The ultimate season of Squid Sport guarantees to choose up proper the place the second season finale left off.
In Season 2’s ultimate moments, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) noticed his rebel fail, costing the lives of a number of of his allies, after 001 a.ok.a. Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) lastly made a transfer towards him. The credit sequence promised a brand new twist within the video games — the arrival of Chul-su, a brand new big doll, throughout from Younger-hee.
So what’s going to occur in Season 3? Some followers of the Netflix survival thrill experience have put collectively some really intriguing theories.
1. Chul-su brings a brand new sport into the combination.
As teased within the credit sequence from Season 2, there can be two big animatronic dolls working collectively for the following sport that options each a pink and inexperienced gentle. So what sport will they be subjecting the gamers to this time?
There are just a few theories about this, together with the concept they’ll be overseeing a “Jack and Jill“-style racing sport, group leap ropes, and even an amplified model of “Crimson Mild, Inexperienced Mild.” About that final one, followers recommend the presence of two dolls might imply they catch extra individuals transferring by watching from completely different vantage factors than Younger-hee might do alone.
The collection’ creator Hwang Dong Hyuk has beforehand indicated there may very well be a Crimson Rover-style sport known as “Why Did You Come to My Home” in the way forward for the present and sees the floral Season 3 poster as a affirmation of that.
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One of many extra artistic theories suggests, although, that the prepare tracks imply there’s a “Trolley Drawback” sport forward. The concept there could be that gamers must select between killing one particular person of excessive perceived significance, just like the pregnant Participant 222, or a number of people who find themselves much less well-regarded. Contemplating a lot of the sport has been about making selections — notably whether or not to remain and endure extra bloodshed — it does appear to be in step with the theme of this 12 months’s Squid Sport.
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2. The wall drawings foretell new video games forward — or possibly not.
A operating Easter egg all through the primary season of Squid Sport was the truth that the video games that have been performed within the thirty third Squid Video games gave the impression to be drawn on the partitions of the gamers’ dormitory. So, naturally, followers have taken nearer discover of among the new inscriptions within the background of Season 2 and drawn various conclusions.
This time, a number of partitions within the room present gamers hanging on a collection of triangles, which some have interpreted to be monkey bars, whereas one other wall seemingly boasts a large chess board. There additionally seems to be a Latin phrase on the wall (“Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi”) that interprets to “Right this moment me, tomorrow you.”
One Redditor identified that the picture appears extra just like the Korean chess sport Janggi, which has two rivaling sides of the board stuffed with numerous items (together with guards, horses, elephants, chariots, cannons, and troopers) and is gained by checkmating the overall of the opposite group. The kicker of this concept is that whether it is Janggi, in line with this commenter, roughly half the remaining gamers might want to die earlier than they get to this one.
One other compelling concept concerning the drawings posits that they don’t characterize new video games in any respect. As an alternative, the chessboard is consultant of a graveyard, and the entire swinging gamers are merely making their approach in direction of it. Yikes!
3. We might lastly see what sq. guards are as much as, too.
One other concept means that, since we noticed the angle of a guard with a circle on their masks (the employees) in Season 1, then one with a triangle (the troopers) in Season 2, we must always lastly see what it’s prefer to be a sq. guard (that are the managers) in Season 3.
The sq. guards have been established because the leaders of the others, so it might be extremely attention-grabbing to see who they reply to. Plus, in each prior circumstances of behind-the-scenes guard motion, the guards in query weren’t precisely falling in line (the primary was Hwang Jun-ho, who was looking for his brother, whereas the opposite was Kang No-eul, who has brazenly taken concern with the underground organ harvesting that different guards are as much as). So maybe there’s a supervisor guard within the combine who isn’t proud of the established order, both, and will make an actual distinction?
4. That participant didn’t die in any case.
A whole lot of time was spent creating the backstory relationship of Guard No. 11 and Participant 246, who joined the sport to lift cash for his daughter’s medical therapies and was thus a really sympathetic character, so his loss of life could be a real tragedy.
As some viewers seen, when confronted by a guard in the course of the quashing of the rebel, 246 might have been shot non-fatally. So when the actress portraying Guard No. 11 posted a photograph of herself on set with what gave the impression to be the actor enjoying Participant 246 in a guard costume, the web went utterly wild with hypothesis that she might have saved him as a substitute of killing him as ordered — particularly as soon as the actor deleted the picture.
5. The group dynamics will change in a really huge approach.
All through Season 2, factions have been shortly shaped between these gamers who did vote to proceed the video games and people who didn’t. That, in fact, knowledgeable how most of the gamers determined to group up throughout group video games — notably those the place they may defend their allies, like Mingle. Lots of the no voters have been killed within the occasions of the finale, although, so some followers suspect the groups will develop into randomized with a tool, like an enormous gumball machine.
Park Sung-hoon as Cho Hyun-ju, Jo Yu-ri as Kim Jun-hee, Kang Ae-sim as Jang Geum-ja, Yang Dong-geun as Park Yong-sik / Cr. Netflix
6. The boat captain isn’t who he appears to be.
Hwang Jun-ho’s try to achieve the island turned an unmitigated catastrophe, and a few followers appear to know precisely why: The captain of the boat he used to trace down the situation of the present video games was truly working towards him.
The speculation rests upon the truth that the captain was the identical one who rescued Jun-ho after he was shot by Entrance Man (a.ok.a. his personal brother) within the occasions of Season 1. As an alternative of that being a right-place-right-time coincidence, some speculate he might have been the one receiving the harvested organs from the guards and thus have a vested curiosity in not stopping the video games.
7. The grand finale will reveal the true Gi-hun, for higher or for worse.
Although Gi-hun’s first try to guide fellow gamers in an rebellion towards the guards spectacularly failed within the occasions of the Season 2 finale, some followers theorize that he would possibly simply pull it off by the top and throw the VIPs into the video games as punishment for what they’ve executed to so many a whole lot of individuals within the title of bloodlust. If he does accomplish this, he would have made a profitable arc from the man who stole from his personal mom to a person who lastly stood on precept and gained towards evil.
Nevertheless, others recommend that Gi-hun would possibly totally flip to the darkish facet by the top of the present and both be part of or substitute the Entrance Man, who himself was additionally a former winner of the video games. Proof of that eventuality can actually be present in Season 2 when Gi-hun proved keen to sacrifice the blood of his friends for the sake of his mutinous ambitions.
No less than one theorist thinks it’ll truly be a mix of each: The concept is that Gi-hun will faux to embrace being the brand new Entrance Man, whereas Hwang In-ho steps into the function of gamemaster, solely to make use of his entry to punish the VIPs. The trick of the hat in that concept is that he could have been working with Guard No. 11 the entire time.
We’ll have to attend and see which model of Gi-hun prevails when Squid Sport Season 3 premieres this summer season.
Squid Sport, Season 3, June 27, Netflix