- I don’t remember the first two seasons very well, was it always like this? Season 3 was a 6-7 I think, worth a watch but some pretty big flaws
- pace was too slow I feel. They raised interesting themes (value of a life, ivory towers, money, sacrifice, revenge, corruption of a soul, family), but rested on their laurels after showing us “see, humans can be bad, but also good”. These were mostly the same themes and ideas we saw in the first two seasons though, so the slow pacing felt less reflective and more… slow (dragging? Unnecessary?).
- The VIPs especially, I hate the stick of characters whose entire purpose is to go “whoa, THAT just happened”. They even deprived us off seeing their thoughts on Gihuns actions at the end. No actual thoughts were given to them aside from cartoonish villainy.
- I didnt get behind gihun here. The whole cast shared pushing the season forward, but a guy can only take so maby episodes (especially after a whole s2) of gihun being shattered and absent. He awkened to take charge of the baby, and when everybody died it was back to him to carry things.
- I actually liked most of the last episode. I think last episodes of a season just get rated by their whole season and not the actual episode? The baby sacrifice was comedically overblown though. Also six months for BE and shooting a dog is crazy, especially after the bad behavior. Maybe the episode actually wasn’t that great…oh and inspector cop got shafted. No reaction to seeing his brother aside from shouting? No reflection on where to go in the future? What to do? Its more sequel bait. I did like the bits completely after the games were fully done though (soldier 11 portrait scene and on)
- the “squid games but LA” Cliffhanger felt lazy… I don’t want to see more. Why would they think I would? Also is this just them officially taking the reins out of the original directors hands and flanderizing it for american audiences? No likey.
- I liked the scene of gihun not murdering them in their sleep. I think that was more effective in showing his nobility. Knowing full well he would die for it, and especially in contrast to the front man. Especially in contrast to knowing they did exactly that to him in s1 and s2 (the lights out events)