.
.
It’s just a tv show, it’s just a tv show…
I was going to write about the Christian coalition on “Survivor” this week, but then this had to happen.
“It’s just a tv show, mom.” One by one my daughters reiterated the same cold truth. They had heard me (and my husband) a-hollerin’ when the results were revealed on American Idol and came running. One by one they rebuked me.
“You’re not gonna cry are you?” I didn’t — until Pia reprised her stirring rendition of “I’ll Stand by You.” But then my girls could tell it was time to leave me alone in my grief, and they scampered up to bed.
Yeah, just like the last time I cried out at a live event on television like this — when a hapless fan blocked a foul ball catch during a certain baseball team’s last-best-chance for the World Series — I feel somewhat foolish now. Of course in the big picture of life, this means nothing. And the lovely Pia can still go on to have an “UH-MAY-ZING” career. And it’s all too, too serious for me to tweet “American Idol Season 10 is dead to me now.”
But why watch? The pretty boys will keep on getting voted through, and the real talent will keep dropping to the wayside. I feared something like this would happen, and still say — as I said last week — in one way the Dancing with the Stars voting system is superior because it prevents shockers like these, at least this early on. If there had been an element of judges scores for AI, Pia would be returning. But all those teenage girls and their cellphones had other ideas.
At least it wasn’t Jacob. I was ready to cry out that it was a conspiracy, because he chose not to sing a song about having sex — he stuck to his moral convictions. I sure hope that he doesn’t allow his bottom-three finish to forsake his principles. (And I hope he doesn’t let the producers stick him in a bad stereotype again for the Ford commercial — a brother asleep on the job? Come awn, man!)
I haven’t been this upset about a tv show since they killed Gary on “thirtysomething” 20 years ago. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen for another 20 years. Well, this will free up a lot of time for me on Wednesday and Thursday nights — maybe I’ll start paying more attention to DWTS after all… Gotta get more of my reality competition fix somewhere!
– Colette Moran
.
.
.
.
MTV.com – Was Pia Toscano’s Exit The Most Shocking In ‘American Idol’ History?
“Randy Jackson held his head and said “no, no” and then appeared to mouth an expletive, and Jennifer Lopez was brought to tears at the realization that one of the most viable female contestants in recent “Idol” history was gone and that the judges appeared to have squandered their save on commercially suspect Casey Abrams.” – Full story is here.
.
