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Hold Onto Your Squid Hats: The Season 3 Finale Nearly Took a SHOCKING Turn That Would’ve Left Us Gaga—Astro-Insider Spills All!

So, here we are, knee-deep in the cosmic chaos of a Mercury retrograde, and guess what? The creator of Squid Game has dropped a celestial bombshell about Season 3’s finale—the plot twist that almost was! Picture this: what if Gi-hun had chosen the opposite path, the one so wild it could make a Gemini’s dual personality blush? I mean, the story could have ended on a note so stark that even the stars might have blinked twice. While the current finale wraps things up with bittersweet grace, the scrapped ending? Let’s just say it was darker than Pluto’s shadow on a nova night. As we mull over destiny, choices, and that eerie Mars-Neptune dance stirring up illusions, one question lingers—how different would our world feel if a single choice veered us into uncharted cosmic waters? Buckle up, because this behind-the-scenes reveal will make you see Gi-hun’s journey under a whole new zodiac sign.

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Squid Game Season 3 Original Ending

🚨MASSIVE 🚨 Spoilers follow for the end of Squid Game.

The third and final season of the Netflix global smash Squid Game hit the streaming service this weekend — and there’s a good chance you’ve already watched the whole thing, up until the shocking conclusion.

Brief refresher, in case you somehow already forgot: In the final episode, the show’s protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) decides to kill himself, effectively making the newborn daughter of Players 222 and 333 the winner of the competition — and, as the Front Man takes her to safety, the 45.6 billion won prize.

Well, in a new interview with Variety, the show’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says that the series almost ended way differently — and in much more shocking fashion, too.

“When I had a vague idea about what kind of story I wanted to tell through Seasons 2 and 3, I actually had a different ending in mind,” he said. “And then as I went through the writing process, as I created my characters, as I laid out the foundation and the outline of the story, and as I drew out the map for Gi-hun’s character arc, I realized, this shouldn’t be the way this story ends — and this is a better ending, or the right ending, for this arc.”

“And so there was actually a very drastic change in the ending compared to when I just had only a vague idea about the story, and then when I really got into the writing process.”

“In the finale, Gi-hun makes a choice,” Hwang added, “and originally, when I was just thinking about where the story was going to take me, it was actually the exact opposite choice.”

Yikes. Does that mean…Gi-hun…was going to kill a baby? Wild stuff, if so. You can read the rest of the interview right here.

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