Just Wondering....

Is anyone watching American Idol this year?  Anyone?

I have started it.  Well, I have tried to start it.  I'm about to give up on mile 13 of this marathon, knowing that, often times, the second part is the hardest.  I may, soon, shockingly, delete it from my dvr.

It's not that the judges are bad.  Perhaps it's the whole premise of 'you can't follow a legend'.  We need a simon there.  We need the risk that he's going to berate the hell out of one of the contestants.  The fact that that possibility existed kept us all on our feet.  Instead, now we just have to worry about one of them being told it 'wasn't his best'.    It's not that any of the contestants are interesting enough to keep an audience alone - but it's not that they ever have been.

Sigh.  Maybe I'm still coming off the Lee DeWyze win.  What's he up to these days?  Did he move to back Mt. Prospect?  I'm guessing no.  Did he go back to the paint store?  I kid.  I kid.  Kind of.

Anyhow.  I'm close to throwing in the towel on this season...anyone out there, other than the fox execs, going to try to persuade me otherwise?