this show was really fun to watch, but the fans were so biased.

the parts i enjoyed the most was the interaction between the leaders/captains. whether it was their stages, battles, or just them talking with each other. it always made me laugh, and especially the parts where they would use chinese idioms to explain how they felt about the stage/dance.

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now for the review..

there were so many stages where wang yibo's team got first, but one of the other teams were more interesting and skilled.
dont get me wrong, wang yibo and his team are super super skilled and talented, but there were many stages where they did not deserve first.

i really wanted huang xiao to get in the finals, but he lost against yang kai in the freestyle battle. i know yang kai is a super super talented b-boy, but i was getting so tired of his repetitive skills. when huang xiao finally brought something different to the freestyle battle, i was so happy. sadly, he didn't make it into the finals.

i'm kind of glad they put bouboo against yang kai in the freestyle battle, because i did not want the final 2 in the whole competition to both be from wang yibo's group. i kind of wished bouboo won tho, because i was so tired of seeing yang kai's breakdancing. bouboo's musicality and his moves are so interesting to watch. he doesn't use like "insane skills" everytime, but that's why i like watching him dance.

other people just use skills to wow the audience, and it works most of the time, which is really annoying. but as a dancer of 11 years myself, having skills does not equal being good at dance. skills are only a little part of dance. musicality, coordination, choreography, sharpness or softness, movement flow or isolation depending on the music, facial expressions.. those are the most important aspects of dance. a skill looks the same every time. you can only wow people so many times.

bouboo continues to wow people every single time he freestyles, no matter what type of music is being played. he pays attention to the music, listens to the beat, finds space in the song to add freeze movements, or areas where the song is flowy to add flowy movements, etc. no wonder why he is a world champion. his body naturally just responds to any beat, any song. also, i felt like wang yibo wanted bouboo to win more rather than yang kai.

during the last stage of the 25 rounds of freestyle battle, i felt so bad for xiao chao. the fans were obviously going to vote for yang kai because of his b-boy skills. xiao chao did extremely well in the battle even knowing the fact that he was losing and he knew his stamina was not as good as yang kai because he is a hip hop dancer and yang kai is a b-boy. i will admit, yang kai is very good and he held up so well in the battle. i was really proud of xiao chao for holding up too, he gave the competition his all. it's really a shame that xiao chao didn't win, i really wanted him to.

i'm gonna be honest, i didn't even smile when yang kai won. i mean.. good for him and wang yibo i guess-

i started this show wanting wang yibo to win, but i realized how biased the fans were. my favoritism started to shift throughout the show from yibo to zhang yi xing. his dances are so good and every time i finish watching him dance i just wished i was there to like scream or something.

my favorite stages this season were:
- huang xiao and qiao zhi's duet
- ak dong's hip hop routine in the semi finals
- literally all of xiao chao's stages
- zhang yi xing's chinese style stages
- wang jia er's stage where he was in a virtual world

overall:
my favorite trainees were xiao chao and huang xiao. i'm glad they made it far in the competition, and many many people got to see their skills. it's a shame huang xiao didn't make it into the finals, i know his stage would've been so good.