Bottom three: Ashthon, Haley, Karen. Ashthon goes home; judges unanimously tell her they don't love her, and elect to not employ the save.
Prelim WNTS numbers are up, and they diverge strongly from what I submitted this week. WTNS composite score first, then my submission in parens:
Lauren: 48 (60)
Casey: 71 (75)
Ashthon: 26 (30)
Paul: 38 (60)
Pia: 84 (55)
James: 79 (65)
Haley: 48 (45)
Jacob: 62 (35)
Thia: 36 (40)
Stefano: 55 (40)
Karen: 31 (40)
Scotty: 65 (70)
Naima: 40 (75)
I am just mystified by those numbers. Paul was better than Pia? Casey was 10 points better than James? Etc.? Ugh.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I did love how they gave Lauren a chance to try to atone for her disgruntled looks at the judges last night.
Those are my numbers, not WTNS's. I will edit to clarify. I did not like Pia -- I've seen that way too many times before.
ReplyDeleteWhich one is the country learer that Joel McHale was making fun of on The Soup last week? Because I'm kind of hoping his brand of kreepy kountry karoake was in the bottom three.
ReplyDeleteHeh. I just ugh'ed at Adam, thinking that I was ugh'ing at the WNTS numbers.
ReplyDeleteScotty.<span> </span>
ReplyDeleteThank you, Adam.
ReplyDeleteI got a little nervous that we are, once again, seeing the girls on some sort of a death march. I didn't think any of them were very good, but I still am annoyed that AI voters seem to hate women so much.
ReplyDeleteIn this instance, I'm going to have to blame the people who chose the female semifinalists (and some of the female finalists). Out of the seven, we have four pageanty wailers and whatever in the world Haley is. At least Lauren (entitled though she may be) is uptempo country and Naima is interesting, but really: when you can put your pageanty-loving votes on Pia and Thia, is it that much of a surprise that the less successful and/or yodelly pageanty girls didn't do well? It doesn't seem like there is nearly as much risk of vote-splitting on the guys' side, and the most problematic guys (Paul, Jacob) are at least interesting.
ReplyDeleteAlso, and there is no delicate way to say it, but they're going to run out of euphemisms for Jacob being "flamboyant" by the end of the NCAA Tournament.
ReplyDeleteAshthon seemed out of her league every performance I saw, so this didn't surprise me. I don't know what the judges and/or producers were going for with that save, but clearly the voters weren't buying what they were selling.
ReplyDeleteI thought Lauren's admitting that she sucked and then nearly having a breakdown was...strange.
ReplyDeleteI worry that she is not going to be able to handle the pressure. Interesting that in the taped (and edited) shows I never got the impression that confidence was an issue for her. Thia on the other hand, I expect to crack like an egg under the pressure.
Yeah, don't know how Ashthon made it over Kendra and/or Robbie. I thought Kendra was fantastic on the WC show (and so were her pants) and she's much more watchable than someone like Thia or Karen.
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