I rant, like a lot, but I’m painting you a picture, so if you dont wanna read it thats fine. Just dont comment “im not reading all that” because no one is forcing you, I promise.
So I recently got reinterested in finishing the Produce saga. I watched the Wanna One season and unexpectedly got so invested in the boys and that whole journey. I also had lots of fun picking my favs to see how they faired after the contract ended. The variety shows during Wanna One’s duration kept me busy for a good 2 weeks after I finished watching Season 2, honestly they were such an interesting bunch of people and made me laugh out loud so many times in that Wanna One Go series.
I just wonder. Whenever I watch an Mnet show I tend to go back to YouTube to watch some clips (or performances in this case) in 4k because we all know the sites that are still available for free to watch old shows are limited, dont have the best quality, and often cant be sped up. Anyway, as I was watching Nayana, the next video suddenly started playing and it was X1-MA (honestly gives me goosebumps, that performance was fire). I spent a few months afterwards pretending I didnt care because while I wasnt a kpop fan at the time, I probably only got into kpop a few months after their sudden disbandment and I kept hearing little tidbits here and there about what happened. It made me feel weird about possibly watching it too.
But yesterday I got nostalgic and listened to Nayana again, which obviously made me remember X1-MA. So I played myself, I told myself, “fine, I just wanna know who the cute boy is and why that line up came to be”. Next thing you know I’m crying while watching the episodes, rooting for strangers, and hiding it from my family in case they roast me about crying over kpop things. I finally reached the part when the X1-MA stage was performed. But now I really dont know whether to continue.
If you watched Produce X 101 did you feel like you wish you never got invested in them? I mean, the X1 that ended up being formed? (No spoilers please, I’m using this to try and figure out if I should continue anyway and would really appreciate going in with a fresh set of eyes and ears). I just find it sad that everyone put in so much work only for some people to be cheated out of the opportunity. I’m actually shocked Mnet ended up making another eries like this (for girls, but still — I think, I only heard through the grape vine, back then I was skilled at avoiding things that didnt concern me). Do you wish you never saw the formation of X1? Did you feel resentment at the final lineup? Idk, someone help me out. I’m actually more interested in the final few episodes anyway, I was actually skipping the performances for Wanna One’s season too because it felt repetitive at some point. The fun lies in after debut. But considering X1 didnt last– ugh, I’m going in circles. Do you regret it? Will I regret getting more invested?
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