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I LOVE COMPLEX DATED ADVERBS. Wherein. Heretofore. Thereon. Hereunto. Whereof. Hitherward. Hereinafter. How can you look at these words and not lose your mind. They're insane. I think I'm in love.

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No, but on a rewatch it is SO SIGNIFICANT that In-ho flashes back to Il-nam telling him why he played the games after (presumably) watching Gi-hun's final bet with the old man.

(The editing seems to suggest that In-ho was quick to enter from some shadowy corner after Gi-hun left.)

(And worth noting that in this combined sequence of past and present, BOTH Gi-hun and In-ho are questioning why Il-nam joined the games. Men with shared trauma who are really asking the man behind the trauma "why WOULD you willing suffer through this?")

Anyway, it's almost like it's foreshadowing a growing obsession with a certain man that will give In-ho his own reason to re-enter the games. I know a second season wasn't planned at this point, but it's neat how that just all falls together.

Especially because I got to wonder what's going through In-ho's head here as he's just staring out the window/at himself after closing Il-nam's eyes.

I think he's meant to be looking at the area where the unhoused man was, but the focus on In-ho's reflection also seems to suggest that he can't see beyond himself to the good in others.

Even standing in the same spot, he can't see in the world what Gi-hun did. And In-ho is quick to turn away from it.

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Inhun/457 sure does serve real "doomed by the narrative x haunted by the narrative" energy.

'The narrative is consuming us both, but in different ways.'

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Netflix gave us the old man yaoi we never knew we needed.

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And who doesn't want that?

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squid game is fantastic and horrific and a profound exploration of human nature but i can't lie, one of my fav parts of s2 is how Inho looks at Gihun tbh sorry

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THIS AU PLEASE

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🧎🧎

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"the frontman HATES gihun, stop making everything gay"

meanwhile the literal creator of the series:

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when im tryna fuck but my bitch with ptsd is having a breakdown

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gihun collecting deranged homicidal freaks like infinity stones

bonus:

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Do yall ever get overwhelmed bc u wanna do so many things? But like, you're only one person and only one lifetime

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maybe we could have saved each other. or something

still thinking abt this shot. it's doing a lot of heavy lifting for in-ho's character

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🎶 Fly me to the moon...

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