I believe he’s been dating some TV person for a couple of years now. And I thought I heard him say something to Paula like “I’m going to get in so much trouble…[at home].”
I’m about falling asleep right now. I blame Neil Diamond.
Woohoo! Bye bye, Snow White.
Yay!
Jesus, STOP TALKING. Just SHUT UP.
Oh, look. It’s not any worse now that she’s bawling her eyes out. Good riddance.
Everyone looks so awkward, like they don’t even want to comfort her. I wonder if she made few friends among her fellow idols?
Someone on VFTW mentioned Jason Castro laughing in the background during the sing-out, but I missed it. Did anyone else catch it?
I don’t get the hatred for Brooke.
It started for me in her initial audition when she said she’d never seen a R-rated movie. I just found her whole purity act really grating and phony and I hope she spirals into depression and drugs and is forced to do porn.
…and Dio wins post of the week! 
I don’t hate her as much as Diogenes. I just don’t like snivelers, and she’s a sniveler.
Yeah, but he’s always like that. I think he gets distracted by the pretty lights and forgets what is going on around him.
Hm, more conspiracy fodder. When they were standing there, Syesha gave a big smile, as if she knew she wasn’t going.
Hm.
I know shes emotional, but it was so refreshing seeing Carly smile and belt out her goodbye song.
compared to Brookes turning and walking away from the camera.
I never got the feeling that we were seeing the real Brooke. It’s like she was always holding back – if she gave her best and didn’t win, she wouldn’t be able to handle the rejection. Now she can tell herself that she didn’t really give it her all, so it’s okay that she didn’t win. “If I’d really tried, I could have done it.”
I also got a sense of false humility from her, which doesn’t jive with the above. I dunno. She’s a mystery.
I was surprised at the lack of hugs too. Did she push someone away and I missed it?
I noticed that too, that Brooke had tears running down her face already, and Syesha didn’t even look nervous. Maybe somehow they got tipped off/figured it out before Ryan said anything?
I was watching one of those Idol rerun shows where Clay Aiken said he caught a look at Ryan’s cue cards before the finale and knew he was going to lose to Reuben. He said it so casually like it was no big deal, but I had never heard that before. So apparently it is not unheard of that the contestants might figure out who is going before they go. Pretty unlikely, though.
But Ryan never said that Syesha and Brooke were the bottom two - he just said one was safe and one wasn’t. So Syesha very well could have been the top vote-getter (per DialIdol). Are the contestants shielded from the Internet at all? Or phone calls from the outside world? If not I am sure they are all looking at DialIdol, VFTW, etc. as much as we are, or getting told about the results. That - more than knowing the results ahead of time - is probably how Brooke and Syesha figured out that Brooke was the one going home.
AuntiePam : from what I saw, everyone kept well clear of her. In fact, the whole show was weirdly un-friendly between the girl and boy contestants. When each of the boys went to the “safe” sofa, they all shook hands and such with each other. But when Ryan sent Syesha and Brooke back to the sofa to await their fate, the girls and boys didn’t even look at each other, and the girls perched way on the edge, as far away from David Cook as they could manage. It looked odd.
Then at the end, when the top four came out to join Brooke for her sing-out, they all kept quite a distance. The only one to make any move toward her was David Cook, who was in tight close-up for a few seconds before sort of akwardly reaching out and touching her on the back (almost like someone told him "dude, you’re on camera - do something!), and she sort of moved away from that. That’s what I meant by saying it was all really awkward. None of the deep goodbye hugs I was used to seeing on Idol. No hugs at all, actually. The second she finished singing, she turned her back and walked to the back of the stage, with Ryan following. It was as if all the other people were afraid she would literally fall apart if they went anywhere near her. If she’s that much of a mess, they are probably all relieved she is gone.
I think Syesha has that pageant training which instills a prime directive to never stop smiling no matter what.
I think she even made an oblique reference to it once when she pointed at her frozen smile and said something like “I haven’t stopped smiling.”
I think Syesha deserved to stay over Brooke, by the way. She actually is better, and she’s worked harder at trying to improve. As over-coached and plastic as Syesha can seem, I can tell she works her ass off and she’s no dummy.
The whole bit with Simon’s 9-year-old crush was hilarious.
What was that weird moment about “some history” between Neil Diamond and Simon?!
Brooke knew she was going home, because she knew she deserved to go home. She was done.
My TiVo cut out during her song at the end so I didn’t catch that part… is it on YouTube yet?
I really liked Brooke. On the other hand, I think David A is a cute kid but does nada for me vocally. No emotion. Maybe he’s just too young to feel it.
I think Syesha was smiling a la Carly. She thought she was going home, because she’s been in the Bottom 2 or 3 a lot and because Simon mentioned that there was a real threat she’d be going home. So she decided to go out with grace.
It looks like it’s heading to be an all male finale. If Jason was safe after last night’s performance, I doubt there’s anything Syesha can do to beat him.
I think you kind of have to give it to Syesha. She’s been in that bottom two or three virtually every week, but she keeps hanging in there and hanging in there and she’s now scratched her way to the top 4, and I think she’s done largely just on working hard and grinding out good performances. She doesn’t have the kind of compelling personality or storyline to maintain a natural fan base. I think she’s had to do it all on sheer performance and I give her credit for that. I think she’s earned every week she’s gotten.
I think Syesha’s attitude every time she’s in the bottom group is really refreshing.