March 9, 2004

Wildcard Round

(Spring break this week, but I was working this evening. I arrived home just in time to catch the first performance, after the preliminary bit in which the twelve contenders were winnowed down to eight. I'll probably watch the tape of the first half hour before I post this.)

Yawn.

Nobody really belongs in the Top 12 this week. In fact, I rather wish we could save everybody the trouble and scale back to the first season's Top 10, and even that would be dragging things out...

Suzy was probably the best of the bunch; "I Will Survive" has been so overdone that it's hard not to have it sound like karaoke, but she did manage to put her own mark on it. Matthew and Jennifer would be the runners-up, by narrow margins. Still not feeling the George love at all, although it seems likely I'll be stuck with him anyway. I don't understand Leah's approach to style (clothing, not music). I liked Katie a lot in the first round, but, alas, her performance was flat this time.

There doesn't seem to be anything else to say, except that I'm looking forward to seeing the non-contenders get voted out over the next several weeks.

(Okay, have watched the tape of the prelims. Don't much care for this year's wildcard format, but what the heck, they tinker with it every year. Also, have voted for Suzy.)

Posted by Shmuel at March 9, 2004 9:56 PM
Comments

I'm not even going to bother with a "results" entry this week. What would I add?

Posted by: Shmuel at March 10, 2004 11:14 PM

Ah, Shmuel, I missed the results show and said to Tim, "Eh, I'll just check Shmuel's site to see who made it tomorrow."

Heh. That'll learn me :-) I find it hard to sit through though; they draaaagg it out so much!

Posted by: Heather Shaw at March 11, 2004 3:07 PM

Oops. I'm sorry! The results were as follows:

Randy's pick: Jennifer Hudson
Paula's pick: Leah LaBelle
Simon's pick: George Huff (with the caveat that he picked the person the audience seemed to want to see more of.)
Viewers' pick: Jon Peter Lewis

For a full recap, as always, you can use the link to Reality News Online in the sidebar. Have your popup blocker turned on.

Posted by: Shmuel at March 11, 2004 3:41 PM
Due to the proliferation of comment spam, I've had to close comments on this entry. Sorry!