Are there any doubts that Fantasia should win American Idol? While I didn't think it was her best night (too many runs), she has more charisma and confidence than Jasmine and Diana combined. While many felt LaToya lacked personality (something she heartily disproved on her 52 appearances on talk shows this past week) at least she gave Fantasia a run for her money in the vocal talent department. But what we have been left with is a one-horse "star quality" race.
I thought Diana did a good job last night and probably deserves her place in the finals. I think Randy was a attempting a wee bit of sabotage in having her sing Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" (which I thought was a bit too sped up to fit into a 1 minute, 30 second snippet). But she shined on the pretty darn maudlin "Don't Cry Out Loud."
Will Jasmine go this week? Who knows. Based on last night's performances, she probably should have been voted out in the middle of the pack. She made the sin of attempting Whitney and additionally had to survive Paula's awful song selection of "Mr. Melody." Even if she survives, last night had a "lame duck" feeling from all, including "Jazzy" herself.
But will Fantasia be hurt by the judges' comments. Last night, she was pretty much christened the American Idol and even Clive Davis (who looked to be hoping to get a Bo-Bo lap dance from his prospective new money honey) said he would sign her... so does she need to win? Well yes, if the show wants to maintain an iota of credibility going into the future.
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Is it too much to ask for a show not to totally ruin a surprise? I know in this age of "give the whole story away" movie trailers there is some group of individuals who think this is a necessity.
24 is a show that loves the surprise twist, so that makes it all the more frustrating that they chose to give away the last minutes of the next-to-last episode in a TV commercial. Well okay, they didn't give it totally away...they gave us some "options" to mull over, but by the time the final scene rolled around the end result was pretty much evident. I think I would have been genuinely surprised had I not seen the commercial...but by now I guess I should no better to even look.
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Somebody wake me up if this is just my TV programming dream?!
First NBC renews Scrubs until 2006... now CBS releases their fall schedule and The Amazing Race is on it! Yes, we have back-to-back seasons of TAR (season five is airing over the summer)... granted in the fall it will be in a graveyard-ish Saturday evening time slot, but who cares!
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