Kingdom Legendary War EPISODE 2 (part 1 of 2)

For future episodes, the subtitles for episodes 1 & 2 on YT are off. The rest of the episodes (3-10) subtitles should be good.

the dancing in Kpop just gets harder and harder! To support this trend, the average number of group members went up. With more members groups can be more creative choreo-wise, it's more impressive to show synchronized choreo, and it creates shorter vocal parts for each member. Shorter vocal parts are actually beneficial when doing intense choreography that takes a lot of breath. There are a large part of global Kpop fans drawn in because of the love of dance. More and more people learn to dance or find love of dance from Kpop fandom. I saw an interview where one Kpop choreographer commented how they keep having to make choreo harder and harder because the fans themselves are becoming such good dancers and expect the idols to perform at a certain bar. As a personal commentary I 'd like to add I don't think this has affected the vocals in Kpop though!! the love of dance actually only encourages the interest in live performances! And so Kpop groups still strive to become (and ARE!) amazing live vocalists! Another random note, you can usually tell if a group has a ton of members that group is usually known for great dancing. smaller groups with 2-5 members are usually more vocally focused. But the big draw of Kpop is so many well rounded performers that are very rare to find in western music. All that said, groups with more numbers do just fine attracting fans because they have something special to offer in their own right. The only problem is they have much higher start up costs and the beginning and it's harder to keep a groups with that many people all with the same goal so many groups will drop or sometimes change members due to personal interests. Seventeen is the most famous and longest running group of their size to exist without any change to the original members

I'm just getting time to catch up with this. Apologies for the weird sync. When I skimmed it for subs they looked ok but I hadn't watched the full thing.

The idea that you would do your own ending fairy at the end of your videos REALLY tickled me, oh man. It's funny because even though it's a normal thing that they do in kpop, they ALSO make fun of it themselves. At least Stray Kids do, they'll do the dramatic pose and pretend to be breathing really hard to poke fun at each other. There was also a performance where I think it was Seungmin, just kept doing more poses and winking and stuff to drag out the ending fairy to be absurdly long. It's weird and silly and I have no idea why they do it. I've also learned that kpop idols train to spot specific cameras during performances, and will do rehearsals just for camera placement. I don't know if American performers do this as well, I had never heard of anything like that when I learned about it. It all seems so complicated.

The subtitles being several seconds behind (and getting MORE behind) for most of the video makes it impossible for you to understand what's going on 😢 I can survive some ads if it means you get to see what is actually happening. I mean I could have survive the ads anyway I'm not that picky.

the subtitles are off its hurting my brain lol

I didn't even see the notification for this! I'll give it a watch ASAP

about the live thing its actually pretty common in kpop to perform with a backtrack so i think they have that in every performance further than that theres a lot of discussion about who lipsyncs since they also now make livesounding tracs to lipsync to. And I am absolutely not able to tell them apart. A lot of people also said that some shows edit the actual performance in the vid. for these no one knows but i think other survival shows with fan taken videos proved that before!

I'd love it if we switched back to Tubi (I don't mind the ads and loved the idea of you reading comments during the ads). I am seeing that this has way less comments/reactions than usual; please remember that both the groups with big draw are in the second half of the episode, and lots of STAY/ATINY may not watch this part (or may wait to do so until the second part is out). Don't slow down! :D

"Lee Mujin is very much alive..." I cackled! Tim, it's 1:30am; I have neighbors!

Oof, the subtitles are like a good 10-ish seconds ahead. Sorry to say I had to just skip through to only watch the performance this time because it was really distracting. I also vote to switch back to the other platform.

Most people are in Seoul (The capital), second one would be Busan which is in the South and has a strong dialect, called Busan dialect. But most people want to live and travel to Seoul in South Korea, most entertainment companies are there as well. The subtitles were good for the "in the previous episode" part but then on the episode itself whey were WAY ahead. The subtitles were saying things that were happening around 7 seconds later (an eternity). THE BOYZ are 10. They debuted as 12 but Hwall (Their youngest) left after a year and Juhaknyon (Who is in the show you are watching) got his contract terminated I think last year or the year before. Sangyeon is their leader, he is 29 years old.

The subtitles being out of order is unfortunately a problem with the yt versions. I vote for switching, there’s a lot that we miss (context, information, conversations, jokes) when they’re so far ahead

I vote for the correctly timed subtitles version. These out of sync subtitles are somewhat disturbing (at least for my brain).

I would LOVE to see you react to more from The Boyz! I have been a deobi for almost 6 years now🥹 The original ”No Air” is so nostalgic but also very different from the kingdom version. Would love it if you’d check it out. https://youtu.be/8n6pRkpVsyU?is=l5xzhu-0fMx6cwM-