Thoughts after watching all the clips again...
- Is it just me or were this year's first performances pretty bad vocal-wise? Like, there are quite a lot of good dancers but only few good (or at least above decent) singers.
- Individual trainees really killed it this year! Most sounded much, MUCH better than most official trainees.
- Seeing Urban Works' performance reminded me how much I wish for a VIXX cover in the live shows. I'd kill to see Shangri-La performed!
- Props to the trainee who had to perform Very Nice alone, must not have been easy.
- I'm still sooo proud of Dongbin! It's not like he's super good even now, but he improved so much I can't even. Now that he seems to have more confidence I'm sure he'll manage to improve even more throughout the show. Hope he debuts!
- The Starship trainees were scolded waaaay too much, as the performance wasn't even that bad to begin with?? Sure, what happened AFTER the performance made it seem like they weren't prepared but jesus... it definitely wasn't X tier bad.
- And lastly I really feel like the judges lack consistency. Sometimes they throw out As after a very decent performance just because they THINK that the trainee can become A level good, and sometimes they give Xs or Ds for performances of around the same level.
- and boy how I want to forget seeing Kwon Taeeun's performance lol