You may have noticed that I haven't been updating my blog with recaps of the shows this season. For a number of reasons I decided not to do any recaps. Those reasons include:
The judges are boring: Say what you will about Simon, Paula, and even Horny Chick Kara, but they at least made some interesting comments that were sometimes right and most of the time good comic material. There was a reason why Randy had the lowest amount of shots taken at him, he was borrrring. Last season I had to result to count the number of "yo's" he uttered just to get his count up. And now he's the most interesting judge on the panel. Jagger Lite is totally useless as a judge. And J-Lo, man, I had high hopes for her but she just hasn't come through.
It's been nothing but coddling from these three. None of these jokers want to say anything critical to anybody and that has really sapped the life out of the show. So what if the tweeners in the audience boo, what the heck do they know? You guys are supposed to be the music experts, so say something experty. Hell, I'd settle for Drunk Chick incoherence at this point.
And by the way, was anyone surprised that the judges used their magical save so early in the finals? Though I bet they regret saving Casey now with Pia voted off. Serves them right.
The results are predictable: Let's see, there have been 5 eliminations so far. Is anyone surprised that they have all been girls? Trained Seal probably is but he is getting paid millions of dollars by the
Idol producers to feel that way. The same thing has happened the last two years, yes both the girls getting early exits and Ryan's faked shock about it.
It is very obvious to me why this happening, just take a look at the studio audience. Outside of the contestant's posses and the occasional celebrity that got comped tickets from Fox, the audience consists of tweener girls and their cougar mothers. And who do these chicks vote for? Cute white guys. And who is left on the show? Two chicks, one African American guy who is likely gay, and 5 cute white guys. The show is now clearly geared towards these tweener chicks (even the commercials) and the producers don't seem to care that the rest of America is watching Kristie Alley trip over herself on
Dancing With The Stars.
And before anyone says "what about Casey?" I am convinced that Casey's "save" was a set-up. One of the producer's assistants snitched the next day by revealing that whoever was eliminated that night was still going on the summer tour, despite Trained Seal's claims to the contrary right up until Casey's save. But how could they announce that and make it sound legit? By having the judges "save" the eliminated contestant and then have Trained Seal claim that it was decided long ago to allow a contestant who was saved from elimination from the Top 10 to go on the tour. And if it was predetermined that someone was going to be saved, then the producers could have put anybody in that position since no one was going to be eliminated. So why wouldn't they put one of the dudes there to shock everyone and draw in viewers the next week?
This is just too easy...
I know, I'm sounding like my dad who's never met a conspiracy theory that he didn't like, but this is what the show has come to. I will say though that the producers took a big risk by selecting a guy who's already been in the hospital twice during the competition. I was worried that Casey was going to have a heart attack on live television.
The contestants are copy cats: I swear, I think just about every one of these finalists were separated at birth from a previous finalist. The Haley chick that's on the show now is just like the Haley chick that was on the show a few years ago, complete with the bland singing and the preference for mini skirts. Smilin' Paul McDonald is doing the same act as Smilin' Tim Urban did last year and will probably last as long on the show as Tim did. James Durbin is a blond, and perhaps heterosexual, version of Adam Lambert. I can go on. The African American guy who is likely gay is probably the only one in the bunch that doesn't remind me of another contestant from season's past, which is why I think he has no chance to win.
The mentors are dull: Yes, hearing will.I.am butcher "When A Man Loves A Woman" was entertaining, but Jimmy Iovine is even more boring than Randy Jackson. The rest of the bunch are so dull that I can't even remember their names. The show is clearly not as much fun without tormentors giving out advice that is either ludicrous or so generic that even I could give it. If you are going to have Gwen Stefani dress up the chicks to look like cheap versions of Gwen Stefani then the least the producers could have done was to give Gwen some air time to explain herself and provide fodder for the
Idol bloggers to make fun of. Throw us a bone here man!
The audience has left the building: Let's face it, fewer of you are watching the show; even fewer of you are reading the recaps, and the one loyal reader that I knew about passed away earlier this year. My heart is just not in it any more, and I know that I am not alone. One of the VFTW recapers has all but quit on the show, and my compatriot Spasm declared on her
Idol blog earlier this week that she is bored and done with the show.
I'll still watch
Idol if I'm home and nothing else interesting is on, but I no longer set the DVR to record it, it is no longer appointment television for me, I no longer take notes while watching, I am going to gym on Wednesday nights, and when the Stanley Cup playoffs start I may not bother to watch the show at all if my beloved
Los Tiberones are playing at the same time.
So in short, you're on your own. I'm keeping the name though just in case a miracle happens and the show gets interesting enough to recap again. Stranger things have happened.
Case dismissed due to lack of evidence....
