and i cannot say the same thing about the queendom stages. not all of them worked, but looking back over the whole, there was a lot of creative diversity happening at the genesis of the stages. the proven formula for this type of show is a strong visual concept and there was a ton of those during kingdom: ateez anarchopunks/pirates, btob hanbok theatre/rockstars/jazz film set, ikon prison break/jungle, sf9 noir/dark fantasy/mannequin factory, skz's comic book/heaven+hell/cringe werewolf, even tbz's game of thrones thing. but overall i found queendom to have a lot less diversity in stage design and concepts than kingdom did, which is not what i was expecting. and i really liked what they did for the unit stages this time around too, it felt less structured and competitive, and had a more collaborative air. keeping the stage size relatively small was the biggest one, which i've talking about before, but it also really evened out the playing field so that we could see who had the good creative teams who knew how to use that space with a more limited set of resources. also it was for sure one of the most fun stages of the episode, so that's another point in its favour.Īnd some overall show thoughts: now that the show is finished, i think there were a good number of changes that mnet made to the show structure from kingdom that were really beneficial. so even though my design brain is hesitant about it, yes i think this is a good finale stage for them. and the lyric 'you make me feel like a queen' is very uwu emoji because their fans make them feel like queens even though they were never gonna win.

and i like the symbolism in the beginning of moving onwards from their past. and it also has really tight choreography and blocking for using such a small space. on the one hand no, because it's much less technically intricate and bombastic and only uses about three quarters of the performance space, but on the other much larger hand, you can see the progression in their confidence in their performance and they made an executive choice to do something that they know they're good at. This is probably the smallest scale finale stage and i think the smallest stage that brave girls has done on the show, so i'm of two minds about whether or not i'm considering it to be a good cumulative finale stage.

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