Ko Ko Bop had great teamwork. K-Soul was a great leader (looks like he learned his lesson from previous episodes) and Yuma was very sweet to Kaedan. The editing of their training part was dumb tho: Kaedan doesn't want to be kicked out => Yuma says he's volunteerring to be kicked out instead of Kaedan => Kaedan ends up being kicked out without any explanation of why Yuma didn't get kicked out instead (when he asked for it). The final performance was messy but I enjoyed it.
Sugar Rush Ride's final performance was a bit better (skill-wise) but I really did not enjoy it. I can't exactly explain why. There was no emotions, the vocals were extremely bad and the team was pretty unlikeable. Zero teamwork and they gave me bad vibes with how dirty they did it to Irang: (1) was kicked out despites performing way better than half of the team and (2) was chosen as the person being jumped on despites being the youngest. I felt really bad for him.
Lastly, I really don't like the mentality of some of these trainees. Like Seongmin dropping his own team to go to a more popular one.
Overall, the relationships between trainees in this show are odd (minus a few exceptions). They look very fake and non-organic, as if they could betray each other anytime for benefits.
Also, what the fuck is this venue? It looks like a movie theater or a conference hall.
There probably won’t be one. After the voting manipulation scandal, the PD franchise has likely come to end.…
Girl Planet was a big hit internationally (just look at YT views, that's insane for a girl survival shows), the Korean TV ratings of a paid channel are irrelevant now that everyone watch freely on online on streaming services and that a big part of the viewers come from other countries.
Mnet knows this, that's why they keep producing these shows (they wouldn't if it flopped) and have stepped up marketing for foreign audiences. The new season Boys Planet is way higher budget (on par with Produce 101), so no, Korean survival shows are nowhere near their death.
Chinese survival shows were great but they have been banned by the chinese government. There won't be any new seasons of Chuang/YWY in the foreseeable future, until their president Ping is gone. Sad, but it was to be expected.
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I would have preferred more character development and less zombie scenes. A more psychological drama. The survivor group had great potential.
If you enjoyed it, I recommend "Bokura no Yuuki" which is a J-drama with a similar setting (kids having to survive alone in a quarantined city with a virus).
Actually, the highest rated C-dramas on this website aren't romcoms (Nirvana in Fire, Reset, Untamed ..).
Kdrama audience did not shift at all, why do you think absolutely ALL k-drama get licenced by western OTT nowadays? So much for a "shifting" audience.
Ko Ko Bop had great teamwork. K-Soul was a great leader (looks like he learned his lesson from previous episodes) and Yuma was very sweet to Kaedan.
The editing of their training part was dumb tho: Kaedan doesn't want to be kicked out => Yuma says he's volunteerring to be kicked out instead of Kaedan => Kaedan ends up being kicked out without any explanation of why Yuma didn't get kicked out instead (when he asked for it).
The final performance was messy but I enjoyed it.
Sugar Rush Ride's final performance was a bit better (skill-wise) but I really did not enjoy it. I can't exactly explain why. There was no emotions, the vocals were extremely bad and the team was pretty unlikeable. Zero teamwork and they gave me bad vibes with how dirty they did it to Irang: (1) was kicked out despites performing way better than half of the team and (2) was chosen as the person being jumped on despites being the youngest. I felt really bad for him.
Lastly, I really don't like the mentality of some of these trainees. Like Seongmin dropping his own team to go to a more popular one.
Overall, the relationships between trainees in this show are odd (minus a few exceptions). They look very fake and non-organic, as if they could betray each other anytime for benefits.
Also, what the fuck is this venue? It looks like a movie theater or a conference hall.
Also, these kinds of shows were going against the "no sissy men" policy of the Chinese Communist Party.
You can read more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/china-bans-reality-talent-shows-to-curb-behaviours-of-idol-fandoms
Mnet knows this, that's why they keep producing these shows (they wouldn't if it flopped) and have stepped up marketing for foreign audiences. The new season Boys Planet is way higher budget (on par with Produce 101), so no, Korean survival shows are nowhere near their death.
Chinese survival shows were great but they have been banned by the chinese government. There won't be any new seasons of Chuang/YWY in the foreseeable future, until their president Ping is gone. Sad, but it was to be expected.
VideoSubFinder to create cleared images from the video, FineReader to turn images into text, then https://www.syedgakbar.com/projects/dst to translate the text.
Else, it looks like the subber of S1/S2 is going to take that one too:
https://twitter.com/ManxSubs/status/1497039007246532610
40mins done as of now.
If you enjoyed it, I recommend "Bokura no Yuuki" which is a J-drama with a similar setting (kids having to survive alone in a quarantined city with a virus).