We all live in our border countries.

"If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take." -Lewis Carrol, from Alice in Wonderland.
I don't agree with Lewis Carrol. The path you take DOES matters. What you experience through the path does matters too. They all make you as a human. They give you your character.
Every journey may not start with decisions but they end with decisions. This was not only a drama. It was a journey.

First of all, kudos to the mastermind who created the games. They were all masterpieces. The only thing this serie lack is soundtrack. I wish they made some good ost. Especially for some scenes, it could've been more dramatic with background music. Don't want to spoil that much but especially in some scenes i imagined LiSa's Homura playing "sayonara... arigatou...".

--- I understood every character in it. I am more empathized with them in second season compared to first one.
--- I am glad that they didn't make real evil ones drastically change (like Niragi, he was just bad. some people are pure evil, we can't heal them).
--- I don't want to spoil but there are some good moments.
- for example Usagi didn't want to turn to her life until she meet that kid. Kid's parents were dead but they would want to see him to turn to his life. That was where she realized that her father would want that for her too.
--- She and Arisu asked the answers all the time. We are the same. We ask them all the time in our borderlands too. Why are we here? Who we are and what is our goal? What is our purpose of being alive? In the end, there was no answers, in fact, they don't need it either. We don't need it too.
--- Every character had their motives, every move they make made sense.
--- I liked the idea of borderland. It was like purgatory. You expiating by finishing all the games and facing yourself. The decision is up to you in the end. Do you wanna stay and run from your real self forever? Do you want to go to real world and seek the happiness not the answers?
--- Arisu and his late friends (Chota and Karube) conversations were great. They made me cry :( What a great friendship.

But what i liked the most is EVERY PERSON HAS IT'S OWN FLAWS. It's ok not to be perfect. It is a sci-fi but the biggest thing that made it realistic was characters. There is no perfect human being. You don't need to be good or bad every time, you don't need to smile or cry everytime, just be as you are. You don't need a dream or goal to move on to the next game, just listen yourself, care yourself and your loved ones, move for yourself not for answers. Because the answers won't make you happy, only you can.

"It's okay to not have a goal, just enjoying life and finding happiness is good enough." -BTS

Last scenes was perfect. I am glad that their memories about borderland are gone. They don't need to remember what they've been through, they just need to be happy.


I wish all of you guys happiness too!

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One thing you should know: Each character was a different face of mankind.

The thing i love the most about this drama: Each character showed us a different face of mankind.

Yohan shout out to us that as long as we stay silent about injustices we are no different from other corrupt people. That's why he chose to be the devil rather than being a silent hypocrite under "good person" mask, even if it makes him the scapegoat.

Gaon showed us the consequences of acting ignorantly. We saw through him that sometimes our conscience blinds us.

Sunah said man's worst enemy is himself. That's why she never loved herself, she always wanted more, but she was never happy. Because she couldn't win her war with herself. She thought she wanted Yohan's love, but what she really wanted was to feel like someone worthy of love.

Soohyun made us understand what we saw may not be true and what we think is wrong may not be wrong at all. We shouldn't act depending only our prejudice.

*opinions about ending from here -implicit spoilers-*

Some people found the show extreme, but it was actually so realistic. It was far from ordinary. You just need to look at it from a different perspective. Not everyone suddenly became a "good" person from villain. Not the system suddenly changed well. Not everything suddenly became peaceful at the end.

There was a war, it was fought, it was won.

But as in real life, years must pass after wars so that mankind can learn a lesson and do better. I couldn't have imagined a better finale than this.

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