In no particular order,
1. Ranking
At first, despite seeming really cruel, it seemed like a really good idea to me, to help the trainees see where they stand, and to motivate them...
2. Elimination
I really dislike it when I'm just getting to know someone, he is eliminated especially for a non-satisfactory reason.
For example, in Reality TV Game Shows like Survivor and The Genius, when players are eliminated, it is because the tribe has spoken or they didn't do well in a game. They are explicit reasons that I can see for myself and find a sense of justification... Even if I liked the player, I could accept the players' fate when eliminated. Here, I just do not understand their reasoning, if they even give one[see flaw 9].
3. Spoilers
Moving along, having this show filmed in public is a total disaster. Not only will people along the street (or amusement park) know about who has been eliminated, K-netizens will let everyone in the world know. Also, I do believe that this is the reason why many are so upset. After all, we get to know what happened weeks before broadcast. We had so many days to live in denial that some of our fave members are eliminated, and then face the reality that they really are gone(either from the show or the constant confirmation in the comments section). This was a really bad move, as we had so many days to garner our frustration and then become really upset at Starship Entertainment.
4. Bias
Yea, speaking of elimination, many of us are really unhappy about Minkyun's elimination/exit taking about 10 minutes but for the rest that were eliminated, only about a minute each. How bias is this.
Also, not to forget how #GUN was always picked on by Mad Clown for being old fashioned. Ok, yes he is the professional and I'm the noob at rapping but... I am pretty sure many of us didn't mind #GUN's old fashioned rapping, in fact we liked it A LOT. :/ Am I not right???
5. Lame Excuses
I think one of the lowest point in this show was definitely K.Will's stupid excuse when he said: "I came to realize we don't have enough rappers" [watch it here]
I was super mad!!! ): It was just after the elimination of rapper Kwangji. Come to think of it, I am still quite mad. They wanted more rappers, ok. Did they debut more than 3 rappers that were left then? NO.
6. K.Will
I've never seen so much negativity towards a host. For K.Will, while he was good in the sense that he had the skills to host a show, he failed to charm the audience, instead creating dislikes against him too. I've seen comments saying that they deleted all his songs after watching NO.MERCY so this is definitely a first for me. I don't blame him though. They shouldn't have made him a host and judge at the same time. While judges like Simon Cowell were strict, I am pretty sure the audience didn't dislike dislike him the way they did for K.Will. Not only did he criticized the trainees(which is still acceptable), he delivered all the bad news if you can remember: from the eliminations to the addition of another trainee. What a way to market your new boy group while bringing K.Will's image to an all time low.
7. No clear direction
To be honest, I'm still unclear. I have a feeling that they want to have a hip-hop concept with more emphasis on the rappers. However, I didn't think about the trainees that way until i sensed that the company expected a lot from the rappers, had many songs in that genre, and looked up to find that they wanted to debut a hip-hop group. In fact, Kihyun definitely looked like he belonged in a group that focused more on ballads and Shownu in a group that did more mature sexy concepts... :/ Plus, I thought that the trainees did really well in more ballad-ish pop songs like their version of caffeine. Oh well.
8. Groupings in missions
I've no idea how they come up with groupings for the group missions and they don't explain (well). How can a group be formed without being impartial if you know them (quite) well? It is pretty upsetting how Wonho and Kihyun are paired together in almost all missions, despite me liking this duo. I do think that we tend to just jump to conclusions when they eliminate just one member of a group, thinking that they set it up for them to fail, especially when we feel that the better(or more favored trainees) are placed in a group...
9. Not debuting #GUN
I don't care if they have other plans for him or what, this was THE lowest point for most people. Fans love #GUN. Hey, afterall, his cousin is Minho from Winner, not to discredit #GUN's own effort or anything. In fact, i really like #GUN too ever since he rapped about his family. Also, I am not discrediting other eliminated trainees, each of them played a significant role in making everyone becoming at least slightly disappointed with Starship. However, the number of fans who like #GUN definitely made it a big deal when he was not chosen to be part of Monsta X. Starship, this doesn't make sense.
10. Addition of a new member
Alright, I was debating about whether to include this... True, I wasn't very pleased when they introduce I'M halfway through the program, but I wasn't too angry about it either. To be clear, I don't dislike nor hate I'M, I think he is pretty good actually.
However, I do dislike the fact that he was given a golden ticket that enabled him to skip the earlier process, which is deemed as unfair to most people. This, I don't think is too much or too shocking but I'M didn't exactly bring much to the TV aspect either except for the first few minutes when the trainees were quite awkward around him. I can't bring myself to hate on him, and I don't know him enough to like him. With such an addition of a trainee, I only wished that they had given us more background on him.
So there you have it, 10 FLAWS of Starship Entertainment's NO MERCY survival show.
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