Talent is Awesome, Production/Judges Not So Much
10 for the talent and zero for the messy predetermined storyline’s. Less of the average staff/judges and more of the very talented contestants. The staff and editing really take away from boys amazing talents and their own personal journeys, that’s what we want to watch, not 1 minute to change a routine because you set them up to fail, let them fail on their own then help them to succeed.I’m not surprised about the low viewings and ratings.
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I was expecting more from the production
This survival show is quite forgettable in itself even if I'm quite happy with the outcome as my faves made it into the final group. In terms of production value, it is pretty flawed : poor editing, low budget, putting non stop the participants into traumatic events for seemingly the single purpose of making them cry, unmemorable stages... There is not a lot of grace to be found about this show if it is not the participants themselves.It is more on the lower budget / self produced by the company itself type of survival show. Indeed, it is a lot more like the ones that led to Stray Kids, Nexz, &TEAM, TREASURE than the ones that led to ENHYPEN, ZEROBASEONE, ALPHA DRIVE ONE, CLOSE YOUR EYES, AHOF... In itself this is not an issue because some of those lower budget survival were better than some of the ones produced by TV companies. However, this is not the case here. It truly seems that Hybe Japan put less care into this one that the one that launched &TEAM.
Despite binging the show pretty quickly, it is not one I would recommend given the poor production value and overall forgettable stages. It is quite a short watch (comparatively to other survival shows) and the overall final line up made perfect sense, even if it is frustrating how they traumatized all these boys repeatedly but without ultra rewarding moments. Knowing that it is under Hybe big umbrella, you could / should expect more from the production and making.
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Worst formatted survival show I’ve seen
I’ve watched a lot of survival shows in my time and this was just plain messy. It honestly didn’t even need to happen in the first place considering I think everyone thought 24kumi was debuting as that. There weren’t even that many trainees to eliminate in the first place. It feels like they were trying to ride off the &Audition hype and completely missed the mark. They also waited too long to do so.It especially annoys me that Gaku ended up in the voting unit. Why wait till the very end for voting? Eliminating two people after one performance and no voting is actually insane.
The episodes are so short compared to normal survival shows so you don’t really get much out of it. The first episode went STRAIGHT to the first performance. Who are these people?? I only know Gaku and Haku from &Audition. Let us get to know them.
Also, what was the actual point of those two commentators. Wasted time just to add nothing. NOT TO MENTION they announced the final lineup on a morning news show and not even on the show itself. What a joke.
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