Rejane

hopefully yes! we are counting on it: a drama showing hard work groups can succeed although they come from a small company YES

I'M IN LOVE

That's something that happened in the webtoon, we don't know if the drama will follow. That's how she connect with the guy as a friend, nothing serious happen to him.

They are besties, not siblings. Yujin has feelings for her and he acts as a protector, if they follow the webtoon he will also try to help her group to succeed as a sunbae.

Yujin has someone that likes him and it's already hinted in the 2nd episode haha it's not Lima

hmmm... so, maha was an aspiring dancer back in 2013, when she met ryoc's crew busking dancing and she wanted to join the crew (or start dancing too), so, the drama shows that in order for ryoc to help her, he asked her to learn the moves of their dance quickly, that's why he endearing started calling her "copycat".

in the timeline, that meeting was years earlier, so, maha probably joined the crew and then started to dream about being an idol, but ryoc is a member of one of the most famous kpop groups: shax, so, they most likely lost touch (maybe we will see how close they were while in the crew together, we don't know yet) and in the present, out of embarassment, she tried to avoid him in the set and doubted he would remember her.

idk if you're familiar with kpop, but males and females don't usually show their friendships and relationships publicy because that can result in dating rumours, so, that's one of the reasons why ryoc and maha wanted to keep a distance when they were walking or why he couldn't give her a ride. we will see in the next episode that just the fact they were clicked together already resulted in a dating scandal.

i hope it answered your doubts!

Exactly why I asked hahaha

I only read the webtoon until the 40 chapter, but the only developed arc there in Maha and Ryoc relationship in a boring way, kinda toxic too? As an audiovisual content, I think the drama did pretty great showing the 0 season of the story.

Just like Ikon (?) said, this week is all about preference. The battles are all very different in between.

Always something to worry, I know. But I really don't think it was the case.

No one was obligated to participate in the games, so, I think no particular reason other than them not being the athletic type. They were repeating that through the episode hahah so they were there supporting and bonding only.

what exactly is the webtoon plot you wanted it to be foccused in?

She was hiding from him on set, when she saw him rehearsing, and after, when he accidently hurt her. I don't recall right now if they crossed ways when Omega 3 was promoting, but I don't think he noticed her anyways. He was talking about the set!

I think they are pretty much the same in character, Jiso is doing a great job! But when the webtoon starts, Tea Party is already debuted, so, we don't see the whole process of her becoming and idol, we don't see her and the Sparkling members bonding over being in the same company before, we also got no context for why she started to play La Rima or how she, Ria and Hyunji became the group they are, trusting in each others like the drama shows. So, I think the fact they decided to start telling Maha story from pre-debut was very good to get to know and understand her better and I think for a drama, that's very necessary.

Maha's arc in the webtoon is more foccused on her love-hate relationship with Ryoc and how Tea Party is struggling to succeed so she is always getting the attention because she is La Rima imitation.

I'm not familiar with T-ARA, but It would be very interesting if they got inspired somehow by T-ARA journey or if they casted Jiyeon because of this. Except for the copycat point, all the others are new plots and made for the drama itself!

Please do! Both groups are so worthy and talented!

YES! the drama is doing a good job as an adaption of the webtoon, and some good changes were made especially to give more depth to the characters and explain better their relationships.

Right? Especially when she is doing that because she was asked to lol

For now, I'm watching it here with VPN: https://www.iq.com/play/t2ut214dpg

But later tonight it will be available in Viki as well, with subs ready for tomorrow.

Chani getting another unfortunate character for his list. Hopefully he gets a happy ending in Imitation at least!

I thought it was too mean to give him a phone scene and no one answering him in return :(

HAHAHA it's not my style to backfire on anybody, I just wanted to point some aspects for you to try to see the drama in a more positive light, because I really think it was made to be fun and I'm really excited that they are covering some serious issues as well, very balanced emotions.

I don't think reading the manhwa is needed, the show is doing a good job by itself. I only wanted to say that for those that read, the show seems very interesting too, because it is contextualizing the characters better and giving more growth to their relationships by adapting the narrative for a tv show that is airing in 2021 and not a manhwa written in 2014. Many things changed.

As someone already answered you, I think Omega3 was made to be messy, because they were preparing with different formations, out of time and with not a lot of expectations and budget. I guess now that they will be united as Tea Party things will get much better.

Did you watched their Music Bank stage? It's really cute >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewO8_bg83a8

If you are basing your comment in the synopsis written here, I can be very wrong in the end, but I think that was more based in the webtoon description than the drama itself. Tea Party still need to debut, we don't know if they will continue the same plot from there or if the story will have some changes now that Maha and Ryoc already know each other.