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glitteryvKicking off my birthday month with a post abt the most unlikely of idol variety shows I've fallen mostly in love with: Seventeen's Going Seventeen (GoSe).
The show started back in 2017 as a vlog-type of thing. However, for whatever reason (I'm not THAT deep in the group's lore as I am a baby Cubic at best and not a Carat*), there was a shift into a variety show format sometime in 2019. Since then, the members do a combination of competitions, skits, and MT**. As of right now, the show has almost 240 episodes, 5 seasons total, and is still ongoing.
* Seventeen (SVT) has two fandoms: Cubics (who are fans of GoSe) and Carats (who like SVT's music in addition to GoSe). Sometimes, Cubics "graduate" into becoming Carats, sometimes they don't. Personally, I'm v. neutral abt the bulk of SVT's discography. Though the songs I do like, I actually LURVE. Both Cubics and Carats are acknowledged by the group.
** MT is an abbreviate of "membership training". This is a kind of event for (mostly) university students in which they socialize while spending 2 days at some remote-ish area.
I began hearing abt GoSe within months of getting into Kpop. Ended up checking it out this year, kinda on whim, after a close friend who's an ARMYCarat gave me a soft sell on why I'd enjoy this show. FTR, I do tend to check out the variety shows of idols whose music I enjoy. To date, aside from BTS, the only idol group whose variety show I've loved is Le Sserafim's Leniverse, and now GoSe!
Having finished 3 seasons (I watched the last episode for 2021 last night), I'm gonna do a quick-ish rundown of why I feel this is a show worth checking out. (via 13 points cuz there are 13 members, heheh)
1. I tend to always side/cheer/root for Hoshi, Dino (which was a surprise to me), Minghao | The8, Hansol | Vernon, and Jeonghan.
2. I love that Jeonghan, Joshua, and Hoshi will always go for the cheating/betrayal angle. Villain!Jeonghan is my fave.
3. At the opposite end are S.Coups (who tends to be a bit of a sore loser at times? I also feel that I don't have a clear read abt what his full public persona is 3 seasons in) and Seungkwan (I won't go too much into it, but I like him fine? He's still at the bottom of the list. Such is life.)
4. Wonwoo's been not-so-secretly awesome a lot of times. One of my fave moments for him was during the Mouse Busters ep (IYKYK)
5. Jun is sweet...but he tends to hang back a lot of the time. Kudos on the rest of the members for bringing him into activities.
6. I deffo look forward to eps in which they have action-oriented tasks (whether it's competing, cooking OR just hanging out like in each season's TTT episodes).
7. Conversely, I really, really don't vibe with eps in which they're tapping into their Theater Kid aspects, i.e. anything requiring them to do episode-long improv, skits, etc.
7.5 IF the episode I'm watching is a skit (etc), I'll skip it. Maybe I'll watch those at a much later time, IDK.
8. I like the sporty eps too? Huh. #TheMoreYouKnow
9. Since I'm a scaredy cat (and my ARMYCarat friend has spoiled--at my request--those eps), I really doubt I'll ever watch any of the horror ones (EGO and Grudge).
10. To date, the one episode I was the most frustrated by was the Treasure Hunters one cuz that ending was a whole new interpretation of anticlimatic.
11. I LUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE all of the mafia game episodes I've watched (Don't Lie 1-3(PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL ME ABT DON'T LIE 4)*, Good Offer (my fave episode ever), and Million Won.)
12. I'm on the fence abt the Catch Stock episode cuz I was so stressed for most of the episode.
13. And now I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the seasons.Per my calculations, I should be caught up to the end of the current season by late October/early Nov. I caught up with GoSe on Oct. 2nd. Yays, me!
All of the episodes are available for watching with subtitles for FREE NINETY-NINE over at SVT's official YouTube channel. Here are the playlists for 2019 (start with ep. 14 if you want to skip the vlog episodes), 2020, and 2022 to current episodes.
The total amount of eps is roughly 211 (for the variety show eps per my calculations) which can feel intimidating. I get that. Behold a pretty handy episode guide for main storyline episodes (such as Don't Lie) as well as standalone fun episodes (like Mouse Busters). There are no spoilers.
*Have watched it.
The show started back in 2017 as a vlog-type of thing. However, for whatever reason (I'm not THAT deep in the group's lore as I am a baby Cubic at best and not a Carat*), there was a shift into a variety show format sometime in 2019. Since then, the members do a combination of competitions, skits, and MT**. As of right now, the show has almost 240 episodes, 5 seasons total, and is still ongoing.
* Seventeen (SVT) has two fandoms: Cubics (who are fans of GoSe) and Carats (who like SVT's music in addition to GoSe). Sometimes, Cubics "graduate" into becoming Carats, sometimes they don't. Personally, I'm v. neutral abt the bulk of SVT's discography. Though the songs I do like, I actually LURVE. Both Cubics and Carats are acknowledged by the group.
** MT is an abbreviate of "membership training". This is a kind of event for (mostly) university students in which they socialize while spending 2 days at some remote-ish area.
I began hearing abt GoSe within months of getting into Kpop. Ended up checking it out this year, kinda on whim, after a close friend who's an ARMYCarat gave me a soft sell on why I'd enjoy this show. FTR, I do tend to check out the variety shows of idols whose music I enjoy. To date, aside from BTS, the only idol group whose variety show I've loved is Le Sserafim's Leniverse, and now GoSe!
Having finished 3 seasons (I watched the last episode for 2021 last night), I'm gonna do a quick-ish rundown of why I feel this is a show worth checking out. (via 13 points cuz there are 13 members, heheh)
1. I tend to always side/cheer/root for Hoshi, Dino (which was a surprise to me), Minghao | The8, Hansol | Vernon, and Jeonghan.
2. I love that Jeonghan, Joshua, and Hoshi will always go for the cheating/betrayal angle. Villain!Jeonghan is my fave.
3. At the opposite end are S.Coups (who tends to be a bit of a sore loser at times? I also feel that I don't have a clear read abt what his full public persona is 3 seasons in) and Seungkwan (I won't go too much into it, but I like him fine? He's still at the bottom of the list. Such is life.)
4. Wonwoo's been not-so-secretly awesome a lot of times. One of my fave moments for him was during the Mouse Busters ep (IYKYK)
5. Jun is sweet...but he tends to hang back a lot of the time. Kudos on the rest of the members for bringing him into activities.
6. I deffo look forward to eps in which they have action-oriented tasks (whether it's competing, cooking OR just hanging out like in each season's TTT episodes).
7. Conversely, I really, really don't vibe with eps in which they're tapping into their Theater Kid aspects, i.e. anything requiring them to do episode-long improv, skits, etc.
7.5 IF the episode I'm watching is a skit (etc), I'll skip it. Maybe I'll watch those at a much later time, IDK.
8. I like the sporty eps too? Huh. #TheMoreYouKnow
9. Since I'm a scaredy cat (and my ARMYCarat friend has spoiled--at my request--those eps), I really doubt I'll ever watch any of the horror ones (EGO and Grudge).
10. To date, the one episode I was the most frustrated by was the Treasure Hunters one cuz that ending was a whole new interpretation of anticlimatic.
11. I LUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE all of the mafia game episodes I've watched (Don't Lie 1-3
12. I'm on the fence abt the Catch Stock episode cuz I was so stressed for most of the episode.
13. And now I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the seasons.
All of the episodes are available for watching with subtitles for FREE NINETY-NINE over at SVT's official YouTube channel. Here are the playlists for 2019 (start with ep. 14 if you want to skip the vlog episodes), 2020, and 2022 to current episodes.
The total amount of eps is roughly 211 (for the variety show eps per my calculations) which can feel intimidating. I get that. Behold a pretty handy episode guide for main storyline episodes (such as Don't Lie) as well as standalone fun episodes (like Mouse Busters). There are no spoilers.
*Have watched it.
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Date: 2024-09-02 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-18 05:36 pm (UTC)I do think both Run BTS and GoSe have strong points. Though,there are certain things (the skits, the fact that SVT is extremely aware of wanting to be/needing to be entertaining no matter what, etc) that make me place their show below BTS'. Especially cuz BTS tends to have a WHATEVER, YOLO vibe that adds a layer of lulz?
At the same time, SVT's v. willing to go do the randomest/wildest things for the sake of the show in a way that BTS might not jump into as willy-nilly. So, if one compares the two, neither show is better or worse than the other. Each show really displays the groups' dynamics while being in wild situations. It's a win for the audience all the same.
FWIW, I'm enjoying my sojurn thru GoSe while eagerly awaiting for a post-enlistment Run BTS restart, heheh.