I wasn’t going to recap Boys Planet (and technically, I’m still not doing it), but I’m watching the series and thought others might appreciate a spot to discuss it. So, each week I plan on dumping a few of my random thoughts about the show. Again, this will not be a full, detailed recap. But, if you have something you want to mention make sure to include it in the comments!
Thoughts on BOYS PLANET Episode One
Thoughts on BOYS PLANET Episode Two
Thoughts on BOYS PLANET Episode Three
Thoughts on BOYS PLANET Episode Four
I have exactly one thought on Boys Planet this week…
No. Episode. Should. Be. Three. Hours. Long.
(Especially if it’s not even a performance episode)
Seriously, these episodes are the TV show version of this meme:
If I’m gonna make it through this elimination episode, it has to be in small chunks throughout the week. But, I thought others might want a space to discuss the events of Episode 5 before I get to them.
I may update this post with other thoughts as I make my way through the episode, but feel free to discuss among yourselves while I catch up!
** BTW, I heard through the grapevine that a group will be performing Infinite’s Man In Love next week. I don’t know (or care) who’s in the group. They win first place as far as I’m concerned!
EDIT 1: The Rankings
The way they’re doing the rankings is really annoying and messes with my desire to classify things in ascending or descending rank. I don’t like how they’re pulling individual groups and then revealing trainees from there instead of just counting up from lowest to highest rank.
Also, it doesn’t help that they’re draaaaaaaaagging this out. Do they really have to play the guessing game before every single trainee is announced. “Could it be them? Or them? Oh maybe him??”
Then, the announcer comes up with some hopelessly generic “clue” and drags it out even more. He’s like:
“Does the trainee at number thirty-seven have two eyes and a nose?”
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“He does.”
But hey, at least that little sprite Takuto made it through this round! I guess his sparkly self stood out. He looks like he should be in The Super Fruit, and that’s not a euphemism!
EDIT 2: The Top Nine
Well, despite my pessimistic prediction, I finished the episode today — assisted by a generous use of the fast forward button. It’s amazing how useful the 4x-8x speed is in situations like this! Regrettably, the super speed didn’t shield me from the Native American cosplay (?) that happened during one of the filler segments. But, you can’t win them all!
My thoughts on the top nine are…
…That’s sure a great top two! I’m fully aware how heavy-handedly the editing is crafting a Hanbin/Matthew storyline. This season has basically turned into their own buddy series/romantic comedy. But in this case, I’m happy to be manipulated. Let’s just let them debut in these positions.
As for Hui, I really hope his fanbase decides to hold back their votes for his sake. He should take this new boost of notoriety back to his existing group. I just don’t see him as part of a MNET idol group with a bunch of members much younger than him.
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The way this episode was formatted just killed me. Sitting through those 3 hours were so boring. All of the trainees that caught my eye in episode 4 got eliminated which was 😭. Other than that the results that occured were what I expected.
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Honestly thank you I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t want Hui to debut it just would be so weird since he’s way older than everyone plus I feel like it’s a huge power imbalance because he’s already well known he’s a great singer but I don’t think he should debut
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I wasn’t going to watch BOYS PLANET but since clips on YT kept recommending it to me, I watched it. I understand your pain….Why are MNET programs to long????
I’ve watched up to EP 4 and there are a few contestants that have stood out to me (besides the ex-members from TO1 and Lee Hoe Taek (Hui)).
The ones I wish would debut are:
Seok Matthew
Jay
Sung Hanbin ( My Top Pick)
Park Gun Wook (In my Top 2)
Lee Yedam (GO YEDAMM ! ! )
Han Yu Jin
Lee Dong Gun (His smile is just so contagious)
Also, SUNG HANBINNN IS KILLING MEEE.
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ok question have u seen sung hanbins pre boys planet dance videos bc good LORD that man was born to be a star
ME??🤨 MOTHER😤
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also sidenote this video is 3 years old which explains why he looks so different compared to now (like ppl were saying hed got a ton of work done but like. tbh i cant see it and idrc to know if he did or not)
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I’d say he just lost a lot of weight.
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Love it! A shame the K-pop machine probably won’t let him do anything like this…
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even sadder, he’s gonna be in an Mnet group
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Do we need to worry about the music quality?
Probably yes
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im fully convinced that mnet built a deyassification machine solely for this show and when it was sung hanbins turn they accidentally put it a few settings too high
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The dance competition begs to differ on that one!
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What are your opinions about the TOP9?
I think it’s solid but there are some people who I would change with others.
I would prefer Taerae, Woongki and Gunwook to Yujin, Gyuvin and Jiwoong.
Probably I am the only one who don’t get the Jiwoong appeal but it’s me if he debuts, I won’t mind it
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imo: just take out hui put gunwook in there then were good
(seriously theres NO way hed fit the final group like hes 14 years older than the maknae AND hes insanely overqualified)
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Oh an Infinite’s song that is not Be Mine! It’s a good choice!
Idol Band : Boy’s Battle ended yesterday. The episode was 2h30 long but there were 10 performances and the last part to annouce the winner lasted 15 minutes ( the 5 groups could say some words before). It’s so better to focus on performances and not on the drama and the suspens… Mnet is killing us!
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Ah, I wish there was a better avenue for me to watch The Idol Band. I hadn’t heard of it until a couple weeks ago and it seemed suspiciously up my alley, but it was so late in the show and information on it is pretty scarce (I saw exactly one performance and was struck by Kim Yejoon’s voice pretty much instantly, so it’s a shame he doesn’t seem to have attracted much attention). If you have specific performance recommendations, please send them my way!
Actually applied to be an audience member for the finale pre-taping and live reveal, but wasn’t selected. Ended up working out, though, because I spent that time, uh, at Boys Planet instead. I did sign an NDA that I actually intend to follow so I won’t give detailed on the yet-unreleased info — the stuff people are saying on Twitter is fairly accurate, if anyone’s desperate for spoilers — but I’ll be around next week and the week after to let y’all know if any of the editing doesn’t line up with how things actually went down 😉 I will say that, even going in with no expectations and very little knowledge of the thing, I left impressed by pretty much every performance! Was expecting a lot more struggle this early on, so I’ll be interested to see if (when?) some of them get painted as awful. Everyone was really into all of them in reality.
(Plus, just the filming part without all the pre-and-post stuff was like 6 hours long, so I have gained some tolerance. Three hour episodes sound like child’s play after basically twelve straight hours of standing! Could always do without all that filler, though.)
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Band settings take time to install, so clearly it’s a loooong process to film with 5 different bands to film!
Personally, my favourite members were split in different groups for the final :
Vocalist : Uhm Tae-Min : you can watch his audition Troy – Youth, Coldplay – Paradise, Sia – Alive/Unstoppable, Yuri – Dried Flowers
Kim Young-Seo, he was a rapper/singer : Mäneskin – Beggin, Oasis – Don’t look back in Anger, Blackpink – Pink Venon.
But there were other very good vocalist with Hyosun or Eunbin.
Guitarist : Hyunyul and Oya Takayuki
Bassist : Soonhwan
Drum : I like them all :p
The producers were really all very supportive with their team but with the other performances. They were having fun. I think they managed pretty well the Korean/Japanese languages.
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honestly sucked that many competent g group contestants were taken out this time around :(( the 100k points benefit for the winning group is soooo unfair (thats the point of it being a “benefit” but i feel like it could have been executed better)
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Thank you once again for taking one for the team.
I checked out a spoiler on one of the kpop “news” sites, bothered to look up Hui’s real name, then shrugged and realized that except for a small handful of them I don’t know their names only a grab bag such as the smiley one from this, the winking one from that. I hope they made it through.
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It would have been shorter if they’d aired the actual elimination episode when they said they would (still bitter about that)…
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and for the sole survivor to be one of the show’s most overrated contestants was the nail to the coffin
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I agree with you about Hui here. I see so many people screaming across YT how he deserves to debut, and deserves a second chance and all that blah blah but all I have to say is PLZ NOT HERE!!! This is not the same case as CLC’s Yujin who’s now in Kepler – CLC was completely gone and Yujin actually seemed like somebody who could work with a young fresh team and they could both give something to each other.
Hui on the other hand has way too much experience – I know a lot of people are saying “Imagine what he adds to the group” – and all I have to say for that is “What does the group have to add to him though?” – going back to Pentagon or going on a full blown solo career or even a new group that is NOT a rookie series like this – all those would be the best options for him really. It’s not just about giving the other trainees a chance at this point – it’s about giving him a better and more real chance.
And for the same reason while I love the two Up10tion guys I want them to do well, but I want them to use it to promote Up10tion and then go back 😅😅
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“As for Hui, I really hope his fanbase decides to hold back their votes for his sake. He should take this new boost of notoriety back to his existing group. I just don’t see him as part of a MNET idol group with a bunch of members much younger than him.” THIS!
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I’m not paying much attention but is Hwanhee still there?
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He’s there, but he was out for this coming round of battles (sickness or injury), so I don’t think he’ll be able to cling on through it, unfortunately.
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Aw, bummer.
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I think my overall thoughts can be summarized by this: 😪💤💤 , which is pretty much how I feel about all the PD and Planet shows. No single episode of a show should be 3 hours long. Ever. And while I obviously understand why they focus on certain trainees, it’s just unbelievably annoying what they will waste episode times on while still not even introducing every contestant. Why they even bother having 100 or so contestants is beyond me. I’d rather they have a smaller pool of contestants and actually *gasp* show them all? I also still can’t get over the irony of Hui writing one of the best songs to come out of all of these shows, W1’s Energetic, only to be on one of the later iterations with a host that was actually from W1 and performed his song. It just goes to show you how unstable idol careers are when the group isn’t coming from a big agency or the A-list tier of their generation.
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