Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38343586-20190214010554/@comment-38343586-20190219004046

I think Terry Fator’s Vegas contract, and accolades, may say otherwise in terms of the greatest ever on/from AGT!

I’m a huge Darci Lynne fan, and Shin Lim is my 2nd favorite, but she isn’t even greater than Fator. And, as I said, based on votes, Darci has the most votes ever by a contestant on the show (including Shin).

As good as he is, he was helped by two HUGE THINGS in this series:

(1) There was a whopping 25 days between him winning last season to when this was filmed. So he was still fresh in everyone’s mind (including the SuperFans), which is a HUGE ADVANTAGE.

And

(2) There was no audience (either studio or at home) voting. If this was a live finale, Darci wins. Again, she got the most votes ever in AGT history. She would win again.

Singing Italian opera, not being Italian, is rudiculously hard for anyone to do - yet alone a 14 year old - with your mouth open. She did it with her mouth (mostly) closed! No one can tell me that’s not a bigger talent than someone doing magic with multiple cards with forged signatures on it. You can clearly see that the cards Terry and Howie signed weren’t the same cards in the cup or at other times as the signatures weren’t the same. But, again, of course they weren’t, and no one can expect them to be, as it’s a magic TRICK. He did the same basic routine on Pen & Teller’s “Fool Us” BUT he did it better then even.

I know it sounds like I’m bashing him. But I’m not. He is VERY GOOD, as I have said. And if it wasn’t Darci, it should have definitely been him. But, if you are talking the “most talented” on this show, that’s Darci. And if you are talking about the best from AGT, that’s Terry Fator, not even Darci. But he won, and he’s the second most deserving, in my opinion, just like you have yours, but he was helped out tremendously by the timing of this AND, maybe even more than that, the format. None of which he can be “blamed” for of course.