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Originally posted by GiRTh
I dont agree. I'd take talent over mediocrity anyday. I'd hate a show full of pretty but average 20-25. Especially if more talented but less pretty people were clearly being rejected on the ground of their looks. I dont think the public would watch a show like that.

I agree with that, 12 acts with just that is bland. But clearly you can see that, perhaps if not sounding like that, Hope looked like a girl band. I've used this example before, but would anyone really have voted Girls Aloud the winners of the X Factor if they were singing like they first did, e.g. Sound of the Underground, based on this year? I don't think so, I think they'd have gotten just as far as Hope did. Another thing to mention is that Rhydian was made to look bizarre to start with, and everyone said Leon and Same Difference should have gone in the early weeks - look who our finalists were. Perception changes, and people get better, and indeed, get worse. So really, I think it needs to be a combination of talent and marketability. Case in point - The Unconventionals. They were booted off in the first week, despite being vocally sound, they were just an odd bunch that nobody could do much with.