Not Simon Says. What Simon SHOULD HAVE Said.

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SurvivorFanGP		#21	[-]
Posts: 7385 (04/25/08 4:11 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Paula to Archuleta David.....ten second pause....well.....I really don't care if your dad hides my drugs or not anymore. It wasn't your best performance, but who cares? You look beautiful tonight!
Drew B		#22	[-]
Posts: 2701 (04/25/08 4:35 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Overall, I like the current system better. The groups were NEVER fair or even, and talented people missed out by being in a group that was overpacked with talent, while extremely mediocre people made it in because there wasn't much competition in their group. And I don't trust the judges to even pick the best of the rest to COMPETE on the wildcard show... The one change I'd like to see happen would be to have the top 24 sing for three weeks with voting but no eliminations. Then, at the end of three weeks the top 12 vote getters make the finals and the other 12 go home. That would prevent a situation where somebody really good but who just got no screen time in the audition shows gets overlooked in the first week. Personally, I see no need to divide it into boys and girls, either. Mix up the performance order and gender distribution randomly over two nights for each of those three weeks, and let the chips fall where they may. I'd rather see the best 12 people, regardless of their gender...
Claymazement		#23	[-]
Posts: 1138 (04/25/08 6:35 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	^^ I agree with all of that.
KaiserKeller		#24	[-]
Posts: 881 (04/25/08 6:43 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite
Claymazement		#25	[-]
Posts: 1139 (04/25/08 7:00 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	^ ^ Simon's such a tool.
survivorjordancontestant		#26	[-]
Posts: 1345 (04/25/08 10:55 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	suckshardcore wrote: I think both formats have pros and cons. With the old format it wasn't separated by gender so there was a chance to get the best 12 and not just the best 6 girls and best 6 guys. Also I kind of liked the wildcard round, in theory I like the idea of the judges putting a few people in the Top 12. It gives people who may not be fan favourites a chance to show what they can do and become fan favourites. The AI judges pretty much suck a making wildcard choices, but in other countries the wildcard round still exists and works well. One of the judge wildcard picks just won the most recent season of Australian Idol. She was overlooked by the public in favour of cute male contestants but the judges put her in the Top 12, she got in there, did her thing and won over the public and won. With the new format I like it for the most part because everyone has a chance to make it for 3 weeks. With the old format you could be in a group with two of the favourites and you were doomed. With everyone competing together it doesn't come down to how the groups were arranged, there is no stacked group or week group. What I don't like about the new format though is that you don't have to be the best to make it through. With the groups it was do or die for the most part. You had to deliver your best, you had one shot to earn that spot in the finals. With the new format you just have to be 3rd worst. You don't have to earn a spot, you can just get one by scrapping by for 3 weeks. Also a really good contestant who had 2 stellar showings could have one off week and lose that spot in the finals that they deserve over someone who was mediocre or 2 weeks and then was better than the good contestant 1 week. Their are pros and cons to everything though. I don't really like how the current format lets people play it safe, that's why the more recent seasons had very few stand-out performances compared to the nearly weekly turn-out for the first 3. Contestants just don't really feel the urgency of having to perform their best anymore. Not only that, having the competition be drawn out the way it is now makes it stale and repetitive in the long run. There isn't the excitement of meeting a bunch of new people every week and then seeing the best 12 together for the first time come the finals. Also, the new format makes it more obvious that it's all just a popularity contest, letting the favorites just build up their fanbases during the semi's. if you ask me they should adapt Australian idol's format of having a top 24 divided, by gender in 4 groups of 6 followed by a wildcard round. all the excitement of the earlier seasons with the gender quota of today.
8trackmind		#27	[-]
Posts: 424 (04/26/08 8:43 PM) I demand attention! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The current semifinal format is much better. Good singers were getting lost too easily before, and bad ones got thru on sob stories that would now result in them being dumped around the second week of the semis (i.e. Jim Verraros). Also, since the judges and/or Nigel were so flaky about their wildcard choices, bad singers made it into the finals because of one fluke decent performance at the right time (i.e. Jon Peter Lewis). And rigging the contest to even out the male/female ratio was blatant. The wild card round in season 2 had seven females and two males. About the only good thing about the old format was that it didn't ENSURE an even male-female ratio. This came in very handy in the third season. The male "talent" that year was so close to nonexistant that the mind boggles at what 6 males in the group would have done. Besides the 3 awful guys who DID make the finals (George Huff was fine) we would have been subjected to the likes of people like Erskine Walcott or John Preator. It's possible we would have started the finals with 3 or 4 weeks of all-male bottom 3's, which admitttedly is quite a change from what's happened this season. The season 3 wildcard also had an even crazier problem, which my second Simon quote to Nigel will address: "Nigel, If you get rid of four people tonight before they can even sing I will walk off the show. We selected each of them for the wildcard round together. This is too sadistic even for me. If they are terrible they will not make the finals. I'm not compromising on this."
love like a bomb		#28	[-]
Posts: 3862 (04/27/08 7:28 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Agreed. The S3 wildcard was absolute insanity. I bet they got so many complaints that they were pretty much forced to change the semifinal format. Why do we even need semifinals anyway? Couldn't they just cut the crap and whittle the singers down to 12 in the chair round?
HoboKitty		#29	[-]
Posts: 245 (04/27/08 10:40 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	What Simon should have said to Brooke last week: "Sweetheart, that was agonizingly painful to watch, but I'd love to bang you." And to Jason: "That was a complete and utter mess, but I'd love to bang you."
Angela in WI		#30	[-]
Posts: 21870 (05/01/08 12:20 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	When Simon winks, I melt.
Kri674		#31	[-]
Posts: 5 (05/01/08 12:45 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	When Brooke messed up, she should have gotten voted off. That was fixed, big time. Its all a popularity contest. However, David Archuleta has the talent and cuteness, so he should win<3
Remington Steele		#32	[-]
Posts: 1099 (05/01/08 4:55 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	^ Somewhere someone's taken the asylum staff hostage and hijacked the computers.
seaguy		#33	[-]
Posts: 10706 (05/01/08 4:56 PM) AI Forum Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Kri674 wrote: When Brooke messed up, she should have gotten voted off. That was fixed, big time. Its all a popularity contest. However, David Archuleta has the talent and cuteness, so he should win<3 Kill it before it multiplies.

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