To be honest, at this point I just wish there was never s2&s3 of SG to begin with
The main reason is we got NOTHING new to the plot lines than were left open after season one. Jun-ho’s story? Completely butchered and useless, if it wasn’t for Wook-seok he would have never even found an island in the first place, bc he never doubted captain’s intentions. They did his character so dirty, he is a detective ffs, and he never at least once thought to look into that captain? Because he was so blinded by the fact that he saved his life? Yeah, whatever. And he achieved nothing in terms of finding his brother, just got a lot of people killed along the way, and at the end of s3 we are at the same place we were at the end of s1 (and you could already guess that he was alive bc we saw how much In-ho cared about him despite everything, and it was a pretty logical guess that he saved him somehow), with even the same words he managed to say to In-ho two times already (I get that if was like parallel to s1, but I thought it just was stupid)
In-ho’s plot line? Nothing new here too. We already knew everything we know about him by the end of s3 from s1. We saw that he was not some pure evil, but human inside through subtle things (that scene in bathroom after he shot his brother was pretty enough), and we already knew he was mesmerised with Gi-hun by his reaction in the last game of s1 when Gi-hun wanted to leave without money and by their interactions after the games. But aside from that, all questions that we had after season one are still unanswered - why did he decide to join the games as frontman? Why did he live after his games in shitty motels without spending his money? What does he do in between the games? What happened in his own games? How he won them? Yes, we got that one minute clip, but really, is that all? And that clip only adds more questions - why Il-nam gave knife precisely to him? Did he know his beforehand, like In-ho knew Gi-hun, or he liked him from the games? Yes, you can say that there are a lot of things you can read between the lines, but I done it perfectly in season one, why do I need two more seasons? For what?
Gi-hun’s plotline - in my opinion, also let down the drain. He could have been so much more, but in the end it all came down to “you can never win against rich and powerful, so don’t even try”. And that’s completely true, but again, did we really need all those episodes to find it out? It was pretty much obvious that if he goes down there again alone he would die, I never thought that he comes there and saves the day. He could have at least prepared better, have a lot of back-up plans, don’t focus only on recruiter, may be travel with Jun-ho on a boat a couple of times (may be he would even suspect the something is wrong with the captain), and not just have a tracker and that’s all. You could say that “but he believed in humanity so much and relied on them” - yes he did, and he stayed like that till the very end, but he already changed a lot (wiling to sacrifice people and going on that riot), why couldn’t he be just a little bit more patient and observing? I just wish that they went more with “I want to stop the games” and be Gi-hun smarter about it, but it all was more like a personal vendetta in the end. Let’s be honest, he had no chance to stop something alone or with that rebellion, he just wanted to get to the frontman bc he made him this embodiment of evil in his mind, but even if he got through he would’t change anything. Because he didn’t have a plan or even something close to it. He could also have been a first spark to ignite the fire of change, to inspire someone to keep trying even if he couldn’t, but there is no one left who knows about his sucrifise besides In-ho, all the others doesn’t even know that he is dead, and do you really believe he changed him so much for In-ho to go and try to do something real with the American games? I don’t think so. If anything, In-ho just got conformation of his own beliefs. And couldn’t we say in the end of s1 that he is very good and caring person, but if he got mixed up in all this he would die, because he doesn’t have the cruelty in him to go through with all of this? I sure could, I would be more surprised if he achieved something tbh
Ga-yeong - all this time thought that her dad just abandoned her and didn’t give a damn, just to find out that he is dead and get a bloody jacket and a pile of money in the end? Well thanks, I think that In-ho was really trying to be nice here and give Gi-hun’s memory some closure or smth so his daughter wouldn’t hate him, but she can start being curious and would want to find out what is that all about and get mixed up in the games, and I was the last thing Gi-hun ever wanted, so it’s not even happy end here too
American squid games - we already knew from season one that the games are international, nothing new or shocking here, it was just a hook for the American spin-off and nothing more
The only plot line that got to it’s logical end it the one with Sae-byeok’s mother, but it was also clear from s1 that if they could get her back they would, so nothing new here too
And overall, I liked how and where the story ended in season one - the story was very cruel, and brutal, and downright horrible, but all the plot lines were consistent, we got all the answers we needed, read a lot of answers between the lines, and even got a little hope in the end, however unrealistic it may be. It left you wondering about the universe and wanting to discuss it. After season three I got nothing of that. Not a single big question about main plot lines was answered in these two seasons, nothing big happened plotwise, and we just got a teaser for more shows to come in the end. But I guess the real message of all this is capitalism wins, inside and outside of the show, and it won when hdh sold himself to Netflix (no shame here, it just how the world works) and they are just milking it for money and will be doing it for a long time to come
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