Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10812216-20190626170653/@comment-32379541-20190701225034

Demon Taka wrote: I was just thinking about all this, so here it goes: I doubt many things we've seen in the last few seasons have actually been real, The "Simon remembers all acts", the "Simon stopping a singer", howie's voting obsession, the sethward skits, Iain Brown, none of it seems real anymore, it seems like ever since Simon has became more involved in the show, it's been more and more focused on feel good moments, and sad backstorys, the predictability in the auditions is ungodly, it will be a very long time, if ever, that an act is fully shown, steps on to the stage, is actually kind of good, and is rejected, it is possible we will never feel like "they were pretty good, why did they get cut off?" in the auditions again, until then, we'll have a golden buzzer at the end of every episode, a montage of half shown mediocre singers followed by a "good" one, the "bad act" of the night the one act that makes it to the live shows which one of the judges doesn't like [Although we actually had 3 last year], and the rest will be 4 yes votes and 4 standing ovations, it seems as if AGT has became Simon Cowell's "playground" of sorts in which he can influence, and quite possibly rig to his liking. The judge cuts seem to be the fairest round, although i wouldn't be suprised if the producers pick a golden buzzer for the guest judges to use [I will never forget when the judges seemed to force that rapper's backstory on to Chris Hardwick, if i can recall correctly, he only hit it after told him the backstory again]. Nov the live shows, at best the voting is influenced by judge's comments, placement of the acts, the ability for a judge to use their buzzer, the pre-act packages, and at worst outright rigged [which would explain the fact that vote numbers aren't shown as they are on BGT]. I mostly agree with your thoughts but I think Courtney not being in the top 5 last year and Shin winning should be proof that the voting is not entirely rigged.

RANT:

Agree that Flau'jae only got the Golden Buzzer because of her sob story and in my opinion Chris should have given it to Sergey & Sasha instead who I cannot understand why they were cut. I don't get the editing this year or last year for that matter especially with the montages. It just makes no sense to show an act for a few seconds on stage if you don't even bother to show their audition or even their names. It also just makes it more difficult to create a complete wiki on the show.

Rant over.