Kate

I wrote just overall about all 18 trainees, not considering the chances of their debut in BP

Realistically speaking, most companies who sent their idols to these show use it as an opportunity to build a fanbase for trainees they are planning to debut soon. They send their best, not the worst trainees. So when they get eliminated, only a company with extremely bad management would not try to debut said trainee, but rather go with some new no-name they kept in the practice dungeon for years.

The only trainees from current top18 who might struggle to debut/maintain their career after the show ends:

Sung Han Bin - only if he is not smart about it and has nothing to do with him per se, but the fact he is under the company created by Ravi. So depends on how the company will now deal with all the media shit.

Kim Ji Woong - coz we don't know if his agency will want to invest in his singing career, or use his now even bigger popularity to make him even more popular actor. Depends where they will see more profit. I'm also confused what Nest Management even is. Not an entertainment company. Is this more like a contract work? Like, he hires them to manage his image etc, rather than him being sign under them?

Keita - There is something going on with his current group with members going to different survival shows.

Hui - while he will do just fine as a producer since he gained a lot of respect in that area in the industry, I can see him struggling as an actual performing artist. Especially since Cube sucks and I would not be surprised if they dropped Pentagon this year and not renew their contract (not the first time Cube would fail a rather successful group).

Kum Jun Hyeon - but mostly because he is under a new company so we simply don't know how good are their management skills etc.

Jay - hesitated before I wrote his name down, because he literally released a song right before the show started. But then I checked his company and I have little trust in their management skills since their only other group is also in a survival show right now.

Kamden - company that can work, but they literally just debuted a band, and P1harmony debuted in 2020... so can they drop a new group so fast? Not sure.

Seok Matthew - the most popular artist left the company in 2023 AND they just debuted a boy group this year. Chances of a new group for Matthew to debut are rather low, unless they try to make him solo artist, which I doubt.

Yoon Jong Woo - because he is literally not under any company atm.

As far as I see it, everyone while in the show is considered a trainee. Same with Ji Woong who is an actor with big fanbase, or Keita who was in industry almost as long as Hui.

Personally, taking into consideration your previous comment about "stealing the spot" I did not find this comment funny, might be why it did not seem like a joke to me.

I'm not gonna argue with a child.
Go drag everyone into it and make people you are a fan of look bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty sure Gyuvin has a strong Korean fanbase, hence his ranking is high. Personally I never voted for him, and don't understand the hype he apparently is getting in Korea. He performs better during the practice than on stage.

Pro tip: you can be sad about your fav getting eliminated and express it without dragging other trainees' names into it 👍🏻

Honestly, if he died, i think it would not be this "early" in the show. We still have 4 episodes left.

Theory from me, he did almost die but is fine. The shot of Jae Won alone was him just thinking shit through while Ji Hyun rests in the room (almost dying can be exhausting). Now Jae Won might try to distance himself from Ji Hyun because he 1. fears the pain losing someone can bring again, so it's better not to be too close with anyone. 2. blames himself for what happened to his brother, and now what happened to Ji Hyun and thinks people get hurt because they get close to him.
And it will be on Ji Hyun to get him out of that mental hell full of fear and doubts.

yeah... the editing and camera work in episode 6 was... painful.

I LOVED how they just truly smiled at each other and you could see the pure happiness and peace. And then the wide shot and Woo Joo starts running towards Dong Jin. I cried 😭

Not obsessed with the last episode, but obsessed with the last scene.
What a PERFECT closing shot!

Damn I miss this show already. I don't think this is anything extremely memorable, but it's something you appreciate when you watch it. You remember how it made you feel and get that nice nostalgic feeling.
Literally went from 8.5 to 9 thanks to the last scene.

Kim Young Kwang's performance? PERFECTION. How the fuck is he so talented?

psst, for better structured thoughts you can check my review 😅😉
https://kisskh.at/profile/Shini/review/269845

Luckily I already know my one pick survived coz it's PHan Bin 😅
also, not me writing it after reading first line and not the second like of your comment 🤡

Why I did not see it as rape, but still morally questionable on FL part:
Pretty sure the potion did not make him feel seduced, it made him feel weak. So basically he could not defend himself if he did not want to do the devil's tango. But here's the thing, he was active participant 😅

how he yeeted that child I replayed that scene good 10 times 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It was really vague. I mean they showed us she "changed" it, but it did not really change 🤡

well... there is dubbing in the show anyway, they could have used someone else to dub her parts when she talks to him 😅

ah yes, he loves her so deeply he cannot even recognize her voice 🤡
damn the level of fucks I don't give about this dream story 😅
I'm just so bored with how dumb these characters are in it.
for me dumb characters are the best sign of either bad or lazy writing.

But if I don't care about these new boring and cliche characters, I am not going to care about their story, journey, love, emotions, feelings etc.

also, they can lead to the same conclusion (at least he has a reference to look at) with more interesting story and characters in said dream sequence 😅

If I had a dream and found out my reincarnated self did some dumb shit, I would be like: you poor dumb bitch, I wouldn't never. And that would be the end of it, coz the decisions the completely different version of me made would not correlate to how I could possible behave at all. So the consequences they faced would tell me nothing, coz I would not do the dumb shit that led to the consequences in the first place 😅

That's kind of how FL and ML are right now - the dream versions are hella naive and dumb, believing shit everyone around them tells them, when in the original versions they were few steps ahead and did not trust anyone 🤣

Most people actually said why they don't like it in comment section: be it boring, not presenting the actual leads since the characters are completely different, being too disconnected from the previous tone of the show, painfully cliche. If the story in the dream at least was interesting and not the most basic story ever... maybe people would enjoy it more 😅