Wild Idol Episode 4!

[kpopwinemom]

Forum post for episode 4 of Wild Idol!

I watched this One Week Ago and have since forgotten everything, so!

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[aceaceaceace]

I also watched this a week ago lol, so I'm going off of fading memories...

I'm glad we finally got to the "teamwork" portion of the programming, although it was mildly funny/annoying that they so quickly tried to start drama by having the groups pick someone to leave. Very little drama resulted from it though lmao. The boys are playing nicely.

What else do I recall...I remain curious about the age spread of these contestants. Like, Gunwook is maybe the yongest one there in this remaining 14, but who is the oldest? What's the median age? I am resisting the urge to look this up to avoid spoilers, but day by day, I weaken.

The 90-minute choreo was honestly really impressive to me. I do think that they are likely to have studied all these dances in the past if they've been training for a bit, but even so. Even the contestants who didn't do as well did amazingly for only having 90 minutes to prepare. Idols so often make this stuff look easy, but actually they are pretty damn talented/experienced/both even here at the trainee stage.

[halotolerant]

Guessing people's ages is a fascinating enterprise! One thing these shows remind us (and I've been watching some pre-debut Seventeen content recently too) is that puberty is a spectrum that hits at different rates and to different levels! I do think talent-spotter producer people must have to get very good at predicting which particular 14 year old is going to Grow Up Wide.

Yeah all the challenges here are impressive. Like I've kind of got used to the idea that they're in the wild but they're IN THE WILD with no mirrors or proper sound system or anything, that really is harder than most.

[kpopwinemom]

IDK I don't think they are great at predicting who will grow up wide so much as putting them in a situation from a young age that develops a certain type of muscles?

For Sure tho it is funny to see - especially with boys, who get hit MUCH later on average, who is 16-17 and still looks 12. High school is so miserably awkward because you have grown women and elementary school boys IN ONE CLASS ROOM.

I do feel like this show is likely to skew older just because of the physical demands! But yeah, I really want to look it up...

[aceaceaceace]

NCT Dream (I think) once said that SM straight has a staff member/consultant on call who is very accurate at predicting how people will look after they grow up and that is part of SM's casting process for the younger folks...but given the program they said this on, they might have been joking or exaggerating. It wouldn't surprise me if it's true though since looks matter a lot in the industry.

[kpopwinemom]

They totally do lol

What I mean is for muscle specifically though: a lot of that is controlled by diet and specific exercise done. Like how we were talking about Heuningkai the other day being BROADER if they let him (kid would be so ripped I s2g)

[halotolerant]

Yeah I was honestly imagining that scenario, that there's a kind of teenage boy whisperer who can assess a 12 year old and go YEP THEM BONES'LL GROW. Talent scouts must have some kind of ability even unconscious with this.