Okay.. so mnet has this new series called Produce 101, where basically they take 101 female trainees and then tell 90% of them (note my percentage may be off since I don't have a calculator on hand) that they have to wait to debut!
then there's those 11 who are picked to form a group, but WAIT! It's only for a year! Literally after the year is up, that group will break up and the 11 trainees will go back to their companies to (most likely) train for another couple of years).
Those 11 trainees picked are also picked based on 1. Talent! and 2. Popularity!
They are picked based on online voting and through process of elimination, but then there are some trainees who people will argue "don't belong there"
Okay... let me just say... Produce 101 is looking for the next big girl group. If they were to pick a group of only good singers, good dancers, and good rappers, then okay they would be somewhat successful.
What makes a group popular is the likeability of each member! That is the most important thing after talent! (Even sometimes before talent)
If you had a trainee be like "I am the best, I will definitely beat all the other girls and debut", usually the reaction is "wow, she's so arrogant."
Then throw in the poor girl who was tricked by her company to join the program! (Kim Sohye)
Basically, she is an ACTRESS trainee, not an IDOL trainee, so before ya'll go bashing on her skills... note that she didn't study dance, or singing in any way before the competition!
Literally her lessons began when the cameras started rolling.
But, having a good attitude and not wanting to give up, Kim Sohye stays in the program despite her obvious disadvantage and shows drastic improvement and even wins the heart of the trainers (as proven when she succeeded in the Irony Practice and making the trainer cry because she was so hard working)
To all the people saying Kim Sohye doesn't deserve to be in the top 11.... WTH are you watching? I see a girl who drastically improved in such a small time, and is better than some trainees who've been training for years!
If she had been given the amount of training some of the others had received, then she most likely would be fighting for the first place.
Another example of how harsh produce 101 is... the evil editing skills of mnet!
Seriously how on earth do you expect all 101 trainees to gain the same amount of screentime in a 1 hour time slot?
And of course they have to create drama, so they take some trainees and edit what they say and their reactions to make them the "I don't take your sh**" kind of trainee... (eg Chanmi who now has a lot of haters because of the show, and also the Cathy girl who used to be in the group DIA)
Man... the only way to actually view all 101 trainees was through the website, and that was the only way to vote for them too, giving international fans a bit of a disadvantage in that area since most of us (not including me) can't read any korean...
And wow... the latest elimination... literally 61 (I believe) trainees were eliminated based on popularity. Some of those trainees definitely deserved to stay, and some did not stand out at all, but it's harsh taking 101 girls and telling them that only 11 of them will actually form the group... So any girls who make friendships can't expect them to last if one is eliminated... ㅠ.ㅠ
