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Post by Rad on Mar 29, 2013 0:40:33 GMT
I'm so excited about this - because surely this is the perfect time to resurrect the LC sweepstakes?
I'll have the hipster with the biggest hair. I suspect they will be Team Danny.
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Post by Dave on Mar 29, 2013 9:20:15 GMT
I'll have the fattest person please. Likely Team Tom
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Post by El Capitan on Mar 29, 2013 9:59:46 GMT
Ooh! I'll have the first finalist with a regional accent, if that's not too vague (Last year there were about two, so hopefully it shouldn't be easy enough.)
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Post by Dave on Mar 30, 2013 19:06:51 GMT
Very smart. A much more heavily edited opening song after last years more "live" effort.
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Post by Paul on Mar 30, 2013 19:16:09 GMT
Rik Waller II!
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Post by Paul on Mar 30, 2013 19:47:24 GMT
One To Go!
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Post by Bungle on Mar 31, 2013 11:25:48 GMT
Was this any better this year? I saw about two minutes of it and Danny From The Script was doing some embarrassing 'dad rock' guitar moves. Also, the idea that I want to see more of the judges jumping out of their chairs and dancing along is RIDICULOUS.
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Post by seamus on Mar 31, 2013 12:08:14 GMT
If anything, I thought it was worse this year. Way too much time on the judges and annoying VTs. And the judges are just being plain meta now they've read everything that was written on the Internet about them. Similar to XFactor there was more emphasis on inter-judge banter and rivalry and tragic contestant backstories than actual auditions. The judges medley at the top of the show was hilariously bad. Nice for the judges to show that the voice is still as current and relevant as their last winner, though.
May I have the first finalist who comes on stage with a guitar for the sweepy, please?
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Post by quincyme on Mar 31, 2013 16:26:32 GMT
The show could be improved so much by just getting shot of the attention seeking Jessie J. when she was sat on the edge of the stage asking to big bloke to "sing it" I thought I was going to vomit and when she patronised the visually impaired person by telling her that she was a great singer despite sitting on her hands.
Someone noted elsewhere that if you take the ads out of The X Factor running time then this was the longest ever reality singing show audition episode and at times it certainly felt it.
...and Kirsty from Pop Idol, with pink hair being rejected.
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Post by Rad on Apr 1, 2013 19:52:47 GMT
The judges' banter was bad enough last series, they really didn't need to ramp it up.
And Kavana... ouch. You'd think the had-been-famouses would have learned from the fate of those who turned up last year.
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Post by Chris on Apr 2, 2013 13:05:49 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen a reality tv show before where, not only was the winner of the previous series not mentioned in the first episode, but neither were any of the other contestants and or anything specific that happened. It's equally hilarious given the fact that we're all clearly supposed to be versed in show memes like "Tom Jones likes to namedrop" and "William talks funny".
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Post by Dave on Apr 2, 2013 13:09:19 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen a reality tv show before where, not only was the winner of the previous series not mentioned in the first episode, The series of the X-Factor after Steve Brookstein ?
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Post by Paul on Apr 6, 2013 19:32:45 GMT
"This is awful, this is awful"
I agree with the friend of the orange Welsh woman. It was utterly awful. Kym Mazelle and Meatloaf woman came across as stunts, the dead grandmother theatre gay was incredibly annoying and the orphanied junkie bored me to tears. I hated the guy who felt the melody to The Scientist needed changing and generally most of tonight's show. Oh I did enjoy the pushy mother's reaction to her son not getting through with that appallingly articulated Your Song.
I want to like it, I really do, but it's trying too hard.
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Post by Alderman Alfred Logan on Apr 6, 2013 21:22:03 GMT
OK, I'm going to be regional.
Contestant from Doncaster.
Video "Welcome to Doncaster sign" Cut to: Meadowhall (Sheffield, possibly technically Rotherham) escalators.*
So I switched off.
Did it get any better?
*oh dear, did I get it wrong? Was it Frenchgate?
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Post by thehandofomega on Apr 6, 2013 22:56:30 GMT
I don't know why, but the couple band makes me feel physically ill.
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Post by Ugly Netty on Apr 7, 2013 17:23:15 GMT
OK, I'm going to be regional. Contestant from Doncaster. Video "Welcome to Doncaster sign" Cut to: Meadowhall (Sheffield, possibly technically Rotherham) escalators.* So I switched off. Did it get any better? *oh dear, did I get it wrong? Was it Frenchgate? Just had a look for you, they were def meadowhell's escalators but it looked like that's where she works. They did show shots of some Doncaster bleak streets afterwards, if that makes you feel better.
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Post by Rad on Apr 16, 2013 16:16:38 GMT
DIVA.
They could only have been more Team Tom if they were Welsh.
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Post by Alderman Alfred Logan on Apr 16, 2013 17:53:25 GMT
Just had a look for you, they were def meadowhell's escalators but it looked like that's where she works. They did show shots of some Doncaster bleak streets afterwards, if that makes you feel better. [/quote] Much. Just watched Saturday's. It wasn't very good, was it? Recognising her from Cleopatra seemed so scripted and fake it undermined the whole blind audition concept.
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Post by al on Apr 17, 2013 9:41:37 GMT
I had forgotten that there was a spare fourth Cleopatra until it showed them all backstage. I was also hoping Angry Chinese Downstairs Neighbour from their TV show would be there as part of her friends and family.
I've had a lot of goodwill towards The Voice. I've wanted it to do well. But it's getting harder and harder. The first series gives us some dreary Jane-McDonald-a-like of a winner, and this series isn't shaping up to do any better. Tom Jones has morphed into some sort of Louis Walsh style joke judge, whose entire schtick is "LOL! Regional!"
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Post by Rad on Apr 28, 2013 12:30:57 GMT
Any more categories for the sweepy? I guess it will be easier to pick what kind of character you want now we've seen them all - I'll do it from the final 12 not the final 48 as that would just be madness.
I don't know why I like this show - the backstories are anniying, the judges' banter is overdonem the 'I remember you' thing is even more fake than on The X Factor and I don't really care about the contestants, and yet, there's just something I really enjoy. It probably is still the chairs.
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Post by Dave on Apr 29, 2013 23:08:44 GMT
Definitely the chairs. But starting to close the gap with BGT and remarkably popular on the iplayer. It may well come back for another series if the tweaks to the live shows are enough to make them more interesting.
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Post by marsinvestigations on May 15, 2013 20:03:58 GMT
I really don't like anything about the show yet for some reason, find myself catching up dead into the night.
The format is tricky because it only lasts for the blind auditions stage. After that, it's merely X Factor without any drama or charisma. I'm not sure why the viewers need the sob stories either. It would be truer to the point of the show if we didn't know much about the contestants either.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were gearing it up for the blind girl to win. My hunch is based on nothing more than she is a horrible singer yet all the judges seem to think she's made of gold. Poor Hollyoaks, she didn't stand a chance. I'm wondering if they are all thinking what Louis Walsh would probably be thinking...
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Post by Rad on Jun 11, 2013 17:53:13 GMT
Sorry for neglecting the sweepy... I guess I get Leah as the hipster with the biggest hair; Dave gets Ash as the fattest and El Capitan would have had - Alys? - for the accent. Seamus is yet to score I think but let's face it, it will be Karl.
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Post by Rad on Jun 23, 2013 0:16:06 GMT
Well, that was a car crash. Poor Andrea. And Leah and Mike. And Andrea's mum whose face is all over the internet as the new 'eye roll girl' for 2013.
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Post by Steven on Jun 23, 2013 18:29:36 GMT
They did kind of ask for that outcome, having spent most of the pre-results time talking about what an amazing winner Leah was going to be.
I actually quite liked Andrea - her voice isn't amazing, but it's pleasant enough to listen to and I liked that she was quite sarky in the backstage stuff.
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