Why do I feel like Season 1 is better?
It isn't even that bad of a season (the ending was super nerve wracking)
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its not a the type of thing you give a 2nd season i mean its decent but 1 clears
and the thing that made the original good was the lack of hope and lack of power the characters had with this its meh they couldve just done a different game maybe in a different country with the MC so language barrier plus different childhood games of different cultures and MC getting more and more survivor guilt would've been better giving the players hope and letting viewers see that the game creators and guards bleed was a bad call imo the lack of hope was the thing that made the show and the fact that all the players had no lives outside of it and no other choice
I didnt watch season 1 and I wont watch season 2, but when I saw they will be a season 2, I was like "Isnt everyone dead except one char that have no reason to come back, and if he come back will absolutely ruin the stakes of season 1", from this start I have no idea how this is possible to make a season 2 that make sense, since the char you bounded with are out, the stakes of the first season are out (we start from the scratch), and it only remain the concept of the game, wish is a nice concept but that will be hard to start from this concept and make something totally different than in season 1. What is the point of seing other char getting manipulated by a system we already know everything, the only way to make it interesting would be to make the concept of Squid game totally derail in some kind of revolution where they manage to fight the system instead of getting fucked by it (But thats probably because i'm french). You cant make a sequel where the stakes in the 2 are the same as the 1 ("Does the main char will survive").
Imagine a RPG when in chapter 1 you unlock the marvelous sword of Azerty, the aime of chapter 2 couldn't be "unlock the sword of Azerty again", it have to be "Use the sword of Azerty to make something even better"
Hunger games 2 wasnt about "Hunger games 1 with different char", the event of the 1 impacted the story of the 2 making it more political, and instead of having hope that the main char have survive, now we hope the revolution the main char have start will win.
Your hunger games example is actually very apt. Without saying too much it follows the main character from the first season as he tries to stop the games. It's very much not like the first season because we know what's happening and so does one of the contestants, and it's interesting to see the games approached in that manner. Mainly the two seasons just have a very different feel, really the big thing that makes season 2 worse right now is that it's really a part 1, kinda like the recent spider verse movie. We'd really have to wait until season 3 to see how it concludes
So the season 2 end in the middle of the game without a winner of the 2nd iteration of Squid game ? Damn, that doesn't seem nice, and explain why people get frustrated. But yeah I see, the plot could have potential, but just going back there to try to stop she shows doesn't seem enough sounds kinda a dumb plan to be fair x.x
The season basically ends with the rebellion failing, so there's no falling action to see which of the two ideologies have actually come out on top. I'd assume there's going to be another climax in the third season which is more focused on that. Also he had two plans fail to get to the point where he was back in the games, it wasn't really part of the plan. I think your critiquing would work better if you had actually seen the show lol, because there's definitely stuff to critique, you just don't have any of the context so there's always stuff you're going to miss in my explanations
Thanks, but basically I hate watching movie because it almost never happen when I like one. instead I love watching review of movie analysis them saying what is smart idea and what is bad in it
I just found it weird a battle royal got a sequel @.@ (But if thats the same logic as hungers games I suppose it make sense)
I think its more so that season 1 was more of a survival type of thing. There was geniune fear and hopelessness. However, in season 2, it was more of collapsing the games than survival(dont get me wrong there is still a survival element, just that season 1 was more imtimidating) and we can kind of anticipate what comes next
In my opinion, these things make it bad
The side characters had better backstories, or they were explored more in Season 1 ( I literally cannot remember a single name in season 2 just the numbers) ( 390 was cool but he was already established in season 1)
I don't think they can replicate what they did in season 1 because it was shocking, but we kinda know what it's going to be now
don't know for me, but in season 1, I thought the main character could potentially die
They were going for a different genre - from only survival games to a rebellion-type
Season 1 had a darker atmosphere to the game
The Detective just had a bad season 2 compared to Season 1
I think it was natural for a show like this to have a worse season 2 but they still did pretty good
Season 1 is for sure better and the creator wrote the entire thing by himself. S2 he had a staff of writers so it wasn't as solid imo.
Also the ending is not that bad tbh coz I knew S3 was shot together with this so they had to end it like that. They had split into S2's into 2 parts so it was understandable.
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