LAST EDITED ON 03-22-06 AT 11:22 AM (EST)Yep, each person gets a dress rehersal, which is taped.
The clips at the end of the show are from the dress rehersal because of time constraints.
They will never be from the live show.
They never promised you they would be from the live show.
I know editing software is better these days, but there is no way to put the live clips together in time for the end of the show.
There is no conspiracy to dupe people by letting the contestants do 650 takes until they get a good one for the end of the show clip. Sometimes the dress rehersal clip is worse than the actual performance, I've seen that happen as well. Some people need the rush of the live performance to do their best.
Almost every live performance has a dress rehersal with costumes and lighting and usually an audience to react to it.
Having a dress rehersal allows for last minute fine-tuning of the performance and making sure everyone knows thier cues so they shine the lights in the right spots and all of that. Are you saying they should be thrown on stage live without anyone on the crew knowing anything about what they are going to do. Might make for good television when the band/backup singers/light and sound guys all screw up on every other performance, but would not be fair to the contestants in any way.
Why should Americal Idol be totally different from every other show since the begining of time?
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ETF: clarity issue, a verb got lost in the rewrite.