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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[kpopwinemom]

I have no memories of this episode!

They are BACK and they have new clothes. I have heard this is a separate weekend? So they got to go home and now they are back.

They are in TEAMS now! Some of these teams were smart picks and some of them I am questioning a little bit.

Little Gunwook is a leader LOL I think he is the youngest on the whole show. He is precious and I love him.

The Gold Box cracked me up like did all the budget go into the tower...no budget for food, no budget for Gold Box, we will simply give you a cardboard box! OK! Also I feel like the items in the box did not prove to be all that useful imo?

The boats! The one boy swimming behind the boat...no. God, what are these boys thinking? Anyway, this was very much a team event! paddling a boat is not hard, you just really need to work together. Brute strength doesn't make that much of a difference in boating unless you're like an Elite Rowing Team.

Ace said he thought these were dances all male trainees likely had to learn, and I think he is right. Some of these I have seen on every show this year: 2pm's My House, particularly, which I now HAAAAATE. I do believe it is a basic trainee dance. But yeah, 90 minutes to learn a song and dance...wow, that is hard! They did very well for it except one group.

[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]

This episode - unsurprisingly since we're down to a manageable number of trainees for my brain to keep track of - is where I really started having Feelings, Oh No
- this week they are a herd of gnu, I am learning so much
- I thought they MUST have gone and come back, they are clearly CLEAN in a way they weren't last week, I hope and pray that for 14 trainees there is some kind of shower situation now. Although I note the food is no better :(
- Groups! At last some teamwork points! I am amused because I've now seen these methodologies for creating Reality Show Drama at least somewhere before (this was how they picked teams in Physical 100) but yes as mentioned above they create commendably little tension about it all. I do think that in this very challenging context they probably have an enhanced sense of it being all of THEM versus the production team tbh
- 2pm My House! A song I know entirely through it being covered on reality and variety! The cover section was fun, I liked having the original singers there
- Making them swap people was mean - probably fair for how they need to ensure these kids can trauma bond to whoever they are put with, but still not pleasant. I do feel for Ju An always number one and now bottom, I'm not surprised he volunteered... but who will swap where?