Idol was strange and dull, let's move on to Disco Week

Let’s say goodbye to no one!

Well, that was strange. Matt was eliminated, and then brought back in a manner which seemed to me more of an opportunity to test the new rules rather and people’s reaction to them rather than give someone a chance to come back to the competition. Was his elimination fair? Not really, but most are not. Lil was clearly the person who needed to go this week, and she was bottom two, but clearly there are some people who want her around – more than even Matt can muster when he is good.

At least it’s (the twist) gone. No more save. And tonight two people go, which means the lack of a save could cause a bad elimination (which was the reason for the rule in the first place). It also exacerbates the problem of the show being too long for an hour and continues the ridiculous tag team judge strategy which basically breaks the judges up into A Team and B Team (Simon/Paula being the A Team). If Simon doesn’t judge you, did you even perform? Did anyone even consider for one week taking out Ryan rambling, etc. Asking the judges to talk less?

As far as our pool it really has impact except it allows whoever had Matt or Lil (or whoever goes out next week) to get one more week of points. If the scores of our top pool participants winds up being close that might figure into the final standing.

Total lackluster week from the contestants, with Idol making mistake after mistake as well. I didn’t really write anything about the contestants, what was there to write about? Adam was good, Danny was probably a little better, Lil continues to disappoint (and argued to boot) and everyone else just seems to be there. The best thing for me was the movie previews / snippets from the Tarantino films.

Hopefully this week is better.