have seen him before; he's the other Marine who almost joined Gi-hun's group for the pentathlon. And for someone with such a nothing role so far, this guy really makes the most of his sudden prominence with that psychotic grin. Maybe this is what could fully push Gi-hun into giving up on humanity, though with three whole episodes to go, what would that even look like?

Ryan
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I've never quite been able to look at that movie the same way after discovering Williams had earlier played a sleazy, lecherous psychiatrist in Dead Again. And of course his thanking Harvey Weinstein but not his mother at the Oscars; that would have been insanely awkward if he'd lived to see that whole thing come out. I've seen some interviews with Kang Ae-shim, and it's pretty shocking how unlike the character she is (being a good deal younger, for one thing). Just points to what a great actor can do, and hopefully she's be able to get some bigger things from here. The VIPs are so out of place with the rest of the show that I could easily respond to them with "Who the fuck are the Knutsens?" I do kind of feel the attachment to villains, since my first trip to a theater was The Little Mermaid at age 5 and my biggest emotional responses were ALL to Ursula, just wanting to see more of her, which I'm sure was pretty annoying to the rest of the audience.

Thomas Corp
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Don’t mind so much the bad dubbing as much as there’s the distraction of how jarring hearing extended conversations in English in this show is. Not too bad when In-ho speaks English as Byung-hun is fluent, though the mask makes it sound more artificial. Assuming too that Byung-hun was the one delivering the dialogue in those scenes. There is the sort of silent lampshade of the silent suggestion that even In-ho finds them repugnant, which helps tolerate them some, whilst sharing the hate and disgust that Jess has for them. They did have the good bait-and-switch of the season premiere when they brought Gi-hun back to the others in the box, so it makes an effective gut punch when realization of what happened here hits you. The lack of the beep, and the piano music did hammer home the sadness about Geum-ja. Jesus did her last talk with Gi-hun get me so bad. The ankle, as I’ve said, brings back visceral memories of my dad when he broke his ankle back in 2004. Particularly when I had to change the dressing shortly after the initial break. It is beyond realistic looking. Suppose I can see some Buscemi in that part. Better Damien than Renésmée. I noticed that too about the concerted effort to keep the baby covered during the big scene, possibly also to save cgi budget for the jump rope. And yeah, the dog too. Felt so bad that by the time I saw this episode, Jess had likely already seen it, so we couldn’t warn her about that so she could brace herself like she did with the horse in The Godfather. Good that we don’t see the dog get shot, but then there is that subsequent image which was not very nice. I get images of Clint Eastwood telling Bradley Cooper not to worry about everyone noticing how blatantly fake the baby looked. Have reasonable belief that I could handle the game well enough, provided that the other players weren’t uncooperative. Panic and fear likely plays the part in no one making the one leap, so to speak. Whilst it probably would be considered quite cruel to fuck with a man who looks like he ate a Naked Lunch that didn’t agree with him, it is delightful seeing sweet karma bite him in the ass, which yeah, dude did not see it coming. And you do advise him to watch out for that first step as it’s a real lulu. The heart does race over the very ungroovy situation with Jun-hee which the problem is exacerbated after the dude who we did see before, I too checked as you did. That grin was horrifying. No idea what Gi-hun giving up on humanity would look like, like you say.