Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36491208-20190806224302/@comment-36158916-20190809011446

'''This was the one judge cuts episode this week where I think I’m 100% satisfied with the results. Was really expecting Dominguez to go through but I guess the judges saw the innate repetition of the act. '''
 * 1) Dominguez Poodles - It seems like they did the exact same act as they did before. There weren’t any tricks that were really impressive or we hadn’t seen before. Still I was expecting them to go through based on Simon and his love for dogs.
 * 2) DM Nation - I understand where Simon is coming from and I agree dancers have to show some personality/showmanship in addition to technical skills. Perhaps it was the editing but after comparing it with their JC performance in Season 10, that one was way better. A lot of it likely has to do with there being less members which makes everything look more concise.
 * 3) Ben Trigger - Honestly was hoping he would go for an actual contemporary style but nope. He’s yet another act this season that’s a one trick pony which isn’t necessarily a bad thing (Junior New System for example) but comparing the two is unreasonable.
 * 4) Nicholas Connors - He seemed pretty generic, no chance he would make it compared to everyone else tonight.
 * 5) Jordan Ravi - I actually liked him a decent amount, perhaps if they showed his audition it might’ve actually been suspenseful but of course the JC format doesn’t allow for any kind of suspense anymore.
 * 6) Benicio Bryant - Well for original songs, this wasn’t half bad. It was better than Sophie’s imo. The dude has a good voice also, I just wish they would stop pushing it to seem like he was just an awkward kid who only sang in his room because he’s been doing it professionally for a while.
 * 7) Victor Moiseev - Really wish we got to see his audition and more of this performance, his act seems dope. Too bad he was on a competitive night.
 * 8) Marina Mazepa - She’s become one of my favorite acts now, the improvement from the first audition was great. It’s creepy and uncomfortable to watch as she’s a contortionist but it also has a certain beauty and elegance to it. I don’t know what the headwear was about but the way she interacted with the judges was a nice touch and I hope she continues it.
 * 9) Charlotte Summers - Another act who I felt did better this time than the audition. Just like Benicio, she sounds very seasoned and luckily she isn’t as obnoxious as Ansley. She doesn’t sound like a kid and that’s going to be very beneficial for her.
 * 10)  Callie Day - She was also pretty good however gospel music isn’t my cup of tea especially when it’s a soloist. There’s not much that will make her appeal to the general public especially without an audition.
 * 11) Zac and Stan - It looked like the act was pretty neat, another act I wish we got to see an audition or at least more of. It’s been a while since we’ve had an actual magic duo and not a mentalist duo do well on the show.
 * 12) SOS - I was kinda over his first audition but this one looked really good. Not anything too unique for what I saw but we saw a full segment for the mentalists so I wish he was at least semi-montaged.
 * 13) Kara with a K - Out of all the acts to get full segments why her? She was literally the least deserving out of all of them. The only memorable thing was her head being bald. She deserved to be buzzed even more than Jonathan who I feel just chose a bad act to perform.
 * 14) Emane Beasha - She’s a good singer for her age and she’s better than Ansley but I don’t think it was Golden Buzzer worthy. Compared to the other acts tonight, she still would’ve likely gone on without the GB. 
 * 15) Eric Chien - More engaging than his first audition imo, like Simon said he seems more confident. The delivery and pacing were also better. If he continues this momentum, I think he can reach the same heights at Shin Lim especially with the lack of magic this year.
 * 16) Voices of Service - They improved also, song choice will be very important for them I think. Next round, they’ll really have to choose a song that can show a different side of their voices.
 * 17) Jonathan Burns - Hand downs the biggest disappointment of the night for me. I was expecting Kara to fail but not Jonathan at least this badly. It didn’t seem like he did any contortion aside from the beginning. I also saw a comment saying that his joke was supposed to be a race analogy showing how he (a white guy) does worst on a show as compared to Terry (a black guy). Regardless he was terrible. Yet another win for Andy Rowell.
 * 18) Jackie Fabulous - She was good, I admit I laughed at more jokes this time than last time. Like other have said, she’s by no means the best comic on the show and not even on this season but I think she deserves a spot in the lives.

'''Now for the Quaterfinals, we have 15 vocal acts, 5 variety acts, 4 Dance acts,  3 comedians, 2 magicians, 2 instrumentalists, 1 danger act, 1 acrobat act. Technically we would  have 19 musical acts if we add the two instrumentalists, Berywam and Nick & Lindsay. I think the lack of magic acts is the worst part of the live shows and I don’t think any of the magicians are being brought back either. We also technically only have two danger acts which is pretty disappointing but this season had a lack of danger acts since the auditions. I really don’t think Human Fuse is the autopass, he was probably just brought it to do something crazy for the ratings. I’m also confused as to how IDEGO is supposed to work for the live shows. They’re going to need to project the virtual reality stuff on air and for the live audience, they’ll need to project it on the stage. Also they’re a one trick pony as the Howie fear thing is done and over with. Honestly I’d rather we have 3 wildcards instead of having an autopass this year. If the Messoudi Bros are indeed staying then my choice for wildcard would probably be Matthew Richardson who was the obvious robbery of this season and then ADEM Show who are just awesome. Verba stepped down a lot from their audition which was a shame but that’s how it is. If Ansley is the wildcard as y’all have been saying then, that would be a total waste and make the singer ratio even worse than it is.'''