Ok So All Of Us Are Dead was a great zombie show set around a high school that has outclassed
many in the genre due to it's drama and core principles.
It'll no doubt go down in history due to the georgraphy of Korea that it uses to it's advantage
and due to it being the number 1 Netflix show around the world we don't have to do the math
to figure out it'll be back.
I'll stop with the crap school puns for now though and throughout this video we're gonna
be breaking down our big theories on it.
This includes what the Halfbies could be doing in the next season, what happened the Cheong-San
and also the big villain that I think could be emmerging that was teased at in this entry.
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Ok so Season 1 ended in a great place for Season 2 to pick up.
At the end the students are in a state of limbo as they are left to quarantine despite
the army leaving. On-Jo, still reeling from the death of Cheong-San, explores the abandoned
zone and notices a fire on the school roof. It’s significant as Nam-Ra said that if
they should meet again they should have a campfire. Together On-Jo and the rest of the
group head to the school roof and here they get a reunion with Nam-Ra.
She explains how there are more like her that ran away from the school and heads off in
quite a dramatic fashion by jumping off the building setting up a superhero landing.
Throughout the show they pretty much bucks the trend of ambling slow zombies and because
of this they could take the series in a refreshing new direction in Season 2.
With Nam-Ra saying that there are more like her and seemingly heading off to them, her
words hint that the zombie outbreak is in a state of cold war and Cheong-San could be
one of the people who are like her out there having possibly turned into a Halfbie.
I'll talk about him more later on but there is a lot of evidence to support him being
alive.
Season 2 could explore how Nam-Ra and her kind live out there in the wilds while the
human story expands as the students try to make a life in the quarantine zone.
Having these two clear divides in society could lead to a political fallout as we saw
the government are happy to exterminate the halfbies for just existing. Sure they wanna
turn the lunch lady into lunch but they also have powerful abilities that could aid humanity.
So it's a bit of a political, political quandry in which the humans will likely want to take
back their homes whilst the halfbies will want to continue existing. I think that the
core group will get caught in the middle of this as they're more on the side of Nam-Ra
rather than the people that left them behind to die.
From a political viewpoint, Assemblywoman Park Eun-hee was asked to resign so it’s
no doubt that the army and politicians will feature again trying to fix the fallout from
the pandemic.
I also think that there will be a resurgence from the virus as it'll be impossible to keep
locked down if the undead are still out there. I think it's likely that science teacher survived
the bombing out and though we never got it confirmed, he's probably a halfbie too.
He might be the person that wants to start the virus up again as in many ways, his theories
were right.
He thought that there was a way to create a new superhuman and though it failed on the
most part, if one had the will, they could defeat the virus.
Now before we speculate about what could happen in Season 2, I must clarify that it has not
been confirmed as of yet. However, this is a lot of evidence to support that it's on
the way.
We know that Netflix notoriously loves to cancel things more than a Twitter mob but
K Dramas are incredibly popular and after the dizzying cut through success of Squid
Game, the streaming service has decided to double down on Korean content.
They are leasing two facilities in South Korea and have sent $700 million dollars on shows
from the country in the last five years.
They've have committed to many many new K Dramas and considering according to the analytics
site, Flix Patrol, it is the number 1 show worldwide.
Believe it or not it even beat social media juggernaut shows like Euphoria and The Book
of Boba Fett for Twitter engagement the week it dropped.
Thus I do think it will avoid the fate of things like Cowboy Bebop and Jupiter’s Legacy
and that we will get a Season 2.
Now as for Cheong-San though we never see him survive or turn into a halfbie I do think
that he's out there.
The show made a point of showing Gwi-Nam reviving after almost every moment he should have died,
setting up the rules that the Halfbie’s are incredibly resilient and in some cases
they regenerate over time.
He and Gwi-Nam were fully engulfed in flames as the missiles hit the school so it could
be taking him a while to heal.
If he survived we could see a group of Halfbie’s trying to make a new life with the authorities
wanting to take them out while the surviving students attempt to defend them.
The Halfbies would be key to taking back Hyosan if they can work out a way not to go feral
and kill like Nam-Ra did on her escape. They can survive death as they are already technically
dead and can wipe out the zombies themselves, aiding humanity.
The story of the Halfbies vs the adults would fit well due to the fact that the show is
really about the societal pressure to succeed that is put on the students and how they feel
abandoned and let down by the adults. The school turned a blind eye to the bullying
and even when the crisis started to escalate, all they cared about was the school's reputation,
not the safety of the students. Further on the trend of them being let down by the adults,
even the virus was created by a teacher himself.
The kids in the finale after reaching the quarantine zone say they were abandoned and
On Jo says she will never ask an adult for anything again. While On-Jo’s dad came back
to save her, it wasn’t at the behest of the authorities and he had to break every
law to escape. They were quite literally abandoned and it’s a theme that spread throughout
the show with even Eun-Ji being failed heavily by everyone around her.
Whatever happens, the kids will need to defy the adults if they are to live a free life.
While the epidemic has been considered contained for now, it is not out of the realm of possibility
that it can re-remerge and come back again even worse. The decision that led to the bombs
dropping was made due to the fact that that the undead were spreading out into the wider
country or at least at threat of doing so. With the idea of more Halfbies out there,
it is likely that one of them could give into their baser instincts like we saw the Halfbies
do and bite someone in a different part of the country.
While the bombing was done to end what happened, Nam-Ra’s words at the end of the season
do indicate that the whole situation could repeat itself.
It’s a common trope with outbreaks occurring again such as 28 Weeks Later and Land of the
Dead and it would make for great watching if the zombies have somehow reached the capital
of South Korea making for an even higher stakes in season 1.
One big looming mystery over the show is that the virus itself is largely a mystery. We
know that Lee wanted to do something to teach his son to fight back against the bullies
but his son had given up on life. After observing predators and their prey, he found that the
latter would be fearful but sometimes they'd fight back and he took it upon himself to
create something that rids us of our flight instincts.
The Halfbie versions seems to have a virus that has the human and monster part fight
against each other and whoever is infected with this wrestles back and forth. Lee spent
a while trying to investigate the virus and why it did what it did and if there was any
way to cure his son and wife.
Some efforts to slow the virus sort of worked but ultimately they would give in to the disease
and become zombies. The virus mutated to hide in people and make them look like normal humans
as a survival technique and Season 2 could explore what’s next for the virus.
It evolved over what seemed like just a few days meaning that in the four months between
then and now it would no doubt have evolved even further.
This could mean tougher zombies but it could also heighten the effort in searching for
a cure.
While the incubation period is unknown, most of the Halfbie’s turned pretty quickly and
the quarantine zone gives an insight that the scientists haven’t made much headway
in forming a cure.
Season 2 should spend some time exploring this as I found the research and video diaries
from Lee some of the most important parts of the show.
One thing left unresolved which could be touched upon was the detective and the streamer.
The streamer said how someone needs to uncover the real truth which is as we know almost
impossible to get from the governments these days. The Detective made it to the safe zone
but I’d like to see him again in season 2.
While there is not too much left to explore about the origins, I mean we pretty much have
seen the whole thing explored over the video diaries that was left by its creator, it would
create an interesting sub plot moving forward.
The second season needs to be careful and not add too many stories and I feel Season
2 would need to be a bit shorter than what we have had. At 12 hours long it was a big
slog but hopefully they tighten the storytelling up to bring us a stronger season 2.
Now Obviously i'd love to hear what you think will be happening next time so comment below
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