Nah I don't think so... 2nd ep will show what happened to our leads and put them in a bad physical state. maybe we'll resume the present timeline then. I'm sure it'll change to present soon cuz the drama is mainly about finding who is the murderer on the mountain and who sent that signal to FL.
But how can the male lead see images of where the missing people are? That's weird and I want to know why...
I think it's related to his past (past before 2018). From synopsis we know he "experienced a horrific incident on Mount Jiri". He's a little psychic maybe?!
Honestly I don't think the show was rigged this time like produce series. The evil edit was obvious I agree but they didn't manipulate votes. When it was one member from each group voting, Koreans (who have 50% deciding votes) chose their pick (prolly k trainee) and had to vote for a C and J which is how other trainees had more votes compared to K cuz the competition was rly high in K. when it was finally one vote, they didn't have to vote for J or C. So it was predictable K trainees would dominate the debut lineup. if mnet had rigged votes, the lineup MIGHT have had one or two C/J trainees in lineup.
the first 10 eps were really nice. I was laughing with them, I loved new friendships and childhood friends (FL and SML). then it went downhill. smh the SML became part of love triangle, the plot is literally going nowhere trying to do so many things at the same time. I'm in ep 13 and it's really hard to keep watching ngl.