[Daniel-X]

Last nights episode was better than any of last weeks, but it still wasn't great.

[Cal.]

You can't really judge the series until live shows imo

[Cal.]

Most people I know only start watching at Judges Houses anyway

[joeysteele]

I was expecting worse, I think it will pick up this year, especially with the judging panel in place.

[Mystic Mock]

The problem that keeps hurting The X Factor is it doesn't know what it wants to be.

One minute it says anyone can audition.

Then they say that "we're lookin for a popstarr" in a Louis Walsh way of speaking.

Then it's all about the performance.

Then it's all about the voice.

Then it's trying to attract younger viewers with younger acts, but then giving them relic songs to sing that don't even feel modern in the way that they're performed.

Then they'll do sob stories that makes it feel like an episode of Eastenders.

Then it'll feel like it's a comedy when the joke acts come on.

Then there's the VT's trying to make you get to know the acts personalities like it's Big Brother yet we're suppose to be voting on the talent? So which is it?

Basically The X Factor needs to stick to one of it's ideas and then the ratings might go back up or even just stabalise.