Earlier than we get going with the dreaded Sign Tune competitors, we’ve received a couple of extra introductory performances to get by.
Week Two of Boys II Planet is once more giving us two separate episodes — one for Okay and one for C. Please, please inform me this is not going to be the norm going ahead. I can’t do two episodes per week, particularly when this one alone is 2 hours and forty 4 minutes lengthy. Why are Okay-pop songs getting shorter whereas survival collection episodes are getting longer?!? I may play TXT’s new single sixty-eight instances within the area of this episode and that isn’t meant as a praise to both!
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This had some actually humorous modifying previous to the efficiency thanks to guage Kany’s intense fandom round him and his BL drama. Aside from that, I believed the efficiency was fairly common however he positively has the look and aura you’d anticipate from an already-debuted idol.
Jung Hyun Jun
Didn’t actually get a lot from his efficiency however I cherished his dance with Kany, which is what I’m embedding right here.
WHIB
They have been first rate, although my expectations for a debuted group are a lot greater than this efficiency and I don’t affiliate WHIB with this type of music. I suppose displaying off their vary is the purpose, although.
DKB
I’ve related emotions about this. Clearly, the expectations are already greater for an skilled group, and this was a stable efficiency. Perhaps it’s simply the track I’m not feeling. Nothing appeared very distinctive or attention-grabbing to me. Once more, the judges appear to be centered on dance greater than anything.
Yumeki
He’s a prolific (and glorious) Okay-pop choreographer so all of the trainees have been stoked to see him. However simply since you’re a incredible dancer doesn’t imply you’re essentially an idol. This was very odd. The present has been constructing him up since final week’s episodes solely to have a robust dance and terrible vocals? This season is unusual.
And… they didn’t present DRIPPIN in any respect. MNET hates Woollim Leisure, clearly.
The uniforms this yr make the contestants seem like janitorial employees. It feels bizarre to me that they’ve additionally received the North Face brand plastered prominently on the chest. I do know it’s a worldwide model, however it feels so American to me.
I do know it’s all to create drama and pressure, however I’ve at all times discovered this franchise’s class system so awkward and pointless. Like… implementing and reveling in a caste system is such an odd type of leisure. I simply wish to see good performances.
I very a lot approve of the random canine that comes round to ship messages, although. That is additionally an especially unusual addition, however a minimum of it’s cute.
Endlessly.
Many of the singing was notably unhealthy. At one level, Hyolyn known as one contestant’s hesitant efficiency a “shy idea,” which I believed was a humorous – and really charitable – technique to put it!
Yumeki took the lead on choreography, as anticipated. At one level, ZEROBASEONE’s Hanbin got here for a go to. Gosh, they’re actually involving him quite a bit on this season. He introduced them some tanghulu, which I coincidentally had for the primary time a few weeks in the past. It’s so good!
That was my important takeaway from this phase. I actually need some tanghulu once more.
Ah, the a part of the collection the place they edit collectively absolutely the worst performances you’ve ever seen to construct drama earlier than the inevitably polished group stage of this yr’s sign track. Embarrassingly, every contestant’s new rating is instantly displayed on a monitor for all to see after they carry out.
The factor is, at this level with so many contestants, it’s asking numerous the viewers to care if anybody strikes up or down a rank — particularly when this phase goes on for an hour in the midst of a virtually three-hour episode. To be trustworthy, I needed to quick ahead. I simply can’t hearken to the identical clip of that very same sign track time and again. I don’t understand how the judges do it. It’s like an countless loop of hell.
When all is settled, Kim Geon Woo scored the “killing half” after a vote. Tremendous. Cool. I suppose.
For the principle stage, we’ve received transferring phases, dancing in water, fireworks. Every little thing however an amazing track!
And after the fireworks come a bunch of eliminations (together with DRIPPIN’s Lee Hyeop for some cause). Once more, it’s arduous to speculate a lot in anybody at this level within the collection. Let’s transfer on to the smaller group performances.
To finish the episode, Ong Seungwu (bear in mind him??) got here out to disclose the Planet C contributors. Cue a ton of dramatic gasping. There higher be a “battle to the dying” dance-off arising subsequent.
