Selaws
Well-Known Member
That was a really good read...thanks for posting it.
As far as how it ended...
I didn't like that it was left open for a sequel, but maybe that's just how I interpreted it. And I agree with @wokeupnew - didn't love that the old man was behind it. I loved his character throughout the show and I'll admit, I didn't have even the tiniest clue that he was behind it all.
Do we assume that was his one and only time in the game?
And for Gi-hung - wasn't his entire motivation to make money so he could travel to se his daughter? It doesn't seem like his final decision matched his motivation to go back the first time.
I kind of saw it in a different way:Gi-hung
My impression was that after 'winning' the game he felt that the prize was essentially blood money and refused to have anything to do with it because it represented the death of his friends. By bettering his life (seeing his daughter etc) he was profiting from the death of all the contestants. It took time for him to overcome this, marked with the dyeing of his hair. I saw the final act of turning back to re-enter the games as a way of taking the organisation down from the inside.