yes, i missed it. does fox do this on purpose as a big eff you to people with dvrs, or is the direction of the show that inept? i mean, they didn't blow it by a few seconds … they blew it by a good 7 minutes. did they hire the guy who was in charge of the north korean satellite launch to direct this show?

still hoping at some point they let scott drive the car
you know, let him careen into a crowd of people to show ford's safety features.

Yes. I always thought that if there was one thing the original Costco lacked, it was live entertainment. The Mexican Costco apparently kicks ass.

i thought he said it in the sense that it was a watershed moment that ryan was asking a girl to stay on her knees. that's why i thought it was hilarious. but i think the british tv hour thing makes more sense - although it's not as funny now.

Yeah, I agree that he gets unnecessarily fawned-upon. But remember that the Judges know that he's fantastic for ratings, so they had to lay on the splenda. I'm just saying I think he would have made it without it. Which I guess proves you're point that it's totally unnecessary and perhaps even a bit insulting.

Scott bashing undeserved?
For all the Scott bashing talking about his marginal chops and his affirmative action pass-through, I thought tonight he showed he actually has some nice tone to his voice. He's not an amazing vocalist, but he's definitely not bad.

I've been getting annoyed at how the judges feel like they have to stretch to critique someone by offering conflicting advice that must be driving the contestants crazy. How can every song be the wrong choice? If it's not too traditional and serious, it's too unserious and goofy. Just say whether they sang well. The…

while random anonymous postings like that should always be taken with a very large grain of salt, it wouldn't shock me at all if it were true. danny has an air of creepiness about him even without the creepy religious stuff thrown in, but if this stuff is even remotely true, it confirms that he's creepy. he can sing,…

Smilner - I disagree. Not connecting to a song has everything to do with the singer and nothing to do with the song. I said a good singer can sing "just about" any song and do it well. Of course there are exceptions, but the ubiquity with which the judges use "song choice" as criticism shows their inability to truly…

i'm getting tired of the judges using "song choice" as the soft way to tell the contestants that they sucked. the judges never really say why the song was wrong, just that it was wrong. if you're a good singer with real talent, you can sing just about any song and make it good. it's not the songs that are the problem,…

So Tatiana took her meds tonight
I think that's what was missing from her explanation of her meltdowns in Hollywood. "I didn't know how I'd react (without my meds)". She obviously saw how she was being portrayed (though I don't think it took much clever editing) and adjusted accordingly tonight. She was actively…

the shame of DWG is that he actually has some pipes. too bad they're attached to such a schmaltzy dork.

I'd really like to get a behind-the-scenes look at what REALLY goes into the decisions of who to keep and who to launch. Obviously it isn't purely based on singing ability - for one, the genders need to be equalled out. If not for that, I suspect the competition would have a heavy male-tilt, as on the whole, the guys…

YES! "You are all awesome … ly bad singers! Now get lost!"

I don't feel bad about blind guy not being that good. He seems relatively well-adjusted and not delusional about his abilities, which are pretty remarkable given his handicap. I think he's just enjoying himself and not banking his life on this. When he gets cut, which he will, he will take it graciously.

mea culpa
i take back what i said about tatiana's crazy being more contrived than authentic. she's 100% institutional-grade insane.

Tatiana's crazy seemed a little more contrived than authentic to me. I'd be rooting for her fame if she was more of a taken-too-much-acid kind of crazy and not a would-kill-you-in-your-sleep kind of crazy.

I wonder how the handful of sane people handled being trapped amongst that collection of assholes. It must have felt like being stuck at a musical theater camp for kids with Asperger's. Tatiana Del Obnoxius Lunatic is like a zit that you want to cultivate so it gets really plump and huge, thus rendering the eventual…

Aftter Kara totally humiliated that poor girl, I rewound the audition to see if I could see anything that would indicate she was just trying to get on TV and be funny rather than give an honest audition. Nothing. It's true that she was a pretty bad singer, but she didn't do anything so outrageous or absurd to warrant…

I also think Kara is a total ass and brings nothing new to the show. If anything, it could have used another technically-astute judge who could convey their thoughts and criticism in English, like Simon sometimes does when he's not being intentionally smarmy. So far she has been nothing but an attention-craving…