Rejane

I think she is a great Maha, Maha is witty, ambitious and full of energy. For people that tone can be considered as annoying, I understand why, but that "annoyance" is part of her character and that's how she should be portrayed. Jiso is doing a great job!

I think if you were familiar with the webtoon, you'd be pretty excited about the changes they made and really hoping to see the next steps.

That time skip was one of the things I loved the most about it, actually! When the webtoon starts with all groups debuted and not contextualizing their past, we don't know their personalities, how some characters became friends and why some seem to dislike each other, I loved that the drama gave enough time for the relationships to grow stronger and how it gives more depth to their dreams as well, like, to see how Maha was perceiving to be an idol and how many times it didn't work as she wished for. That's important too!

I have no problem at all with the acting until now, none of the sub-characters had enough lines for it, to be honest. The only character that had more screentime was Maha, and the actress is adorable and very witty, just like Maha is in essence. If you dislike her annoyance, I think it's best for you to stop watching, because she will be a sunshine all the time.

The best part of the drama is that they are really portraying the life of idols and showing the bad part of kpop as well, so, that's why I said, if people were having high expectations for Imitation as a idol romance drama, I think they should be even more excited now because it's not only an idol romance drama, but it will also cover the industry, and show the struggle of idols and everything they have to deal with to debut and try to succeed.

Also, the show is doing great promotioning the groups as if they were real :) All the actors are really talented idols and if you think their lipsync skill is bad, you can look for their original work as soloists, ATEEZ, PRISTIN, UKISS, IOI and SF9. Feel free, they are waiting for you.

I hope you watch the second episode having a little more fun, because it's made to be fun!

According to the webtoon (I read only around 50 chapters), his character is a former member of SHAX and he takes a while to appear and is more like a guest appearence, BUT the drama already insered him a lot more in the narrative, like, they are using his vanishing as a plot...? so, I think maybe Chani's character will be bigger in the drama than he is in the webtoon. That's my wish as well.

Congrats on your debut Yunho, hopefully you'll get new great opportunities in the future!

Makes total sense!

subs are at 80% in viki! https://www.viki.com/videos/1181856v-imitation-episode-1

I'm using HOLA VPN for singapure, it's working after a few tries.

I think it was very humble of Rowoon to miss the King of Visual vote day lol

https://www.viki.com/videos/1180542v-kingdom-legendary-war-episode-6

it's a filler episode, they did a sports day!

I just binge watched and now I have a huge smile in my face, can't wait for next episodes <3

Sorry if I sounded rude or something :( not my intention, it turned out as a rant because I got a lot of ideas to write, it wasn't directed to you or anything... just in general because I see a lot of people complaining about the experts.

I hate that they keep comparing TBZ journey to RTK as well, I hope they take it easy for the next rounds and have fun!

Just to keep my thoughts... If your favorite team is the favorite team of all judges and my favorite team is the third favorite of all judges, they will have the same score.

So, if a team places fourth place for all the judges, they will have the same score as a team that placed last for all judges. The rank is silly, not the opinion of the judges.

The most fair solution would be to make everybody rank everyone and add scores based on their individual ranks.

To be honest, I think the experts are doing fine and idk why people are so furious about it every week. The groups read the reasons behind their votes for round 1 and agreed with them. All the comments made they push to be better and this round has excellent performances, the groups reflected on it.

It's super hard to rank performances even for us that are watching and have our biased opinions.

Considering the judges have to choose 3 of the 6 teams only, for 3 to be in the higher ranks, 3 will need to be out of them.. it isn't that easy to have an agreement and a consensus. I think we have to just understand that everything is a question of taste and view, the judges are as different as us, who also watch, choose and vote. Me and you, we are probably voting for different teams and that's fine, so, if the respect can happen between us that are fandom, idk why it's so hard to accept the way the judges are voting, see!?

The most important part is that the show continues to give the judges feedbacks to the groups and the judges to be released after the show ends as they promised.

To be honest, no one would even notice his mistake if it wasn't so accentuated like that in the show. It was so fast recovered and in character... I hate Mnet for the way they deal with mistakes, since RTK is like that and Produce Series as well. They will never not highlight their missing steps.

yes! fandoms voted for face to face round, it was in february and people still didn't know the vote was happening. mnet aired a live streaming with the performances only and made us vote for 3 groups. we couldn't rewatch the performances via official ways or repost by that time, so, many people missed it.

ateez and tbz actually place low because people probably avoided voting for them (or choose to vote for the other teams) because of their high ranks for judges and self-evaluation, that's why i said fandoms are choosing what is best for them and not what they like the most. one fandom has a big gap in voters, i'm sure the way they vote is being decisive for popular votes.

aranita was refering to the final rankings for 1st round, where they performed their own songs: wonderland, god's menu, no air, jealous, etc.

it was released by the end of ep.4 the final rankings for popular vote and views for that round, but they didn't reveal any numbers yet, those numbers will be counted together with judges votes and self-evaluation. aranita did a prediction considering the % value.

a new popular vote round will start after ep.5 is released. pay attention on whosfan!

the popular voting system is messy, because fandoms need to vote for three groups, so, every fandom chooses what's best to vote at that time, they will not vote for those they liked the most ><

they will not choose to do fresh concept when they know nobody will do it too... sf9 even discussed doing giddy up and bloom bloom, but, the stealer was right there hahaha i'm hoping for a week that kinda suggests them all to try that vibe, so, they will not be out of place

ahhh that's unfortunate, connecting with the groups is important! i particulary think the behind videos of the performances are doing a great job portraying the groups, so, i think it's question of time for you to fully connect with them. try to listen to some of their music and watch fandom compilations on youtube and think less about how you aren't connecting while you watch the show, so, you'll feel better about it. i know kingdom will air a filler episode where the groups do a game day, so, you'll probably get into them better when it airs.