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there is not official statement about banning anything. I edited my first comment again if you want to check it out.

As far as I know there is no banning, but there are new restrictions and rules on how these show have to work, so some tv stations might just give up on these show since they will be too much work. Like, before casting there is suppose to be done a sort of "background" check to find out if the contestant is fitting to be a public figure and has no prior controversies etc. Which is simply too much work to do, at times even impossible to achieve.

edit: okay I did find the "banning" information BUT I am still trying to find a translated document to find out specifics. \\ Okay so I am not sure how valid that is. When I reverse google search the image of the "banning" document, it only let me to Korean websites, which would be weird to not have the source be any Chinese media... All the articles are exactly the same and NONE actually translated the document. So I have no idea what's up. It might be true, but I believe more people would talk about it if it was official...

edit2: OMG HAHAHA okay so I used an app to translate the document and it's basically about a specific show's selective process of contestants. They decided to hold off the auditions and selecting contestants because of the new rules. Basically like a week ago The Voice of China did made a statement that they are holding off the auditions and this is the document. And people spreading misinformation like always.

As I said in the review, the only thing that is completely on iQiyi is the "keeping fans in the dark" and no closure and final statement.

And yeah, I agree with Lisa not being the best mentor, even tho she is an amazing dancer. I will never forget how bad I felt and how bad of an aftertaste I had when she was talking with the translator in Korean when discussing Crayon's team for the position evaluation, and she said quite a lot of harsh stuff. And it never even crossed her mind any of the trainees might actually know Korean. And then Crayon was in a difficult situation when the staff asked him to translate what Lisa said and he had to lie not to discourage others. And Lisa herself knew the shit she said were not good to tell these kids, since when she addressed them, she brought none of the comments she made to translator.

variety shows appearances are planned weeks if not months ahead lol they also have schedule for that.

the character is suppose to be above average, but the actress is not - that's my problem.

Well, they did say her dancing in on the average level compared to other trainees, which is not lol She is sadly below average. Saying she is is kind of putting other trainees down lol

They should have either cast an idol actress or an actress that is good at dancing. It takes me away from the show and plot when the character is not realistic.

It's Lee Ma Ha suppose to be really good at dancing, like better than other trainees type of deal? Coz her dance with Ryuk during the variety show was quite weak.

oh I LOVED cinematography too. I took angry screen shot all the time coz I hated the content of the scene, but I loved how the scene looks lol

Well... it's still dumb. That twist would make sense IF her whole arc was getting away from the assassins and starting new life etc. But nah, she wanted to run the whole sect at the end, ONE OF ASSASSIN. Which makes her a hypocrite, coz she does not want to kill anyone, but she has no problem managing others to go kill people? How does that make sense? And even if we ignore this, she was still poorly written in terms of continuality. As I said, she was one scene hella smart and cunning, and another purely dumb. She was weak and did not know how to fight, next scene we see her fight. All the training happened behind the scene (another bad writing aspect) so for me as a viewer it made no sense how she was able to beat up people who were training for years, when she was doing it for just few months at best. Like, you explaining the plot explains why the show so bad tho. Coz they had to give her all the "good" aspect of the original characters: strength, cunning nature and street smart shit, but with her innocent, don't want to be involve arc, it made no sense she even had these skills.

Well, you can adapt a novel and it still make it makes sense. They do it all the time with BL novels to censored shows, which often are 80% smut, and 20% plot and yet the shows are good (sometimes) lol. That's why I cannot excuse how they did it here, just coz they had to change the original material a lot hahaha

downloading no idea, but you can watch it for free in HD on WeTV (link is on the drama page before cast and credit).

International means different nationalities not races tho. You can say it's not interracial, which is true since it's mostly still Asians, and few white and half white people. But it was international, since it had contestants with different nationalities (Chinese, Russian, American, Japanese, Thai, Cuban, Ukrainian). You are mixing terms here.

That's extremely immature approach. Longer dramas have priority for 2 episodes per week slots for obvious reasons. This is also not a show that is predicted to give much profit to KBS2, so prioritizing it over other more profitable show would be ridiculous. You completely ignore how the industry works coz you want 2 episodes per week. And I have no idea where this care for fans comes from. Not giving a show 2 episodes per week does not mean they don't care. You said it yourself, that they put a lot of effort for promoting it, clearly shows they care enough.

I myself like the one episode per week format. Just because you don't like it, does not mean it's bad or that KBS2 does not care about viewers.

explain to me how they could air 2 episodes per week, when in a schedule they have ONE free time slot for it, and the rest is occupied by other shows? Don't you now how TV works? one show ends, another show starts, there is no adding more episodes when you have limited time.

Are dramas with less episodes worse? Why is it bad it only has 12 episode? For me, most dramas are too long and coz of that, are filled with useless subplots. It's better to have well constructed shorter drama, than stretch it to 16 episodes with poor writing and filler stories.
And again, they cannot air 2 eps per week. What time slot? Should they take down already airing shows for it to air twice a week?

Coz they only have one free time slot for it to air? They air it on tv, not on streaming platform. They can't just put as many episodes per week as they want, coz they have a specific schedule to fit it into. It's not uncommon for 12 or less episodes dramas to air only one episode per week too (Dear My Room being another example).

no official info. It's fair to assume they are trying to work it out behind the scene since the "rumored" top9 still have not been seen, while other trainees who left Dachang were active on social media and seen.
But no one knows where it leads and how it will end...

What kind of logic is that lol
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I like ranting, even about shows I love. And I like when people are critical about stuff they watch and not just say every show they watch is a masterpiece.
And it's not like I don't like all positive comments. Just the essay long ones trying to tell me how the show I disliked is amazing masterpiece and try to convince me how good it in fact is.