Sanrith Descartes
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I am in the minority I guess, I couldnt get passed episode one. Shit was just bad.
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Should push forward at least to the first two games
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Lanx
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I thought I was handling this show pretty well as my general stoic self, then came the marbles episode. That episode shook me in a way that hasn't happened in...years? It was just so rough on many different levels. I had to take a break after that one and get a hug from the wife, still have 7 - 9 to go.
That being said, I do really like show. It is entertaining and I want to see where it goes.
Using my personal rating system, I will look at my phone while watching but will pause the show if I use the restroom. Not much these days that passes the phone test.
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They introduced the brother. They needed his arc for the twist! The bad guy is your brother! Kinda saw that a mile away.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Dub. The main dude in the first episode is just cringe. I was hoping for something akin to Train to Busan level of acting.
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The subtitles are getting panned for shitty translation, confirmed by Koreans I know.
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We used the dub while eating, but 95% was sub. The English VA is absolute shit. You miss out on all the emotion of the characters without the original voice. I’ve had to berate my friends who watched the entire series with the dub.
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spronk
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We watched one episode a night, worked out really well, gave you time to absorb stuff and think about the characters. I really, really liked the show, honestly probably my favorite show of the year. Yeah, it doesn't quite "fit" in the end but I liked the philosophical discussion at the end. It felt like I was watching a person and maybe culture I don't really get, and I appreciate that "I'm viewing at 90 degrees" idea of something different from what I am used to.
My wife was sobbing at the end of some episodes and even I felt pretty sad, and while I like the scifi/setting of Alice in Borderlands I never really gave a shit about anyone there.
Its funny how if I start typing "how much is 45 bil" google automatically fills out and lets me know its 38 million dollars, lol.
My wife was sobbing at the end of some episodes and even I felt pretty sad, and while I like the scifi/setting of Alice in Borderlands I never really gave a shit about anyone there.
Its funny how if I start typing "how much is 45 bil" google automatically fills out and lets me know its 38 million dollars, lol.
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Lanx
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if you travel to korea, take away 3 zeros, if you travel to japan take away 2 zeroes
if you travel to china
wtf, why?
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I absolutely hated the last minute of the movie. But I liked the ending of the game, and I was even quasi-ok with the main twist. The minor twist with the cop just felt like limp dick shit. A whole storyline... for nothing?
All in all I would certainly rec the show.
All in all I would certainly rec the show.
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one thing I found interesting about the final episode, obviously spoilers about the last episode of the show/season
some members of the cast will be appearing on the tonight show this wednesday. Its the most streamed show in like 90 countries now, probably be pretty much everywhere by the end of the week.
So the two of them are sitting there watching the homeless guy, 10 mins to go, waiting to see if someone will help him. Western me thinks the obvious play out is Gi-Hun will decide to rush down and help the guy himself, proving there are still good people in the world and he is a good person.
That does NOT happen, he is content to wait and see if someone else will help, in a sort of Dark Knight Joker-esque "test humanity" kind of way.
Is that an asian mindset? I found it pretty interesting, there were a number of choices like that throughout the show where what I thought was the "obvious" choice was clearly something very different to a different country. Is it supposed to show the audience that Gi-hun is actually not really a good person, he is content to let others act but not do something himself? I have a hard time reconciling whether Gi-hun is a bad person or not, he waited until after that meeting (a YEAR after the game) before helping anyone or visiting his daughter, which he immediately walks back too! To me, all along, he was a deadbeat gambling addict who never changes and will go back less to "fix" things but more for the rush.
and yeah the brother police-cop just getting shot (but maybe not dead? we never see him die) was one of the weirder scenes in the show that still doesn't make much sense to me.
That does NOT happen, he is content to wait and see if someone else will help, in a sort of Dark Knight Joker-esque "test humanity" kind of way.
Is that an asian mindset? I found it pretty interesting, there were a number of choices like that throughout the show where what I thought was the "obvious" choice was clearly something very different to a different country. Is it supposed to show the audience that Gi-hun is actually not really a good person, he is content to let others act but not do something himself? I have a hard time reconciling whether Gi-hun is a bad person or not, he waited until after that meeting (a YEAR after the game) before helping anyone or visiting his daughter, which he immediately walks back too! To me, all along, he was a deadbeat gambling addict who never changes and will go back less to "fix" things but more for the rush.
and yeah the brother police-cop just getting shot (but maybe not dead? we never see him die) was one of the weirder scenes in the show that still doesn't make much sense to me.
some members of the cast will be appearing on the tonight show this wednesday. Its the most streamed show in like 90 countries now, probably be pretty much everywhere by the end of the week.
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