Plus, now I can feel less guilty about watching atleast two hours of Kris Allen video every week if not watching AI9. LOL

I can’t argue with that. Watch more Kris! Always a good thing.

As for a lot of talent there, my problem with this season is that there are a lot of good people, but no one left to hook me into watching. They’re good, but meh, not great.

There is alot of BS that goes along with watching American Idol, and there is always a tradeoff between putting up with the manipulation/favoritism/throwing people under the bus/empty pointless banter versus getting what I want out of the show. TPTB are so crucial to whether or not contestants are remembered early on in the season. I really did not want them to favor Alex, but they were so busy protecting other contestants and overpraising weaker contestants, that it did not feel fair. They basically treated Alex like cannon fodder. I don’t feel like they purposely tried to get him off the show, but it felt like they were more than willing to throw him and other cannon fodder to the wolves and did not care if he survived. If TPTB want to favor other people, that is their call since it is their show, but I don’t have to go along with it and watch either. If Alex is not TPTB idea of who they want on the show, then why should I continue to watch?

I am interested in seeing what contestants put out musically after the show is over, but I no longer want to watch. I have no middle ground with AI. The balance has tipped toward me giving up on the season. Plus, now I can feel less guilty about watching atleast two hours of Kris Allen video every week if not watching AI9. LOL

The only fair way would be like what they did in season 4, but Mario actually quit the show to leave a spot open for a boy. So unless a guy quits or gets disqualified before the next show, I am just going to have to move on.

If that happened, the person with the next highest number of votes would advace, right? But that might not be Alex.

What I am going to do instead is stop watching the regular season. In an overall meh vibe of a season, Alex was the only thing holding my interest. With Alex gone, I am taking my life back on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I still am interested in some of the former Idol contestants so I will probably watch the charity results show and the finale show to see Kris, but I am done with this season.

Sadly he’s gone, but there’s always next year.

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Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I thought that once anyone made it to Top 24 or whatever number, that they were ineligible to ever go on the show again. There’s contestants that have made it multiple times to the Hollywood rounds and keep coming back, but I think once they’ve made it to the part where the public votes for them, they can’t come back.

Maybe he can try out for X-Factor.

I think the petition for Alex is a great idea. He really deserved a slot and why can’t they just make it a top 13 like they did last year with Anoop. Anoop did really well and came in 6th place, would’ve came in 5th if Matt wasn’t saved.

I see what you’re saying and I agree it would be nice. It’s not really the same as last year, though. They had wild card last year, so the judges were choosing some of them to put into the Top 12 (13), anyway — including Matt. They just added Anoop, as well. Both of them had actually been voted off previously before making it to Top 13. So I think it’s essentially a different case. This year it’s all determined by votes.

That said, Idol did lose credibility for me when it tweaked the rules and allowed Anoop to stay due to appeal making last season a Top 13 contestant competition. Still, Anoop was never ‘formally’ eliminated and then brought back on another show so if they didn’t make the decision to keep Alex on Thursday night’s show, it ain’t gonna happen. Sadly he’s gone, but there’s always next year.

I think Alex deserved to be in the Top 12. But the vote is the vote. Move on. I voted a lot for Alex. If people wanted him there, they should have voted.