Dancing with the Surviving Idol
Posted By Kathleen David on May 22, 2008
Since three reality series have finished up with their most recent winners. I thought I would take a moment to comment on each. Understand that Survivor was really hit or miss on my viewing schedule this year, but I did watch the other two pretty consistently.
Survivor had yet another interesting idea to pit fan favorites against fans of the show. A previous contestant won, Parvati Shallow had participated in Cook Island. I really wonder how it would have gone with out the major injuries that seem to plague the contestants this year. Three out because of life threatening complications is the most so far. Yeah the women decided early to play the men and did a good job of it to get it down to an all female final. Overall what I saw was not bad but I felt that other than the real injuries, they had to create a lot of false drama to make it interesting.
Dancing with the Stars had an interesting set of contestants. I was cheering for Penn. Ariel was cheering for Marisa. Marisa made it much further than Penn. Apparently large men are at a disadvantage in this contest. It was pretty obvious that Kristine had an edge in this contest. Her training for skating, like Apollo’s previously, gives her a sense of balance and body placement that the other contestants don’t have. There was a lot of good dancing this year on both the participants and the other people they had dancing during the results show. But I have to admit my inner Whovian did a happy dance when Kylie was the singing guest. There is still something about this contest that has us tune in each year to watch.
American Idol was rather weak this year to me. If these were the strong singers they were boasting about, it didn’t come over on tape. I thought most of them were OK. My favorite went out in a vote that I still don’t believe. I liked Carly Smithson’s smoky voice and song choices. Ariel was a David Archuleta fan from his audition. She thought he was so cute and had a pop voice. Ariel said last night, before the airing of the show, that if it was a contest for a pop idol based on vocal abilities then Archuleta had it in the bag. If it was a popularity contest then Cook would win. Cook won and Ariel turned to me and said popularity contest. Yeah, but that has always been American Idol. But Ariel and I think that both Carly and David A are going to be OK.
I am grateful for these sorts of shows even though the padding of the shows is hitting the absurd point.
At least Ariel’s taking it well. Some of his fans, well, I’ll let you read one of their posts to see how they’re taking it.
“I know exactly how she feels! I just wanted to crawl into a hole and die. I never knew your heart could hurt so much. The only thing I can compare with people is how the country responded when JFK was assinated or the bombing of the WTC. Just complete utter shock and disbelief.”
http://idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=560752
David-
I’m really hoping that those are teen fans and not the adults. Teens tend to live more in the “now” and everything is a crises. Some people grow out of that and others don’t.
But then having had to deal with Harry Potter fandom, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were older.
Yeah, but why would a teen even reference the JFK assasination, much less know how people felt? As for the bombing of the world trade center, yeah, they might have been around but how old was Ariel when that happened— eight?
Nah, I’m banking on an adult.
don’t want to get off the subject…
but i’m happy to hear there’s another Penn fan out there. Poor dude, big guys just don’t seem to work too well with tiny chicks. I haven’t seen him on stage since they were on Broadway (so that was like the late 80s?) but i always got a kick out of his ‘dancing’ on stage:)
jeane