I heard from a couple of Korean reactors that there is a cultural reference which Western viewers would not know to the scene where Mi-nyeo (212) kills herself and Deok-su (101). This is the story about Non-gae, who was a woman of great beauty, an iconic figure from Jinju and married to a high ranking official. During the Japanese invasion of Korea, the Japanese captured Jinju and Non-gae's husband was killed. Celebrating their victory, Japanese generals hosted a party with gisaeng (Korean female entertainers ), Non-gae was a professional gisaeng herself so attended the party where she got her revenge. She purposely seduced the Japanese general that killed her husband and lured him to a cliff. She embraced him firmly by interlocking her fingers around his back, then threw herself off the cliff and into a river, killing them both. Her courageous act is celebrated and taught in school as an iconic patriotic tale about a low caste woman sacrificing her life to help a country in crisis. So this story gives some context to Mi-nyeo's character. Mi-nyeo ( translates to beautiful woman in Korean) may be actually be called this in connection with Non-gae, who is described as a woman of great beauty. Not only does Mi-nyeo kill Deok-su for her personal revenge but can also be seen as an act for in order to eliminate the 'common enemy' ( Deok-su ). The scene makes us as viewers realize that Mi-nyeo is actually a woman of courage and integrity in comparison to Deok-su who proves to be cowardly and selfish to the end. Their name is Alexandra and Emily Oleson ...I did learn some good insights from them that would be missed or unknown by non Koreans... 🙂 ruclips.net/p/PLIKFNjPaY-gOOZABFWO64BsanHc8cpZsz
The police officer put his id on the body of the guy he threw overboard on ep 2. And they let 212 live because it was not her fault that she didn't have a partner, as there would be an even number of players if the doctor wasn't cheating.
I think Sang-Woo saw the old man as a liability from the start and didn't tell about the umbrella because he was hoping the old man would pick it. And after that he had no opportunity to warn Gi-Hun without making people question him.
The Exploding Bridge was, by their definition Unfair... They could have rigged a "Safe" way to remove the glass when the Timer went off, like the supporting beams dropping, or spreading apart. Any injuries from the Glass would render someone unable to "Fairly" compete.
She survived, because the rules were that everyone was in teams of 2. And if the doctor didnt already die, shed be in a team of 2. And since one person from each team was supposed to die anyway, shes by default, the winner of the marble game.
Once again i love your reaction to this episode. It seems you are getting eased a bit to all the people dying in this show. Things are coming to an end, seeing some of the bad guys die one by one in either a cowardly way or by revenge of a women's wrath. Can't wait for the next one.
The way Han Mi-nyeo took out Deok-su was based on a Korean folk tale about a young maiden killing a ruthless warlord by grabbing him and falling with him.
Number 16 is the best chance to survive because most of the choices will already be made by the other players. It will be clear which tiles to step on.
The human statues really make sense when you consider the objectification that the VIPs do to humanity. They have reduced living human beings to game pieces, to be gambled on and discarded with as little thought as when you discard a captured chess piece. These super-rich "VIPs" view we average people as nothing more than toys, unworthy of any type of empathy.
some stuff you missed: sang woo mortgaged his moms entire business on his debt. doesn't make it ok, but he does have something he's playing for. Sang woo and gihun are childhood friends. he knew the sugar game and didn't tell him because he figured that it would be better to get rid of competition. the cop found out his brother was the winner from a prior year. the cops ID was on the body that washed up because it was the guard he stole the uniform from on the boat coming over and then tossed over board.
2:55, she survived because it would have been unfair game play had they killed her because she did not have a partner. It was not her fault the numbers of the participants were uneven after the death of the doctor. Remember, what The Front Man (man in the black mask) stated after he discovered the organ harvesting operation, "Everyone is equal in these games. Players get to compete in a fair game under the same conditions. These people suffered from inequality and discrimination out in the world, and we offer them one last chance to fight on equal footing and win".
I gotta tell you this game is way more intense than Red Light, Green Light and this is tue most difficult game, I tried it in Roblox and I only past like 2 or 3 tiles
@@patrickbehrend5403 But some evil rich would pay big money or bet big money to see this. Depraved poor people would watch if it was cheap or free to watch. That's the difference.
I mean, it's actually pretty easy to tell if it's normal or tempered glass. If you step on it and fall through, then it's normal glass. Otherwise it's tempered. Admittedly that might not do you much good at that time.
I thought it was because they (the host) killed the doctor leaving the number of people unequal, therefore, she didn’t have a partner to play with in the last game.
@@ladybutterfly2581 That's why she didn't have a partner, but pretty much everyone assumed that she was being taken away to be killed in the previous ep.
Hi kazzy how are you doing today I hope you are having a good day i have seen seen alright alot of movies so far can can I find a way to meet u in person
So, did I miss something when I watched this?... Was it a MUST to jump onto the glass? I'd have been trying to walk on the structural beams like a tightrope or sliding on my belly to spread out the PSI like on thin ice....
I think they said to choose one or the other. If they tried walking the middle, could be seen as a refusal to play. But really it depends on whether or not the VIPs accept it.
Let this sink in for all the SANG WOO haters, he is the reason Gi-han survive Game 1, Game 3, and Game 5. in Game 1, he gave a hint on how the game works, motivating Gi-han to move, Game 3, people always give credits to oh-ilnam in that game, but his strategy only works for a few seconds and then failed, yet almost no one gives credit to sang woo even tough he's the one who came up with a new strategy on the spot, that actually made them win the tag of war, Game 5, if sang woo didn't push the glass maker, they would have wasted their time in the glass bridge and they all die, it might look like a dirty move, but it's a do or die situation. at this point of the series everyone already have blood on their hands, ever since game 3.
@@squ34ky People who believe he did nothing wrong believe in a "survive at all costs, even if it means sacrificing your personal integrity" approach to life (or alternatively, don't believe in personal integrity such as not lying to someone who is risking their own life that you might both live.)
They kept that woman alive because so their whole “fair” thing. It’s not her fault she didn’t have a partner, she was supposed to, cuz it was supposed to be an even number but the doctor guy got killed and it wasn’t her fault, so it’s not fair that she didn’t have a partner becuz it was odd number.
Broccoli is good for memory, you should have some specially when watching a lot of shows.... the police put his ID on the body of the guy he threw overboard and he found out his brother was the 2015 games winner, you commented on both things even, lol.
Not sure why everyone hates on Sang Woo. He's one of the few who understands it's kill or be killed. Is he supposed to die just so everyone can say he was a nice guy?
There's a spectrum of response when it comes to being subjected to inhuman conditions. For example, Gihun was highly traumatized by the game, one could even say before the games, his gambling was a trauma response to watching his friend die during the factory strike being broken. On the other end is Sang woo, who flinches when Ali is executed but is otherwise pretty capable of suppressing his remorse by telling himself "it's kill or be killed." Sangwoo's greater moral flexibility within the game parallels nicely his competitive nature in the outside world, where he made risky bets with other people's money and even mortgaged his mother's business in order to get ahead because capitalism taught him "it's kill or be killed." As the other commenter says, we all like to think we'd be better, and i think that's ok. Maybe a lot of us are Sangwoo, but we can watch this show and see the nobility behind Jiyung, and just maybe let art gently embolden the humanity that our world so desperately neerds.
What do you mean "why did they keep her alive?" Because she was singled out and had no partner to play with in the last game. Plain and simple, there was no rule saying they would get killed for not having a partner in the game. They kept her alive so she can play in the next game. He did not lose his id he just left it on the body and Sang-Woo didn't have kids, you need to pay more attention when nothing on screen was confusing. Also It's not wrong to hate Sang-Woo.
To be really honest, I never hated Sang-woo the first time watching Squid Game. Yes, he did despicable things during games, but was he the only one who did that? No
In this case, he rather saved everyone else, because there was too little time left. They could all die simply and if 16 was the main character he could do the same. Although in series 6, he also tricked the old man, and Sang-woo did it by tricking. but for some reason, the main character is normal, and San Wu is a scoundrel.
You ask what sick humans would watch this in rl , well i look back a few years to the bum fights where homeless people where promised a cash amount if they fight and before it was shut down by youtube it had billions of views. sad reality is we has humans love this stuff and eat it up.
What kind of person would be pleased by betting on peoples lives? Right Kazz is Canadian, you're not inundated with what American politicians do on a daily basis.
Ok. You are totally Gail the Snail, but you're not on Mac's show, so it doesn't count. It's not so bad, Kazzy, the actress that played Gail is a very pretty lady, just not so much the Gail character.
That depends on your personal ethics. People wouldn't be upset if he played an honest game and won against Ali, but instead he 'cheated' Ali by playing on Ali's trust and his reluctance to see even Sang-woo killed. In many people's minds that is much worse than simply openly playing to win.
“That guy is DONE in my book!”
God that had me cracking up so much, because I reacted the same exact way.
"That's IT!"
Shit was too funny 🤣
I heard from a couple of Korean reactors that there is a cultural reference which Western viewers would not know to the scene where Mi-nyeo (212) kills herself and Deok-su (101).
This is the story about Non-gae, who was a woman of great beauty, an iconic figure from Jinju and married to a high ranking official. During the Japanese invasion of Korea, the Japanese captured Jinju and Non-gae's husband was killed. Celebrating their victory, Japanese generals hosted a party with gisaeng (Korean female entertainers ), Non-gae was a professional gisaeng herself so attended the party where she got her revenge. She purposely seduced the Japanese general that killed her husband and lured him to a cliff. She embraced him firmly by interlocking her fingers around his back, then threw herself off the cliff and into a river, killing them both. Her courageous act is celebrated and taught in school as an iconic patriotic tale about a low caste woman sacrificing her life to help a country in crisis.
So this story gives some context to Mi-nyeo's character.
Mi-nyeo ( translates to beautiful woman in Korean) may be actually be called this in connection with Non-gae, who is described as a woman of great beauty.
Not only does Mi-nyeo kill Deok-su for her personal revenge but can also be seen as an act for in order to eliminate the 'common enemy' ( Deok-su ).
The scene makes us as viewers realize that Mi-nyeo is actually a woman of courage and integrity in comparison to Deok-su who proves to be cowardly and selfish to the end.
Their name is Alexandra and Emily Oleson ...I did learn some good insights from them that would be missed or unknown by non Koreans...
🙂
ruclips.net/p/PLIKFNjPaY-gOOZABFWO64BsanHc8cpZsz
That is interesting. I love how much more there is to this show.
The half Korean sisters did a wonderful job to adding extra subtext to what was going on throughout the series.
I hated Sang Woo from the moment he didn't warn his friend about the umbrella shape. It was a shitty thing to do. Loved your reaction.
The police officer did not "lose" his id. He purposely put it on the body of the man he threw overboard to misdirect.
There is an added layer to that once you realize who was looking at the fact that the ID and the body didn't match.
4:33 He had stuffed his own ID in the pocket of the original number 29, before he threw them overboard.
The police officer put his id on the body of the guy he threw overboard on ep 2.
And they let 212 live because it was not her fault that she didn't have a partner, as there would be an even number of players if the doctor wasn't cheating.
But not on episode 2...
@@bagirockcarlguksoo1786 oops, 3
I think Sang-Woo saw the old man as a liability from the start and didn't tell about the umbrella because he was hoping the old man would pick it. And after that he had no opportunity to warn Gi-Hun without making people question him.
The Exploding Bridge was, by their definition Unfair... They could have rigged a "Safe" way to remove the glass when the Timer went off, like the supporting beams dropping, or spreading apart.
Any injuries from the Glass would render someone unable to "Fairly" compete.
They gave her a free pass because she didn't have a partner, they didn't want to punish her for not being picked.
Great reaction Kazzy! U were so shocked when Mi-nyeo took Deok-su down with her!
She survived, because the rules were that everyone was in teams of 2. And if the doctor didnt already die, shed be in a team of 2. And since one person from each team was supposed to die anyway, shes by default, the winner of the marble game.
Hi Kazzy hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
WELL LOOKS LIKE THAT GUY DID GO DOWN LIKE YOU SAID!
Once again i love your reaction to this episode. It seems you are getting eased a bit to all the people dying in this show.
Things are coming to an end, seeing some of the bad guys die one by one in either a cowardly way or by revenge of a women's wrath.
Can't wait for the next one.
The way Han Mi-nyeo took out Deok-su was based on a Korean folk tale about a young maiden killing a ruthless warlord by grabbing him and falling with him.
it's not a folk tale. It's a real-life true story.
Thank you, Kazzy! 🦑
This show definitely lingers in the back of my mind the rest of the day lol
AND KAZZY IS DONE WITH SANG WOO!
Number 16 is the best chance to survive because most of the choices will already be made by the other players. It will be clear which tiles to step on.
The painted bodies were not sculptures. They were live people.
She feels like my 5th grade teacher lol
“You’re done buster”
Great reaction tho love the show
The human statues really make sense when you consider the objectification that the VIPs do to humanity.
They have reduced living human beings to game pieces, to be gambled on and discarded with as little thought as when you discard a captured chess piece. These super-rich "VIPs" view we average people as nothing more than toys, unworthy of any type of empathy.
some stuff you missed:
sang woo mortgaged his moms entire business on his debt. doesn't make it ok, but he does have something he's playing for. Sang woo and gihun are childhood friends. he knew the sugar game and didn't tell him because he figured that it would be better to get rid of competition. the cop found out his brother was the winner from a prior year. the cops ID was on the body that washed up because it was the guard he stole the uniform from on the boat coming over and then tossed over board.
Always enjoy your reactions!!
SUPER POWERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!
The police found out that his brother's name is in the record of winners list
His brother is a winner of this competition few years back
THAT GUY IS DONE IN MY BOOK!
You have the purest soul on earth and a heart of gold. Please stay the great human being that you are 🥰
until then, until she stands in the place of the 16th player in the deadly game. It's very easy to speak on behalf of a person who is safe
how i want a kiss and a hug from kazzy
Can't wait for your reaction to the next episode.
2:55, she survived because it would have been unfair game play had they killed her because she did not have a partner. It was not her fault the numbers of the participants were uneven after the death of the doctor. Remember, what The Front Man (man in the black mask) stated after he discovered the organ harvesting operation, "Everyone is equal in these games. Players get to compete in a fair game under the same conditions. These people suffered from inequality and discrimination out in the world, and we offer them one last chance to fight on equal footing and win".
I gotta tell you this game is way more intense than Red Light, Green Light and this is tue most difficult game, I tried it in Roblox and I only past like 2 or 3 tiles
She was dying anyway as she had a long way to go on the bridge so she thought she may as well take the gangster out.
"What kind of people would watch this"?
RICH ONES lol
Nope, most people would
@@patrickbehrend5403 But some evil rich would pay big money or bet big money to see this. Depraved poor people would watch if it was cheap or free to watch. That's the difference.
I mean, it's actually pretty easy to tell if it's normal or tempered glass. If you step on it and fall through, then it's normal glass. Otherwise it's tempered. Admittedly that might not do you much good at that time.
Looking forward for you to see episodes 8-9
I can imagine Deok Su and Han Mi-nyeo falling on the tempered glass and not falling down. I wonder what they'll do later if that happened.
@ 18:51...didn't Gin-hun (#456) do the same thing with betting on horse racing in episode 1?
The last episode will very suprising.:)
They kept her alive because she didn't lose in a game. You can't win or lose if you don't play.
I thought it was because they (the host) killed the doctor leaving the number of people unequal, therefore, she didn’t have a partner to play with in the last game.
@@ladybutterfly2581 That's why she didn't have a partner, but pretty much everyone assumed that she was being taken away to be killed in the previous ep.
Hi kazzy how are you doing today I hope you are having a good day i have seen seen alright alot of movies so far can can I find a way to meet u in person
So, did I miss something when I watched this?... Was it a MUST to jump onto the glass? I'd have been trying to walk on the structural beams like a tightrope or sliding on my belly to spread out the PSI like on thin ice....
I think they said to choose one or the other. If they tried walking the middle, could be seen as a refusal to play. But really it depends on whether or not the VIPs accept it.
If you don't play "fairly", they will kill you if they catch you.
@@nighthawk326 Ahhh ok cool, that's what I missed lol Thanks!!
Hi, when will you be uploading your reaction for the last 2 episodes?
Let this sink in for all the SANG WOO haters, he is the reason Gi-han survive Game 1, Game 3, and Game 5. in Game 1, he gave a hint on how the game works, motivating Gi-han to move, Game 3, people always give credits to oh-ilnam in that game, but his strategy only works for a few seconds and then failed, yet almost no one gives credit to sang woo even tough he's the one who came up with a new strategy on the spot, that actually made them win the tag of war, Game 5, if sang woo didn't push the glass maker, they would have wasted their time in the glass bridge and they all die, it might look like a dirty move, but it's a do or die situation. at this point of the series everyone already have blood on their hands, ever since game 3.
Sang woo also graduated top of his class from SNU.
@@lahellight4337 was this mentioned in the show? 🤔
@@DarreCouse Makes sense because you need someone to represent the higher educated classes as to show that all kinds of people can get into huge debt.
A good way of checking whether or not someone has sociopathic tendencies is asking them whether they think Sang-woo did anything wrong.
@@squ34ky People who believe he did nothing wrong believe in a "survive at all costs, even if it means sacrificing your personal integrity" approach to life (or alternatively, don't believe in personal integrity such as not lying to someone who is risking their own life that you might both live.)
Yea I’d be so nauseous with anxiety I don’t think I’d even get this far
Hell hath no fury, right?
How do you watch the boys lmao
Im actually really curious, how do you manage the gore
It is also rough but the superhero aspect of it makes it disconnected from reality in a way whereas this is just so real. That's the main difference.
@@KazzyCreates that makes sense, it must be hard still tho
@@アキコ2003 It is definitely still challenging 😄❤
Mi-nyeo warned him. 😀
These games are very fair
They kept that woman alive because so their whole “fair” thing. It’s not her fault she didn’t have a partner, she was supposed to, cuz it was supposed to be an even number but the doctor guy got killed and it wasn’t her fault, so it’s not fair that she didn’t have a partner becuz it was odd number.
Broccoli is good for memory, you should have some specially when watching a lot of shows.... the police put his ID on the body of the guy he threw overboard and he found out his brother was the 2015 games winner, you commented on both things even, lol.
Not sure why everyone hates on Sang Woo. He's one of the few who understands it's kill or be killed. Is he supposed to die just so everyone can say he was a nice guy?
Most people just think they would never do something like that if they were in this situation. We don´t like to be reminded of our flaws i guess.
There's a spectrum of response when it comes to being subjected to inhuman conditions. For example, Gihun was highly traumatized by the game, one could even say before the games, his gambling was a trauma response to watching his friend die during the factory strike being broken. On the other end is Sang woo, who flinches when Ali is executed but is otherwise pretty capable of suppressing his remorse by telling himself "it's kill or be killed." Sangwoo's greater moral flexibility within the game parallels nicely his competitive nature in the outside world, where he made risky bets with other people's money and even mortgaged his mother's business in order to get ahead because capitalism taught him "it's kill or be killed."
As the other commenter says, we all like to think we'd be better, and i think that's ok. Maybe a lot of us are Sangwoo, but we can watch this show and see the nobility behind Jiyung, and just maybe let art gently embolden the humanity that our world so desperately neerds.
What do you mean "why did they keep her alive?" Because she was singled out and had no partner to play with in the last game. Plain and simple, there was no rule saying they would get killed for not having a partner in the game. They kept her alive so she can play in the next game. He did not lose his id he just left it on the body and Sang-Woo didn't have kids, you need to pay more attention when nothing on screen was confusing. Also It's not wrong to hate Sang-Woo.
Wild show eh? It does stay with you, good or bad
To be really honest, I never hated Sang-woo the first time watching Squid Game. Yes, he did despicable things during games, but was he the only one who did that? No
In this case, he rather saved everyone else, because there was too little time left. They could all die simply and if 16 was the main character he could do the same. Although in series 6, he also tricked the old man, and Sang-woo did it by tricking. but for some reason, the main character is normal, and San Wu is a scoundrel.
I have nothing constructive to add, other than the fact that I was responsible for like #666.
please watch jumanji next level...im waiting for it
That is being edited and will be on the channel this month!
You ask what sick humans would watch this in rl , well i look back a few years to the bum fights where homeless people where promised a cash amount if they fight and before it was shut down by youtube it had billions of views. sad reality is we has humans love this stuff and eat it up.
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What kind of person would be pleased by betting on peoples lives? Right Kazz is Canadian, you're not inundated with what American politicians do on a daily basis.
Man, as much as you HATE #218, he turns out to be something... well, you'll just have to see how it ends.
i hate ads😤
8:32. Those weren't sculptures. Those were live women with painted bodies. Very decadent.
Ok. You are totally Gail the Snail, but you're not on Mac's show, so it doesn't count. It's not so bad, Kazzy, the actress that played Gail is a very pretty lady, just not so much the Gail character.
Sang-woo did nothing wrong
That depends on your personal ethics. People wouldn't be upset if he played an honest game and won against Ali, but instead he 'cheated' Ali by playing on Ali's trust and his reluctance to see even Sang-woo killed. In many people's minds that is much worse than simply openly playing to win.
@@topomusicale5580 But Gi hun also won by cheating, but why is he not considered a scoundrel?