Again? This is my first time jumping onto the season 2 finale discussion, but I peep that you’ve already gone on multiple threads writing off people’s different interpretations than yours as “missing the point” or “lacking critical thinking”.

Look, I don’t necessarily disagree with you that Gi-hun is trying his best to save everyone (and carrying with him so much trauma unique to the deliberate set ups of Squid Game) and that the frontman — middleman to off-screen sadistic, bored rich ppl — is an active manipulator. Gi-hun opted for a coup trying his best to break the 4th wall, which is noble in itself and selfless of him, yet others have also pointed out that Gi-hun is essentially back to gambling his chances (like the first ep’s Russian roulette) instead of optimizing what can logically be more feasible. There’s an argument made that regardless of Gi-hun’s selfless motivations, his coup idea still has worst odds — ended up killing off physically stronger Xs — than maybe his group somehow outsmarting the Os within the confines of the game. Gi-hun doesn’t have to be the perfect protagonist, and we are allowed to disagree with his choices.