[Netizen]

Yeah, I would agree with your assessment. The only thing I would slightly disagree with is Jordin Sparks. She was the best of a very horrible season. Other then Blake Lewis I can’t even remember anyone on that season. Oh wasn’t there a chunky guy with a weird name like Cherokee or Shenandoah or something who we all thought would do well? He sang Nights in White Satin and was cut immediately?

Sundance Head. I would agree that was the worst season and Jordan might have been the best, but, that too falls squarely into the judges laps. That's what they get for trying to force a winner by selecting certain types to send to Hollywood.

If they would just let the best singers through and let the system work, the best singers will win. When they tamper with it, is when they get crappy results.

[kevkrom]

On the whole, I wouldn’t mind giving the judges a little leeway to affect the results. At least early on.

I’ve suggested before that each judge gets one “get out of jail free card” to use, and that each contestant can only benefit from it once. When the “bottom 3” is announced in a given week, one judge may use his/her “get out of jail free card” to make a contestant safe; if that happened to be the lowest vote-getter, than the next-lowest vote-getter would be removed.

After the field is cut down to a reasonable number, the “get out of jail free card” system is no longer in effect. So, after we’re down to, say, 5 or 6 are left, there’d be no more “get out of jail free cards”, even if they haven’t all been used.

From a producer’s standpoint, this would, at the very least, given them some fudge factor as to helping them choose who makes the touring top 10. It also allows them to save a good contestant who just had a bad week. The key would be to have the system limited so that such decisions would be the exceptions, not the rule.

[slugbug]

I’m not wild about them changing the judging system after all these years...but I’m certain it’s so no more Tamara Gray’s and Chris Daughtry’s get cut before the end...the judges don’t like it when the one they want to win it all gets booted by America.

[retrokitten]

Sundance Head. I would agree that was the worst season and Jordan might have been the best, but, that too falls squarely into the judges laps. That's what they get for trying to force a winner by selecting certain types to send to Hollywood.

I agree again. That was the season after Taylor, Kat, Daughtry and Kelly and it was so obvious they were going for a "type".

I remember who said it, but last night someone said maybe it was too early to tell if this season would be good or not. I hope they are right, because I'm liking very little about it so far.

Maybe I just need a computer/FR break and some vitamin D (aka sunshine LOL) or something.

[silent_jonny]

If they would just let the best singers through and let the system work, the best singers will win. When they tamper with it, is when they get crappy results.