Originally Posted by ellispa:
“Its disastrous this year, but they are suffering from the same problem as last year, which is that the auditions are so much better than the live shows its scary. They have great acts with amazing voices knock it out of the park at the auditions, boot camp and even to some extent Judges Houses. But as soon as they get to live shows, they let the ridiculous production crew get at them, they get all Friedman'd up, and then what were great singers get ruined.
The production of the live shows is shocking, the hosts are beyond appalling, the judges have no chemistry at all and the audience just screams incessantly all the time no matter what is happening.
And the results show last week was just about the most amateurish bit of TV I have seen. They ruin the tension of announcing the results by going to a break half way through, then they get the judges pretty much just say a name of the person they want to send home with no explanation or prevaricating (say what you like about Louis but watching his contorted face as he's trying to come up with an answer is half the fun!).
And then, the cardinal sin was the announcing of the order of the votes. There was zero tension, both the contestants and the audience had no idea how to react, they had CeCe on stage for it despite knowing she was last anyway, for the first few they had the camera on the person who was named several seconds before the name was read out. It was anti climactic and painful to watch.
Who would have thought we would be sorry to see the back of Steve Jones, but these two muppets are just embarrassing, and their inability to squeeze any tension at all out of what should be inherently exciting events is cringe worthy. I can't see a way back, but I would be amazed if they did the same next week and announced the voting order, as it just doesn't make exciting TV.
There, rant over!”
“Its disastrous this year, but they are suffering from the same problem as last year, which is that the auditions are so much better than the live shows its scary. They have great acts with amazing voices knock it out of the park at the auditions, boot camp and even to some extent Judges Houses. But as soon as they get to live shows, they let the ridiculous production crew get at them, they get all Friedman'd up, and then what were great singers get ruined.
The production of the live shows is shocking, the hosts are beyond appalling, the judges have no chemistry at all and the audience just screams incessantly all the time no matter what is happening.
And the results show last week was just about the most amateurish bit of TV I have seen. They ruin the tension of announcing the results by going to a break half way through, then they get the judges pretty much just say a name of the person they want to send home with no explanation or prevaricating (say what you like about Louis but watching his contorted face as he's trying to come up with an answer is half the fun!).
And then, the cardinal sin was the announcing of the order of the votes. There was zero tension, both the contestants and the audience had no idea how to react, they had CeCe on stage for it despite knowing she was last anyway, for the first few they had the camera on the person who was named several seconds before the name was read out. It was anti climactic and painful to watch.
Who would have thought we would be sorry to see the back of Steve Jones, but these two muppets are just embarrassing, and their inability to squeeze any tension at all out of what should be inherently exciting events is cringe worthy. I can't see a way back, but I would be amazed if they did the same next week and announced the voting order, as it just doesn't make exciting TV.
There, rant over!”
They only showed Beatrice first, the rest of the contestants weren't shown until their name was announced! Also they had to pre-record and edit a lot as The X Factor was moved around a delayed so much due to the baseball on FOX.
