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Anyone who’s gone outdoors for three seconds of their fucking life and has interacted with humans for at least one of those seconds could conjure up similar commentary. Most of the time the characters being commented on are forced into the scenario anyway, and that leads into a more subtle issue with the show—and that’s how dishonest it is. The big, prominent theme is supposed to be choosing between friends or money, and the fact each friend was willing to go into crippling debt to help their friend who just betrayed them should be enough to prove where their loyalties lie. Yet no one ever mentions how this is a
misrepresentation of the actual choice being presented, because not being in debt isn’t really the same thing as winning money. These pathetic attempts at theming are rather obvious if you ask me, but the weird and off-putting themes are less so. As discussed, real examinations of friendship don’t matter. But if that’s the case, then what drives conflict? You guessed it—classic teen melodrama. It turns out both girls like God Yuichi, and both of the other guys like one of the girls, so no one will ever trust one another or be truly in the same boat, and it has nothing to do with any wannabe-deep statements about the nature of greed or the social science of monetary corruption and, instead, everything to do with who wants to fuck who. Even when the first arc ends and our group of established “friends” gets replaced by a new shallow cast of characters to populate the following arc, the conflict STILL continues to erupt and revolve around inserting women into men’s relationships to sow the seeds of jealousy and resentment.
But why is this relevant to weird and off-putting themes? Well, for the same reason it was odd to see the aforementioned live audience vote Tsundere Shiho as being “100% unforgivable” after it was revealed she liked God Yuichi after having dated
Glasses Tenji in the past. Glasses Tenji himself (who was the original traitor by the way) explains how he entered everyone into the Squid Game for the purpose of destroying the organization behind the games, and to potentially expose Tsundere Shiho for being connected to them.
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