Kingdom: Legendary War [EP.9] | NSD REACTION

this round was really hard to rank for me as well but my rankings are 1. stray kids 2. btob 3. sf9 4. the Boyz 5. ikon 6. ateez. they all did really amazing though but I really thought that first place was going to skz😭 but sf9 deserves it.

lamarea wilson

yeessss I was waiting to watch it with y'all LMAO

lamarea wilson

Just a little heads up: In the beginning of the next episode, they will reveal the final rankings for Part 2 of Round 3 (voting + streaming) After that, they will also be revealing the ranks for streaming the Final Songs of each group which you guys heard at the end of this episode! This streaming evaluation was determined by the number of streams of each song from different platforms such as Apple Music and Korean streaming platforms like Melon and others. Wanted to mention this just in case you guys get confused or miss what the evaluations are in the beginning of the next episode 😅 Also, I suggest reacting to the Final Songs before watching the last episode since they do change it up a bit during their performances! Unless of course you guys want to be surprised until the next episode 👍🏼

ATEEZ's performance was for their fans not just because Answer is a fan favorite but because the performance incorporated many elements of their storyline. Hala-teez (the ones in black with fedoras) aren't their evil side, but just another version of themselves. The white masked men are the villains in their story. So this stage was about Ateez and Hala-teez teaming up to defeat the white masked men. There's many other elements in there too, both relating to their storyline and to Kingdom itself. For example, when Hongjoong is rapping, watch the dancers behind him. Dancers dressed as Hala-teez are handing weapons, etc. to dancers dressed as the ATEEZ members from their previous Kingdom stages. So ATEEZ is telling us that in all their previous stages, Hala-teez was helping them behind the scenes (by using the hourglass to travel through time/dimensions). I also just wanted to mention that the camera work/effects were particularly bad for ATEEZ this time. There were parts that I thought were pretty messy when I watched it at first. But after seeing the full cam video, I realized it was actually quite clean. Usually I really enjoy the Kingdom camera work but I was disappointed in it for ATEEZ's performance this round. This wasn't my favorite performance of theirs in kingdom, but I think it's one that gets better and better the more times you watch it and the more details you know about it :)

Haley Andersen

Experts are the 33 professionals from the industry that were votibg and group evaluations is when the groups vote for eachother

Aleksandra

Truth!!

Zesti

They were very good, but I didn't feel like they were the best that evening. The Boyz absolutely killed it and I thought they would have a higher score, but I guess that's just me. And I'm not even a "The B". StayTiny all the way, lol.

Zesti

ATEEZ was magnificent. I really appreciate how they wove classical pieces into all of their performances.

Zesti

I have been watching with the guys the entire time and never had a problem with being spoiled, but today when I opened youtube the first video that came up in my recommended was ''*group* congratulating *wining group* on wining kingdom'' and the thumbnail did nothin to hide who won, its so annoying because I really went out of my way to not get spoiled with adjusting my recommendations and all that but of course i get the winner spoiled only days before watching the episode...

Klara

SF9 was so bold for doing ''Move', it's such a difficult performance, coreo, and concept to pull off, it's also one of the most well-known and iconic dances in the idol world. Many idols and professional dancers say that you have to train years to even come close to comparing to Taemin because of the difficulty. If you ever see a ''complication'' of the most difficult choreographies a can guarantee that ''Move'' will be on that list and it will be high upp.

Klara

Ateez killed it. Everyone did covers (except btob and Ateez) so I feel like the whole no limit thing was dumb cause why not do your Own songs? Anyways, I’m glad Ateez did it for the fans and not for kingdom. They knew they were risking a lot by doing their own song with a lot of theories that only their fans would understand .. props to them !!

Stephany Sandoval

SF9's performance of Move is my favorite performance of the show so far. As a hardcore Shawol and Taemint, I think they did Taemin justice.

Danielle Edwards

When I saw The Boyz's performance, I shouted "FINALLY! THEY ARE USING ALL OF THEIR MEMBERS!" Ya'll have no idea how long I have waited to see the rest of the members take a center position on this show. I am so proud of them for realizing that they should just have fun and not feel too pressured by the ranking. Sangyeon really had me tearing up.

Danielle Edwards

I'm so happy that Chani kept in contact with Taemin after they exchanged numbers on Idol room. I know that if I was him I would be way to nervous to call Taemin even if he gave me his number.

Danielle Edwards

Guys careful when reading comments i saw some people spoil the final episode on youtube.

Stay

Yeahh since the original screen recording got corrupted, it was the best we can do as we can’t find sync it up properly ☹️

NOT SO DAILY

The audio and video doesn't match up in Pt. 2 ;)

LisMM

Ateez in the last place was a crime

Nina

SF9 did "Taemin - Move", Taemin is from legendary group Shinee, and actually Chani the member who struggled with being sexy, he's the maknae of SF9, and he became an idol because of Taemin, and he is one of Taemin's biggest fan, he his a successful one, since he has his number. I also love that despite the fact that Dawon was busy with the shooting of "Doom at your service" his drama, they still made him a part of the performance without having him do the choreography parts. And iKON and SF9 friendship is the cutest thing.

Maureen

The live broadcast ended just an hour ago so as much as I'd love to watch this now, I feel it's too much. Hahaha I can't believe it's over. Mnet sucks but I'm happy with my takeaways - a certain Park Seonghwa and Jung Wooyoung ❤️. I've been bingeing your Ateez reactions on YT coz of them and now I'm having trouble keeping all these men in my heart😂. I hope you guys love (I know you already do) BTOB and TBZ more too. I know you're hesitating about putting them in the schedule but eventually you will. You know it too. We're all in this beautiful mess of multi-stanning together. 😌 And lastly, congrats on the move! 🎉🎉🎉

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