Gary Oldman is the big, bad wolf, or the leader of the big, bad wolves, or the father of the big, bad wolf.

Don't even have to see the movie. Oldman is always the evil one, in one form or another.

Jim Gordon and Sirius Black are evil?

Well, food for thought.

It's only a matter of time

Jacob, Karen, Stefano.

All Safe except for Karen this evening.

First of the Bottom Three found.

Jacob picked up Big Mike's old fan base, plus some, I think. Stefano is in sort of place of his own here, as the young handsome clean-shaven guy who doesn't sing country. Karen? No surprise, but she may make it depending on who the other two basement dwellers are.

So it's one out tonight?

BTW, I missed the first minutes of the show. Did Ryan announce Casey as safe?

One out, Didn't hear anything other than Casey is sick, nothing about safe or not, unless I missed it.

Thankee. It's hard to see missing a results show as an auto-out -- Ryan should say something eventually. A competent host would.

-- nevermind.

Not as yet. Only the 3 we saw have been up so far. They're slow on the elimination yakkity-yak tonight. Just as well.

Some Acoustic thing.

My favorite part was when Lauren screamed in mortal terror and tried to hide under Steven's chair.

And that's the most restrained Adam's been in nearly two years.

LAST EDITED ON 03-10-11 AT 09:35 PM (EST)

Yeah, that was rather mellow. I really liked the arrangement and rhythm. He belted out a couple of notes there, but for the most part, very easy to listen to. Although he has a trademark voice, just based on the sound, it would have been easy to not realize it was him singing it. Good performance.

It just would have been nice if the bloody show had allowed him to explain what the It Gets Better project is.

(Prevention of gay teen suicide. I'm not surprised that they kept that part out.)

LAST EDITED ON 03-10-11 AT 09:46 PM (EST)

Wow. I wondered about that and intended to google it later. Sheesh.

(eta link) http://www.itgetsbetter.org/

*sigh* And you wonder why no contestant admits they're gay while on the show. Happy little just mildly homophobic Idol: we're a family show, so stereotypical standard families only please! (VFTW is running an interview series with a former staffer who has some depressing eyewitness accounts on the subject. It hasn't been fun.) Plus they can't afford to offend their Chosen One, can they?

So people will continue to wonder, many won't research, and the ones Adam needed to reach most? In the dark.

Stupid show.

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>Wow. I wondered about that and
>intended to google it later.
>Sheesh.
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>(eta link) http://www.itgetsbetter.org/

Sounds much like the "JED Foundation" which is being played up by Food Star and now Chopped Contestant, as his charity of choice should he win the $50K Food Network Ultimate Challenge. Sorry, can't remember his name, but he's a funny guy with an orange streak down his mohawked hair...

And that's the most restrained Adam's been in nearly two years.

Really Estee? Such an easy lob ball

*beep*
*beep*
*beep*

Adam: 'I did this song to benefit the It Gets Better project --'
Lauren: 'NO IT DOESN'T! I WON'T LET IT!'

Lauren, Aston+2h, Hayley

Lauren is safe.
Astonhh is
Hayley is

Shut the Judges Up, please.

Ashthon is in the bottom Three, as well as Hayley.

Everyone on the couch + Casey are safe, Couch does not understand safe.

So Thia is safe! Yes!

Belle Book

Yeah, I'm glad she's safe, too, and hope she goes far in the comp even though she probably doesn't have what it takes to reap the votes to win it all.

Haley should learn when to snap the trap shut, too. Rule number one is never, ever even come close to arguing or debating with the judges.

Wow, shish-boom-bang, everyone else is safe and we have the basement dwellers.

Oh, and we find out Casey is in the hospital. Yikes. This guy apparently is having chronic health issues.

Ryan trying to get to the results while the judges prattled on was a mild moment of comedy. (As said, he's not a competent host.) But -- was that one of the weirder reveals we've ever seen or what? 'Here's the first of the B3. Here are the last two together. And by the way, everybody else is fine.' Huh?

Single-elimination, though -- completely unlike the last time we started with thirteen. The producers must have been desperate for the extra week.

LAST EDITED ON 03-10-11 AT 09:49 PM (EST)

I think they need all 13 as single elimination with the one week semi's rather than 3 weeks of them.

Which comes back to the argument against the format change -- they've still lost a couple of weeks and the dollars that go with them.

Which pretty much means The Save has to be used.

LAST EDITED ON 03-10-11 AT 10:08 PM (EST)

Except that it's been double elimination in the week after using it for the previous seasons. But they could easily change that too.

ETA: And then if they additionally make Idol Gives Back week a safe haven again, they're pretty much back on schedule.

Yeah, that sounds about right. One non-comp week for the charity show.

Yeah, one of the weirdest reveals I can recall, anyway. And certainly the quickest of so many in one shot. Let's see... we had two safe and one not safe from the first three, and then find out Lauren is safe. In one fell swoop, the other two with Lauren are not safe, meaning the remaining seven are safe in a single sentence. Seven!

LAST EDITED ON 03-11-11 AT 10:23 AM (EST)

I've never seen 10 9 people turn into stunned mouth breathers all in one fell swoop.

ETF - I hadn't realized Casey wasn't there. That can't bode well.

'What advice do you have for our contestants?'

'I'm rich. I'm richer than you'll ever be. I own you. If you ever do anything to offend me, I will end you. Kiss my feet.'

'Isn't that a little degrading?'

'I meant you, Ryan.'

This was a cigarette break filler. No, I take that back. A toilet break filler.

Karen sent back to safety.

The person headed home is Ashthon, Hayley looked like she actually died standing up before that was announced.

She gets to sing. Going for Diana Ross again for the save.

She sang good enough to earn herself and her family a flight ticket home. And...

No save, unanimous.

GeneriGone.

The judges weren't going to use the save this early regardless -- but as soon as she went for Diana Ross again, it was officially beyond over. That was proving in one magic choice that she didn't have anything copied from someone else, and learning from the mistakes that put her in this position hadn't happened.

As for Haley -- she may have really believed she was out and just waiting for the pronouncement of the death sentence. It may be a long ride back for her: that kind of shock doesn't always wear off quickly.

Oooooooo, girlfriend was not happy. If looks could kill.

More or less not happy than Lauren was during the first half-minute of Criticism Revisited?

OOOOOOOooo KKKKKaaaaaaayy I guess I got off to a real good start on the PTTE game...

Well, I'm last in the fun office pool I started, but that only means I hedged my bet more than anyone else.

Yikes, it looks like everyone is taking a look at the same time to the office pool site...

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I spread the bet a bit, but put most of it on Ashthon.

What I can't figure out is how in the sam hool did you and snidge know that Ashton would be the first to go. She was actually one of my favs!
How? HOW? HOW?
And why does everyone like Casey so much? Watch he'll prolly end up winning.
You guys are cheating somehow... you're psychic or something....
You cheaters, I know you are...

How? It's destiny.

No cheating involved.