Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32402397-20190723050512/@comment-36158916-20190806013441

Posting my thoughts on JC 3 almost a week later due to exams so apologies if my thoughts are repetitive.
 * 1) Greg Morton - Personally didn’t enjoy this as much as the first time because I wasn’t able to recognize as many of the impressions while last time I knew all of them. Still he is very talented and his facial expressions add a lot to the performance.
 * 2) Carmen Carter - She was just as good as last time, really powerful voice and definitely talented. Not the most unique but I knew she wasn’t going home. Still not a fan but not upset about her going through at all.
 * 3) Nicholas Wallace - Really didn’t expect him to get montaged. I feel like the editing made his act look worse than it really was. Regardless it looked like he dropped the horror shtick and it didn’t pay off.
 * 4) Ray Underwood & Magic - Once again, the editing could be making them look worst than they were but even compared to other dog acts, they seemed pretty tame.
 * 5) Gonzo - I understand the appeal of an over the top exaggerated Asian dude but he’s not my cup of tea. I felt like the throwing was a step up and I like his choice of music. If he can pull off some more complex tricks or time it better to the music, I may like him more.
 * 6) Revolution - Wish we got to see more of them, they were one of the better variety acts this season. The judges’ criticisms seemed to be that too much was going on but from the stuff they showed us, I don’t think that was the case. You could also argue that more stuff going on is what many people like about Vegas shows.
 * 7) Marcin Patrzalek - My personal favorite act of the night. I have a lot of respect for guitarists and from the comments I’ve seen, experienced guitarists are calling him one of the best in the world. He’s basically a prodigy, way better than the violin kid imo. I’m curious whether or not he’ll do more modern songs or do a mix between modern and classical.
 * 8) Jacob Norton - Seemed like a generic singer to me.
 * 9) Patrizzio Ratto - Once again, I wish we got to see more of him. Another victim of being a one trick pony I guess.
 * 10) Ansley Burns - She honestly should’ve just done acapella from the start. Simon’s right about the backing track but we all know the redos are total bs. A lot of comments on YT have been saying she should’ve gone on and that’s really surprising to me. She has a lot of potential but she’s not ready for the lives yet. 
 * 11)  Light Balance Kids - I was saying that they would need to differentiate themselves from Light Balance and they’ve done just that. Their concept is more youthful and energetic. The background and basketball field was absolutely incredible, Light Balance didn’t utilize that to a large extent. I’m hoping LBK can make use of it because it’s super clean.
 * 12)  Stephanie’s Child - Andy Rowell stays winning as another obnoxious act gets more time than needed and buzzed. Their voices weren’t the worst but it was their attitudes that got grating. 
 * 13) Nick and Lindsay - Howie is right in that a knives, spikes, and singing is that great but combined it makes for a potentially interesting Vegas Show. I’ll also admit that being able to sing while having some smash a brick on top of you with a sledgehammer while laying on spikes is pretty sick ngl.
 * 14) Andrei and Alexander - Seemed like a two man version of Showproject, would’ve nice to see more of them.
 * 15) Duo Maintenant - They got the Izzy and Easton treatment, the bits that they did show were basically what they did the last time. I wasn’t that impressed the first time around anyways.
 * 16) Edson and Leon - It’s cool to see those old dudes balancing but it didn’t seem like they stepped up that much. There’s only so much you can do with hand balancing and their age limits them from doing Messoudi Bros level tricks. Still they were some of the better acts of the night.
 * 17) Melissa Arleth - I was surprised she didn’t get at least one buzz, the rat seemed hesitant on a lot of the tricks and because of that I think it didn’t some of them correctly. It might’ve have even skipped over some. Props to Melissa for remaining calm tho.
 * 18) Mackenzie - What a great way to end the night, I felt like he improved a lot more than Carmen. Mackenzie is better at conveying emotion while being powerful at the same time. 

'''I’m fairly satisfied with this week’s results, I think all the acts that went through did a decent enough job to warrant advancing even Gonzo. With the larger production of the Dolby, he can do a lot more I think. I was surprised Edson and Leon didn’t make it despite being the leak. However I think they could be wildcards especially if the Messoudi Bros dropped out. That could be the reason they were the leak and given a full, so that more viewers could remember them. It could even be possible that Duo Maintenant was originally meant to be shown in full but are unavailable for the wildcard so they got montaged instead. I’ve already done predictions for this Tuesday’s episode and they’ve remained relatively the same since the final act was an unaired singer. My predictions are Jackie Fabulous, Eric Chien, Benicio Bryant, Marina Mazepa, Dominguez Poodles, Voices of Service and Emane Beasha. This week is super competitive so I’m certain one of the acts is a wildcard. Since Benicio is likely going through, Charlotte is probably the wildcard. Other acts I'm rooting for are the two other magic acts, Jonathan Burns and Viktor Moiseev.'''