July 30, 2021 (released October 22, 2021) - In the Soop episode 2 airs. After dancing, singing and playing with the water hose with Hobi, Tae goes to Jungkook’s room to spend time with him and Bam. Bam is at the door when Tae enters, and responds to Tae telling him to go in(to the room).
The manner and tone in which Tae coddles and talks to Bam is very similar to the way JK spoke to Bam the previous night. [Refer to video compilation https://twitter.com/hellotae_Vv/status/1451606243953364994?s=20]. It has also been pointed out that it also resembles the way Tae played with the dog that was on the “LGO” filming set - https://twitter.com/KeeponlovingV/status/1449013106257002501?s=20.
Tae comments that Bam’s personality hasn’t changed.
Dialogue in its entirety -
https://twitter.com/winterkoobear/status/1451565672522149889?s=21
https://twitter.com/ging_jjk/status/1451535646900719618?s=21
Tae’s comment is noteworthy. Jungkook mentions in this same episode that he hasn’t been able to spend much time with Bam because he was at a training center. For Tae to be confident that Bam’s personality hasn’t changed indicates he’s spent enough time with Jk and Bam to know this.
https://twitter.com/dailyofjk/status/1451564278356525099?s=21
Tae was playing basketball alone but Jk and Bam come and join him. Jk proposes they play tennis, with Bam initially playing with them. When JK begins the first serve, he pretends to do a really tough serve that will be hard for Tae. JK laughs and immediately stops when Tae tells him off cutely not to do it.
After Bam goes back to Jk’s room, and Taekook resume playing, Jungkook comments that they’re terrible at tennis. Tae muses it may be because it has been a while since they’ve played. It’s uncertain if this is in reference to prior run episodes when BTS were taught, and then played tennis, or if Taekook have played together in private.
https://twitter.com/ging_jjk/status/1451526231103459332?s=21
https://twitter.com/ging_jjk/status/1451526394438045697?s=21
After playing tennis, Taekook decide to ride ATVs. This doesn’t air in the televised public viewing in Korea, only the paid Weverse edition. A wide shot shows there are two ATVs -
And initially Taekook appear to ride their own, as seen in a behind the scenes still shot -
But interestingly enough, BH airs them sharing one. Some cute photos of the moment -
In these close ups, you can see Tae made to put his arm around Jk’s waist before deciding to put it back around his neck -
https://twitter.com/_k91230v_/status/1451577916890828804?s=21
Some cute, more clearly defined GIFs -
https://twitter.com/9597gif/status/1451565407618408448?s=21
https://twitter.com/9597gif/status/1451558346469818397?s=21
https://twitter.com/9597gif/status/1451560810136887298?s=21
https://twitter.com/9597gif/status/1451563549025779729?s=21
https://twitter.com/ging_jjk/status/1451536375665229829?s=21
Behind the scenes photo released -
Taekook sing together before dinner.
https://twitter.com/ging_jjk/status/1451537698926170114?s=21
https://twitter.com/ging_jjk/status/1451537584555917317?s=21
Oddly, the editors decided to cut and splice the footage. Initially, Tae is singing alone with the blue mic and he’s sitting in a gray chair (let’s name this GC 1). Next to him, the other gray chair (GC 2) has a yellow mic, the KTV controller and something that looks like a phone.
Partway through the song, when Jk joins, Tae is in the orange chair with the yellow mic, but we never hear the song change. The gray chair (GC2) where the yellow mic & phone once was in the earlier scene, now only has the KTV control and nintendo switch controller. Jk takes a seat in the gray chair where Tae was shown sitting just moments ago (GC1).
https://twitter.com/dionysusvrs/status/1451697805836406789?s=21
Then there’s another cut. Tae is back in the gray chair we saw him in the first scene (GC1), with the blue mic again, and Jungkook vanishing from the scene entirely.
Then in the next second Jungkook is back sitting next to Tae, but JK is in GC2 instead of GC1 where we saw him sitting before. The song never changes in all these splices so it seems like Bh edited the one song over different clips of them singing together. I’m not sure why Bh decided to splice and edit this. After the song supposedly ends, Tae nudges JK’s hand and JK seems to know what he means, immediately picking up the KTV controller and choosing the song for them to sing. Tae is now singing with the blue mic and JK with the yellow mic.
https://twitter.com/vkooksjourney/status/1451704942817734658?s=20
It’s also interesting to note that before they showed Tae singing, JK was seated in the living room with background music covering up Tae’s singing. This hints that Tae and JK spent a much longer time singing together and we were only shown edited snippets of it.
The members prepare for dinner outside.
Tae spots a bug, reacting in fright. He goes to hide behind Jungkook. Jk is known to be fearless with bugs (Hobi has asked for Jk’s help with them before) but I personally found it very domestic that he sought shelter behind Jk and then gently nudged him to help the group, and it is now a favorite moment of mine for the sweetness and the spontaneity that showcased domesticity.
Close ups of Tae hiding behind Jk and sending him to get the bug.
https://twitter.com/9597gif/status/1451583825738440720?s=21
https://twitter.com/anzluvevk/status/1451574957520134146?s=21
https://twitter.com/ging_jjk/status/1451531247084138505?s=21
Tae sits very closely to JK throughout the whole dinner, angling his chair towards JK as well.
Tae makes Chapaguri and brings it back to the table where JK mixes the sauce into the noodles. They start to discuss whether they should drain the water out of the noodles or not. Tae refutes saying they’ll end up eating tomorrow instead (if he didn’t drain the water and just let it evaporate like how JK suggests). JK and Tae cutely bicker for a bit, bringing in the famous chef Mr Paik.
After JK finishes mixing the noodles, the boys dig in but continue their banter about the noodles. Jin asks what brand of noodles it is and JK responds with a cute accent, making Tae laugh while nudging his arm to point at something, and lingers his hand.
Taekook remain close throughout the rest of the dinner.
This was one trend after IST2, episode 2 (Vkook also trended) -
