going seventeen | point of omniscient interfere penalty
premise:
members of team hot pack, who cheated in hide & seek were sentenced to a penalty of pretending to be seventeen's managers in eyes that see the truth, realized in this episode, where the hot pack members must serve the members of team not nolli in exchange for grape stickers until they receive 100 grape stickers.
comments:
i remember not really liking this episode too much when it first came out because it felt a bit like dawdling but you know what. that's lowkey where it's at baby! i love just seeing seventeen vibing around. you get to see team hot pack's individual personalities shining through (s.coups saying "i'm not willing to be that desperate" and joshua going "i am", joshua's acrostic poems, hoshi's karaoke, jun's melodica solos / rubbing his hands for tips like a fly (LMFAO), jeonghan begrudgingly cooking despite being the best out of the team at it, s.coups hiding the phones so that he'd get grapes for giving them back ???) ... it's a pretty chill episode but i love it.
you even get to see the personalities of team not nolli as well! minghao giving hoshi grapes if hoshi repeats that he isn't a tiger, vernon's "and why would i want that?" particularly stuck out to me (i love v8 #ifeellikemechatok). and i like how they included wonwoo as a mediator (with one of the first times you see him in this episode being him riding the toy bike) carrying over his npc role from hide and seek. i miss wonwoo so much :( and i like the way the ad reads were worked into this episode too. it makes me realize gose hasn't done an ad read in a while. the way every time wonwoo was called in as a mediator was worked into the ad read? pure genius. way better than how they did it in an episode like cross over.
ranking:
concept: 6.5; like it's a weird episode because it relies on the members cheating. as a penalty, it's really really good. as a standalone episode, it kinda pales in comparison to some -- but, like, it's better than an episode like the8 and the 12 shadows or human chess (which i will rank soon, but just came to mind right now).
chemistry: 9; actually pretty good!
enjoyment: 8; i liked it better than i remembered
overall - 7.8/10