Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36491208-20190806224302/@comment-40093596-20190807060114

Curious Poker Chip wrote: I just want to talk about two things that really irked me.

First off, after Eric's performance, Simon mentioned that he needed to something "bigger" for the live shows. As you are no doubt aware, Eric Chien and Shin Lim have a lot of similarities, even going down to the fact that they are both close-up magicians of Asian descent. But I was very puzzled and angry with Simon mentioning that because he never said that at all for Shin and he did basically the same scoped trick over and over again and he won. And now Eric does tricks that are incredibly similar and yet he says to him that he needs to do something bigger. That seems very hypocritical of Simon to mention. Why is it that one magician can do basically the same calibre of tricks over and over, get unanimous and glowing praise, and win the whole thing and yet when an incredibly similar act does two similarly scoped performances, all of a sudden Simon thinks that that act needs to be bigger? I mean I agree but why didn't you say that to Shin? It makes absolutely no sense and Simon comes off as really hypocritical and playing favourites in this case.

Also I think it's criminal that Jonathan Burns got buzzed and yet Kara didn't, especially if you consider that Jonathan is funnier in his pinkie toe than Kara is in her whole body. I remember that Simon actually did say that Shin can't keep doing card magic in the S13 QF. Also, Simon is responsing to Eric as an advice imo. I think what he meant is "The close-up trick is brilliant and excellent, but if you want to go further, you can't always do close-up magic, you need to do something big." He wasn't criticizing, just saying his thoughts in a mean tone, like he usually do.

If you have seen Eric's grand final act of AsGT -The Rubix/Chocolate Act-, you will know that Eric has the ability to do big stage performance. What's more, during one of his Instalive, he said that he create the rubix/chocolate act within one week (but maybe practiced for months), so his creativity and imagionation can let him go VERY far.

Also, I really agree with your second thought Poker Chip (can I call your Poker Chip?). When I saw Kara's audition, I would she was buzzed out. I don't know why the judges liked her. Besides, Jonathan do has talent and can be but into lots of catagories, but this round I think even he is not sure what he is doing.