julianmarku

I have never see so much product placement for an IP from Netflix before. This clued me in that Netflix were going to milk this series to the bank.

But I had no idea how much they ruined series with their writers and how gutless they were with seasons 2 and 3.

If season 1 was a masterclass of good writing. Season 2 and 3 is what you get from a greedy company that tells the creator: "look, we want more money, you are either on board with us or you can get off after season 1, we will still make it without you." (They should have made Frontman and the IPs be more like the creator of the IP and the studio where they wanted more control over the games and make it unfair which they did to some degree with the baby, but it came of as cliche classism than taking over).

But the season was so bad after the first 2 and a half episodes: so slow and boring that I had to skip scenes because they were so cringe.

Gi-hun's exist might have been the original outcome but how they got there is so stupid that it makes no sense. Season 1 told us that he can choose to vote anytime according to the contract. (Why didn't he bring that up? Was the baby going to vote to stay and finish the game?)

The baby brought this game down so much for Gi-han. He shined so much in season 1 and 2. The Frontman should have ordered for that baby to be taken away and if Gi-han wanted it, he would get it if he won the game and then wrapped it around that.

What brought down the show for me: 1) The detective arc was useless. He should have never been a detective, maybe a windows washer was his calling.

2) The baby dragged the show and everyone down. I hate how much blood was spilled and how many uselessly died for it.

3) the VIP's should have reflected studio interference, instead they were more like online trolls leaving comments or bad reviews.

4) Character development for 222 and 333 was horrible. Especially for 333. Season 2 we got not 1, not 2 but 3 ankle injuries and useless deaths.

5) The ending was stupid, boring as F and 333's decent into madness had no buildup and everyone was incredibly stupid.

I know that South Korea has the worth birth rate in the world and they are desperate to save their culture and genetic diversity and encourage family and children but bro, making the child the reason that this show's story is falling apart should not be what the studio or the writers do if they want to encourage birthrate.

If I watched this, I would dislike kids more because they show that kids get in the way.

Imagine if at the end of the show: Gi-han is promised by the Frontman that they can havea final battle if he wins the games and can demand anything and Gi-han gets obsessed to.the point that he has to decide between winning the game or killing the father and his daughter to get to Frontman and end the games.

That would make Gi-han crazed and mad even but at least he would sacrifice himself for a father and his daughter to survive.

The ending is just Meh, it's a weird place where the studio were too afraid to: turn Gi-han into a anti-hero and gray willing to kill anyone to stop the games, or did not want to end the franchise with revealing the truth to the world so that they can milk this franchise for more spin-offs, they killed their most interesting characters too early, they did not want to cut off Frontman from this franchise so that they can have a new anti-hero or sprinkle him around in future series. They went half-way down the bridge and fell into the hole.

When I was a kid admit that I did not understand anything about this episode and the characters because of how simple and innocent I was.

Watching this as an adult I am like: Christopher Nolan must have been a Johnny Quest fan because the story of the trilogy might as well been based on this episode:

• We have a hungry for ratings news station that basically puts a bounty on the beast and drives people crazy.

• there is an giant underground city under New York;
• Benton Quest and Race Banon use some kind of high tech computer to listen to every phone in New York and basically find a Johnny from his voice exactly like radar;
• There is so much interracial conflict in this episode that confused me but today it makes sense.

Honestly, the episode is full of ideas both great in terms of what is possible and used by Chris Nolan. And the social messages of the goldilocks and the brothas living in the slums.

Still relevant today.

I have never seen a group of writers that don't understand what made the first season or the characters great and basically ruin it completely with so much worse padding in season 2.

The writers of season 2 are basically so uninspired that they can't write their own ideas and they basically ruin season 1 with their finger paint over a Mona Lisa painting.

To be clear, one the dialogue is so meta and bad. The second thing is that this episode was used to tease a fight that never happened in all the promotional material multiple times.

Finally, the flashback ruins Vander and Silco because the writers had no faith in their own ideas that they had to stoop to fanservice of their best characters Silco and fan favorite Vander.

To be clear, the flashback makes Vander and Silco seem like horrible people because their mutual friend is pregnant and this characters hooks them to her responsibility while these guys are planning a revolution! Imagine if George Washington was planning the revolution and all the pregnant women of Philadelphia tells them: So you have to win this revolution or die trying or take care of my kids if I die in it. These aren't even his biological kids! It's just someone who got pregnant and decided to throw themselves in front of a war expecting to win or die and not care about their kids... Silco is there like: "I won't even remember you or your kids."

Whoever the cheap writers were for this season did not finish their first novel and they were given a writing role on one of the best animated shows in the last 5 years.