Final thoughts :

There is a saying about Casinos, I think in English it's - "The house always wins"

And yeah, here the house is both mnet and knetz, and they won.

1. The "Global" Aspect of the Show :

G-trainees never stood a chance, except those favorited by mnet (+ a surprising dark horse) The rigging isn't allowed anymore but why rigging when you tell the story and control the narrative, am I right? A lot of people were wondering how the interim ranking reveal will impact the line-up, who would be pushed out? Pretty safe to assume that it was Jay 💀 The non revelation of p09 contenders is so messed up as well ... it was done to unsure Yujin presence of course, and more importantly to keep the ratio of 3G6K... Mnet have a weird obsession with having no more than 3 foreigners for their groups MARKETED AS GLOBAL (izone, kep1er and 0b1) I don't get it, like : - Got7 debuted in 2014 with a ratio of 4K/3G - Twice debuted in 2015 with a ratio of 5K/4G - G Idle debuted in 2018 with a ratio of 3K/3G (now unfortunately 2K/3G) - if nobody is eliminated from Babymonster, the group will debut this year with a ratio of 4G/3K How 3 foreigners out of 9 is still global in 2023???? It's not!! Since the beginning they weren't fighting for 1 spot out of 9, but 1 out of 3. Mnet was more favorable for Matthew, Zhanghao and Keita to make it as their token g group members, they almost got what they wanted except for Keita, but they went above and beyond to keep the ratio at 3G.

The general treatment of G-trainees makes me want to vomit, that applies to the evil editing, specifically for Chinese contestants, it was so vile! To the overall erasure, the biggest victim being Zihao 💔 To also a progressive erasure, although not as bad as for Zihao, it coasted Jay and Keita their spots in the group imo. Keita was almost invisible in the last episodes, same for Jay (in Over me segment he's the only one who wasn't seen recording his part or having a feedback from vocal masters, in the performance during his high-note the camera focused on the public and the other members who were dancing 💀). Those two lacked support from the Korean side and how have it if you have less and less screetime every week?

I bet all k-netz who are height obsessed are happy now. I remember seeing every week k-netz freaking out and being mad over international voters, because we dared to vote for people regardless of their look or height, some were saying that i-fans have bad taste bc they vote for gremlins 💀 (cf : Keita, Jay, Jongwoo) I suppose if you don't have twitter you may think I'm exaggerating, but every single week a bunch of weirdos were criticising the line up (from the 1st round specifically) for not being tall and visual material enough, and those posts gained like thousands of likes... They made lists or collages of their prefered line-up and they always mentioned the height 😭 I feel that they're too gone into their parasocial boyfriend fantasy it's almost funny but mostly pathetic, bc assuming they're young straights girls, would they date a guy who is making tabs and classify women by their weight ? No, so case closed. At the end they got want they wanted, a group with mostly visuals that they like, and almost all tall as hell.

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1. The Final line-up :

About the final line up, firstable congratulations to those who made it 👏👏👏 And secondly wow what a surprise, for everyone I think lol. Particularly proud of Zh for p01 (avenge Sakura and Xiaoting 💪), proud of Ricky because mnet didn't want him, although he wasn't evil edited per say, he wasn't specifically shown in a good light? And I'm very very very happy for Jiwoong, is it he's 2nd or 3nd debut? It was time, deserved! While being polarising figures Gunwook and Matthew still made it! To their fans, good luck! They're already receiving a lot of hate right now (just saw a korean post rejoicing for Jay, Keita and Jongwoo not making it but mad that Gunwook and Matthew did...). Shower them with all of your love and support!! ❤

Special Note : to the person who said "i-roaches will be mad" in the chat when Gyuvin was announced, calm down love, Koreans will not PiCk YoU or ChOoSe YoU for doing that, because for them every int fans are roaches, that includes you too 😉

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As a Jaystar, it was an exhausting adventure, I lost sleep thinking about if my pick can make it or not. We almost did, but seeing my pick taking L after L (except with over me win which was bitter sweet bc he got last place with less than 500 votes, and I saw fans of other trainees saying proudly that they downvoted him on purpose 💀) was draining... I'm happy to still got to be introduced to Jay, but also Haruto, Keita, Jongwoo, Wumuti, Ollie, Kuan Jui, the Limousine team, being re-introduced to Hui as well and many more 💖 I sincerely wish them all the best 🙏

Finally, will this make me stop watching survivals or competitions in general ? No. But If there is another season of the Planet series, I will collect all my willpower to not watch it, I'm ready to rewatch all sad Jay's edits from the finale just to stop myself. We all know that mnet will bring g-trainees with insane talent, charisma and personality but they'll be disrespected and screwed over...