Topic: America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent: Semifinals - Four Five Advance
Airdate: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 [9-10pm]
[Note: I apologize for the format of yesterday's AGT commentary. The Tripod blog system is very unforgiving, and I had to partly redo the entire post, which ended up squishing paragraphs together.]
Before I recap the results, I want to make a comment on the AGT recap episode that aired in the hour preceding last night's results show. The recap show usually shows the performances and the judge's comments; last night, however, they edited out Arcadian Broad's "The producers made me do it" comment. The producers obviously want to continue to make themselves look good, but after this edit, it makes them look even worse. To the producers of America's Got Talent, I say to you: BIG EPIC FAIL!
Now that I've got that out of my system, let's move on to the first results show of this year's semifinals.
Arcadian Broad, The Texas Tenors, and Drew Thomas Magic were called up first. It was completely obvious that the Tenors were advancing, and the other two (especially Arcadian, due to his comments) were going home. The three Texans will not win, but after their "Unchained Melody" performance, I'm looking forward to their final song. Hopefully, it will be even less cheesy (but I doubt it will be completely 'cheese'-free. 0/1
The first guest of the night is The Muppets. Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy sing, with some chickens doing backup. Maybe I'm not as familiar with the Muppets as others are, but where did these chickens come from?
Grandma Lee, Tony Hoard & Rory, and Paradizo Dance are next. Out of all the acts from this week, I was on pins and needles anxiously waiting to see if Grandma Lee made it or not; relief spread over me when her name was called. And every time she makes it, I love her emotional expressions. If she is like this already, imagine if she won? 1/2
The final guest is judge David Hasselhoff singing "Feeling Good." This was obviously a huge boost to his ego. But I have to wonder if he was lip-syncing. If you watch him do the final note, it looks like he closes his mouth before that note is over with. I wouldn't be surprised if he did, but whatever.
Four left: Kevin Skinner, Acrodunk, Voices of Glory, and Fab 5. Acrodunk goes home. Darn. I wanted to see them one more time. Kevin Skinner is through. I'm shocked! Not. I'm tired of seeing the praise he's getting. He's a nice guy and all, but his talent is mediocre at best. 2/3
And now comes the moment when the judges don't know how to be judges. Sharon can't make up her mind, so she hands it over to David. David can't make a decision (as usual), so it's up to Piers. And Piers doesn't want to send either one home, so the judges send both Voices of Glory and Fab 5 into the Finals. They probably made that decision during the break, then acted like they couldn't make a decision on-air. But we can see right through that veil.
Correct Predictions: 3/4. I did extremely well, considering how I've been losing steam lately.
So, five are in instead of four, which means that the finals will at least be a Top 9. It could be a Top 10 if they do the same thing next week. We'll just have to wait and see.