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[This post is about Squid Game S3, there will likely be spoiler-ey words<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n However, since I write for basically zero people, it\u2019s merely a formality that has no real meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, mythical wife and I just wrapped up watching S3 and the supposed finale to Squid Game<\/em>, and I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about how the finale transpired and the events of the how it all wrapped up.\u00a0 Fortunately for me, I managed to hold off on watching it for a few days and managed to not get spoiled along the way to which I am very grateful.<\/span><\/p>\n So, as far as S3 went, it was as well executed as I would have hoped it would be.\u00a0 Frankly, the original season was great on its own, and I didn\u2019t think it really needed to have a sequel season(s), but Netflix is rich as balls, money talks, and moar Squid Game we got.\u00a0 Thankfully, the moar Squid Game was pretty decent as far as sequels go, and wasn\u2019t just a shitty Ocean Twelve<\/em>-like cash grab of a turd sequel, and although it wasn\u2019t as flawless as the original was, and some Korean storytelling trope cracks did show, overall it was still well acted, visually compelling, and had a storyline that made sense for the most part.<\/span><\/p>\n Without giving too much away, one thing I found to be hilarious was when the VIPs showed up to the mysterious island of games, is just how poor the acting was from them.\u00a0 It\u2019s like Squid Game clearly is a global phenomenon that most any Hollywood A-lister would probably love to participate in, in a cameo capacity, and I imagine it wouldn\u2019t be a difficult ask for any agent to get some known global stars to play the layup roles of the VIPs.<\/span><\/p>\n But instead, we get these no-name clown actors whose acting is terrible, and I can\u2019t help that it was probably cast in such a way deliberately, so that the Korean showrunners could passively flex how great their Korean cast was compared to the scab foreign cast who couldn\u2019t act their way out of a preschool play.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, as the final episode began winding down, I said to mythical wife, that I wouldn\u2019t be the least bit surprised if the episode ended in an open-ended manner, because regardless of their association with Netflix, Korean television shows are notorious for always ending in open-ended manners, because they seem to always want to keep the door open for potential sequel seasons, spin-offs or moar content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n No matter if this was supposed to be the final season of OG Squid Game, I wasn\u2019t going to be surprised if the general plot was left with gaping holes for moar Squid Game to manifest in the future, because despite their massive steps forward culturally in some regards, Korean media can\u2019t stop being so Korean in others.<\/span><\/p>\n [Okay, here come abject spoilers to those who might not have seen it<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, as all the arcs start wrapping up, there are massive hints that things aren\u2019t going to be over when it comes to The Games, and the season wraps up with a teaser of a new, American, Recruiter character, played by none other than Cate Blanchett, goading some white bum in an alleyway in Los Angeles, in a game of all things, ddakji, leading to the obvious conclusion that Squid Games are most definitely not over, but are now beginning to take place internationally, most notably, America.<\/span><\/p>\n Mythical wife had already heard about news that there was going to be a Squid Game: America in the works, and I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m the least bit surprised, but at the same time, I\u2019m also irritated that yet another successful Korean property is selling out for white people to white people all over it, and make their own variation of it.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s like Parasite<\/em>, and the success and buzz of its rise to the top of the mountain couldn\u2019t even cool off before news started swirling about how it was going to be remade by Americans, inevitably going to be cast with an entirely, for lack of a better phrase, deliberately forced woke DEI cast.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s like shows like Physical:100<\/em> and Culinary Class Wars<\/em> and Street Food<\/em>, that were so good in their original Korean iterations, but white people couldn\u2019t just accept watching good television with subtitles on, so instead they just have all their shit remade for the comfort and convenience to white people.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean a story like Squid Game isn\u2019t solely exclusive to Korea; despair, poverty, desperation, violence and empathy can be told in any nationality, so I\u2019m sure Squid Game can easily be picked up by any other culture, even if it\u2019s not white people, but it\u2019s just the fact that white people are clearly so eager to white up the property, that they can\u2019t even wait until the flowers for OG Squid Game to stop coming in before they shoe horn their own introduction into the ending of the finale, and set the stage for their impending colonization.<\/span><\/p>\n I digress though.\u00a0 Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that bullshit, and even if the Squid Game creators resisted a white spinoff, white people would just inevitably just rip it off and release something on their own in the future anyway, so might as well have the Korean creators get the bag in the process of having their shit stolen.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s just obnoxious how often and how quickly Korean successes become marked for white people-ization, and as much as I loved Squid Game and the cultural phenomenon it became, it irked me to see just how fast white people had to inject their sniveling little tentacles into the property, and sour the general ending for me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [This post is about Squid Game S3, there will likely be spoiler-ey words] However, since I write for basically zero people, it\u2019s merely a formality that has no real meaning. 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