DLR LotD 10/16/21

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Saturday, October 16, 2021

"Did they clean up hell?" -- Helga, at Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

SG Ep 9: One Lucky Day

Squid Game

Ep 9:  One Lucky Day

The final one!

• No restrictions from violence.  So brutal, those Korean kids. 
• Inspector Royale.  Perhaps I should have named Cute Detective that. 
• The giant Red Light Green Light girl has a Squid Game barette in her hair.
• "Good rain knows the best time to fall."
• Oh. My. Gosh.
• TEARS AGAIN.
• You don't bet on the horses to kill each other, though, Mr. Bad Brother Front Man!
• A year later, and he's still taking the subway?
• Oh, he's not using any of the money.  But what about his daughter?
• Wait.  What?  That gold card from his gganbu?  
• Why was there only a number for the one floor on the elevator?  The other buttons didn't have a number.
• I TOLD you that there was something going on with player 001!!!!!!
• Aw, FG's little brother. I'm crying again.  
• Lady, don't be leaving all of that cash lying around like that!  My goodness.
• Oh, yay, he's going to visit his daughter.   Get on the plane!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!!?!? 
• I'm freaking out now.  His poor daughter.  

So I guess I'll write again next season?  I don't know!  

SG Ep 8: Front Man

 Squid Game

Ep 8: Front Man

I'm way too into this!  Finalist time.

• They get new outfits!
• Feisty Girl has a shard in her.  Eewww, and ouch!  Hang on, FG.
• Hmm...formal wear in a formal triangular dinner setting.  Last meal? 
• The walls have illustrations of the previous games.  Creepy and cool at the same time.
• Cute Detective, you are not hiding yourself very well.
• Oh, no.  They were all left with one steak knife each.  I'm worried.
• Noooooooo!!!!!  CD!  
• I was wondering if the brother was in on the game, because CD hadn't found him yet.
• Seong Gi-Hung, they're not going to help her!  They just keep letting people die, duh. 
• Did Business Man kill her off?!? Oh, Feisty Girl, I'm sorry.
• They need to save the 2 of them for the final game, huh? 

That was a short one.  Dinner time.  It will NOT be steak. 

SG Ep 7: VIPS

 Squid Game

Episode 7: VIPS

Stopped crying.  Now on with the show.

• She's alive?  Because they didn't want anyone to be left out?  Is Crazy Lady going to win this whole thing?!?  Because that will just piss me off.
• Cute Detective!  He's on to you!
• A baked potato.  Are they going to play a potato sack race?
• I just now realized that this is like The Hunger Games.
• How many times have they done these games before?  
• OMG, just pick one!
• I would be so freaked out about the glass and the height that I'd probably just go over the edge on purpose.
• Grossed out with the brains falling out after that one lady fell.  
• VIP also thinks Detective is Cute.  Too bad he's too smart to satisfy VIP.
• Juicy!  Crazy Lady vs. her Babe.  
• Three left now, and Cute Detective is doing some SCUBA.  Rescue them, CD!

We're down the home stretch!

SG Ep 6: Ggandu

 Squid Game

Episode 6: Ggandu

We're back!

• OK, we know the Frontman was not the head of this whole thing, so maybe he is not Thanos.
• Who does Cute Detective think he's calling?  And what would he have done when the big boss answered?
• Yikes, with the people hanging as examples.  
• Oh, Crazy Lady.  You are so irritating.
• Their partners are their opponents?!?!?!  Nooooo!
• Then they have to play whatever marbles game they think of?  
• "Your stories are a bit too dark, even for me."
• I'm so disappointed in Seong Gi-Hung, taking advantage of 001.
• I'm also disappointed in Business Man.  
• So the lesson is to not trust in anyone playing the game.  Feisty Girl is so right.

This one was heartbreaking!  

SG: Ep 5 A Fair World

 Squid Game

Episode 5: A Fair World

Eating umbrella cookies in tribute of the fallen from Episode 3.  I know what you're thinking: she's binge watching AND binge eating!  I have no comment.

• Phew!  The strategy worked, no thanks to the crazy lady.
• Wait.  So they're NOT burning everyone?  What?! 
• What exactly are they scanning when they scan the pinks into that surgery room?  Because it can't be their faces.
• Surgery scene made me pause in my enjoyment of umbrella cookies.  Ewwww.
• There is too much crazy going on now, with the doctor losing it, and the Pinks going rogue.  
• Oh, so the Frontman knows that they were stealing the bodies for parts?
• Doctor's gone now.  No more surgery scenes.
• So the Frontman is some kind of lunatic egalitarian.  Kinda like Thanos?
• I'm worried about Cute Detective getting caught.
• Oh, poor Player 001.  Maybe he's not a plant after all.  Yes, it took me this long to agree to that.

SG Ep 4: Stick to the Team

 Squid Game

Episode 4: Stick To The Team

Guess who got to have a homemade chocolate chip cookie for dessert!  Thank you to the niece!

• 101 and his team are a$$holes.  I don't know if you've noticed, but I am NOT rooting for any of them.
• Ooh, cute detective is a superior now!
• What is going on with the people doing surgery?
• For those who can read Korean, do they know what is written on those pink slips?  
• This is why we need to feed people.  HANGER.
• How did they all get weapons?  I mean, besides Feisty Girl.
• Where did he get that needle?  Did they all keep their needles from the last game?
• Yeah, that's not obvious, going to the bathroom at the same time.  They are a dysfunctional couple.
• I don't know how she ever trusted him in the first place.  Dummy.
• Business School guy is also kinda sexist.  
• Oh, no.  Tug of War from that high off the ground?!  I'd rather have mud.
• I love that 001 is the strategist for this one.
• A cliffhanger!

Stay tuned!

SG Ep 3: The Man With The Umbrella

 Squid Game

Episode 3: The Man With The Umbrella

In case you're wondering, yes, I had ramen for lunch.  It was yummy.

• They're forming alliances now!
• That lady is crazy, but she did help our feisty girl!  
• What is that green stuff?  Slime?  Jello?
• "Hey!  Triangle!"
• Ooh, the pinks are writing messages in the bread.  
• Are they being fed something so that they're craving sweets?  So they'll want sugar?  All of a sudden, they wanted something sweet.  Hmmm...and now I want something sweet, too.
• Oh, Seong Gi-Hung, acting like you're at a restaurant and choosing chocolate milk.
• "I'm willing to bet that when you were a kid, you got spanked a lot."
• Wow.  Don't give prisoners a sharp object, yo.
• Dude, I'd rather just be a cleaner.  Or are the tasks different for them every day?
• So these crazy stair mazes.  You can just go whichever direction?  Who is helping him?
• I'm worried about the cute detective.  What is his superior going to tell him? And what is he going to do with the square kid's mask?

Off to look for something sweet!  I shall look for it while singing "A Fella With An Umbrella" from Easter Parade.

SG Ep 2: Hell

Squid Game

Episode 2: "Hell"

I'm freshly showered, and we're in hell.  Seems like a metaphor for something.  Here we go with episode 2!

• Those big cremation boxes look like the one from the claw machine.  Hmmm...
• Wait.  That person was still alive?!?!?  
• My first thought was "what about that last rule where they would end the game if a majority wants out?  Question answered, and I didn't have to wait until, like, episode 5 for them to figure that one out.
• They did have a point, though: out here in the real world, it's bad, too.  They just have to follow the rules to stay alive and maybe get some cash.  Not that I'm volunteering.
• "This is just a game."  Suddenly, all of the sportscasters and/or athletes that say that just seem so insignificant to me right now.
• I love that the prize money is in a big piggy bank.  Just like the game is for kids, it's something kids would use to stash their money.  Except not in a clear one, because you really shouldn't let people see how much they can steal.
• How dare Seong Gi-hun swear on his mother! And then she ends up in the hospital. See? Don't do that!
• The slippers in the hallway of the dorm!  So classically real.
• Hey...it's that box again!
• That boss was just playing games on his PC instead of working to get some money to pay his staff.  
• Ooh....cute detective.
• The cards are back!  
• I think that Player 001 is a plant, or a ringer, or something.  He's supposed to have dementia, but he remembers Seong's face and his number?!
• Hmmm...eating ramen the crunchy way with seasoning, or maybe that was soy sauce?  I don't know, but I've never thought of doing that...and now I want ramen for lunch.
• "Out here, the torture is worse."
• OK, let's say the gangster gets his people to attack the person driving the van. How would he know where to go in order to get the money?  Does he think it would just be on the GPS and that they wouldn't be armed at the entrance?
• I guess my people don't use guns.
• You see, some people in debt look like fancy businessmen.  His poor mom.
• I'm rooting for the girl now, too.  She's feisty, and she loves her family.  I mean, her methods aren't so good, but I'm still rooting for her.
• I'm also rooting for the guy that let his boss' hand get smashed and ran away with his cash.  Should I worry about myself right now?

Ready for the next one, Player 456?

SG Ep 1: Red Light Green Light

 Squid Game

Episode 1: "Red Light, Green Light"

I had discussed with some folks that I want to watch "Squid Games" on Netflix, and decided that today is the day I would start binge watching the series.  V wanted to know what I thought, and I have too many thoughts to text after the first episode, so I'm going to write them here.  If you are familiar with my blog format, you know that I don't review movies like a movie critic.  It will continue this way.  Also, there will be MAJOR SPOILERS in every post.  I might start just doing a pseudo-live blog and write my thoughts as the show happens, but I'm not sure yet.  

• OK, so this guy has got major financial issues.  Gambler, steals money from his mother to gamble some more, and he owes money to loan sharks.
• Make soup out of his blood?  From his nose?  GROSS.
• Who puts a lighter shaped like a gun in a claw machine filled with plush?  How sadistic are the people that provide the prizes?  And why didn't he check what was in the box before giving it to his daughter for her birthday?  Also, why didn't he just buy one from the kid?  I guess he does everything the hard way.
• The daughter is so cute and forgiving.  I'm rooting for her.
• I've never played the game that they were playing on the subway platform.  Maybe I'll make a couple of those things while I'm watching the show.  But I'm not going to play for slaps.
• I don't know about being willing to get into some stranger's van, but I guess when you're desperate, it's just another thing to do.
• I'm worried about rooting for player 001.   Am I allowed to root for more than one person?
• Dude, that giant doll is creepy with her motion-detecting eyes.  And, oof. Brutal.
• So why did that guy help our main guy by holding onto him?  I should really learn our main guy's name.
• I do like the premise of using childhood games because people will usually know the rules already, and they're fairly simple to understand.  Unlike the Squid Game the narrator talked about at the beginning.  I'm still a little bit unclear about it.  Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention?
• That frontman.  Can't someone just steal his suit/mask to access his private suite?
• Who is narrating?  The frontman or our main character? 

I'm intrigued, but I need to take a shower.  It was a long Disneyland Day yesterday.  Be back in a little bit!

DLR LotD 09/27/21

Disneyland Resort

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Monday, September 27, 2021

"We didn't say we were *good* Magic Key holders." -- Liz, to PhotoPass CM, on Buena Vista Street