watching squid game rn, gonna livetweet a bit about it maybe. will try to keep spoilers small
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i have to say i find the increasing popularity of the “death game” genre concerning in some sense. like are people increasingly relating to feeling like society is an arbitrary game with ridiculous rules that don’t make sense but you still die if you fuck up 🤔
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the main character (of this first ep anyway) has sorta similar vocal tics to my deadbeat cousin
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no maybe it’s the reverse, not enough twisty levels of misdirection. maybe the fantasy is that there exist entities coherent and powerful enough to run death games, *therefore* all one has to do is please or outwit such entities. a deeply bureaucratized substitute for god?
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the only other korean thing i’ve seen even sort of recently is parasite and it has me wondering why i see purely financial / economic problems at the center of plots in american fiction so rarely. maybe i just don’t run into them?
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kinda want the pickpocket girl to beat me up tbh
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oh no she’s fucking gorgeous shit 🥵
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oh they’re forming little teams that’s cute as shit
idk what’s going on with the… indian?… guy tho, in terms of south korean racial dynamics
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i suppose this bit of the social commentary is pretty explicit: they leave the game and then come back because the outside is even worse and at least in the game they have some hope. episode 2 is literally called “hell” and it’s referring to the outside, not the game
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alright 3 eps is probably enough for tonight. will probably finish at least so i can see more of pickpocket girl
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oh shit is really heating up in these middle few episodes damn. hard choices all around
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they did not splurge on the actors who have to speak english here in episode 7 😬
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oh it hurts. they’re only a small step up from bad english voice acting in anime. shocked they couldn’t afford better actors for this, it meaningfully reduces the tension in these scenes for me
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somewhat disappointed in the ending. everything hinges on the final explanation for why the games are happening and that explanation is not very good imo. would still recommend as a watch overall
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idk how to get sad when characters in fiction die 🤔 i get sad mostly when they are much kinder than anyone around them gives them a reason to be
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