Feminist retelling of Perspehone this. Feminist retelling of Penelope that. Where's the feminist retelling of Narcissus, where the story's actually aware that Narcissus is the victim and was punished because he didn't reciprocate his suitors' advances, including Echo's.
Getting Squid game outta my system - absolutely devastated by Hyun-ju, Jun-hee, and Geum-ja man... I only cared about them... and Gihun... my 5 girls...
Anyways relay race as a metaphor for passing on love and duty and life and yada yada yada now the baby at the finish line😭
my sangihun heart is absolutely torn after season 3, partly in the fact that sangwoo wasn’t even a thought in gihuns head that whole time, partly in the fact that BOTH of them died by suicide. they’re two sides of the same coin. they both died the same way. im hurt.
im also mad that sangwoo really was made out to be this homicidal maniac for killing people just to live in the games and was shamed by gihun (though I don’t hold it against either of them, I understand that sangwoo was in fact killing people and gihun had every right to be ashamed with sangwoo) BUT, literally the whole time in season 3 gihun was doing THE EXACT SAME CRAP AS SANGWOO? you’re telling me he didn’t once stop and think, whilst his hands were around daeho’s throat, that maybe Sangwoo wasn’t so bad? maybe he was exactly like sangwoo? and you’re telling me he didn’t see sangwoo underneath him during that scene? didn’t get flashbacks from when they had to fight each other to the death?? didn’t maybe, in the glazed look over daeho’s eyes when he laid unconscious, see sangwoo? wdym.
ik this is the exact same point as before but it’s a little different, im so mad gihun didn’t have atleast one hallucination thing where he saw myunggi as sangwoo. the amount of parallels between myunggi and junhee and gihun and sangwoo had me hoping that they’d be mentioned and it didn’t happen. all of the s2 characters in some way were meant to mirror a s1 character, even in the smallest ways, ex. junhee and saebyeok, ali and daeho. myunggi was 100% meant to mirror sangwoo. with how he was so quick to do anything to survive, even if it was things he’d never in a million years do, and eventually lost himself to the games, he was absolutely supposed to mirror sangwoo. gihun didn’t have ANY thought while he was fighting myunggi to the death about sangwoo? he didn’t see the person he used to know behind that pole? in the suit his best friend died in, he didn’t once think about him? you’re actually joking me.
i really want to write a fix-it or some form of anything just to fix what I didn’t like about s3 but im honestly drained. the ending was so, so bad, and for what? a cate blanchett cameo and a set up for a spinoff just because Netflix was THAT money hungry? all of those characters that had beautiful, complex writing and so many goals and aspirations were reduced to stepping stones towards a stupid spin off? gihun wasn’t even allowed to get a good ending?? after everything he did, he had to die alone, afraid, with a corny one-liner that we’d BEEN knowing since season 1? the whole point of squid game is to highlight capitalism and how horrible it is, and the players being seen as racehorses and such is a direct metaphor for it, that we’ve been knowing since season 1! he didn’t get a reunion with gayeong? all she got was his jacket that she’s supposed to do what with, look at? she dosent even know what it means. i can GURANTEE, even knowing it was gihuns, she dosent care about it, because why should she? she doesn’t even know what it signifies. DOSENT even know that gihun IS 456. that number is her father, and in the end, that’s all he was reduced to. wtf???
also, the hwang brothers absolutely deserved to have a better ending than that. yes, even inho, even though i hate him. they should’ve been capitalized way more than that and shouldn’t have been reduced to another “hyung, why?” that barely even evoked any emotion in me like how the one in s1 did. their whole arc was so unfinished and rushed it makes me sad. they could’ve had this great moment where they’re face to face and we get the real reasoning behind why inho was the front man, etc, with some beautiful redemption, or possible death, that tied up their story. it didn’t even have to have a redemption, just SOMETHING to tie up their story without leaving it unfinished. seriously, they deserved a better ending and they both deserved to have a moment in the spotlight for their backstorys. because why was the fact junho gave inho his kidney/liver (I can’t remember which and it’s almost midnight for me dont kill me) not even mentioned?? I was SO expecting there to be some form of backstory and we got nothing. along with that, the only glimpse we got into inho and before he was the frontman was the scene of him killing everyone he was up against? don’t get me wrong, it was such a powerful scene and how it switched between gihun to inho and showed their different decisions was great, yet it just could’ve been better. I was fully expecting to almost get a full (or even majority) of an episode about inho and how he became the frontman, him before the games, him AFTER the games, and all we got was ilnam saying the same thing inho said to gihun, inho stabbing some guy 100 times, and… what, nothing? their story ended with that fuckass baby? wtf??
ik this might seem like a hot take but honestly, I sort of was hoping the baby would have atleast been taken out of the games. the baby changed how everything in the show went and frankly changed it all for the worst. ive seen people say that it was a metaphor for humanity but in my opinion, it’s a sad excuse for a metaphor, and the baby wasn’t even needed as a metaphor for humanity, WHEN GIHUN WAS RIGHT THERE! gihun isn’t even a metaphor for humanity, he’s literally the human embodiment of it! his whole character was built off of how he kept his humanity and stayed believing that humanity was worth saving throughout the whole show. he had such strong writing and was so complex and beautifully written and was thrown away so the baby could live? he deserved better.
im not even gonna type out a whole thing for this because I can’t even put my frustration into words, but all of the amazing woman characters who had such strong backstories were pushed aside for player 100….? a confirmed very problematic man….? hyunju, junhee, and geumja died for that? hdh sleep with one eye open. genuinely. in my eyes, hyunju, junhee, and geumja, and even yongsik all escaped together and had dinner cooked by geumja, hyunju finished her surgeries, junhee lived happily with her baby, and geumja and yongsik rebuilt their relationship. that’s what happened.
all i can say is that im pissed, and so sad. none of them deserved an ending like that, and I feel horrible for all of the actors and even hdh who put everything into that just for it to get shit on by netflix who just wanted to capitalize on how much money it could make. fuck you netflix, fuck big cooperations. you proved exactly what squid game was about with how you handled s3.
penelope knows of his reputation, diomedes knows that.
she knows that he has been raised as a weapon, that is what he has been taught to do since he was a child, that he has so much blood and death on his hands, that he has destroyed, destroyed and only destroyed.
(something he never knew bothered him until odysseus joked about it at Troy, until he met penelope after the war and felt the fear of staining her with the blood on his hands)
she knows and yet she answers his letters, with the same heartfelt affection as always, she knows and yet her eyes gaze at him with concern and adoration everytime he visits the shores of Ithaca, she knows and yet she has prepared the dishes he enjoys the most for every feast (he had not even mentioned it to her, which means she noticed, that she pays attention to his likes and dislikes).
diomedes comes to the easy conclusion that she doesn't know.
for if she did, then she would not be treating him as she does now, she would not be letting him close to her precious son, she would not share with him her soft smiles that he knows are reserved for only the ones she cares about.
so he lets her know.
he can lie to anyone else in the world without care or guilt, but keeping something from her feels akin to blasphemy.
she looks up at him, her eyes like stone as he repeats again and again that his hands are coated in the lifeblood of thousands, that he knows of nothing but destruction.
and when he goes to his chambers (not his– the guest chambers that he has been given) he packs his things, not even bothering to call for a servant. he knows what will happen on the morrow, she will throw him out. why ever would she want someone like him close to her or her son.
she has him summoned in the morning, and when he goes to her, he is ready for him and his men to be thrown out of ithaca.
penelope does not do that.
instead, she brings him to her weaving chambers and makes him sit before the loom.
"These hands have only destroyed because that is all they've been taught to do. Much like destruction, creation too is a skill that can be learnt. These hands that have destroyed can create just as well. I will show you. "
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