17 Carat Recap: Week of Oct.2

What to Watch: All the videos from BTS Week on The Tonight Show!
What to Listen to: J-pop star LiSA has a new pop-rock song out now that I love!

This Week on 17 Carat K-Pop
On “The MPire Strikes Baek,” I review SUPERM’s new album, theorize about the hidden messages in the NCT 2020 teaser images and videos, and add both edits and new content to my theories about the NCT/SUPERM music video universe!

P.S: This is one of the episodes I’m the most happy with and proud of; it really shows my love for NCT’s and SUPERM’s music and gives their great bodies of work the attention and emotional investment they deserve! My personal favorite episodes of the show will continuously be added this list, which I recommend sending to anyone who is new to my show and doesn’t know where to start.

On “Spilling the OSTea,” I give my takes on “five yays and five nays” regarding the latest happenings in the world of K-pop, list virtual K-pop concerts to mark your calendars for in October, point out some hidden meanings in Seungkwan’s new OST, and much more!

One of my “yays” of the week that I discuss in the episode: the impact of K-pop fans on Twitter being statistically proven! See more of the stats I mention on the episode by clicking here! 

This Week on How to Stan
Episode seven goes over a brief history of comic books, the fight to ban them, the introduction of graphic novels as a separate medium, the evolution of Comic Con, and much more about comics and superheroes!

Some of the readings discussed on the show this week:

The 10-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu

Frederic Wertham's crusade against comics
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A rebuttal to the false and misleading claims Fredric Wertham made while on his mission to censor comics

A comparison of fans' experiences and expectations at San Diego vs London Comic Con

A deep dive into the Batman fandom and their values

Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones 

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See you next week!

Your fellow Carat,
Hope