Reality Join me on a super belated marathon of Produce48 before IZ*ONE's comeback (2 Viewers)

[Darkseid]

OOF I forgot Chowon was a flop in the beginning. From here on out, you'll choose one of two paths;
Path 1, I FUCKING HATE THAT CHOWON DIDN'T MAKE THE GROUP! IT'S RIGGED! I HATE MNET! I HATE THE SHOW! FUCK IZ*ONE
Path 2, Damn Chowon is actually pretty amazing. So much talent. But I don't think she'd fit into a group. She definitely screams soloist potential.

So she's really good? I anticipate

The way they showed her entrance in the first episode made her out to be some rapper or something and I was expecting Jeon Soyeon lite lmao, but then they've barely given her any screentime so far. I don't even remember what grade she got. Tbf even Nako hasn't gotten any screentime until towards the end of episode 2. MNET editing

 

[Baechu]

What about her

Let's just say.. she's full of suprises
Oh and keep an eye on Go Yujin aswell

 

[Darkseid]

Let's just say.. she's full of suprises
Oh and keep an eye on Go Yujin aswell

Go Yujin definitely got my attention- those visuals and dance
Shame she didn't sing as well, plus the other girl with the intense eyes followed up with the same song right after

I will post a detailed thoughts/opinions on Ep 1 and 2 once I get home.

 

[RandAlThor]

Lol i-fans always forget they're not the key demographic. I don't mind girl crush, but fans being obsessed with it and dismissing everything else is stupid. Also, I've seen you can get away with a lot more mediocrity if you're doing GC while if you pull the same in a cute/innocent concept, i-fans will be quick to dismiss it.

On the up side the charismatic unit IZ one ended up with is great.

 

[RandAlThor]

Go Yujin definitely got my attention- those visuals and dance
Shame she didn't sing as well, plus the other girl with the intense eyes followed up with the same song right after

I will post a detailed thoughts/opinions on Ep 1 and 2 once I get home.

Chowon had a horrible audition everything was wrong about it.
She and Hyewon are the under pining to the story arc that folks either love or hate.
But that is all in ep 3-4.

 

[yeji]

I started watching it back when it aired but stopped midway. I hated how some japanese participants were treated.
I am debating now tough if I should give it another try. I will not be able to watch much from thursday till friday so I would binge it mostly today

 

[Darkseid]

I started watching it back when it aired but stopped midway. I hated how some japanese participants were treated.
I am debating now tough if I should give it another try. I will not be able to watch much from thursday till friday so I would binge it mostly today

Yes do it
That female judge Bae Yoon Jung being extra harsh on the Japanese trainees triggered me but I hope things get better from here on out

Do let me know if you're in the mood to watch as well

 

[RandAlThor]

Actually i was rewatching the ranking eps show room versions yesterday. Since its not subbed i can just watch like normal tv and do not have to pay reading attention.
When i got to work this morning i had paused in ep 11.

 

[yeji]

Yes do it
That female judge Bae Yoon Jung being extra harsh on the Japanese trainees triggered me but I hope things get better from here on out

Do let me know if you're in the mood to watch as well

Bae Yoon Jung is a queen
she is actually known to be a reslly strict teacher.

I think I will.
Gyuri my wife is part of it too so it‘s good to watch for that reason alone lol.
I got snacks ready too

 

[RandAlThor]

Yes do it
That female judge Bae Yoon Jung being extra harsh on the Japanese trainees triggered me but I hope things get better from here on out

Do let me know if you're in the mood to watch as well

she loves them but comes from the drill Sargent school of thought sometimes ya gotta tear down and start anew, or at least wake em up.
I actually had more issues with Soyou's teaching if ya could call it that at times.

 

[Darkseid]

Bae Yoon Jung is a queen
she is actually known to be a reslly strict teacher.

I think I will.
Gyuri my wife is part of it too so it‘s good to watch for that reason alone lol.
I got snacks ready too

Lmao when Gyuri said her only talent is resembling that meme dog
She's so cute though lol. Which episode did you leave off at last time?

she loves them but comes from the drill Sargent school of thought sometimes ya gotta tear down and start anew, or at least wake em up.
I actually had more issues with Soyou's teaching if ya could call it that at times.

Yeah even though she's harsh, you can see she clearly wants everyone to improve and will do her best to ensure it. So far Soyou has been the nice judge, as has Hongki, let's see lol.

 

[yeji]

Lmao when Gyuri said her only talent is resembling that meme dog
She's so cute though lol. Which episode did you leave off at last time?

She is the cutest and has such a lovely voice.
I think 5? It was one of the ranking episodes. I definitely saw the second round of the group performances.

 

[Darkseid]

She is the cutest and has such a lovely voice.
I think 5? It was one of the ranking episodes. I definitely saw the second round of the group performances.

Lol yeah Jo Yuri was almost an afterthought in their first performance. I mean like they didnt focus on Yuri at all until the judge asked her to sing solo

I'll start with episode 3 in a while, they'll reveal who's ranks changed after the video evaluation and who will be the center for Nekkoya although I know that one already

 

[kuro]

I watched the show not very sincerely, so I forgot some key parts, but I know the final line-up and that's all that matters lol (also the fact that my bias from the start Sakura made it!)

 

[Darkseid]

Ok meant to write these down earlier but thoughts/opinion/review of the episodes.

Spoiler: Episode 1

- Lee Seung Gi!!! Pretty great seeing him be the National Producer Representative for the show lol. Been a while since I saw anything with him in it.
- LMAO what are the odds? Right after I start stanning Everglow and wanna catch up on PD48, the first 3 trainees to walk in are the Yuehua girls Choi Yena, Kim Sihyeon and Wang Yiren
- Yena basically does running commentary for every new trainee coming in for the first half an hour and it's glorious to watch, what a naturally funny girl. Easy to see she'll get lots of camera time.
- The Starship trio has the best entrance among Korean girls lmao. Ahn Yujin and Wonyoung are such firecrackers and the way they take turns to sit on the Number 1 throne for a second each
- JURINA FREAKIN' MATSUI. WHAT AN ENTRANCE. Whole room shook when she arrived and seeing everyone so starstruck was amazing lol. She just oozes so much charisma by just existing. Legend
- MNET messing around with YG lmao by changing the label to ex-YG trainees. I think one of the girls was from that Future 2NE1 video?
- My girl Choi Yena getting that rank A immediately, what a queen!
- LMAO the Kang Hyewon and Kim Minjoo performances. Not good However the abrupt way they hand Hyewon her F grade (Purity is all you got lmao what a line) and her shocked face made me laugh out loud.
- Lol at MNET using their editing to kinda try and build a "rivalry" storyline between Eunbi and Chaeyeon. So they're pretty much showcasing Eunbi as a born leader right from the start, and that Chaeyeon freestyle dancing was
- Lee Kaeun from After School Funny how former AS member Kahi was on the panel too, they actually have a 14 year age gap whoa.
- LOL Cube trainee Han Chowon flopped hard, what even was she doing. I'm hearing she'll surprise me tho.
- Poor Japanese girls, not a good night for them. Especially the poor HKT48 girls got grilled hard by Bae Yoon Jung
- Yamada Noe is a national treasure. The Jooe comparisons are so accurate lol. I wanna see more of her going forward.
- HAEYOON FROM FNC/CHERRY BULLET!!!!! She looked so pretty here and her voice is so beautiful.
- I might have found a Japanese bias- Takeuchi Miyu with that voice hot damn. Very deserved A.
- SMH I already know they're gonna drag the show as long as they can before showing Jurina and Sakura's performances. They edited it to seem like the pride of entire Japan was on their shoulders. It's so obvious their performances didn't happen super late coz Sakura was telling Jurina how nobody from Japan got an A, when they already showed Takeuchi Miyu getting one.
- Pretty interesting start, all things considered. Hyped for episode 2!!

 

[RandAlThor]

I tried to stay 6 and 6 to the end ( that was dumb btw), but at the end of ep 2.
Miyu, Miru , Juri, Nako(aka girl in black with hat ), Hitomi, Sakura
Wonyoung, Eunbi, Yujin, Kaeun, Yena, Chaeyeon
I think were my 12
I wanted Noe but .... where may have swapped Juri for Noe.

 

[RandAlThor]

Ok meant to write these down earlier but thoughts/opinion/review of the episodes.

Spoiler: Episode 1

- Lee Seung Gi!!! Pretty great seeing him be the National Producer Representative for the show lol. Been a while since I saw anything with him in it.
- LMAO what are the odds? Right after I start stanning Everglow and wanna catch up on PD48, the first 3 trainees to walk in are the Yuehua girls Choi Yena, Kim Sihyeon and Wang Yiren
- Yena basically does running commentary for every new trainee coming in for the first half an hour and it's glorious to watch, what a naturally funny girl. Easy to see she'll get lots of camera time.
- The Starship trio has the best entrance among Korean girls lmao. Ahn Yujin and Wonyoung are such firecrackers and the way they take turns to sit on the Number 1 throne for a second each
- JURINA FREAKIN' MATSUI. WHAT AN ENTRANCE. Whole room shook when she arrived and seeing everyone so starstruck was amazing lol. She just oozes so much charisma by just existing. Legend
- MNET messing around with YG lmao by changing the label to ex-YG trainees. I think one of the girls was from that Future 2NE1 video?
- My girl Choi Yena getting that rank A immediately, what a queen!
- LMAO the Kang Hyewon and Kim Minjoo performances. Not good However the abrupt way they hand Hyewon her F grade (Purity is all you got lmao what a line) and her shocked face made me laugh out loud.
- Lol at MNET using their editing to kinda try and build a "rivalry" storyline between Eunbi and Chaeyeon. So they're pretty much showcasing Eunbi as a born leader right from the start, and that Chaeyeon freestyle dancing was
- Lee Kaeun from After School Funny how former AS member Kahi was on the panel too, they actually have a 14 year age gap whoa.
- LOL Cube trainee Han Chowon flopped hard, what even was she doing. I'm hearing she'll surprise me tho.
- Poor Japanese girls, not a good night for them. Especially the poor NGT48 girls got grilled hard by Bae Yoon Jung
- Yamada Noe is a national treasure. The Jooe comparisons are so accurate lol. I wanna see more of her going forward.
- HAEYOON FROM FNC/CHERRY BULLET!!!!! She looked so pretty here and her voice is so beautiful.
- I might have found a Japanese bias- Takeuchi Miyu with that voice hot damn. Very deserved A.
- SMH I already know they're gonna drag the show as long as they can before showing Jurina and Sakura's performances. They edited it to seem like the pride of entire Japan was on their shoulders. It's so obvious their performances didn't happen super late coz Sakura was telling Jurina how nobody from Japan got an A, when they already showed Takeuchi Miyu getting one.
- Pretty interesting start, all things considered. Hyped for episode 2!!

Noe went first of the J trainees in real time the girls confirmed that on a radio.

Spoiler: "auditions"

Also i am sure Jurina and Sakura went about in the middle real time ( they are in staging when Woollim and WM were (big dance break)) and pretty sure Miyu went near the end.

I do think that after Noe all the J trainees got d or f until Sakura and Jurina.
That is why they graded Sakura like Somi more on attitude/attributes than skill. Also I am betting the vibe in the building was not good, you can see Kaeun hoping for a good mark for her but fearing the other. Giving the 2 of them the grades they did gave the girls hope.

 

[Darkseid]

Spoiler: Episode 2

Moving on to the next episode:
- All that build and closing moments of Episode 1 and you don't follow it with Jurina or Sakura what the absolute fuck!!!
- Forgot to mention in the earlier episode but that Celeb Five performance by the HOW trainees lmfaoo. They don't seem that skilled but they picked the perfect song and performance- no surprise one of them got an A!
- The trainee from Chungha's label was pretty good- her dance didn't blow me away but was solid, and so were her vocals! Lee Ha Eun.
- The judges and trainees getting tired and then them playing the Pick Me songs for people to dance and get energized bit seemed so fake/orchestrated lmao.
- Btw Go Yujin from Blockberry Creative has some insane visuals and is a good dancer but the parts of Lip and Hip they showed her do didn't really showcase her abilities well. In contrast, the very next trainee with those intense eyes that they zoom in on while playing BTS Fire did amazing though her gaze kinda scares me
- So I can see the different storylines they're trying to build here. With Lee Kaeun, it's how a former idol wants a second shot, with Miyawaki Sakura, it's a story of her self doubt and underestimating herself that she has to overcome.
- JANG GYURI!! They didn't even pay attention to Jo Yuri until their performance was over and she was made to sing lol. It was interesting how Yuri got A and Gyuri got B lol.
- Jurina charisma is insane. The way she walks, talks, looks at the camera and the judges, everyone was starstruck.
- Sakura well, she did fine imo but I agree with some trainees saying that probably wasn't an A grade worthy performance. There were some better performances that got a B. I do agree she came off very charismatic though and that's probably what sold the panel on giving her an A, but again Jurina, in comparison looked like a much bigger star here.
- Having said that, Sakura redeemed herself big time in the video evaluation. When she insisted on singing in Korean to Soyou, or how she danced well and sang both versions while many Korean trainees struggled to sing in Japanese was admirable. Still, a little too many crying scenes of her I hope they reduce those a little.
- Ahn Yujin knows how to work a camera, she did pretty well too. Minjoo and Hyewon are still kinda struggling.
- Takeuchi Miyu got almost 0 screentime in this wtf. She's by far the most talented Japanese idol/trainee there atm for me.
- Shiroma Miru and Takahashi Juri come off super likeable and memorable too. It's funny how the Japanese girls are leaving more of an impression on me despite relatively weaker performances.
- FINALLY SOME HITOMI TIME! I was surprised to see her dance so well alongside Son Eunchae. They also showed parts of her performing Mister by Kara in the first round, so kawaii I hope they move her up for Nekkoya.
- AND FINALLY SOME YABUKI NAKO WHO HASN'T BEEN SHOWN FOR A SINGLE SECOND SO FAR! Wow, so she was in that doomed HKT team that got shredded by Bae Yoonjung lmao. Her video evaluation was great though, so proud of my baby moving from F to the final lineup
- Curious to see who moves up or down now.
- And oh, Chiba Erii, poor girl looked so lost She's just too young for this imo, I felt bad for her.
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[Darkseid]

Noe went first of the J trainees in real time the girls confirmed that on a radio.

Spoiler: "auditions"

Also i am sure Jurina and Sakura went about in the middle real time ( they are in staging when Woollim and WM were (big dance break)) and pretty sure Miyu went near the end.

I do think that after Noe all the J trainees got d or f until Sakura and Jurina.
That is why they graded Sakura like Somi more on attitude/attributes than skill. Also I am betting the vibe in the building was not good, you can see Kaeun hoping for a good mark for her but fearing the other. Giving the 2 of them the grades they did gave the girls hope.

Yeah I kinda figured Jurina and Sakura must have went on earlier than shown, MNET knows how to milk the drama

It's good that Kaeun and Sakura got an A actually, I think they put on a lot more pressure on themselves than the judges or other trainees did and anything else would have been devastating.

 

[RandAlThor]

Spoiler: Episode 2

Moving on to the next episode:
- All that build and closing moments of Episode 1 and you don't follow it with Jurina or Sakura what the absolute fuck!!!
- Forgot to mention in the earlier episode but that Celeb Five performance by the HOW trainees lmfaoo. They don't seem that skilled but they picked the perfect song and performance- no surprise one of them got an A!
- The trainee from Chungha's label was pretty good- her dance didn't blow me away but was solid, and so were her vocals! Lee Ha Eun.
- The judges and trainees getting tired and then them playing the Pick Me songs for people to dance and get energized bit seemed so fake/orchestrated lmao.
- Btw Go Yujin from Blockberry Creative has some insane visuals and is a good dancer but the parts of Lip and Hip they showed her do didn't really showcase her abilities well. In contrast, the very next trainee with those intense eyes that they zoom in on while playing BTS Fire did amazing though her gaze kinda scares me
- So I can see the different storylines they're trying to build here. With Lee Kaeun, it's how a former idol wants a second shot, with Miyawaki Sakura, it's a story of her self doubt and underestimating herself that she has to overcome.
- JANG GYURI!! They didn't even pay attention to Jo Yuri until their performance was over and she was made to sing lol. It was interesting how Yuri got A and Gyuri got B lol.
- Jurina charisma is insane. The way she walks, talks, looks at the camera and the judges, everyone was starstruck.
- Sakura well, she did fine imo but I agree with some trainees saying that probably wasn't an A grade worthy performance. There were some better performances that got a B. I do agree she came off very charismatic though and that's probably what sold the panel on giving her an A, but again Jurina, in comparison looked like a much bigger star here.
- Having said that, Sakura redeemed herself big time in the video evaluation. When she insisted on singing in Korean to Soyou, or how she danced well and sang both versions while many Korean trainees struggled to sing in Japanese was admirable. Still, a little too many crying scenes of her I hope they reduce those a little.
- Ahn Yujin knows how to work a camera, she did pretty well too. Minjoo and Hyewon are still kinda struggling.
- Takeuchi Miyu got almost 0 screentime in this wtf. She's by far the most talented Japanese idol/trainee there atm for me.
- Shiroma Miru and Takahashi Juri come off super likeable and memorable too. It's funny how the Japanese girls are leaving more of an impression on me despite relatively weaker performances.
- FINALLY SOME HITOMI TIME! I was surprised to see her dance so well alongside Son Eunchae. They also showed parts of her performing Mister by Kara in the first round, so kawaii I hope they move her up for Nekkoya.
- AND FINALLY SOME YABUKI NAKO WHO HASN'T BEEN SHOWN FOR A SINGLE SECOND SO FAR! Wow, so she was in that doomed NGT team that got shredded by Bae Yoonjung lmao. Her video evaluation was great though, so proud of my baby moving from F to the final lineup
- Curious to see who moves up or down now.
- And oh, Chiba Erii, poor girl looked so lost She's just too young for this imo, I felt bad for her.

Nako and Miku wore black with caps Their audition does not exist. those 2 were 9,10 in the last election Miku hurt herself early and had to leave teh show.
Its nowhere, word is it was a song that mnet was not able to get permission for.
BTW That is HKT that got killed they chose a horrible song.
Up beat and happy like Woota people and they would have been fine.