ROAD TO KINGDOM - EPISODE 1 REACTION [FULL AUDIO/VISUALS]

I'm new here and I really love your reactions from youtube and then I found out that you reacted to road to kingdom so I joined you patreon because it's seriously an amazing show and I am hoping to see you react to Kingdom when it comes out rather this month or next month hopefully and I also really enjoyed this reaction too! I'll be sticking with you guys from now on! <3 Nothing but love

I've seen Road to Kingdom when it was airing it but now I will watch it together with you guys :D This show made me really interested in ONF and The Boyz. And liked Pentagon before too but I really discovered their performance skills here. Maybe you will be interested in Queendom after it, this show was also amazing! With some amazing female artists.

I promise y'all the answer to almost all of your questions are in the subtitles and text on screen xD Anyways, i'm so excited for this! I absolutely adore this show, you get to see unique stages and new sides of groups! I watched this show initially only for Oneus and The Boyz but I ended up loving all of the groups. I stand by what i've been saying since this show aired, there are rankings but all of the groups do SO well and are amazing it's really hard to rank and just because a group comes in 7th doesn't mean they didn't do well it just means that the other groups did amazingly. I would also like to point out that there is no live audience for any of these stages because this was filmed and released in the midst of COVID at it's worst in Korea.

So excited to watch this with you guys! I know absolutely nothing about oneus but I somehow have a bunch of their songs on my kpop playlist (absolute bops btw) and can't wait to see more of them. Also, I'm going to need someone to tell me who the guy is that tried to flip the the 7 into an L for "Load to Kingdom," I would like to bias him immediately.

Also I’m not sure but I think a member from pentagon is also on show me the money at the same time as Changbin which is cool, I can’t wait for more episodes of smtm as well.

Ooh this will be interesting, I’ve only watched the performances for road to kingdom because of pentagon and not the full show so it’ll be fun to actually watch it all!

YESSSSS LEZ GET IT BOISSSS Alright to answer some of the questions you had. You pronounce TOO each letter individually like T-O-O. You pronounced ONF correctly “On and Off.” Although this is just the prelims and the rankings right now don’t really mean much for the rest of the competition, for the next episode the first place group (aka The Boyz) gets a benefit in something, and you’ll find that out next week. For the theme of the first round, Song of King, each group must choose a song from a group that they think is like the “King” of kpop (for example a BTS song or something) and perform an arrangement of it. So many things I wanna say. I’ll just focus on the 90 sec performances, thought I’d share my personal opinion. So the standouts for me with this round are The Boyz, ONEUS, and ONF. From like an objective standpoint, I think ONEUS and ONF nailed the purpose of the 90 sec performance round. You had to show your own colors and uniqueness of your group, and they performed their own songs singing and dancing. TOO also did this and I have to give an honorary mention to them because they are so ridiculously good for a group that has only debuted like a couple months, so I was sad they placed last but I mean, someone had to be last and all of the groups did very well. To Kangmin I think who hurt his ankle and pulled through to the very end of the performance, I applaud his professionalism and it was so sad that he felt like he let his group down because of an injury. No boy, you did great!! These groups are so hard on themselves, I swear. The thing about the other groups’ performances where they only showed dance, I didn’t think it was enough to represent their group like the mission asked for because any boy group can show a dance-y powerful performance. Instead, you have to show something that stands out. And that’s what The Boyz did. I think they were the exception that escaped that problem because even though they only danced, they had the power of story-telling and their choreography reflected their theme. The use of props was so smart. Also, catching a sword in the air is such sick stunt move, and it’s so risky. That was a bold move putting it at the start of the performance because if Q (the guy who jumped to catch the sword) missed it, it would’ve been very difficult for him and the rest of the boys to focus on the rest of their performance. So like mad props to them. Definitely got the surprise factor down, and you want something like that for this performance because you have 90 seconds to leave an impression. Pentagon had good story-telling too but I felt something missing in their performance and idk if it feeling so short was a good thing or bad thing because I guess I was expecting something but it never happened. Verivery and Golden Child performed exceptionally well with intense choreo, but again, it doesn’t stand out and there was no “uniqueness” to it. Those were my thoughts on the performances. You kind of have to be a little critical in this because each group is so talented and hardworking that it’s extremely difficult rank them. At the end of the day rankings don’t define the group at all, but it is inevitable since it’s a competition. TOO has a great mindset, and every group feels this way too. Of course you can get discouraged by poor results, but that should only push you to do better because like they said, the only way to go from the bottom is up. What I like about the rules of Road to Kingdom is that it is accumulative. All your performances are accounted for in the final round. But of course Mnet has to be Mnet and add eliminations in there too. I’ll give them props tho for coming up with that rule for the final round because that’s different and very interesting. You can have one group that wins everything from the accumulation points and the final broadcast point, or two groups winning (one accumulative winner and one final performance winner). I’m so excited for next week, I’m glad you guys are enjoying it so far.

im so excited for you guys to watch this! Road to kingdom has so many amazing performances