Remember Sang-woo

sang-woo and gi-hun parallels s1 and s3

This is the first big parallel this season. The knife gets shot out of Gi-hun's hand before he has the chance. It's cruel for the VIPs to keep Gi-hun alive for their entertainment but of course cruelty is the point.

Gi-hun uses multiple fighting tactics from Sang-woo-- his use of the knife, goes for the eyes of the other player during the jump rope game, and wraps his suit jacket around his arm as defense. It is wonderfully interesting how Sang-woo and Gi-hun and In-ho are connected as survivors of the game, what they learn from watching each other.

There's so many things to cry about in this show... It must be so sad for Lee Jung-jae to say goodbye to Gi-hun in this way. I think we all knew he was going to die but such a willing suicide in a game that brutally kills in excess was so sad and the perfect way to encapsulate who Gi-hun and people really are. Sang-woo and Gi-hun both kill themselves to save other people. And I think part of Gi-hun going into the game knew that he wasn't going to leave the island alive. This show is so tragic man...