S3 started strong. I’m not gonna lie, it started so fucking strong.
I said I was afraid that the Hwang bros plotline will get sidelined? HELL EVERYTHING GOT SIDELINED. Even Gihun. He became a tool for the baby. They suddenly thought that some random shitty players are so interesting to waste an hour on.
I had A LOT of expectation about Gihun finding out that the frontman is Youngil. But like… what happened? It wasn’t even a conversation. Gihun never found out Junho lied. We never got to see Junho having a dilemma if he’ll save the players or his brother.
Geumja really killed Yongsik? I mean yeah Junhee and her baby are pitiful and all but REALLY? She killed her own son? I don’t fucking understand?
And ohmygod Hyunju didn’t deserve any of that pleaaaaase. I was hoping she’d become a finalist.
How come Gihun didn’t hesitate to kill Daeho but HESITATED A LOT to kill 100? Saebyeok’s hallucination will be more impactful if Gihun didn’t lose his humanity in the early episode. But girl, sorry to say, he already did. The finale didn’t make sense. Gihun already killed, brutally if I must say, he STRANGLED Daeho until he died. He should have fucking killed the rest of the finalists.
Also Gihun dying feels so fucking forced.
I’d say the only character arcs that were satisfying were Namgyu and Minsu’s. It was reasonable they’d die the way they did.
Was expecting Noeul and Junho teamup but sadly, they have no idea of each others’ existence. Was touched by her ending and also Gyeongseok’s. But I really thought that Noeul would want to take down the system with Junho. But apparently, she only cared about Gyeongseok and his child.
The only fleshed out character is Myunggi’s. God he’s all talk. I never knew I could fucking hate a character so much more than I hated Seonnyeo and 100. I was continuously giving Myunggi a chance (in my head) but noooo, Siwan was right. Myunggi would do ANYTHING to survive. Even if it meant leaving behind the mother of his child (WHO TRUSTED HIM) and killing his child. God I hate him so much.
The Hwang bros plot. I wasn’t even disappointed they didn’t have a proper reunion. At this point, it was already so late in the series and I was just… meh when it was only like that. The tension that they built all throughout SEASONS 1 AND 2 was all for nothing. They literally brought back Junho from the dead for nothing. Well maybe to show Inho’s humanity but where will that take us? Junho, acquiring the baby is also kinda random. But it makes sense since he’s the only person Inho trusts.
Inho living and Gihun dying would actually be a nice way to show a bad ending but s3 wasn’t good overall so like just. What. The. Fuck.
God I hate s3 so bad. It should have ended in s1.