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I mainly think that the front man will show him other games and make him realize that the world is full of trash like he said & the games will never end because the world will never get rid of the trash.
Season 3(probably) This all might be test of GI-HUN by Front man. Gi-hun might be chosen to be next FRONT MAN... Which is the exact way he was chosen by previous one. However gi-hun will end this (with FRONT MANS brother) blood bath by killing/destroying the games funder (basically the island and VIPs) so that no one can participate. The front man is trying to break GI-HUN into believing that no good can be earned without sacrifice, in this case dying of others for you !
I observed that throughout the show, the Front Man consistently tried to make 456 agree on one principle: that sacrifices are necessary to achieve something significant. In the final episode, when 456 was finally willing to sacrifice some members of his group, the satisfaction on the Front Man's face became evident.
I think front man purposely create situation so weak player would stuck with player 456 .in start he doesn't willing to sacrifice because they were strong but in the end they have to protect themselves with other teammates too
@@nont18411 No, its completely the opposite, every interaction with Gi-Hun the frontman asks numerous questions and gives Gi-Hun the choice, "are you sure" "is this what you want to do" he is constantly letting Gi-Hun choose what they do and how they act, all Gi-Huns choices proves the frontmans point in his eyes, Gi-Hun is the one willing to let people die and kill people to get the end result... Which is all frontmans point from the start. Rewatch it, watch how many times 001 gives Gi-Hun choices, its every major decision they take.
I don't think the son abandoned his mother, he was forcefully dragged by those guys. If they didn't drag him, im sure they both stays out and dies. I believe he won't leave his mother. You can see him struggling to let loose in that scene.
That's true, however some seconds later he was "freed" and could have gone back to her but he didn't. It happens really fast so it's unfortunately not that obvious
Here is one from me. The main characters were last in the game with the legs tied, because if they didn't succeed, the guards can kill everyone but the front man with no witnesses. Also I think the front man said this to the mother in order to show Gi-hun how the people he is fighting for get corrupted, they can even abandon their own mothers.
@@Sharon388terryIf the frontman team won the other team get eliminated.But if the frontman team lost,the will probally escort the other team first before killing everyone exept the frontman.
the actor who plays front man was so good at spinning top that he would keep on getting the throw on the first tries, causing bloopes over and over again. The actors confirmed it, so to fail he had to be forced to uses his right hand to get the fail. It was done unintentionally but its a nice detail to the episode. Revealing front man ture intentions.
@@dragonborn1996 his source is trust me bro. the scene isnt even done in one take lol, there is no reason him succeeding on his first try would matter...
I noticed a lot of people made the assumption that No-Eul is Sae Byeok’s sister just because they’re both North Korean defectors, but if you’ve watched season 1, Sae Byeok already said she has 2 brothers. Her older brother & father died while trying to escape, she was only left with her younger brother & mother. In season 2, Gi-Hun is still trying to locate Sae Byeok’s mother.
Here's a theory I haven't heard... it wouldn't be abnormal if No-Eul is Sae-Byeok's mother... they haven't mentioned her age and asians can be pretty ageless lol, they've said she's looking for a young son in North Korea they are struggling to find. Are they struggling to find him because he's already in the south? Is it Sae-Byeok's brother? If it is, Gi-Hun knows where he is. It would make sense she'd be more worried about the younger child left in NK than her older daughter or potentially a step daughter. Just a theory... I don't even believe what I just said, its just something to think about lol
@@TheChairmanZero her age wasn't mentioned but you're forgetting the fact that she's looking for her 7(!!) year-old daughter/child, not an adolescent one. Based on the looks of it too, it seems like she's only ever had that one child. Not a son and husband who died, not a teenage/adolescent daughter, nor a toddler son. It's just one child.
And another detail I personally found is that the salesman when he was instructing russian roulette with mafia boss and his assistant he aimed his gun at his own head and shot but when he instructing the same game to gi-hun in hotel he just fire towards up, This shows that salesman is afraid of gi-hun's luck because we already know that salesman is suprised that gi-hun won
One detail i noticed is the order of the games were like on that on purpose to create maximum chaos. The Pentathalon game made the players bond in groups of 5, making it harder for the groups to divide in Mingle. Making betraying each other inevitable
I also noticed an important detail - during the first vote, after some participants interrupted, the masked men warned that if anyone interfered with the voting again, there would be consequences. Later, when player 456 was preparing to convince the others to vote for leaving, player 1 noticed his intentions. Anticipating that 456 might interrupt and put himself at risk, player 1 deliberately interrupted first. He knew the masked men wouldn’t harm him, effectively protecting 456 from potential danger.
I wish I could see it that way, but what's crazy is the contestants were interrupting the vote every time and no one got eliminated. There was even one vote where multiple characters had monologues and... nothing. It seemed like a rule that never was enforced.
Also in season 1, if you voted out of the game, the reward money is shared to the families of the dead players, but in season 2, the reward money is shared amongst the players that are still in the game.
I noticed it to, and if you think about it, the players in Season 2 are worse than in Season 1. In Season 1, their desire to continue is somewhat understandable because they would receive nothing if they voted to quit. All the other deaths would have been for nothing if they quit. But in Season 2, they wanted to play more to get a bigger amount despite the guranteed money they would get if they voted to quit.
@@jeraldvincentzumel5300 Are you sure in season 1 the players are free to quit after the 1st game which is red light green light? If they are allowed to quit, wouldn't they spread bad news about this evil organisation and alerted the police?
@@哥坤-s7owhat? no, in season 1, like 200 people got out of squid game after red light green light because of the majority vote, and the police didnt do anything.
I think the predictability works well for season 2. Knowing what will happen adds to the tension and tragedy so much. There was no way that they were going to completely trick people this go round after the first huge twist in season 1, so I like that they didn’t even try. The suspense is knowing that the bomb is in the room but not knowing exactly when it will go off.
I think it works really well for season 2 too because it echoes exactly what the Frontman is trying to show Gi-hun. The writers know that the audience is going to root for the good guys and want everyone to survive and that we're going to be crushed when our favourites die. Add in the fact we already know the truth about the Frontman and know he's going to betray them at some point and it adds to that even more because it makes us build up so much hope for the good guys to succeed despite the fact we know in the back of our minds it's not going to end well. People don't change, people will still fight and kill and turn their backs on friends the second enough money is in it for them and that's exactly what the Frontman is trying to show Gi-hun. It doesn't matter how much you root for the good guys, humanity will always follow the same pattern and the games will still continue and it makes the show predictable yes but it proves the Frontman's exact point.
I agree as well! S1 was meant to be unpredictable and hook you into the show. S2 is meant to slowly unravel mysteries of the inner workings of their world, focus on social dynamics, and just fill the viewer with more sense of dread since the deaths don't feel as "exciting" (typing that last part made me feel weird)
ONE DETAIL that I noticed was that when the co worker of No-eul works on behalf of her while she was resigning, he asks her how does she wears that big head all the time and not feel exhausted She didn’t feel as exhausted as others as she was habitual of wearing a mask all the time as the guard in the game.
@@SkizmSchism I dont believe this is the first time she has been a guard at a games. Circles are entry level with no weapons, and Triangles are mid level guards with weapons, more trusted.
Fun fact : Thanos is a real life rapper named T.O.P and when some player mentions that he forgot his lyrics in a finale that was also real...thy really handed him the script and said play your dark side 😅
Actually he already had a bad name in real life before playing squid game. So this role doesn't make a negative impact to his real life image since he is already bad. lol. On the other hand, if he acted well, if could be a redemption for him and his career. But still the korean media wouldn't let him go because of his past mistake and tries to destroy his acting career by making malicious reports on him. This is how cruel real life can be. Once condemmed forever condemmed. He may be better off getting killed in the game if it is real. lol.
my theory is that the captain is the guy who delivers organs being harvested from the players. because he did save Jun Ho near the island so it's most likely he went to receive the organs and found his body.
That just left me questioning what happened to the original player 1, people would have to have noticed if the very first player was replaced by some other dude or if they weren't present at all, I mean, it's the FIRST player, people would remember 001 if they looked at him before the games!
@@MrBelles104 Who would go around and check every player's number? I doubt they'd even suspect him after the horror they witnessed after red light, green light game
@@MrBelles104 i dont think anyone was looking for 001. dude didnt even know his pregnant girl was in the game until after the first game. They probably slipped him in after game 1 because of the voting.
@@floof6896 Facts, for me S2 is Already a banger with that opening from eps 1 and thank God they're not just milking the 'game or die' situation, rather pushing the plot even further and deeper.
@@floof6896 I do not believe that’s the case. I personally think it’s more that since it’s only half a season we (the people that didn’t like it atleast) kept expecting some of the plotlines to start resolving but they didn’t, for example we still have no idea what’s the deal with Triangle 11. Also the bad guy player this season (Thanos the rap god) is super lame compared to Jang (snake tattoo guy) and I personally feel the games aren’t as intense as they were in season 1 which I think comes down to it not being new anymore not that they are bad.
Squid Game Season 2 in a summary Pro vs Admin vs Noobs turned from playing Fall Guy to Counter Strike, meanwhile one of them played Among Us all along. I forgot to mention on the other side, the detective and hired mercenaries played Sea of Thieves.
"was left with no choice to either die with her or live" that means he chose to live aka to abandon her instead of dying with her. He was being dragged away but he didn't even try to free himself from those guys.
@shadi6484he did try to break free and once he did it was too late for him to run back. So it's kinda mute to antagonize him for that, his options by that point is die in vain or live for her sake. Even then the Sorry afterwards doesn't even sound like "I'm sorry I stabbed you in the back" it sounded more like "I'm sorry I didn't try hard enough"
@@yabisity Her giving him the choice to go clearly showed he still had the option to stay with her. It was a clear contrast the director wanted us to see
4:52 xD SOMEHOW my dad caught the detail that the front man was using his right hand and kept failing until he used his left hand. It surprises me so much because HE BARELY REMEMBERS SEASON 1 XD
I don't see the frontman participating in the game as a problem, it makes it even more thrilling for me, because we don't know exactly when or how he will betray Gi-hun, we just know that it can happen any second. It somehow doesn't cross Gi-huns mind that player 001 could actually be one of the enemies, despite the fact that Il-nam was player 001 in Gi-huns first game. It makes me wanna scream at the screen "it's him!" the whole time and I'm also surprised that the frontman chose to be player 001 because I find it a bit too obvious.
I think there were a few times he had an instinctual suspicion that he dismissed…when FrontMan said his name “Il-Nam” it’s close to “Young-Il” from the first game and he had a surprised look. When his best friend started to warn him about him murdering someone in mingle…sure he wasn’t able to get the sentence out, but I think it piqued Gi-hun’s senses, because then in the coup he chose to bring his friend and hesitated to have Il-Nam by his side. Of course, he kept dismissing his gut and you saw it when he gave Il-Nam the extra ammo.
Last round of Mingle Game, Frontman told, 2 players needs to be paired, 50 rooms were available And total available player was 126, so 50*2=100 and rest 26 will get killed eventually. Where the frontman was out of character and gave Gi-Hun clear indication that these games are build in such a way, that the players will be killed, so that the prize money gets increased.
@@rubiiraeYes but the games was not fair, we have to say that it's a scam. Where 26 players will eventually get killed even if they made 2 pairs, becz total 50 rooms was available, not fair at all. 😡 Maybe because of Gi-hun, where frontman and officers was worried whether many players may survive because. @CanadianLad can take note.
My Theory Is That Front Man Appointed The Boat Captain To Protect The Island From Soldiers Detectives Etc, And Also Commanded To Save His Brothers (Jun-Ho) Life
Another detail: in the second game, the main team goes last, with no one around, that mean even if they failed, the guards would just kill everyone except gi-hun and the frontman. no one will know
One strange thing is Gi-Hun noticably moved a lot in the first red green light game, like enough that it would've gotten anyone else killed...which leads me to believe the frontman has given orders not to kill him throughout the games (him joining his team for all of the games ensures this too)
Good point! Cause yeah when he would cover his mouth and scream he was moving tooo much, i was just thinking it was a suspension of belief kind of thing. That we were to assume it wasnt ENOUGH movement
I think its actually predictable since him being shot was never shown in the end which makes me think that the one went to shoot him was the girl who was with her in the same park. Also yes loved him in Sweet Home.
0:18 I think you still haven't catched on the detail that people who have circle on thier masks are not guards, they're workers and they never carry SMG's instead they're the ones giving out food & cleaning up after the games end. The one with the square is a manager and before the first game he comes along with workers and after the first game he brings soldiers with him.
I have a theory that the front man during the mingle game when he separated himself from everyone else just went into a room by himself to ensure that everyone else stayed alive and he just like stared at the camera
4:19 I think around here, Gi-Hun was explaining his plan, and the Front Man was skeptical at first, saying that they would be sacrificing lives for the greater good. I think he was trying to get Gi-Hun to understand the hypocrisy of his plan, as in the second episode, Gi-Hun criticized the Front Man for killing so many through the Squid Games, though it was for a cause the Front Man found worthy. He was always trying to teach and prove a point.
That's been front mans entire motive. I think he has some element of curiosity to him about Gi Hun; trying to understand why, when having being given more money he could ever need and (from front man's point of view) owing the other participants nothing, Gi Hun continues on his quest to bring the games down when he could just walk away and live an easy life. Front man had the same opportunity, instead he went the other direction of Gi Hun, even to the point of joining it. I think front man quite genuinely was interested to follow along with Gi Hun to see where it would go. When Gi Hun suggested that people would die in the attack but it would be for the greater good, front man after confirming with Gi Hun that he understood people would indeed die, seemed to contemplate that for a moment before agreeing. I think in his mind, this was his reassurance that he'd made the right decision and that Gi Hun was the one who was wrong to come back. Between the nature of the contestants who would vote to stay, or screw over others to ensure they won to sacrificing others for the greater good, it has been front man's vindication.
i dont think having the front man be 001 gets rid of the suspense like in season 1 with il-nam.. I think it actually creates this deeper suspense because we the audience know who In-Ho is, meanwhile Gi-Hun has no idea. It's something quite fun to watch IMO..
It’s too bad the cop lied about seeing his face, because on some level he couldn’t tell him it was his brother…if he had shown Gi-hun the picture of his brother and said it was the front man, Gi-hun would have been better equipped to prepare for the betrayal. It would have been an interesting twist if Gi-hun could have known and played naive until the right moment…maybe in an alternate version 😂
3:47 they did a bad job at showing us that he actually "betrays" her and that it's not the two people pushing him in against his will, i never see this scene that way no matter how many times i see it. Felt like the scene was drama for no reason that led to nothing. The suspense went for 3sec then BOOM his mom get saved..? Doesnt develop the son/mom characters. (they still love each other ?! such a surprise when it's neither's fault and they're both conscious of what just happened.) so what , this whole scene for the "you don't know my son! 😡" to 001 in the room of 3? Felt absolutely nothing, but i get it, one of them will sacrifice/betrays the other or whatever in season 3 and that's why we got so much "my son is good we love each other" in season 2. Sadly too obvious.
@@RevDrTarr too "subtle" is bad when the scene last for 5sec. With a different camera angle or whatever it could've been clearer, it's just messy edit on top of other things.
I didn't get the part about him giving up struggling when I watched it. It just seems like the guy was being hard on himself for something that wasn't really his fault.
this will make me sound really dumb but i didn’t realise 001 was the frontman until the end because i didn’t recognise him but it’s funny because every time i loooked at him i was like suspecting something and thinking i’ve seen him before 😭
Just a theory : After the second game, the son told her mother that he has a little more debt. Therefore, he voted to continue for the third game. He said that if he failed collect the money, they will harvest his organs. I believed that the director foreshadowing this moment where the son will die on the fourth or fifth game while protecting his mother. But he won't "completely die" because the pink officers will harvest his organs
One parallel detail is that both infiltrated players Oh ll-nam (the old man from season 1) and the front man are player 001. I was hoping this would click something in Gi-hun at some point... but nope it was my wishful thinking.
I kept thinking that Gi-Hun was in fact suspicious of 001, because of what happened in the first season. And that he would reveal that he knew he wasn't one of the regular players at some point. But he never did. And he trusted him with the rebellion plan, which he probably wouldn't have if he was suspicious of him.
I feel like the Front Man was trying to turn Gi Hul into the next front man. We know from season 1 that the Front Man is also a previous game winner, and in this season, he's not just manipulating Gi Hul, he's showing him the Frontman's human side, connecting to him on a more personal level like a friend, talking about his wife, how he lost his job, even slowly getting Gi Hul to understand the ideologies of those who picked to stay in the games
@ makes sense, we know the Front Man was once a cop and he lost his job because he took bribes to save his wife. If he became a cop, that inner wish for justice might have gotten the best of him
You forgot one major detail, the front man is the creator’s son. In season 1 the creator tells the protagonist that his son is allergic to milk. In S2, the front man is also allergic to milk!
Let’s see, Jun-ho’s mom birthed him and adopted In-ho, right? We know from season one that In-ho never answered his phone after he won in 2015, but is their dad ever mentioned? Also, if Il-nam is rich, why would In-ho be desperate enough to enter the game?
This is a good theory, but personally, I think he’s done this to resonate with Gi-Hun more on a personal level to gain trust. As in S1, Gi-Hun also says he cannot drink milk and gives it away which the Front Man parallels here in S2.
If the front man was the creator's son his wife wouldn't have died because of the money shortage and he wouldn't have had to take money from others for his wife's medical treatment.
they put bros tracker in a can of bait. literally baited them with bait. and last season before they shot the cop his brother radioed and said “get the boat ready” foreshadowing the captain
Thank you for your effort to pronounce their name correctly. Other media just butchered their name and I find it hard to follow which characters they talking about😅
Actually he _is_ mispronouncing the main character's name. It's pronounced *Hoon* not Hun. I've heard several RUclipsrs make this mistake. Are you all watching the English dub or something, and is it pronounced wrong there? The name is pronounced Gi-Hoon. Saying this as someone who speaks and reads Korean and watches the show in Korean.
@@prussia92800 that’s why I said 'effort'. He didn’t say all the names correctly but he has the effort to at least mimic how the names are pronounce in Korean.
One of my favorite things in I think all of Squid Game, was Gi-Hun commanding the other competitors through Red Light, Green Light like a leader, obviously because he went through it already, but I really liked him more and more at that point. Also, another quick thing, when Gi-Hun had that Dream sequence with the Squares, Circles, Triangles, Umbrella, etc, was I the only one getting shocked while screaming: "Oh, you're fucked, you're fucked now!"😂😂
He kept telling people to choose triangle and I thought of course they’re going to either add a twist (change the shapes you chose or make it harder to pick), or they would just change the game altogether (which is what they ended up doing having a different game)
So the question was, did the pink crew get the notification that the boss man is participating so that they don't actually kill him? If so, when he kills them on the uprising are they okay with that ?
As in red light green light game you can see that the soldiers only kill players whose number is told to them. So, soldiers never know if front man is participating.
7:15 I am so bad at remembering korean faces that I didn't realise he was the front man, I only realised it when in ep.7 he shoots the two people at the end, so for me it was pretty good
I really wanted to feel that way but I knew…. But what about those times Evil smile scenes and camera cutting him which implies he’s evil and especially at the last episode when the masked person looked at the front man , and got scared …. What were you thinking it was ,at those times ?
It must be because I'm used to seeing him in that all-black getup, so he looked like a completely different person when dressed as a player. I could have sworn he looked older with a taller head when in his Front Man clothing
Maybe it's because I'm part asian but I thought he was very distinct. He has a very square and strong face with smaller eyes, pretty scary looking when he glares.
One Highly Underrated Detail is when the Salesman offers Bread and Lottery Ticket to random broke peoples on streets , most of them chooses Lottery Ticket , only to find out their bad luck and the Salesman crushes the Breads. We can exactly see the pattern of choices people make of chasing UNCERTAIN CHOICES with cheap yet great reward over a simple open OPPORTUNITY to better life. And eventually the Salesman crushes the BREADS in front of them. And during the game even though people knew that losing will end up getting them killed most of them still preferred to continue the game i.e UNCERTAIN CHOICE with a cheap great reward and they showed how people wasted an opportunity that was better than trying their luck over. We saw how people got killed in front of the survivors just the CRUSHED BREADS. PS: This game is just to clean a biological waste somewhat a concept maybe inspired from 'Blue Whale: The Suicide Challenge'
I actually agree with your statement regarding the writer and director doing a very good job on season 2. If people keeps comparing it to the first season, sure it would never be good enough. But if you see it as it is, a sequel with different objectives, it's actually a very good show. I was just a bit disappointed with the ending since it leaves viewer on a very big cliffhanger. but then again, I was expecting the coup to be successful 🤣
In Squid Game, survival is often portrayed as the ultimate goal, but I believe the true challenge lies in maintaining one's humanity in extreme situations. Gi-hun shows that true victory isn't just about being the last one standing, but about preserving empathy and compassion, even when the circumstances are brutal. His kindness towards Il-nam, his decision not to kill Sang-woo, and his struggle with survivor's guilt are key moments that reinforce this message. If Gi-hun confronts the Front Man and explains that humanity is the true measure of success, it could shake the foundations of the game and challenge the cruel nature of the competition. Overall, the series may show us that in a world that often rewards ruthlessness, true strength lies in holding onto our humanity.
1 minor plot hole I just realized: Couldn't Gi-hun have let the players know that they have the chance to return to the games after voting to leave like he did in season 1? If I remember correctly, they all left after the first game and some/all were invited back. That would provide some of the players an incentive to vote to end the games. Thoughts?
Not sure if its a plot hole. In s1 when voting to leave they did not take any money home. In s2 when voting to leave they would take money home. Therefore in s1 they had an incentive to come back. In s2 half of them would not come back because their debt would be paid. Not to mention the prize money Would be reset to 0 since it was split amongst everyone who left
Here is my theory: The frontman didn't kill his brother on purpose in season 1 and sends the fisherman to save him and the fisherman is a part of this game and he prevents the frontman's brother (I forgot the name) to find the island and he is probably the one who told the frontman about the tracker which was placed in the teeth and he kills the man who finds him doing something with the drone Sorry for the bad grammar and pls correct me if I am wrong
it's kind of sad that all they had to do was warn the people that they would die if they were eliminated BEFORE they entered the game. the reason half the players wanted to stay is because they realised that the money was more valuable than their life in their current situation. but the other half, not knowing their life was on the line for the money, all had a family to look after and a future to look forward to. if the warning had been given out, only the people who picked blue would be playing the game in the first place.
That's kind of the whole point of the show though. It proves the fact that when people are desperate enough they will do almost anything for money. Some will kill people, some will keep playing knowing others will die, and some will even sacrifice themselves when they know they have no other way out. A lot of people changed from O to X and X to O between the voting because their mindset changed when enough money was on the line or when they knew how many people would have to die to get them the amount of money they'd be happy leaving with. Even in season 1 we saw it because after they voted to end the games and go home, the majority still chose to reenter the games while knowing that their lives would be on the line again.
I think everyone since marvel decided to give more importance to quality over quantity the Canadian lad has very few marvel projects to breakdown and give us hidden details from.
I think it is as good as season one. Season 1 just had the advantage of being completely new. I think it was a great idea to add the element of dramatic irony where we know that player 001 is an interloper instead of attempting a similar twist. Exploring the way everyone except the rich spectators is somehow exploited by the system was the perfect progression. I can't wait to see how No-Eul's storyline develops in season 3. I also thought she was related to Sae-Byeok although I didn't know what their names meant I think Kang is the family name so it's very likely. I hope she will be reunited with her little brother or cousin or whatever the relationship is at the end
@@raydenjoco9079 Also, how was he gonna protect her? If he stayed out with her and neither of them got into a room, the guards would have offed both of them.
I think Il-Oh/aka the Frontman was the most interesting character this season as him and Gi-Hun have a very interesting conflict of ideology and even though we know he's ensuring Gi-Hun fails in his plan to dismantle the games from the inside by infiltrating and gaining Gi-Hun's trust as a player, I think in some deeper level Il-Ho truly respects Gi-Hun's determination and how he made difficult choices to ensure the majority of people could survive despite sacrificing other players. Even during the second game while I do believe The Frontman was trying to sabotage his team purposely but I also think he actually enjoyed watching players win the game and even enjoy the comradery and connecting to these people, maybe because he was once just like Gi-Hun but lost his humanity after the death of his wife and stillborn child, so perhaps we see how morally conflicted he becomes in Season 3 despite how cold and devoid of humanity he is on a surface level especially when he kills Jung-Bae Infront of Gi-Hun. I do wish Season 2 was a lot longer and while I do think Season 1 was slightly better, I do have to say I really loved the direction of Season 2 and I'm excited to see the final half of the Season next year
3:47 he didnt abandon her, the other 2 guys took him by force. you can see him struggling to get back to his mother, he's literally shouting for his mother in the show
Thank you! I love the details you mentioned about how quick the front man was! I been wanting to rewatch this season. But I love how you scour these details that really bring the story out more. I been listening to interviews with behind the scenes and I love hearing about the decisions to make things like the windows in season 2 having the clouds and red color just like the game with 001 and 456 in the marbles and in their last game both still in a game in the real world.
Just wanted to correct a minor detail. Sae-Byeok means dawn, and yes you were correct. But, No-eul means dusk in the sunset. Anyway, the names quite connect tho. I really appreciate how you picked up those details.
I will also like to add something here , If you watch the mingle game again you will see that the fromt man aka young il is left out for one round and then when the doors open again he runs back to gi hun i think that he actually never found a room but as he is the front man the guards simply let him be
I kinda think season 1’s 001 is the biological father of the Frontman. They brought up that he was adopted in one of the first few episodes of S2. and in my opinion, it was unnecessary to mention unless it was going to be tied into the story somehow
I saw a theory that Il-Nam might be the front mans father. When he willingly gives his milk to the pregnant women and says that he can't drink it, and in season one, 001 says that he has a son that can't drink milk.
@@leftyyyx To be fair, both have the same last name there because both gave Gi-hun a fake name based on their shared number, 001. Oh Il-nam means "Zero One Man", and Oh Young-il is a pun on "Zero Zero One". Both names are puns on 001, with the Oh part being, well, 0 and il being 1.
Very smart to add the loud jingle at the end, I was alt tabbed while listening and came to see what it was, now I'm engaging with the comments, probably how you wanted. Great video!
@The canadian lad in season 1 every game was in box shape(huge influence of box shape) in season 2 every game is in circle shape (highly influenced by circle shape) now in next games will be highly incluenced by triangle. I think!!
How is red light green light in a circle shape or highly influenced by it? It's also the only recurring game so far so how can it be both? Good theory but I don't know if it has any real meaning behind it
PLEASE WATCH FOR THE WALL! After chaos in episode 7 and The Front Man handle it, the pink officers are back to the participants room. You can see some of the game are written on the wall just like Season 1. These are the games that they haven't played!
It wasn’t an Easter egg, it was a clear reference. That’s like going into a church and saying Jesus Christ on the cross is an Easter egg for being religious
Technically, The Frontman is a villain, but he isn’t evil… he was part of these same machination, though back then, under the rule of a nihilistic billionaire with a cynical outlook on life, even as he died and even after escaping this man’s control, he has to keep the games alive as a way to please the VIPs or something worse will happen but it doesn’t mean he has been trying to beat the VIPs nor does he enjoy these games’ existence, he’s just a man after all, a man with power under powerful men and until then, he is powerless to help his soon to be victims, even if he wanted or never wanted to
He's an antagonist in the sense of an ideological opposite to Gi hun, trying to break him but not kill him. Like none of the games posed a great deal of risk to Gi Hun as the frontman is there to keep him alive, even if he looses. He probably would be spared.
no he is totally evil wtf how can you even say that he isnt :D:D he is a psychopath for sure , I dont comprehend how did you say that he isnt :D calling these people trash...knowing that there are some people who arent even at fault, like this mother only trying to pay off her SONS debt and a PREGNANT woman but I guess I seriously dont understand the people who vote to keep playing KNOWING that everybody except 1 will die...cause they know that, they see that , that one guy voted to keep playing eventhough he knew his elderly mother could die....thats just another level to me, I understand their absolutely hopeless situation but I wouldnt sacrifice anybody for this also most of them were in debt bc of selfish reasons...it wasnt even a healthcare situations or something like that
From the first scene, when the ship captain says, "I rescued you two years ago from the island," I knew that he was working for the Detective's brother ( Masked Man ).
I have something to add to this in the episode in where they play the mingle game, there is a part when the front man leaves the group and suddenly comes back after the game with out anyone with him showing he can’t lose the game because he is the boss of it.
6:06 i might be trippin but the surgeon on the left looks a lot familiar like the "tough guy" from season 1 who "died" cause the lady hugged him and fell on the glass bridge
@@sippysipsip It was possible, especially that the dude fell on the lady and maybe thats why he survived the fall. There exists a still popular theory that players who were suppose to die in the game but survived, actually started working in the faciality. Where would they get ALL the circle workers from the real world to do the cleaning of dead men. It just makes sense that they gave "garbage people" as frontman said a new porpouse, instead of looking outside for low wage workers that wouldnt spill the beans that theres some weird guys telling everybody to go clean dead bodies on some island for a couple of bucks. They dont have guns, ext. they are just there to clean. And it would be amazing plot twist for the series, when main characters get to meet a worker who turns out they know from previous game
The greatest detail was that they search the guards for more magazines. This is something a loot movies or shows never think about it and they allways have unlimited amunition!
Here's one detail for you. When Gi-Hun discuss his plan to stay hidden during the final bedroom fight in order to get the pink men guns, FM asks him is that sacrificing the minority for the greater good, Gi-Hun avoids the direct answer, but still confirms FM's inquiry. And FM has the subtlest of the smiles on his face in that moment.
That is the one thing that really upset me in season 2. For 15 episodes we watched and rooted for him because he was good person, willing to lose the 45 billion just so he and his friend could leave, then coming back so he could save everyone and take down the games, then suddenly he's okay with letting a few of his people die? That was too sudden a change and just totally out of the character that has been developed.
@@korbell1089 He saw it as his last chance to stop the games and save however many thousands more that may participate in the future. People were also going to die during the fight anyway
@@korbell1089 I think the change from what we expected from Gi-Hun is the whole point. Frontman has been trying to show Gi-Hun how his optimistic view of humanity is flawed, and Gi-Hun himself ranted to his team that none of them understand how "people change in this place" with their lives and so much money at risk. He didn't realize that it was changing him too, and that he was becoming as exhausted and desperate as all the other players, except his goal isn't the money, but to achieve victory against the Masters of The Games. Gi-Hun's plan was ruthless and reckless to show that he too had been broken and became willing to sacrifice others for a greater victory, like the people voting blue to continue The Games. Frontman knew he had won their moral war the moment Gi-Hun shared his final plan, emphasizing how this season was a victory for the Game Masters both physically and ideologically.
One key detail is that they never intend to end the game on their own terms. As you've likely noticed, the voting happens in reverse order. This suggests that in Vote 001, they were aware that a single vote could change the direction of the game. In both the first and third votes, the choice always goes to the Frontman. In the first vote, he opts to continue the game, while in the third, he chooses to build trust.
I feel like if we came to know that Youngil is the front man at the end, it would've been a repeat of Oh Ilnam in season 1. But since we knew, we were on the edge of our seats, waiting for him to betray everyone. So, why do you think so? I'm not trying to argue or anything. I just wanna know why some people think that! Oh, and happy 2025!
@deathshadow660 Right!!! Took me quite some time to figure out that he was helping the mc only when he knew his help would be nullified or would be of no use! Like he voted yes in the first vote cuz it actually affects everything but then he only voted no knowing that it would affect nothing!
To everyone saying the son didn't abandon his mother, he did. If he really wanted to go back to his mother he could've put up a real fight. As we've already seen he wanted to continue the game, betraying his mother once, and now not really fighting back, twice. After this he realizes that his mother could've really died and he would in his own mind be completely at fault, this also completely changes his behavior towards his mother, he does what she says and puts her first when needed.
Another thing is that there is a parallel between the bread and lottery ticket game the recruiter was holding and the updated rules of the squid game. Any of the homeless people could’ve taken the safer option of the bread and been better off than they were before, but took the lottery ticket for an extremely small chance at winning big. This is similar to how the survivors in the squid game act during season 2. Instead of taking the bread (in this case the smaller cut of the prize pool) many of them continue to play more games in hopes of winning big
Well, the recruiter himself warned Gi-hun and then the frontman showed him that these people (who voted to continue) are just like him when he was a gambling addict. And the frontman is probably disgusted about how people would waste their lives for money. Despite him being so rich he knew no amount of money can bring his wife and child back to life 😥
A small detail I noticed is that the number on the invitation card for player starts with 456 (the one salesman gave to youtuber) and for staff starts with 001 (the one to the girl), so that they can receive instructions and also interesting because in the game 001 represents the game organization and 456 the players
Bro I really need you to go back and watch the scene from the mingle game, idk if you watched sub or dub, but sub is slightly more accurate. The son did NOT abandon the mother, the two were literally looking for one more person together when two other guys grabbed the son and said come with us and started dragging him away. You can be strong but two other guys desperately pulling you away from someone, you can't fight that. The son tried to hold on to his mother, he did not want to leave her, but he's not strong enough to fight the other two. He gets taken and his mother ultimately lets go cause if one of them is to survive, she would want it to be him. No true loving parent chooses themselves over their own child. The mother even snaps at 001, she let go, she'd want her son to live. After that round you see him cry to her and apologize cause he never wanted to leave her, and you don't see her yelling at him for abandoning her. The detail is about parental love, not abandonment.
Season 1 felt so much better than Season 2 and my only saving grace for the season is watching T.O.P. act in it (granted I was a fan of the band he was in - BIGBANG)
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Comment any theories/predictions you have for Season 3. Btw, why do you think the Front Man decided to spare Gi-hun at the end?
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@@sherrymangaly7270 no
I mainly think that the front man will show him other games and make him realize that the world is full of trash like he said & the games will never end because the world will never get rid of the trash.
WHAT IF SEASON 3? MY OPINION IS THAT WRITERS PUSHED POWERSCALING OUTTA WAY AND WROTE FEMINIST AGENDA FILLED STORY, IM SAD
Season 3(probably)
This all might be test of GI-HUN by Front man.
Gi-hun might be chosen to be next FRONT MAN... Which is the exact way he was chosen by previous one. However gi-hun will end this (with FRONT MANS brother) blood bath by killing/destroying the games funder (basically the island and VIPs) so that no one can participate.
The front man is trying to break GI-HUN into believing that no good can be earned without sacrifice, in this case dying of others for you !
I observed that throughout the show, the Front Man consistently tried to make 456 agree on one principle: that sacrifices are necessary to achieve something significant. In the final episode, when 456 was finally willing to sacrifice some members of his group, the satisfaction on the Front Man's face became evident.
I think front man purposely create situation so weak player would stuck with player 456 .in start he doesn't willing to sacrifice because they were strong but in the end they have to protect themselves with other teammates too
He wants to corrupt Gi-Hun.
@@nont18411 No, its completely the opposite, every interaction with Gi-Hun the frontman asks numerous questions and gives Gi-Hun the choice, "are you sure" "is this what you want to do" he is constantly letting Gi-Hun choose what they do and how they act, all Gi-Huns choices proves the frontmans point in his eyes, Gi-Hun is the one willing to let people die and kill people to get the end result... Which is all frontmans point from the start. Rewatch it, watch how many times 001 gives Gi-Hun choices, its every major decision they take.
Exactly, thats what they want us to believe too
It feels like he intends to twist 456 into his successor, tbh
I don't think the son abandoned his mother, he was forcefully dragged by those guys. If they didn't drag him, im sure they both stays out and dies. I believe he won't leave his mother. You can see him struggling to let loose in that scene.
she annoying
That's true, however some seconds later he was "freed" and could have gone back to her but he didn't. It happens really fast so it's unfortunately not that obvious
Yes hé cried after and hé was dragged.
Exactly
He very weak man he got pulled by two dudes what do you expect but however he was comcerned @@bb_alternate
Here is one from me. The main characters were last in the game with the legs tied, because if they didn't succeed, the guards can kill everyone but the front man with no witnesses.
Also I think the front man said this to the mother in order to show Gi-hun how the people he is fighting for get corrupted, they can even abandon their own mothers.
What if the other team won
@Sharon388terry I guess they will be collateral damage
@@Sharon388terryIf the frontman team won the other team get eliminated.But if the frontman team lost,the will probally escort the other team first before killing everyone exept the frontman.
@@Skull_fins how will the front man go back alone because they are confirming the number of players after each game
Also the number of players would be inconsistent because instead of losing 5 people,one has been spared
the actor who plays front man was so good at spinning top that he would keep on getting the throw on the first tries, causing bloopes over and over again. The actors confirmed it, so to fail he had to be forced to uses his right hand to get the fail. It was done unintentionally but its a nice detail to the episode. Revealing front man ture intentions.
Do you have a source?
@@dragonborn1996they mentioned this on a video called “The Squid Game Cast Reacts To Playing The Pentathlon Games” here on RUclips.
@@dragonborn1996 his source is trust me bro. the scene isnt even done in one take lol, there is no reason him succeeding on his first try would matter...
@@stonedboss4765 you slow?
@@stonedboss4765 the source is the multiple interviews where Lee Byunghun talked about this and the other cast members confirmed it
I noticed a lot of people made the assumption that No-Eul is Sae Byeok’s sister just because they’re both North Korean defectors, but if you’ve watched season 1, Sae Byeok already said she has 2 brothers. Her older brother & father died while trying to escape, she was only left with her younger brother & mother. In season 2, Gi-Hun is still trying to locate Sae Byeok’s mother.
her mother could’ve had another baby she didn’t know about or her father could’ve had an affair
I mean, he also mentioned the meanings of the names are connected and they also have the last surname
That's why he says it's a personal theory, because it's fairly weak but still technically possible
Here's a theory I haven't heard... it wouldn't be abnormal if No-Eul is Sae-Byeok's mother... they haven't mentioned her age and asians can be pretty ageless lol, they've said she's looking for a young son in North Korea they are struggling to find. Are they struggling to find him because he's already in the south? Is it Sae-Byeok's brother? If it is, Gi-Hun knows where he is. It would make sense she'd be more worried about the younger child left in NK than her older daughter or potentially a step daughter. Just a theory... I don't even believe what I just said, its just something to think about lol
@@TheChairmanZero her age wasn't mentioned but you're forgetting the fact that she's looking for her 7(!!) year-old daughter/child, not an adolescent one. Based on the looks of it too, it seems like she's only ever had that one child. Not a son and husband who died, not a teenage/adolescent daughter, nor a toddler son. It's just one child.
And another detail I personally found is that the salesman when he was instructing russian roulette with mafia boss and his assistant he aimed his gun at his own head and shot but when he instructing the same game to gi-hun in hotel he just fire towards up, This shows that salesman is afraid of gi-hun's luck because we already know that salesman is suprised that gi-hun won
He knows a mc when he sees one
@@deathshadow660 minecraft?
@@crayola6586 main character lool
@@phillydilly711😂😂
@@crayola6586 main character
One detail i noticed is the order of the games were like on that on purpose to create maximum chaos. The Pentathalon game made the players bond in groups of 5, making it harder for the groups to divide in Mingle. Making betraying each other inevitable
Good observation
I also noticed an important detail - during the first vote, after some participants interrupted, the masked men warned that if anyone interfered with the voting again, there would be consequences. Later, when player 456 was preparing to convince the others to vote for leaving, player 1 noticed his intentions. Anticipating that 456 might interrupt and put himself at risk, player 1 deliberately interrupted first. He knew the masked men wouldn’t harm him, effectively protecting 456 from potential danger.
I assume the masked men had orders not to kill 456
Nice catch!
Good catch, I had to watch the show for second time to notice that he did it in order to protect 456
I wish I could see it that way, but what's crazy is the contestants were interrupting the vote every time and no one got eliminated. There was even one vote where multiple characters had monologues and... nothing. It seemed like a rule that never was enforced.
@@thenamelessprinceit was enforced they didn’t really disturbed the voting
Also in season 1, if you voted out of the game, the reward money is shared to the families of the dead players, but in season 2, the reward money is shared amongst the players that are still in the game.
I noticed it to, and if you think about it, the players in Season 2 are worse than in Season 1. In Season 1, their desire to continue is somewhat understandable because they would receive nothing if they voted to quit. All the other deaths would have been for nothing if they quit.
But in Season 2, they wanted to play more to get a bigger amount despite the guranteed money they would get if they voted to quit.
@@jeraldvincentzumel5300 Are you sure in season 1 the players are free to quit after the 1st game which is red light green light? If they are allowed to quit, wouldn't they spread bad news about this evil organisation and alerted the police?
@@哥坤-s7o police in season 2 have been looking for two years to find the island with no luck. So it wouldn’t matter.
@@哥坤-s7owhat? no, in season 1, like 200 people got out of squid game after red light green light because of the majority vote, and the police didnt do anything.
@@哥坤-s7oThey literally tried to tell the police but they didn't believe them lol
I think the predictability works well for season 2. Knowing what will happen adds to the tension and tragedy so much. There was no way that they were going to completely trick people this go round after the first huge twist in season 1, so I like that they didn’t even try. The suspense is knowing that the bomb is in the room but not knowing exactly when it will go off.
I think it works really well for season 2 too because it echoes exactly what the Frontman is trying to show Gi-hun. The writers know that the audience is going to root for the good guys and want everyone to survive and that we're going to be crushed when our favourites die. Add in the fact we already know the truth about the Frontman and know he's going to betray them at some point and it adds to that even more because it makes us build up so much hope for the good guys to succeed despite the fact we know in the back of our minds it's not going to end well. People don't change, people will still fight and kill and turn their backs on friends the second enough money is in it for them and that's exactly what the Frontman is trying to show Gi-hun. It doesn't matter how much you root for the good guys, humanity will always follow the same pattern and the games will still continue and it makes the show predictable yes but it proves the Frontman's exact point.
I agree as well! S1 was meant to be unpredictable and hook you into the show. S2 is meant to slowly unravel mysteries of the inner workings of their world, focus on social dynamics, and just fill the viewer with more sense of dread since the deaths don't feel as "exciting" (typing that last part made me feel weird)
Well said. Really liked season 2
The gang at the end should’ve change their clothes with those dead soldiers uniforms to camouflage! I don’t understand why they didn’t.
youre so smart
Yes
I thought the same thing!
They are scanning each body codes
Then they wouldn't know who is on their side.
ONE DETAIL that I noticed was that when the co worker of No-eul works on behalf of her while she was resigning, he asks her how does she wears that big head all the time and not feel exhausted
She didn’t feel as exhausted as others as she was habitual of wearing a mask all the time as the guard in the game.
her being a guard came after her resigning, so no
@@SkizmSchism you weren't watching very well
@@SkizmSchism I dont believe this is the first time she has been a guard at a games. Circles are entry level with no weapons, and Triangles are mid level guards with weapons, more trusted.
@@SkizmSchism They said in the show she was recruited seven years ago
@@SkizmSchismit’s been said that she is been working as a Guard for 7 years
Fun fact : Thanos is a real life rapper named T.O.P and when some player mentions that he forgot his lyrics in a finale that was also real...thy really handed him the script and said play your dark side 😅
Wow he is not an actor 😳
Then he really did a good job of making me hate that character to my core
He's an actor too, but became famous as a rapper in Big Bang.
@@dhruvilbhavsar1953 he became my favorite negative character of all time
Actually he already had a bad name in real life before playing squid game. So this role doesn't make a negative impact to his real life image since he is already bad. lol. On the other hand, if he acted well, if could be a redemption for him and his career. But still the korean media wouldn't let him go because of his past mistake and tries to destroy his acting career by making malicious reports on him. This is how cruel real life can be. Once condemmed forever condemmed. He may be better off getting killed in the game if it is real. lol.
@@哥坤-s7o You may think that way because you are Chinese and have a narrow view of the world.
my theory is that the captain is the guy who delivers organs being harvested from the players. because he did save Jun Ho near the island so it's most likely he went to receive the organs and found his body.
that is interesting. i believe he was ordered by the frontman to rescue jun ho
@@nazgulstew another brilliant theory! completely agree.
I had the same theory. When I saw the guys in the diving suit I immediately thought of the fisherman
Stupid theory btw and you'll see why
@@Zahan.Afrontman is against harvesting organs.. btw
4:51 And during the first game, the Front man used his left hands to pick up the remote and also uses his left hand to pour and sip his drink.
And the phone, I think
That just left me questioning what happened to the original player 1, people would have to have noticed if the very first player was replaced by some other dude or if they weren't present at all, I mean, it's the FIRST player, people would remember 001 if they looked at him before the games!
@@MrBelles104 Who would go around and check every player's number? I doubt they'd even suspect him after the horror they witnessed after red light, green light game
@@MrBelles104 Means they only recruit 455 players. Like in season 1, they are only 455 players. Number 1 is the mole.
@@MrBelles104 i dont think anyone was looking for 001. dude didnt even know his pregnant girl was in the game until after the first game. They probably slipped him in after game 1 because of the voting.
Donno why people are hating on s2 so much
Its quite good actually
the last episode was good
because they want s2 to be a complete repeat of s1, their expectations are too high, and their attention spans are short. thats why
@@floof6896 Facts, for me S2 is Already a banger with that opening from eps 1 and thank God they're not just milking the 'game or die' situation, rather pushing the plot even further and deeper.
Fun fact I was never interested In squid game until season 2 lol
@@floof6896 I do not believe that’s the case. I personally think it’s more that since it’s only half a season we (the people that didn’t like it atleast) kept expecting some of the plotlines to start resolving but they didn’t, for example we still have no idea what’s the deal with Triangle 11. Also the bad guy player this season (Thanos the rap god) is super lame compared to Jang (snake tattoo guy) and I personally feel the games aren’t as intense as they were in season 1 which I think comes down to it not being new anymore not that they are bad.
Squid Game Season 2 in a summary
Pro vs Admin vs Noobs turned from playing Fall Guy to Counter Strike, meanwhile one of them played Among Us all along.
I forgot to mention on the other side, the detective and hired mercenaries played Sea of Thieves.
The fact that this meme summary is so common in the community is so funny
Very orginal summary
Squid Game 2 morphed suddenly into Counter Strike (specifically jailbreak 🤣). Gawd, Episode 7 was lit. 🔥
@@granturismo-megaspeed8988fr i wanted another episode of them fucking shit up 😭
Yup exactly straight to the point 😂
3:59 He didn’t abandon her. He was dragged away and was left with no choice to either die with her or live himself like she wanted him to
"was left with no choice to either die with her or live" that means he chose to live aka to abandon her instead of dying with her. He was being dragged away but he didn't even try to free himself from those guys.
Exactly.
@shadi6484 yeah that is why he was guilty after the round and asked for forgiveness
@shadi6484he did try to break free and once he did it was too late for him to run back. So it's kinda mute to antagonize him for that, his options by that point is die in vain or live for her sake. Even then the Sorry afterwards doesn't even sound like "I'm sorry I stabbed you in the back" it sounded more like "I'm sorry I didn't try hard enough"
It's real human nature capitulated in most unadulterated form
3:54 The sin didn’t abandon her, he was litteraly like kidnapped.
I agree but some can say I guess he could have tried harder for his mom and that’s why he feels devastated next time he sees her…
sin, sin city wasnt make for yall
Bro watched it at “0.25x speed” and couldn’t see that somehow 💀
this. exactly this. why tf does everyone keep saying he abandoned her when he's literally dragged away from her??
@@yabisity Her giving him the choice to go clearly showed he still had the option to stay with her. It was a clear contrast the director wanted us to see
4:52 xD SOMEHOW my dad caught the detail that the front man was using his right hand and kept failing until he used his left hand. It surprises me so much because HE BARELY REMEMBERS SEASON 1 XD
Yeah i didn't noticeeee
I don't see the frontman participating in the game as a problem, it makes it even more thrilling for me, because we don't know exactly when or how he will betray Gi-hun, we just know that it can happen any second. It somehow doesn't cross Gi-huns mind that player 001 could actually be one of the enemies, despite the fact that Il-nam was player 001 in Gi-huns first game. It makes me wanna scream at the screen "it's him!" the whole time and I'm also surprised that the frontman chose to be player 001 because I find it a bit too obvious.
I think there were a few times he had an instinctual suspicion that he dismissed…when FrontMan said his name “Il-Nam” it’s close to “Young-Il” from the first game and he had a surprised look. When his best friend started to warn him about him murdering someone in mingle…sure he wasn’t able to get the sentence out, but I think it piqued Gi-hun’s senses, because then in the coup he chose to bring his friend and hesitated to have Il-Nam by his side. Of course, he kept dismissing his gut and you saw it when he gave Il-Nam the extra ammo.
Last round of Mingle Game, Frontman told, 2 players needs to be paired, 50 rooms were available And total available player was 126, so 50*2=100 and rest 26 will get killed eventually. Where the frontman was out of character and gave Gi-Hun clear indication that these games are build in such a way, that the players will be killed, so that the prize money gets increased.
we know we have watched season 1. it was the same there
you don't need clear indication from the front man to know that...the whole purpose of mingle is players get left behind/outside of the rooms...
@@rubiiraeYes but the games was not fair, we have to say that it's a scam. Where 26 players will eventually get killed even if they made 2 pairs, becz total 50 rooms was available, not fair at all. 😡 Maybe because of Gi-hun, where frontman and officers was worried whether many players may survive because. @CanadianLad can take note.
@@Saboteur2401was the episode of mingle the only episode you watched in the series bruh?
@Saboteur2401 The f is a Canadian Lad?
My Theory Is That Front Man Appointed The Boat Captain To Protect The Island From Soldiers Detectives Etc, And Also Commanded To Save His Brothers (Jun-Ho) Life
Boat Captain is the Main Captain I mean the Captain of squid games.
Bro thats what literally everyones saying lol this is an old theory at this point bruh. Its not your theory
@@ShinKei-p9pit's not even a theory at this point it feels so obvious
Another detail:
in the second game, the main team goes last, with no one around, that mean even if they failed, the guards would just kill everyone except gi-hun and the frontman. no one will know
damn
but if that happens won't gi-hun get suspicious of the frontman and why he survived after failing?
@@39533 but then gi hun will litrellly go in the the controll room and enjoy rest games and everyone will think he also died
That's why he was stalling it's not like his life is on the line
Why would they not kill Gi Hun?
One strange thing is Gi-Hun noticably moved a lot in the first red green light game, like enough that it would've gotten anyone else killed...which leads me to believe the frontman has given orders not to kill him throughout the games (him joining his team for all of the games ensures this too)
Good point! Cause yeah when he would cover his mouth and scream he was moving tooo much, i was just thinking it was a suspension of belief kind of thing. That we were to assume it wasnt ENOUGH movement
Yes. He was allowed to interfere which is a supposedly against the rules of the game
Excellent catch on the detail about 246's "Death". I am now convinced that you've called it, and we'll see him be a wounded survivor for Act 3.
I was literally rooting for him the whole time and died inside when he ‘died’ because I watched sweet home😂
@@zvl9978 I loved him in Sweet Home. He is such a phenomenal actor so I believe that they won't waste his potential here.
I think its actually predictable since him being shot was never shown in the end which makes me think that the one went to shoot him was the girl who was with her in the same park. Also yes loved him in Sweet Home.
I feel like he's going to get more screen time in the next season
0:18 I think you still haven't catched on the detail that people who have circle on thier masks are not guards, they're workers and they never carry SMG's instead they're the ones giving out food & cleaning up after the games end. The one with the square is a manager and before the first game he comes along with workers and after the first game he brings soldiers with him.
i think he knew this 3 years ago so not repeating
The triangle is the ones with guns
That's just an obvious detail though
I have a theory that the front man during the mingle game when he separated himself from everyone else just went into a room by himself to ensure that everyone else stayed alive and he just like stared at the camera
in fact, after that round, the number of remaining players was 141... a number not divisible by 4!
@@YumeNiffel
That would make sense because some people died in the room with the wrong numbers
Frontman participated. Each round of the game, camera showed him participating
@@qlasalle No, it should be multiple of 4 because in each room 4 people survive.
@@erdemegedemirel8615 sometimes 3 or 5 players entered which will throw off the count. we see this once as well
0:36 ONLY the pink guards with a triangle and square on their masks are allowed to carry a fire arm, not the ones with the circle
Square = Manager
Triangle = Soldier
Circle = Worker
Yes @@HereSkadi
yes thats they sent circle on purpose
That’s why the ddakji recruiter guy said “I felt like I mattered once they gave me a gun” because he must’ve been a circle
4:19 I think around here, Gi-Hun was explaining his plan, and the Front Man was skeptical at first, saying that they would be sacrificing lives for the greater good. I think he was trying to get Gi-Hun to understand the hypocrisy of his plan, as in the second episode, Gi-Hun criticized the Front Man for killing so many through the Squid Games, though it was for a cause the Front Man found worthy. He was always trying to teach and prove a point.
That's been front mans entire motive. I think he has some element of curiosity to him about Gi Hun; trying to understand why, when having being given more money he could ever need and (from front man's point of view) owing the other participants nothing, Gi Hun continues on his quest to bring the games down when he could just walk away and live an easy life.
Front man had the same opportunity, instead he went the other direction of Gi Hun, even to the point of joining it. I think front man quite genuinely was interested to follow along with Gi Hun to see where it would go. When Gi Hun suggested that people would die in the attack but it would be for the greater good, front man after confirming with Gi Hun that he understood people would indeed die, seemed to contemplate that for a moment before agreeing. I think in his mind, this was his reassurance that he'd made the right decision and that Gi Hun was the one who was wrong to come back. Between the nature of the contestants who would vote to stay, or screw over others to ensure they won to sacrificing others for the greater good, it has been front man's vindication.
i dont think having the front man be 001 gets rid of the suspense like in season 1 with il-nam.. I think it actually creates this deeper suspense because we the audience know who In-Ho is, meanwhile Gi-Hun has no idea. It's something quite fun to watch IMO..
It’s too bad the cop lied about seeing his face, because on some level he couldn’t tell him it was his brother…if he had shown Gi-hun the picture of his brother and said it was the front man, Gi-hun would have been better equipped to prepare for the betrayal. It would have been an interesting twist if Gi-hun could have known and played naive until the right moment…maybe in an alternate version 😂
The boat man working for them made so much sense... I was thinking how dumb it was this guy just happened to find dude in the middle of the ocean.
real
The left handed throw was brilliant. That fact will be back in season 3. Good catch!
3:47 they did a bad job at showing us that he actually "betrays" her and that it's not the two people pushing him in against his will, i never see this scene that way no matter how many times i see it.
Felt like the scene was drama for no reason that led to nothing.
The suspense went for 3sec then BOOM his mom get saved..?
Doesnt develop the son/mom characters. (they still love each other ?! such a surprise when it's neither's fault and they're both conscious of what just happened.)
so what , this whole scene for the "you don't know my son! 😡" to 001 in the room of 3?
Felt absolutely nothing, but i get it, one of them will sacrifice/betrays the other or whatever in season 3 and that's why we got so much "my son is good we love each other" in season 2.
Sadly too obvious.
They took him away, but he stopped fighting it, and just went along. It's subtle and does leave it a little ambiguous.
@@RevDrTarr too "subtle" is bad when the scene last for 5sec.
With a different camera angle or whatever it could've been clearer, it's just messy edit on top of other things.
@@RevDrTarri would stop fighting too if I was out of energy and there was no point
He clearly wasn’t gonna escape
I didn't get the part about him giving up struggling when I watched it. It just seems like the guy was being hard on himself for something that wasn't really his fault.
It just merely the sons lack of acting skills and not the directors fault. A good actor could make it more convincing.
this will make me sound really dumb but i didn’t realise 001 was the frontman until the end because i didn’t recognise him but it’s funny because every time i loooked at him i was like suspecting something and thinking i’ve seen him before 😭
but how
@@floof6896Different hairstyle. Hey it worked for Superman!
same. its just the hair, and also s1 was a long time ago lol
Just a theory : After the second game, the son told her mother that he has a little more debt. Therefore, he voted to continue for the third game. He said that if he failed collect the money, they will harvest his organs. I believed that the director foreshadowing this moment where the son will die on the fourth or fifth game while protecting his mother. But he won't "completely die" because the pink officers will harvest his organs
Eww
Damn sounds unpleasant
@@shadowspringtrap3122 The whole show is uncanny and unpleasant, so no surprise since we saw in Season 1 as well.
One parallel detail is that both infiltrated players Oh ll-nam (the old man from season 1) and the front man are player 001. I was hoping this would click something in Gi-hun at some point... but nope it was my wishful thinking.
I figured Gihun was so dumb that he didnt think of 001 as mastermind
@arsiiskay_official yep his friend probably didnt have to die if he wasn't this dumb..
Gi-hun's default is to trust the good nature of people in the games (to his own disadvantage tbh)
I kept thinking that Gi-Hun was in fact suspicious of 001, because of what happened in the first season. And that he would reveal that he knew he wasn't one of the regular players at some point. But he never did. And he trusted him with the rebellion plan, which he probably wouldn't have if he was suspicious of him.
@ agree. it just showed how dumb he is lol jk.
I dunno i guess i just thought he knew better haha
I feel like the Front Man was trying to turn Gi Hul into the next front man.
We know from season 1 that the Front Man is also a previous game winner, and in this season, he's not just manipulating Gi Hul, he's showing him the Frontman's human side, connecting to him on a more personal level like a friend, talking about his wife, how he lost his job, even slowly getting Gi Hul to understand the ideologies of those who picked to stay in the games
that exactly i was thinking , who knows the front man himself might protested like Gi hul and changed his perspective like he is trying now
@ makes sense, we know the Front Man was once a cop and he lost his job because he took bribes to save his wife.
If he became a cop, that inner wish for justice might have gotten the best of him
@@johngentley5015 well lets wait and see how writers end it the next season. cheers until then😀
You forgot one major detail, the front man is the creator’s son. In season 1 the creator tells the protagonist that his son is allergic to milk. In S2, the front man is also allergic to milk!
Let’s see, Jun-ho’s mom birthed him and adopted In-ho, right? We know from season one that In-ho never answered his phone after he won in 2015, but is their dad ever mentioned? Also, if Il-nam is rich, why would In-ho be desperate enough to enter the game?
This is a good theory, but personally, I think he’s done this to resonate with Gi-Hun more on a personal level to gain trust. As in S1, Gi-Hun also says he cannot drink milk and gives it away which the Front Man parallels here in S2.
Yea thiis is the most working theory for me, the police didnt recognize old man bcs he never saw them bcs inho is adopted
If the front man was the creator's son his wife wouldn't have died because of the money shortage and he wouldn't have had to take money from others for his wife's medical treatment.
they also have the same last name. (oh)
This is the best recap and in depth analysis of the Squid Game 2. Can't wait for the 3rd Season of this brilliant series!
they put bros tracker in a can of bait. literally baited them with bait. and last season before they shot the cop his brother radioed and said “get the boat ready” foreshadowing the captain
nice observation, haven't heard that one yet
damn
5:15 I swear when the front man pressed the turn off light button my smart light turned off at the same time and I almost had a heart attack
He didn't abandon his mother, he was being dragged and time was running out and then he accepted it
Thank you for your effort to pronounce their name correctly. Other media just butchered their name and I find it hard to follow which characters they talking about😅
Actually he _is_ mispronouncing the main character's name. It's pronounced *Hoon* not Hun. I've heard several RUclipsrs make this mistake. Are you all watching the English dub or something, and is it pronounced wrong there? The name is pronounced Gi-Hoon. Saying this as someone who speaks and reads Korean and watches the show in Korean.
@@prussia92800nope just their negligence i watched the first season in english and they said gi-hun right
@@prussia92800 that’s why I said 'effort'. He didn’t say all the names correctly but he has the effort to at least mimic how the names are pronounce in Korean.
One of my favorite things in I think all of Squid Game, was Gi-Hun commanding the other competitors through Red Light, Green Light like a leader, obviously because he went through it already, but I really liked him more and more at that point.
Also, another quick thing, when Gi-Hun had that Dream sequence with the Squares, Circles, Triangles, Umbrella, etc, was I the only one getting shocked while screaming: "Oh, you're fucked, you're fucked now!"😂😂
He had a nightmare about it because he knows plot amour can’t help him with that
@@deathshadow660 I mean, plot armor in this type of series is difficult to avoid, so then it just depends if the story is good enough
He kept telling people to choose triangle and I thought of course they’re going to either add a twist (change the shapes you chose or make it harder to pick), or they would just change the game altogether (which is what they ended up doing having a different game)
So the question was, did the pink crew get the notification that the boss man is participating so that they don't actually kill him? If so, when he kills them on the uprising are they okay with that ?
As in red light green light game you can see that the soldiers only kill players whose number is told to them. So, soldiers never know if front man is participating.
7:15 I am so bad at remembering korean faces that I didn't realise he was the front man, I only realised it when in ep.7 he shoots the two people at the end, so for me it was pretty good
I really wanted to feel that way but I knew…. But what about those times Evil smile scenes and camera cutting him which implies he’s evil and especially at the last episode when the masked person looked at the front man , and got scared ….
What were you thinking it was ,at those times ?
I honestly was confused the whole time, I was always so unsure if he actually was the frontman lol
same lol
It must be because I'm used to seeing him in that all-black getup, so he looked like a completely different person when dressed as a player.
I could have sworn he looked older with a taller head when in his Front Man clothing
Maybe it's because I'm part asian but I thought he was very distinct. He has a very square and strong face with smaller eyes, pretty scary looking when he glares.
One Highly Underrated Detail is when the Salesman offers Bread and Lottery Ticket to random broke peoples on streets , most of them chooses Lottery Ticket , only to find out their bad luck and the Salesman crushes the Breads. We can exactly see the pattern of choices people make of chasing UNCERTAIN CHOICES with cheap yet great reward over a simple open OPPORTUNITY to better life. And eventually the Salesman crushes the BREADS in front of them. And during the game even though people knew that losing will end up getting them killed most of them still preferred to continue the game i.e UNCERTAIN CHOICE with a cheap great reward and they showed how people wasted an opportunity that was better than trying their luck over. We saw how people got killed in front of the survivors just the CRUSHED BREADS.
PS: This game is just to clean a biological waste somewhat a concept maybe inspired from 'Blue Whale: The Suicide Challenge'
recruiter*
The Blue Whale was a hoax and the goal wasn't to "clean biological waste". The concept of eugenetics is far older.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well said....this is the moral of the story .....
I actually agree with your statement regarding the writer and director doing a very good job on season 2. If people keeps comparing it to the first season, sure it would never be good enough. But if you see it as it is, a sequel with different objectives, it's actually a very good show. I was just a bit disappointed with the ending since it leaves viewer on a very big cliffhanger. but then again, I was expecting the coup to be successful 🤣
4:39 this is a really good detail, i didn't notice that in the show, and it really adds to the detail that he's purposely trying to stall
In Squid Game, survival is often portrayed as the ultimate goal, but I believe the true challenge lies in maintaining one's humanity in extreme situations. Gi-hun shows that true victory isn't just about being the last one standing, but about preserving empathy and compassion, even when the circumstances are brutal.
His kindness towards Il-nam, his decision not to kill Sang-woo, and his struggle with survivor's guilt are key moments that reinforce this message.
If Gi-hun confronts the Front Man and explains that humanity is the true measure of success, it could shake the foundations of the game and challenge the cruel nature of the competition.
Overall, the series may show us that in a world that often rewards ruthlessness, true strength lies in holding onto our humanity.
4:50 that's incredible attention to detail on your part. Would never have hot that one. 💯💯
9:07 See you in the next "WON" get it? 45.6 Billion WON? Korean currency? 🤓
1 minor plot hole I just realized:
Couldn't Gi-hun have let the players know that they have the chance to return to the games after voting to leave like he did in season 1? If I remember correctly, they all left after the first game and some/all were invited back.
That would provide some of the players an incentive to vote to end the games. Thoughts?
Wasnt the voting only introduced in s2
Wasnt the voting only introduced in s2
Not sure if its a plot hole. In s1 when voting to leave they did not take any money home. In s2 when voting to leave they would take money home. Therefore in s1 they had an incentive to come back. In s2 half of them would not come back because their debt would be paid. Not to mention the prize money Would be reset to 0 since it was split amongst everyone who left
@DeepFactsThinker no there was voting in season 1
@@ivyish after the first game in season 1, there was a vote actually
Here is my theory:
The frontman didn't kill his brother on purpose in season 1 and sends the fisherman to save him and the fisherman is a part of this game and he prevents the frontman's brother (I forgot the name) to find the island and he is probably the one who told the frontman about the tracker which was placed in the teeth and he kills the man who finds him doing something with the drone
Sorry for the bad grammar and pls correct me if I am wrong
that's not just a theory my man
Not an man 😃
it's kind of sad that all they had to do was warn the people that they would die if they were eliminated BEFORE they entered the game. the reason half the players wanted to stay is because they realised that the money was more valuable than their life in their current situation. but the other half, not knowing their life was on the line for the money, all had a family to look after and a future to look forward to. if the warning had been given out, only the people who picked blue would be playing the game in the first place.
That's kind of the whole point of the show though. It proves the fact that when people are desperate enough they will do almost anything for money. Some will kill people, some will keep playing knowing others will die, and some will even sacrifice themselves when they know they have no other way out. A lot of people changed from O to X and X to O between the voting because their mindset changed when enough money was on the line or when they knew how many people would have to die to get them the amount of money they'd be happy leaving with. Even in season 1 we saw it because after they voted to end the games and go home, the majority still chose to reenter the games while knowing that their lives would be on the line again.
The point is these games aren't fair and the choices are fake
I think everyone since marvel decided to give more importance to quality over quantity the Canadian lad has very few marvel projects to breakdown and give us hidden details from.
Irrelevant to Squid Game
The details I found is The actor who is playing min su is david lee who appeared in season 1 as a vip 3 .
I think it is as good as season one. Season 1 just had the advantage of being completely new. I think it was a great idea to add the element of dramatic irony where we know that player 001 is an interloper instead of attempting a similar twist. Exploring the way everyone except the rich spectators is somehow exploited by the system was the perfect progression. I can't wait to see how No-Eul's storyline develops in season 3. I also thought she was related to Sae-Byeok although I didn't know what their names meant I think Kang is the family name so it's very likely. I hope she will be reunited with her little brother or cousin or whatever the relationship is at the end
3:52 more like he got drag how is that his fault
Cause he wasn't fighting hard enough, if we he truly wanted to protect her mother then he would've fought harder from their grasps
@raydenjoco9079 bro wdym he didn’t fight hard enough it’s 2 guys holding him by the armpit it’s nearly impossible to get out of.
@@raydenjoco9079 Also, how was he gonna protect her? If he stayed out with her and neither of them got into a room, the guards would have offed both of them.
@@fancygamer5896the show was telling the opposite, he did low-key abandon her, hence the regret, apology and his mother saying “it’s okay”
@@fancygamer5896 there was clearly a hesitation.. that is why after the round he felt very guilty and asked for forgiveness
I think Il-Oh/aka the Frontman was the most interesting character this season as him and Gi-Hun have a very interesting conflict of ideology and even though we know he's ensuring Gi-Hun fails in his plan to dismantle the games from the inside by infiltrating and gaining Gi-Hun's trust as a player, I think in some deeper level Il-Ho truly respects Gi-Hun's determination and how he made difficult choices to ensure the majority of people could survive despite sacrificing other players. Even during the second game while I do believe The Frontman was trying to sabotage his team purposely but I also think he actually enjoyed watching players win the game and even enjoy the comradery and connecting to these people, maybe because he was once just like Gi-Hun but lost his humanity after the death of his wife and stillborn child, so perhaps we see how morally conflicted he becomes in Season 3 despite how cold and devoid of humanity he is on a surface level especially when he kills Jung-Bae Infront of Gi-Hun.
I do wish Season 2 was a lot longer and while I do think Season 1 was slightly better, I do have to say I really loved the direction of Season 2 and I'm excited to see the final half of the Season next year
Blame netflix for not having longer season 2.
3:47 he didnt abandon her, the other 2 guys took him by force. you can see him struggling to get back to his mother, he's literally shouting for his mother in the show
Thank you! I love the details you mentioned about how quick the front man was! I been wanting to rewatch this season. But I love how you scour these details that really bring the story out more. I been listening to interviews with behind the scenes and I love hearing about the decisions to make things like the windows in season 2 having the clouds and red color just like the game with 001 and 456 in the marbles and in their last game both still in a game in the real world.
6:59 we know that he is evil. he killed one of the men that was trying to find the island and he was messing with the drone.
I am watching this in 2025 from AUS lol. It's 2 AM
We have to wait 3 hr 30 mins more for new year.. happy new year to you btw
Happy new year!!
Bro’s in the future
8:32 I understood that reference
Lewis Strauss
Just wanted to correct a minor detail. Sae-Byeok means dawn, and yes you were correct. But, No-eul means dusk in the sunset. Anyway, the names quite connect tho. I really appreciate how you picked up those details.
I will also like to add something here ,
If you watch the mingle game again you will see that the fromt man aka young il is left out for one round and then when the doors open again he runs back to gi hun i think that he actually never found a room but as he is the front man the guards simply let him be
I kinda think season 1’s 001 is the biological father of the Frontman. They brought up that he was adopted in one of the first few episodes of S2. and in my opinion, it was unnecessary to mention unless it was going to be tied into the story somehow
I saw a theory that Il-Nam might be the front mans father. When he willingly gives his milk to the pregnant women and says that he can't drink it, and in season one, 001 says that he has a son that can't drink milk.
they have the same last name and the milk detail in the other reply, so it is true
I thought people knew he was adopted im S1? Or was i hallucinating 😵💫
@@dijalul absolutely could’ve. I watched the first season once when it first came out, so i really don’t remember. Haha
@@leftyyyx To be fair, both have the same last name there because both gave Gi-hun a fake name based on their shared number, 001. Oh Il-nam means "Zero One Man", and Oh Young-il is a pun on "Zero Zero One". Both names are puns on 001, with the Oh part being, well, 0 and il being 1.
Deer Mask (VIP 3) David Lee is also playing the game as Player number 125...
Very smart to add the loud jingle at the end, I was alt tabbed while listening and came to see what it was, now I'm engaging with the comments, probably how you wanted.
Great video!
@The canadian lad in season 1 every game was in box shape(huge influence of box shape) in season 2 every game is in circle shape (highly influenced by circle shape) now in next games will be highly incluenced by triangle. I think!!
with all that shooting, I think their next games are mostly Call of Duty missions
How is red light green light in a circle shape or highly influenced by it? It's also the only recurring game so far so how can it be both?
Good theory but I don't know if it has any real meaning behind it
PLEASE WATCH FOR THE WALL! After chaos in episode 7 and The Front Man handle it, the pink officers are back to the participants room. You can see some of the game are written on the wall just like Season 1. These are the games that they haven't played!
There's also a Marvel easter egg- Thanos has his nails painted in order of the infinity stones that marvel Thanos had on the infinity gauntlet.
his pills are also the color of the stones
That was obviously one he said it himself
It wasn’t an Easter egg, it was a clear reference. That’s like going into a church and saying Jesus Christ on the cross is an Easter egg for being religious
he also died after when half the players died (i just made that up)
Duh!
Technically, The Frontman is a villain, but he isn’t evil… he was part of these same machination, though back then, under the rule of a nihilistic billionaire with a cynical outlook on life, even as he died and even after escaping this man’s control, he has to keep the games alive as a way to please the VIPs or something worse will happen but it doesn’t mean he has been trying to beat the VIPs nor does he enjoy these games’ existence, he’s just a man after all, a man with power under powerful men and until then, he is powerless to help his soon to be victims, even if he wanted or never wanted to
He's an antagonist in the sense of an ideological opposite to Gi hun, trying to break him but not kill him. Like none of the games posed a great deal of risk to Gi Hun as the frontman is there to keep him alive, even if he looses. He probably would be spared.
no he is totally evil wtf how can you even say that he isnt :D:D he is a psychopath for sure , I dont comprehend how did you say that he isnt :D calling these people trash...knowing that there are some people who arent even at fault, like this mother only trying to pay off her SONS debt and a PREGNANT woman but I guess I seriously dont understand the people who vote to keep playing KNOWING that everybody except 1 will die...cause they know that, they see that , that one guy voted to keep playing eventhough he knew his elderly mother could die....thats just another level to me, I understand their absolutely hopeless situation but I wouldnt sacrifice anybody for this also most of them were in debt bc of selfish reasons...it wasnt even a healthcare situations or something like that
? He literally the most evil man in this season
@@dudemondudeangel1956 He just said why he's not the most evil , did you even read it?
He could just retire and work in the local supermarket as a bag packer , nothing to heavy
Just finished the season. Actually really happy with the season, and am really glad that it’s now waiting for season 3, instead of “part 2 coming….”
3:54 he did not abandon her... he was being dragged full force by 2 grown men, how is that abandoning
From the first scene, when the ship captain says, "I rescued you two years ago from the island," I knew that he was working for the Detective's brother ( Masked Man ).
2:02 I think he was just seeing how gi-hun would be when the frontman made it for players more likely to stay🙄
I have something to add to this in the episode in where they play the mingle game, there is a part when the front man leaves the group and suddenly comes back after the game with out anyone with him showing he can’t lose the game because he is the boss of it.
4:00 he didn't abandon her he was dragged
He was dragged but at the end they just let him be but he still went in the room.
Spending my new year watching Canadian lad eating grapes at 11:59 at night on 31st
Happy new year
6:06 i might be trippin but the surgeon on the left looks a lot familiar like the "tough guy" from season 1 who "died" cause the lady hugged him and fell on the glass bridge
I just noticed that I couldn’t agree more with you maybe they reused actors and hoped that you wouldn’t notice
its not him, the surgeon is played by a different actor who also had a role in the judge from hell
"korean dude looks like korean dude must be him"
@@sippysipsip It was possible, especially that the dude fell on the lady and maybe thats why he survived the fall. There exists a still popular theory that players who were suppose to die in the game but survived, actually started working in the faciality. Where would they get ALL the circle workers from the real world to do the cleaning of dead men. It just makes sense that they gave "garbage people" as frontman said a new porpouse, instead of looking outside for low wage workers that wouldnt spill the beans that theres some weird guys telling everybody to go clean dead bodies on some island for a couple of bucks. They dont have guns, ext. they are just there to clean. And it would be amazing plot twist for the series, when main characters get to meet a worker who turns out they know from previous game
To be honest, deep down i hoped the front man infiltrated the game to try to put a stop to it
The day The Canadian Lad watches AOT season 4 at 0.25x speed is the day I can finally know peace
I SUPPORT THIS
Definately
Why season 4 only why not the full aot
The greatest detail was that they search the guards for more magazines. This is something a loot movies or shows never think about it and they allways have unlimited amunition!
Here's one detail for you.
When Gi-Hun discuss his plan to stay hidden during the final bedroom fight in order to get the pink men guns, FM asks him is that sacrificing the minority for the greater good, Gi-Hun avoids the direct answer, but still confirms FM's inquiry. And FM has the subtlest of the smiles on his face in that moment.
That is the one thing that really upset me in season 2. For 15 episodes we watched and rooted for him because he was good person, willing to lose the 45 billion just so he and his friend could leave, then coming back so he could save everyone and take down the games, then suddenly he's okay with letting a few of his people die? That was too sudden a change and just totally out of the character that has been developed.
@@korbell1089 It was to set up Gi-Hun succumbing to the dark side and becoming the new Front Man
@@korbell1089 He saw it as his last chance to stop the games and save however many thousands more that may participate in the future. People were also going to die during the fight anyway
Yeah ngl, Gi-Hun’s plan got me pissed
@@korbell1089 I think the change from what we expected from Gi-Hun is the whole point. Frontman has been trying to show Gi-Hun how his optimistic view of humanity is flawed, and Gi-Hun himself ranted to his team that none of them understand how "people change in this place" with their lives and so much money at risk. He didn't realize that it was changing him too, and that he was becoming as exhausted and desperate as all the other players, except his goal isn't the money, but to achieve victory against the Masters of The Games. Gi-Hun's plan was ruthless and reckless to show that he too had been broken and became willing to sacrifice others for a greater victory, like the people voting blue to continue The Games.
Frontman knew he had won their moral war the moment Gi-Hun shared his final plan, emphasizing how this season was a victory for the Game Masters both physically and ideologically.
One key detail is that they never intend to end the game on their own terms. As you've likely noticed, the voting happens in reverse order. This suggests that in Vote 001, they were aware that a single vote could change the direction of the game. In both the first and third votes, the choice always goes to the Frontman. In the first vote, he opts to continue the game, while in the third, he chooses to build trust.
All they had to do was not reveal front man's identify in season 1 woulda made season 2 a lot better
I feel like if we came to know that Youngil is the front man at the end, it would've been a repeat of Oh Ilnam in season 1. But since we knew, we were on the edge of our seats, waiting for him to betray everyone.
So, why do you think so? I'm not trying to argue or anything. I just wanna know why some people think that! Oh, and happy 2025!
@@justarandomhomosapien agreed I was like why is he helping the mc so much and aid also voting to get out of the games
@deathshadow660 Right!!! Took me quite some time to figure out that he was helping the mc only when he knew his help would be nullified or would be of no use! Like he voted yes in the first vote cuz it actually affects everything but then he only voted no knowing that it would affect nothing!
@@justarandomhomosapien yeah he had to know what the people will vote first but it a gamble especially with the tie
@@justarandomhomosapien stop arguing
6:28 it doesn't change their seemingly relation, but 노을 (no-eul) means sunset, not sunrise.
To everyone saying the son didn't abandon his mother, he did. If he really wanted to go back to his mother he could've put up a real fight. As we've already seen he wanted to continue the game, betraying his mother once, and now not really fighting back, twice. After this he realizes that his mother could've really died and he would in his own mind be completely at fault, this also completely changes his behavior towards his mother, he does what she says and puts her first when needed.
Another thing is that there is a parallel between the bread and lottery ticket game the recruiter was holding and the updated rules of the squid game. Any of the homeless people could’ve taken the safer option of the bread and been better off than they were before, but took the lottery ticket for an extremely small chance at winning big. This is similar to how the survivors in the squid game act during season 2. Instead of taking the bread (in this case the smaller cut of the prize pool) many of them continue to play more games in hopes of winning big
Well, the recruiter himself warned Gi-hun and then the frontman showed him that these people (who voted to continue) are just like him when he was a gambling addict. And the frontman is probably disgusted about how people would waste their lives for money. Despite him being so rich he knew no amount of money can bring his wife and child back to life 😥
I also noticed the captain not react at all when the door blew up! And wow, that detail about the spinning top was wild! I didn’t notice that!
Season 1 was packed with so many pumped and high tension moments.. 😊
Season 2.. well... It's literally just cashgrab but with better story..
Well yea. In both seasons, the players want to grab cash.
That was a terrible joke I'm sorry.
@@Director_Oompaloompa i thought you were dropping some big info lol
Season 1: What could the next game be🤔
Season 2: We becoming president after the VOTING 🗣️🗣️🗣️
So wrong
A small detail I noticed is that the number on the invitation card for player starts with 456 (the one salesman gave to youtuber) and for staff starts with 001 (the one to the girl), so that they can receive instructions and also interesting because in the game 001 represents the game organization and 456 the players
Bro I really need you to go back and watch the scene from the mingle game, idk if you watched sub or dub, but sub is slightly more accurate. The son did NOT abandon the mother, the two were literally looking for one more person together when two other guys grabbed the son and said come with us and started dragging him away. You can be strong but two other guys desperately pulling you away from someone, you can't fight that. The son tried to hold on to his mother, he did not want to leave her, but he's not strong enough to fight the other two. He gets taken and his mother ultimately lets go cause if one of them is to survive, she would want it to be him. No true loving parent chooses themselves over their own child. The mother even snaps at 001, she let go, she'd want her son to live. After that round you see him cry to her and apologize cause he never wanted to leave her, and you don't see her yelling at him for abandoning her. The detail is about parental love, not abandonment.
Great detailing from the director and thanks for pointing it out.👏👏👏
Season 1 felt so much better than Season 2 and my only saving grace for the season is watching T.O.P. act in it (granted I was a fan of the band he was in - BIGBANG)
Season 2 was great imo