Follow-Ups and Robot Shootings

First thing's first...Ever wonder what a cyborg murder/suicide looked like? Look no further.

Now, onto the commentary on last night's Idol....

First of all, did anyone else think that it was hilarious that Idol had to use 1877-IDOLS-36 as the final number? Apperantly, IDOLS-13 is a...risque phone line. I hate to think what IDOLS-14 through IDOLS-35 belong to...

There's supposed to be a big twist on tonight's Idol regarding who gets the boot. My money is on the judges getting the final say in who gets voted off. America will play judge and jury, and the judges get to play executioner. Basically, it would be identical to the British version of Idol, X Factor. This will either turn out to be brilliant or horrible. My opinion is that it'll be both. It's brilliant in that the judges get to do something besides being a sideshow for the next 10 weeks. It's horrible in that we're leaving this competition's fate to Paula "Straight Up on crack" Abdul and Kara "I'm responsible for the Backstreet Boys revival" Dioguardi. That just scares me. Either way, it'll make for good ratings. Also, Seacreast said something about two people getting voted off tonight, but Seacreast says a lot of things, so who knows.

Onto Michael Jackson night on Idol....Well, three of my five early contenders lived up to the hype. Alexis Grace, Danny Gokey and Lil Rounds knocked their performances out of the park. Adam Lambert (the guy who made Black and White sound a little evil) and Alison Iraheta (fun fact of the week: she works as a performer for the Latin equivalent to Wal-Mart!) also get props for strong vocals as well. Scott MacIntyre struggled a bit, but he'll be back next week. No way America will vote off a blind man on week one.
Disappointment of the Week award goes to Anoop Desai. What the hell, man! No spunk, no soul, no nothing. Where's the moonwalk? Where's the pelvic thrusting? Basically, Anoop's performance was worse than the thing formally known as Michael Jackson's nose. Hate to say it, but he had one of the bottom three performances of the night.

The other two belonged to Jorge Nunez and Megan Joy. I said that Jorge wouldn't survive some of the theme weeks, and it's looking like that prediction is coming true already. Megan's song choice (Rockin' Robin) was terrible, but what Michael Jackson song would honestly fit her voice? If anything, Megan's performance simply reminded me that hipster's don't really belong in a pop competition.

Still, I maintain that all three have a shot to make it through to the next rounds. Anoop should still have a fan base from the semifinals, Jorge has the Hispanic vote (just remember people, that's how Bush won in 2000), and Megan...well I got nothing to help her out, other then she's the second cutest female in the competition.

So who rounds out my bottom three? Jasmine Murray certainly should get consideration. Her performance wasn't terrible, but it didn't do her any favors. Kris Allen's performance reminded me of this video, which while amusing, isn't Idol worthy. Matt Giraud's performance was forgettable, which is always dangerous in the early rounds, and Michael Sarver just has me worried for some reason. He lacks a real fan base and his performance wasn't the type to create one.

So here's my official final three prediction. Jasmine, Anoop and Michael in the bottom three, with Jasmine getting the first boot and Michael getting the second boot if I heard it correctly. However, if the judges get a say in the matter, I can see Anoop getting sent home over either one, as Simon simply likes Jasmine and Michael better.