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Originally posted by robb
Just one thing about the 'John Sergeant affair'...............SCD is SUPPOSED to be about novice dancers.....half of them have obviously danced before!! That's why people voted for John.....
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Very true, but the same thing could happen in the X-Factor, where the public vote for the worse of the 12 acts all the ay to the end just to wind up the judges.
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Originally posted by robb
On the other hand, the 12 XF finalists have been hand-picked after auditions. They are SUPPOSED to be talented. Some of them were not, and others were not as good as we originally believed they were............
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The problem is the acts aren't chosen on the X-Factor by talent alone as was pointed out in an article from the Daily Telegraph;
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A finalist in one of such show, who has to remain nameless, told me about their own journey to the very first round, when they had to audition before researchers three times before they were put on the shortlist to be viewed by the televised panel. Now, this is someone who eventually almost went whole way, a performer obviously gifted enough to have been in with a shout of winning the big prize. But they almost didn’t make it past the researchers, because, initially, they were not considered good value for televisual entertainment.
But there is another side to this. If an auditionee had to jump through three sets of hoops to get on TV despite the fact that they were obviously musically talented, how do the hopeless, non musical, utterly self–deluded candidates ever get that far? Because their uselessness is the very point. Because the show requires victims, targets for the judges jokes. Because the audience doesn’t just want to see gladiators going into combat, they want to see hapless Christians being fed to the lions. It’s the kind of thing that has been amusing audiences since the Roman Empire. You can call it old fashioned entertainment. That doesn’t make it right.
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If they were just picked for talent then maybe the show would have the shocking and stupid voting we see on the show from time to time.
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Daily Telegraph