#and none of them were yt!!!! not a single one!!! you don't understand how much of a win this was for me

[crimsaph]

ugh heavily regret not dragging the hot girl I was kissing last nite at the clerrrbbb to the gender neutral bathroom

[sanstropfremir]

it's a shame that it's one's vocal performance ended like that because i actually liked it better out of the two :c i'm in love 3000 with junhoe's voice for that song, god i need a full cover from him or i will die. i have no real thoughts on the mayfly vocal performance, i'm not interested in ballads and i don't particularly care for any of those guys (except eunkwang he's funny asf but vocal positions are lowkey boring IM SORRY feeling controversial)

i liked ikon's pretty savage cover for the hype aspect of it only. weirdly enough i also loved junhoe the most there too, his opening line was charismatic and catchy enough to get me interested. bobby didn't stand out that much this time in terms of energy/presence but damn if that bit of acting "scared" (that's what i'm getting from it anyway, lisa is supposed to be the queen of the jungle so that's bound to get one intimidated in this context lol), anyway that little portion of mock acting was so absolutely entirely precisely incomparably perfect and funny and cute i just about replayed that part fifteen times. admittedly lisa could've done more but at least she was there ig. the ending part of the performance didn't pack the same punch as their previous grandiose (?)(idk english) finales but i'm fine with it.

skz was fine, i was confused about the whole deadpool and ant-man thing, not because i don't know what their deal is but because i couldn't understand if they were supposed to reference both of them or only one of them. also i always forget if deadpool is supposed to be dc or marvel. i'm a huge marvel fan but i didn't like deadpool (shocker!) and i never know shit about him. ant-man though, ant-man i fuck with. anyway.

so far, i found skz's performances to be kinda forgettable. like you watch them and it looks nice ig, but nothing really sticks. the stage i actually liked most from them was the rap collab stage and that wasn't even them as a whole group but it had the most straight-forward concept and narrative imo. the remix also wasn't the best i think, even fan-made mash ups on yt can be better than this come on 😭 the gun use was fun but extended longer than necessary. all in all a pretty tame stage i'd say based on all the crazy shit we've seen so far

the only reason i liked mayfly's vocal stage more is because of eunkwang and i am not ashamed to admit it. i like 'em funny and talented, what can i say. also how on earth do you spell june/junhoe's name???? the subs on the episode say june but everyone in my asks is saying junhoe is this a stage name thing??? somebody help me i just want to get this man's name right!!!

the fact that bobby does not care enough to bother with any of this is honestly getting me through. im still laughing at his 'oOoH nOoO' (dramatically puts head in hands) when they lost the rap stage, the man does not give a single fuck. i love it.

i got a lot more of people's personal opinions this time around and it's interesting to see that the structural problems that i notice when i do these analyses are also noticed by other people; i know that other artists/designers/people who think too much about these things will know what im talking about but there's always a part of me that's like "....does this actually affect the experience for normal people or am i just crazy" and the answer is yes i am crazy but also people do notice! even if there's a difference in articulation. but yes, both these stages had some structural issues, which is what made them not as gripping as some of the other stuff we've seen so far. also yes grandiose is a word you could use there haha.

this is the catch with using a preexisting property, you're gonna confuse people no matter what! there's definitely a way they could have kept the comic book/superhero theme without actually implying existing characters, especially with the glut of superhero content im pretty sure everyone and their mother could probably guess from bright spandex outfit. it also could have been a fun place for there to actually be aome original design work! im likely to be in a hate-hate relationship with the jype styling team because come on!!! you can do so much better!!!

none of these stages have replay value for me, so im just here sitting on my hands fidgeting and waiting for next week. ok that's a lie i have a lot of sewing i have to do but metaphorically im sitting on my hands.