Like I said earlier, I need to stop making predictions. I’ll start by not predicting a winner tonight (ha).
The Prince was good, but good may not be good enough at this point. Piers was still an ass to buzz him, but when is he not an ass?
It may have just been me, but I thought that Jackie looked like the nerves almost got to her. Her eyes had the look of someone who was about to burst out crying.
Also, I thought the mistake that Piers referred to with FG was close to the end, when the curtain or something went up too soon. For a brief moment, you could see one of the all-in-black guys doing something. I don’t think it was enough to hurt the entire show.
Huh. The most boring, pedestrian performer of the final 4 wins. I was sure he’d be 4th place. I call bullshit.
Gotta say I agree. I don’t think the producers wanted or thought that Jackie could have her own show in Vegas. I think had the contest been solely for the $1 million, she would be the winner.
It really is disappointing that there was so much unique talent in the finale, and yet the winner is the plain traditional singer. What a dull note to end such a high season on.
While I don’t find him boring at all I was still surprised he won. I thought for sure the order would be
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[li]Jackie Evancho[/li][li]Prince Poppycock[/li][li]Fighting Gravity[/li][li]Michael Grimm[/li][/ol]
And as for Evancho, every time she speaks, it sounds like she’s been coached. 10 year olds don’t normally talk like that.
I can’t say that I believe the results either. I won’t go so far as to say it was completely rigged. I will say that, while I, as a female of around the same age as Michael Grimm, find him very nice to look at, and understand that he is very talented and consistent in preforming, I thought sure he would be last place. Good thing I didn’t make a prediction :).
I really hope we hear from all of them again, and soon.
That was so disappointing. MG is a good singer, and I was perfectly happy with him being in the final 4. But really - to take home the whole prize? bunchacrap.
I really do think the expression of shock on Grimm’s face was completely sincere. I’d love to know what he said to Jackie, because he talked to her for several seconds.
I’d like to think he said “Don’t be sad, I’m buying you a pony.”
It would be interesting (to me at least) to know how the voting broke down, assuming for the moment that I believe the results as presented reflected the actual voting. Did Prince Poppycock lose by a landslide? (I’m inclined to think not). How many people even bother to vote? I did this week. Nerdy, I know but I wanted to show my favorites some love.
My mother in law tried to vote but every time couldn’t get through.
I was also surprised at the outcome. I thought sure it would be between PP and Fighting Gravity. Both of those acts had “Vegas!” written all over them. I can’t see a fairly unknown singer drawing in a huge Vegas crowd every night. Usually you have to already be popular, then you have an act in Vegas that will draw crowds. Or be unusual enough that someone would want to see you. I’d probably pay to see PP, Fighting Gravity, or even the bike guy that got eliminated. I think there is enough from all of them to build a solid headline act around. A 12 year old opera singer or a mini-bolton sounding guy? Not so much.
I always wonder when I hear this (I don’t vote myself). If this is true, then it means the number of people voting are beyond the capacity of the system to count votes. Is there one common system that votes for all the competitors go through, or does each contestant’s phone number run on its own system?
If one contestant’s line is at capacity, then what about another contestant with more voters? Their line would be at capacity as well, right?
The first (and probably highest) bar is the telephone system capacity (assuming you’re dialing the 1-800 number).
Although the system can handle an amazing amount of traffic, and they’ve undoubtedly done call routing so that calls from different areas go to different counters, there are physical limits to how many calls can be completed (and the phone company will throttle capacity so that calls to AGT don’t prevent other calls from going out/getting in to an area). If you’re in a small area with a lot of people voting (maybe an apartment building), I could see particular difficulties.
I think that if you can get through, your vote will probably always be counted.
Edit: I see I missed part of your statement - although everyone has their own number, my suspicion is that they are all treated like a single number for routing/throttling purposes - so a similar percentage of attempts for each contestant would fail (but that’s purely a WAG).
Nor do they sing like that. SHe’s a freak, in a good way.
Although it will be interesting to see how she pans out as an adult. I don’t have the ability to judge one way or another, but the attention springs from her age coupled with the voice…in the end the voice may be middle-of-the-road opera.
I think he won precisely because of young girls and women. He’s insanely appealing on that basis alone, and if there was a way to measue it, I think you would find that females of all ages make up…80% of the votes. EASY.
I’m a woman. Chicks vote. Gay men vote. Straight guys…? Not so much.
And Evancho does seem to have a lot together for her age. It could be school of hard knocks, but I will give the edge to PR coaching. Dakota Fanning has a lot together, but she has what, 4-5 years on Evancho? I would think Fanning has come her PR experience naturally, not so much Evancho.
Oh wow. I saw that video several years ago then forgot about it, and when I first saw Fighting Gravity on AGT, I misremembered that *they *were the ones who had done the Ping Pong video! Guess not.