Originally Posted By gadzuux Tough week - I didn't much care for any of the performers. And I still think the pacing of this show is way too slow. Two hours to get in ten acts, and each act is never more than sixty to ninety seconds. That's ten to fifteen minutes of performing packed into two hours. The rest of it is just regis. I didn't see any million dollar candidates tonight. Some of last week's cast offs were better than anything tonight - like the ventriloquist guy and 'hoopalicious' (the chick with the hula hoops). Two hours of my life - wasted. And once again, I'll be missing the thursday night show - I've got better things to do.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Based on last night I would say America doesn't have as much talent as we claim to have.
Originally Posted By hightp The 8 year old piano player was very good, but not a Million $ good, and I liked the Asian singers (is that At Last), but I agree with Piers, the show shouldn't become American Idol. I don't know who I would have picked. None were that good.
Originally Posted By hightp By the way, does Regis stand in a hole while on stage? I didn't realize he was so short. Most of the acts, men and women, were taller than he was.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda No one did, they "couldn't decide". The judges are supposed to make their decision tonight turing a "special" 60 minute live episode.
Originally Posted By gadzuux No one. The judges apparently couldn't reach a decision and said they'll announce their pick tonight. This is a bit unfair to the acts. If the judges had announced their pick last night, the audience pick would be limited to the nine remaining contestants. This way, the public has ten acts to choose from, possibly affecting the outcome. The reason given is that hasselhoff and brandy seem to be favoring a singing act - presumeably the chines doo-wop guys, and piers (the brit) is concerned that the finale will be a series of singing acts, and too similar to american idol. He has a point.
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Originally Posted By gadzuux This show is losing me. And it's because it's poorly produced. Once again, two long hours with ten minutes of performing and 110 minutes of crap. In the first half hour they barely manage to get two performances in. A few times they didn't even manage to get a single act on between commercial breaks - they come back from the commercial, chat amongst themselves, tease about which acts "may" be coming up soon, and then go to another commercial. And many of the acts themselves are barely watchable. The judges gave their "best of the night" to a septagenarian granny who raps - slowly and badly. I was afraid her teeth were going to pop out on national television. And she's STILL younger than regis. They didn't just pass her through to the finals, they gushed about how she could take it all. Hasselhoff looked really bad tonight - like he might be ill. And Brandy looked even worse than him. One of the acts - some stilt dancers - complained about having to sit in the bleachers with the audience for three hours - if full makeup and costumes - waiting to see if their act was called up. They have a valid point - stage makeup and costumes that may be cool on stage just look bizarre when they're sitting in the audience. I'm wondering about the guy with birds shoved up his sleeves, pant legs, and gawd knows where else - just sitting there hoping to get called to the stage. If it's uncomfortable for him, I can only guess what the birds must be going through. In theory, there's a good show buried underneath all this TV cheese, but they need better acts, faster pacing, tighter production, a hipper host than regis, and a different panel of judges. In other words, just everything is wrong.
Originally Posted By Labuda I was quite surprised when the chose Rapping Granny, especially after the stink Piers made last week about putting too many musical acts through, which made us end up with the godawful Rialis in the final. *rolling eyes* BUT, I was very happy that Bianca Ryan was put through and that Kevin whatever-his-last-name-is (the magician) came in 3rd - I have high hopes that he'll be one of the finalists, as I voted for him a couple of times the other night in addition to the 8 votes I cast for Bianca.
Originally Posted By Labuda "...they need faster pacing, tighter production, a hipper host than regis, and a different panel of judges." Very true. DH has been keeping a tally in Excel as to how the judges vote, and how we vote on each one. Piers, needless to say, is the harshet judge, having given out 9 Xs so far in the semis, but DH & I are much, much harsher judges - he's given 19 Xs so far, and I've given 18. Looking forward to the quick-change folks on next week's show - I really enjoyed their performance last time around - amazing what they did!
Originally Posted By gadzuux Yeah - I really liked those two. There's a clip of their performance on the show's web-page (nbc.com). I've watched it several times and it's even more amazing upon repeat viewing.
Originally Posted By DAR I gotta ask and I'm not going to say anything negative about the show, since I've never seen it. But with this, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Rockstar and everything else, just how talented is America?
Originally Posted By gadzuux I hear that with abc's "the one", the ratings are sooo bad that they may not run the entire series. They ran the premiere episode twice during the week, and both showings tanked. From what I can gather, this show is a kind of combo of american idol and big brother, where the contestants are living together while going through the audition process. But there's talk of just pulling the show from the air and not running the season at all. This has happened before, with "the mole" hosted by anderson cooper. It was similar to 'amazing race' where teams of contestants travel the globe and search for clues to the mystery, while one of the people among them is a "ringer" who's trying to sabotage their efforts. But the ratings were so bad that halfway through it's run they decided to pull the show off the air, and the viewers that WERE watching (like me) never got to find out how it ended or who won. This is what happens when there's so many copycat shows all chasing after the same audience - somethin's gotta give.
Originally Posted By gadzuux So did anyone watch last night? As I expected, I enjoyed the 'quick-change' people more than the other acts. But the problem is the act doesn't really change. It's one solid minute of amazing display - but that's it. The contortionist chick with the bow and arrow is good too - but same problem, that's about all she does. And I've about had enough of brandy. She seems to like to put on airs and pretend that she's an upscale diva with oh so delicate sensibilities. But then she turns around and acts like a brat during the segments where she's collaborating with the judges. She also slips and makes low-rent grammatical errors that undermine her pretensions of high-class grandeur. Sorry doll - I'm not buying it. Get real.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I saw it last night, but it's a really easy show to read a magazine to. There's just so much filler. I felt the same way about the contortionist and quick-change people. Very impressive, but could I watch 30 minutes of them? By the same token, I had hopes that this wouldn't be just another singing competition. I ended up voting for the quick-change people. This show should be so much better than it is.
