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Okay now that the squid game has ended. Let’s talk about it for a second. Just a heads up, this will have spoilers for season 3 of squid game. Watch this after you have finished all of the episodes.

Now I have seen a lot of mixed reactions from people but most people were not happy that a baby won the game and everybody died. I can tell how this could be disappointing but it's actually a very good ending for multiple reasons. Before I talk about that, I want to talk about some of the characters one by one. 

Let’s start with Dae-ho, a lot of people think that his character was butchered and his death was lazy and out of character. Sadly i have to kind of agree on this but i want to focus more on the way he died as kind of a base. Dae-ho died in the hands of Gi-hun whom he was friends with in the last season. 

Now there are two points in this entire argument and that is some people defend Gi-hun saying Dae-ho was taunting, blaming Gi-hun when he himself didn’t bring the ammos during the attack. Some people also say that Gi-hun is the one to blame for the attack and the death of all those people and Dae-ho can’t be blamed for getting scared like any person. 

Now both sides are right, that's why this is a very tricky situation. We could have ended this argument saying both were right for whatever they did. But that’s where Dae-ho’s confession comes into place. Because Dae-ho confesses to Gi-hun that he was never actually part of the marines, he has never held a gun and he did all that to stay close to them. 

Okay what the fuck though?? Where is this random ass confession coming from? Why did his personality become flat in about three seconds??? Was this an attempt to justify his death because it doesn’t work at all???

Anyway I actually can understand why he would do this but it would be very far-fetched so I have a personal headcanon. Dae-ho WAS part of the marines. Because his father wanted him to be more manly. And he has ptsd because of that. That’s why he flinched at Gi-hun’s screams and the gunshots. He has ptsd that he is not willing to accept. He feels weak and useless because of that. He feels guilty that he didn’t bring the ammos. That’s why he blames Gi-hun, the same way Gi-hun blames him. Because they are both angry that they were not able to change anything. Both of them feel guilty for the death of all those people. And they can’t blame the creators, the vip at that moment. They just tried to start an uprising and it didn’t work. The system they live in is unreachable. So they start blaming each other. 

I think Dae-ho felt so guilty that he tried to deny the fact that he could ever do anything about what happened. So he blamed Gi-hun. He was trying to deny what happened. He was trying to excuse himself. That’s why he said that to Gi-hun hoping he would be spared.

And Gi-hun’s anger was more so directed. Because Gi-hun originally didn’t know that Dae-ho was supposed to bring the ammos. That’s what they told him after everything. Hyun-ju, Geum-ja and Yong-sik blamed Dae-ho and they told him the story. If Gi-hun saw everything happen himself he would have hesitated maybe. 

But it was also interesting that Gi-hun didn’t hesitate to kill Dae-ho at all when he couldn’t even kill the frontman. I am also going to say it was due to poor writing for this part but if we wanted to excuse this again canonically we could say that Gi-hun had lost it at that point but besides that I don't have any other ideas. Maybe something broke inside him that second and he realised he couldn’t save everyone and some had to die in exchange for other lives. That murder was Gi-hun’s desperate act of selfishness, he was going to kill Dae-ho to avenge, to survive and to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. 

Like I said I don't know and I personally believe that Dae-ho’s death was supposed to be deeper and more complex but they had to cut it to have time for other things. I am probably very biased on this topic because i really love Gi-hun as a character and as much as i love Dae-ho and cried rivers because of his death but Gi-hun has a special place in my heart.  I am also biased because I truly believe Hwang Dong-Hyuk is a motherfucking genius and Ii like his writing a lot so I'll keep on excusing him lol. 

Okay enough about that, let's talk about Geum-ja. This was basically history repeating itself but we cared about it more this time because we knew the characters more. Do y’all remember in the first season a guy had to kill his wife during the marble game and he committed suicide right afterwards. Let me tell you something: if that guy’s wife had killed her husband, she probably would have killed herself too. 

It was the same thing with Yong-sik and Geum-ja. Geum-ja didn’t kill his son because she cared about Junhee and her baby more. She killed her son unwillingly. She was desperate trying to save someone’s life and she would have sacrificed herself if it meant that her son, the girl and the baby were going to survive. And she tried to do that. But her son Yong-sik wouldn’t have been able to live without her. So the baby and the mother seemed to be the best option. Saving his mother. When Yong-sik approached Jun-hee and the baby. Geum-ja panicked. She was scared, Yong-sik’s death wasn’t intentional. If it was she wouldn’t have killed herself afterwards. Both Yong-sik and Geum-ja wouldn’have been able to live without each other. That’s why their death was incredibly tragic.

Geum-ja wanted the games to stop, not because she wanted to live as she says that herself. She wanted to save someone’s life in exchange for her son’s. When Geum-ja was begging everyone to vote to stop the games and when she talked with Gi-hun to make him promise to take care of Junhee and the baby, she was already dead. She just stopped breathing when she commited suicide. She wanted the baby and the mother to live but she wouldn’t be able to guarantee that, so she made Gi-hun promise. She believed Gi-hun from the start and she asked him to try again because she knew he would do it somehow. And Gi-hun did keep his promise. To both Geum-ja and Junhee. 

Now let’s talk a bit about Myung-gi. First of all I don't like, I never liked him. From the start of season 2. I hated him but everyone kept insisting that the guy was trying so I kind of kept it to myself. I actually hate how I was right about him being selfish. I would have preferred him actually trying but his case was that he cared about Junhee but not the baby. While he and Gi-hun were talking on the bridge in the last game. He thought Gi-hun and Junhee had a romantic relationship, he was mad because of that. He cared about Junhee in favor of his own interest. That's why Junhee didn’t want to do anything with him. And him not wanting to carry her in the jump rope game said many things. He cared about himself more either way.

When Junhee died, he was sad of course, he was heartbroken because the man is selfish not heartless. They are two different things. Myung-gi left when he learned she was pregnant because he didn’t want the baby, he wanted Junhee and she didn’t want a man who wasn’t going to care about her baby. That’s why in the end, she didn’t beg Gi-hun to come get her. Because Gi-hun was going to care for her baby and if Gi-hun didn’t make it, the baby wasn’t going to make it. Myung-gi and Junhee were opposite about that part. Junhee was selfless and Myung-gi was selfish. 

While i wrote this i tried to find many ways to excuse Myung-gi but i could only find one reason maybe. That was the fact that Myung-gi would forever be taunted by the baby’s death if he ended up killing her. He would have cried maybe, he would have gone crazy. Because like I said he isn't heartless. That’s why he couldn’t simply drop the baby. He hesitated and staggered. I believe he would have been able to do it but he would have never been the same again. 

That’s why the baby survived. I actually doubt that anyone would have been able to kill the baby that easily. Because the baby wasn’t asked to be born into this. She was completely helpless in a way that made everyone stop in their tracks.

And that brings me to what the entire season actually implied. The surviving baby was the symbol of the new generation of this cruel system. Some kind of hope that was being protected. And the hope lived. Squid game is about our capitalist, money hungry society who’s selfishness robs us of our humanity. Or does it? What actually is humanity? That’s why Gi-hun’s last words were “Humans are…” because humans are everything. Both good and bad. They don’t simply live on instincts like horses. They don’t only run just because they can. Sometimes they run to escape, sometimes they run to fight, sometimes they run to save. 

Two tiktok users actually explained this perfectly

@tigersemi:

Perfect conclusion.. He proved the Frontman's cynical philosophy of humans being inherently selfish wrong and showed that good in humanity can still exist even in the more dire of circumstances like the hellhole of Squid Game. But that's not all, Gihun's last words, "We are not horses, we are humans. Humans are..." It wasn't finished and that's intentional. Horses are instinctive creatures that are used in wars and gambles, they run because they must. Squid Game is a game of chance and death. But are we purely instinctive creatures? No, but then what are we? It's to show that even though he showed good can still exist, we must not forget all the atrocities that mankind has committed which was shown throughout all of the series. Humans aren't collectively defined as good or bad, we just are. It can also be seen as a question left to be answered. What are humans? Some people will say "humanity still exists in some people", but what does that humanity even refer to? The people who created and run the games were human, the people who participated and killed were human. We use this term in light of compassion and kindness, but are all the atrocities not part of human nature too? It almost seemed like not even Gihun himself had an answer. He has seen all of it on that island. The greed, the cowardice, the lies, the sadism, but also, the kind, the compassionate, and the selfless. Humans can take on any form, and 'humanity' is ultimately an arbitrary term. This is not even all there is to it btw I literally just typed this on a whim and could definitely go deeper

(Can y’all this comment inspired me speech wise? I kind of thought of this last night before drifting to sleep but no way in hell I could have explained it this perfectly.)

One commenter also said;

@☕⛓Daddy Wriothesley⛓☕:

I loved this season:

Gi-hun's final act wasn't just a rejection of the game. It was a rejection of the philosophy that created it. The Front Man believed humans are inherently selfish, driven by survival and greed, no better than horses forced to run for others’ amusement. But Gi-hun proved that wrong by doing the one thing no one else could refusing to play, even if it meant dying. His choice wasn’t strategic. It wasn’t for reward. It was to preserve something bigger than himself, something like compassion, dignity, and choice. His last words, "We are not horses. We are humans. Humans are..." The silence afterward says everything. It’s not unfinished by accident. It’s a question, a challenge, maybe even a warning. How do you define human after everything we’ve seen? The games showed us the worst. Betrayal. Cruelty. Cowardice. But they also showed us sacrifice, love, and resistance. So what are humans? Are we good? Evil? Selfish? Kind? Maybe we’re all of it at once. Gi-hun’s story doesn’t give us a clean answer. It forces you to ask what being human even means. Is humanity just compassion? If so, what about the people who created the games? They were human too. The word humanity starts to lose meaning when you realize the same species capable of kindness is also capable of horror. In the end, Gi-hun didn’t try to fix humanity. He just chose to be the kind of human he believed should exist. Not perfect. Not heroic. Just human. And maybe that’s the only answer there is.

(They talk about similar things but both are a good explanation, kudos to them also!)

Now I want to add to this a little. Gi-hun died a hero. Maybe he didn’t live as one to all but he did die as one. Gi-hun made many mistakes during his life. He sacrificed, he killed, he neglected but he was inherently not a bad person. Because he always tried to do his best. And when he couldn’t he blamed himself. Like Geum-ja said, “Good people always blame themselves for things while bad people blame others.” Even when he killed Dae-ho, he continued to blame himself for everything that happened. Gi-hun never once blamed anyone else, not even Dae-ho. He could pretend he did but he didn’t. We could see that immediately after. 

So who is Gi-hun? Is he a good man, or is he a bad man? Or is he just human?  Like I said , Gi-hun is not a bad man, but we can’t just ignore all the bad things he did and call him a good person. He tried to be one and that’s what made him a hero.

When Gi-hun died, he sacrificed himself in exchange for something he saw that was worth more than anything. Another life, a baby, hope. All he left behind was hope. 

Everyone up until that point was a representation of our society, who all died because of the system. Some of them grew corrupt. Some of them couldn’t handle it and gave up. Some of them tried to change this system. They died trying. But they tried to change and they tried to survive. When the island was destroyed the games didn’t end. It just restarted. Erasing all traces of the victims. Something that has been happening in our reality. The system destroys and restarts leaving everything behind to be forgotten. But the frontman, no In-ho, was a player like them at some point. He is human like them and couldn’t bear them to be forgotten. That’s why he brought Gi-hun’s uniform to his daughter. So some part of him will stay. In-ho cared about Gi-hun. He was amazed by how despite everything he “didn’t lose his humanity”. In-ho loved and idolised Gi-hun in some way. That’s why he brought the box to Gi-hun’s daughter himself. 

And the ending? Don’t be scared it doesn’t mean they will make an American version of the series. It shows how these games and this system is not just a South Korea situation. No, it’s global, it’s happening everywhere around the world. And it will continue to do so. Because the games haven’t ended yet. 

That’s why we see what happens after Gi-hun dies. We see how someone who has spent so long to stop the games couldn’t succeed. That’s just how it is sometimes. Jun-ho was gonna fail from the start but he still tried. And Gyeong-seok (player 246) lived as proof that sometimes it is possible to escape the system. He went on to live a great life with his daughter. No-eul lived because she changed her and someone else’s fate. 

Life will continue as normal. Maybe the next game will be held on another island. Maybe on one of the islands that Jun-ho searched. Maybe it will continue all the way in America. But it will continue.

 Because humans will continue being humans. They will be selfish, selfless, brave, cowardice, strong, weak, evil or good. 

I AM SORRY BUT I`M STILL NOT OVER THIS.

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