American Idol - Season 9

Lee Dewyze is my favorite so far. It's not just the Mount Prospectian-bias in me.

Do the judges get a save this season? Does anyone know? I have mixed feelings on it.

American Idol Weekly Update

Ok, so American Idol has come up with some dumb new twist to this season in which the judges can save a contestant once who is voted off throughout the season if they so choose, up until the last five weeks of the show. Well, I find this awkward and, well, stupid.

Yes, let me be the first to say America at times makes the wrong decision (see also November 2000 & November 2004). American Idol cited Chris Daughtry, Tamyra Gray, Michael Johns, and Jennifer Hudson as examples who inspired said rule. Well, Chris Daughtry and Tamyra Gray were voted off in the fourth to last week, so they wouldn't have been eligible for the save. Michael Johns wasn't ALL that big of a surprise elimination and wasn't favorite for a spot in the finals anyway (the reason for the save would be to potentially save THE American Idol, right?), and if I remember correctly (and this is hugely embarrassing to admit I have such as vast amount of American Idol History knowledge), Jennifer Hudson was pretty much told by Simon Cowell the week she was eliminated "it's pretty much your time to go" - so she wasn't a surprise elimination and wouldn't have been saved either, even though she's now an oscar winner and more well-known and arguably more successful than the winner of that season (giveaway prize if you can name the winner).

Sidenote: Simon of course tried to save face on this one saying that even though he expressed this opinion, America voted Jennifer Hudson off, had they disagreed with him, they could have gone against his opinion and voted to bring her back. So in reality, Simon was just the head lemming. Anyhow.

Does anyone think this 'save' idea is a good idea?