Universe League EP 5 Reaction
Added 2025-03-18 17:54:46 +0000 UTCOh what a roller coaster of an episode!
Also reacted to 'Poison' recording.
Comments
when’s the next eppp
jea
2025-03-25 08:58:35 +0000 UTCPRISON is soooo 2nd/3rd gen song coded and I love it so much 🥹 I can hear VIXX, BTOB, B2ST in this. (I'm almost 100% sure they sampled this from one of VIXX song) ❤️❤️❤️
eve_ss
2025-03-22 09:49:44 +0000 UTCPlease don’t skip ep 6. You will see many amazing vocalist out of no where for the talent show.
Sandy Zheng!!!!!!!!!!!
2025-03-19 20:47:09 +0000 UTCcant wait for ep 6! JL + Han 🔥🔥🔥
Dani
2025-03-19 17:02:43 +0000 UTCooh as a Han bias you got me so exited 🤩!!
Sabi
2025-03-19 00:20:13 +0000 UTCI honestly preferred the team Grooves interpretation of MAMMA MIA. I'm glad they got the song, since to me team Beats interpretation was too youngish sounding, if that makes sense (personally not that big of a fan of youthful concepts) But they both did great! 💙
Sabi
2025-03-18 22:01:21 +0000 UTCso excited for ep 6!! the best episode fr
jea
2025-03-18 21:52:16 +0000 UTCi agree! i hate fandom wars in general, but being caught in the middle of one BEFORE debut? stressful 💀 i am all for complimenting and hyping up your faves, but i just wish people were kinder and didn’t feel the need to insult the other team in the process. at the end of the day, these are hardworking trainees who just wants a shot at making their dreams come true. the fanwar aspect definitely soured my viewing experience, but i couldn’t stay away because the performances were just soooo good and the talent pool in this show is insane
cathy
2025-03-18 21:38:05 +0000 UTCRandom thought, but is it just me or does EL CAPITXN kind of look like Yuta lol. Their face and especially the mannerisms are so alike 🤔
Sabi
2025-03-18 21:37:57 +0000 UTCngl i still get so anxious watching reactors react to this show because of the hate team groove got during the show but i'm healing from it slowly. I just try to enjoy the performances of these hardworking kids put up for us. they all deserve to be given enough credits for performing new/orig songs every round. UL actually gave us GOOD songs and performances. i love it.
howltthew
2025-03-18 21:33:16 +0000 UTCI'm not going to lie I personally far preferred the Rhythm Prison performance. I preferred the emotion in their voices, their tone for a song about desperation and their choreography but I knew Groove would win and they were still amazing. Their win didn't bother me as much as the point disparity did! This whole ep was such a rollercoaster of emotions. The online voting was so bad because we were voting so far behind what was aired. These online votes were from before the show even aired so we had nothing much to go on except looks and the ones from previous shows/groups who we knew were talented. Jiang Fan got hugely popular with online voters but by the time we saw his audition he was eliminated and so we wasted time and money voting for him when he was no longer even eligible for votes! Such a loss to the competition. Also I prefer Kpop now TBH but I don't really like ballads or slow songs haha. The kind of explosive energy songs I love are more prevalent in 4th and 5th gen and there's still many amazing vocalists- there's just a lot more groups now and perhaps the songs in fashion don't show them off as well. Give me a Hip-hop song over a ballad any day though haha.
CallistoWarriorQueen
2025-03-18 21:23:49 +0000 UTCI think it was an unspoken rule to not get the aces, but also as someone who has been a btob/changsub stan for almost 10 years now, i also get how changsub is doing his trades, he just love seeing younger generation of artists improve, that's his ultimate goal, to be able to share is knowledge to them, so him basing his trades off of potential in the aspect he can effectively mentor them is such a changsub thing to do. also, it was shared by the trainees that changsub actually asks his groove team that if anyone wants to be traded to other teams just in case they want to focus or venture out on a different aspect/skillset, they can freely tell him.
howltthew
2025-03-18 21:19:49 +0000 UTClmao i was also so confused at that discourse. kenta was just THAT majestic, i guess 😭 seriously though, rhythm starter being the most popular and rhythm bench being the underdogs probably played a part. the rhythm fandom was also the largest and most outspoken, so it was easy for people to jump in the bandwagon and solidify their claims. ngl, it was to the point that even i started to doubt if i was seeing and hearing wrongly. if jeff had confirmed that rhythm was technically better, i was prepared to accept that maybe i’m just too biased. but nah, groove’s prison performance remain legendary 👏👏
cathy
2025-03-18 21:03:35 +0000 UTCI honestly feel like Team Beat starters should have won their round. I didn’t get the sexy concept that Team Groove bench went with, it just didn’t fit the song at all. I get that their team has a more mature aura, but it still didn’t match up well. Honestly, I was really surprised when they won too.💀
Juicy
2025-03-18 21:02:31 +0000 UTCEp 6 is a fun one, please don't skip. If you're a Han fan, you're in for a surprise!!!
Jee Emm
2025-03-18 21:01:41 +0000 UTCi get you! he’s really become such a father figure to the groovies and i love that he still keeps in touch with them after the show. [ JEFF, POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW, PLS DON’T READ 🚩 ] i love how changsub hasn’t taken off the groove bracelet and that he was even wearing it in his concert, fanmeets, and recent performance video 😭 that being said, it does still hurt me that you-know-who didn’t get to perform at all next round 🥺
cathy
2025-03-18 20:55:36 +0000 UTCIt was absolutely mind boggling that people looked at Groove and Rhythm and decided that Groove won because of abs 😑 People were really deaf and it just made me so mad being a Groove stan.
Zerose777
2025-03-18 20:52:53 +0000 UTCHani is also my 1 pick from day 1 🥹#GrooviesBabies
Lily
2025-03-18 20:50:50 +0000 UTCNot to spoil anything for Jeff but I just wanna say I really admire Changsub for his strategy in the next mission. He seems to genuinely care about their growth as a mentor
Lily
2025-03-18 20:47:40 +0000 UTC#GROOVEFORLIFE indeed. Hani is also my 1 pick 🥹
cathy
2025-03-18 20:46:00 +0000 UTCI absolutely love ‘Prison’ by team Groove and vocal is definitely a big factor here, though I think team Rhythm also did really well and their performance has their own charm. Quite a lot of people actually got mad because Rhythm bench team didn’t get it, which honestly depends on personal preferences as both teams are pretty neck to neck all things considered. Besides the nationality of the players, I think the vocal matters quite a lot when it comes to on-site voting. Not everyone got the best seat to watch the performance on-site, so of course their assessment would be different from online audience. From watching the fixed cam version of the performance on youtube, I also realized that the LED screen at the back if not used wisely can be quite distracting (e.g. in the ‘Prison’ by team R, the red LED effect made it a bit hard to see the performance clearly from a fixed cam perspective, so the only other aspect they can rely on is the vocal)
Lily
2025-03-18 20:38:54 +0000 UTCyesssss team groove’s Prison is iconic!! 😍 i gotta say though, being a Groove fan while the show was airing was tough 🫠 the competition between teams was starting to get to the fans, and with groove ranking first twice in a row, they became a punching bag for the fans of other teams. it was clear to me that groove’s Prison was objectively and technically better, but people were swearing up and down that rhythm’s was sooo much better and that groove only won because of ‘abs’ 🤦🏻♀️ i still get flashbacks to this day. rhythm bench did great and i’m proud that they managed to tackle such a difficult song, but team groove set the baseline too high, even with the minor hiccups towards the end. i do think that aside from having no koreans in the team, going second—after the audience already saw groove’s interpretation of the song—also contributed to how big the gap in votes was. the enunciation of the lyrics were also iffy in some places, which is something that would be easily recognizable to korean fans but not internationals. nevertheless, fantastic performances and amazing songs 👏👏👏 the voting system may be infuriating (with how online voting open and end before the performances are aired), but the show really spoils us with sooo many original songs 😍 about the next round: — they are going through the letters of PRISM, so this round is PRI[S]M: Seven — each team will form two groups comprised of seven members, and have two original songs! — there will be two rounds, and the teams will still be competing against each other (Groove Team #1 vs. Rhythm Team #1 vs. Beat Team #1, and then Groove Team #2 vs. Rhythm Team #2 vs. Beat Team #2) — it is up to the directors who to place in each group! in theory, they can use all their players so each trainee gets to perform once, but the downside to this is that the less popular trainees won’t bring in much votes compared to the popular ones. having popular trainees perform twice will ultimately get the team more votes because their individual votes get counted twice. so, this round has the potential to be heavily strategic, depending on the directors 🤔 (also, after finding out that changsub told his kids behind the scenes to tell him if they ever want to be traded to another team, i have a theory that zenzen actually wanted to be switched to rhythm based on his reaction haha. just a fun lil theory though)
cathy
2025-03-18 20:30:07 +0000 UTCThe next mission will be the league competition, kinda similar to previous round in the sense that the combined score will determine which league places 1st and receives the benefits. They’d want to maximize the chance of winning by forming 2 strong units for these 2 songs - mentors can decide if they want a player to perform in both songs, only 1 song or none. Those don’t get to perform can still receive online voting.
Lily
2025-03-18 20:23:16 +0000 UTCGroove Team Prison was just absolutely insane. Imagine if that level of vocal prowess was the standard in Kpop. Also finally someone appreciating Heejun, he's so underrated. Man is an allrounder with insane visuals as well. Kenta has an insane voice, Gijoong strong and powerful, Jeongwoo good vocal and visual, Jaeho very underrated as well, Gangdong did well, & of course there is nothing to say about Han except he's Baekhyun's son and he's my 1 pick lol. #GROOVEFORLIFE
Zerose777
2025-03-18 20:16:46 +0000 UTCMaybe only the ace of each team is untouchable (JL, Han and Woongki).
Lily
2025-03-18 20:14:12 +0000 UTCJiang Fan auditioned for Boys Planet II so hopefully he makes it to the show.
waterMork_
2025-03-18 19:30:38 +0000 UTCI was disappointed in the on stage crying-it looked like for attention jmo
Jenn BL
2025-03-18 19:04:07 +0000 UTCI do hope you don't skip ep 6 even tho it's just a special ep😔. Its the best
ALYSSA
2025-03-18 18:12:32 +0000 UTCGOOD MORNINGG
ALYSSA
2025-03-18 17:55:47 +0000 UTC
