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MegaMan775 wrote: Freshlysqueezed7 wrote: MegaMan775 wrote: Freshlysqueezed7 wrote: MegaMan775 wrote: Freshlysqueezed7 wrote: What are your guys favorite season of AGT? I would have to go with season 11 because it was Simon's first season and I liked seeing him interact with the other four judges. I also think that season 11 had some pretty memorable acts. It also had the best golden buzzers (in the auditions and judge cuts) and it had the best guest judges. And best of all, it had NICK!!!! Season 8, for sure. It had a great format, with 60 acts in the quarterfinals (which is probably too many, but better than too few like we have nowadays). Even so, with that many acts in the quarterfinals, the chance of a good act getting eliminated unfairly is pretty much...well, eliminated. The season had lots of great acts, too, like Taylor Williamson, Chicago Boyz, KriStef Brothers, and Forte, and even the more filler acts were at least passable (aside from maybe Fresh Faces and 2Unique). Not to mention that Kenichi Ebina is my favorite AGT act of all time. In my opinion, no multimedia act will ever top him on this show.

I thought Seasons 9 and 10 were awful, but Season 11 was pretty good. Season 12 was okay too, but there were a lot of really bad decisions that brought the whole thing down. As for Season 13, it honestly isn't looking too bad so far, but I think it's too early for me to rank it. And who knows, maybe something awesome will happen in Season 14? Especially if some of the worse judges are replaced.

So overall, I'd probably rank the full AGT seasons I've seen so far like this:

8 > 11 > 7 > 12 > 9 > 10 Yah I loved 8, but why do you hate 9 and 10? I didn't think those seasons were too bad. Season 9 had some good acts, but the season was ruined by incredibly bad decisions on the parts of both the judges and the audience; just looking through the wiki, Bad Boys of Ballet being brought back (lol nice tongue twister) when there were way better dance crews, Mike Super getting eliminated (he was brought back but still), Mothmen Dance and Jonatan Riquelme getting cut, Christian Stoinev getting as far as he did despite the fact that he got progressively worse, as well as the fact that Smoothini got cut in favor of Christian...and of course, Miguel Dakota getting as far as he did. In the intro of the finals that season, they played soundbytes of audience members talking about the acts, and his was literally just some girl saying "Miguel Dakota is so hot". That speaks volumes tbh. Not only that, but he got to the finals OVER Emil & Dariel, which was my favorite act that year. Now don't get me wrong, Mat Franco was a great winner (my second favorite), and Emily West and Quintavious Johnson were also really good finalists, but...idk, the season just left me really frustrated and bitter. I only put it above Season 10 because there were actually some really good acts, especially Mat Franco.

As for Season 10, I just found it incredibly boring. There were no acts that I particularly cared about (aside from maybe Stevie Starr), and it was the only season I've seen where I could honestly say that I didn't really care who won (at the time, I was in the "I HATE DREW LYNCH" bandwagon, but now I realize that he wasn't too bad). There were some really unique acts like Ira, but even his act eventually got stale. The Wild Cards were some of the worst ever (DADitude and Damone Rippy? Really, judges?!), and of course, the infamous elimination of Siro-A. Overall, it was just a very forgettable season. Also, the Season 10 Finals were the worst AGT finals I've ever seen. I thought season 9 was pretty forgettable but not 10. Season 10 introduced so many new things like Judge Cuts with guest judges, an improved golden buzzer, and that awesome danger episode in the auditions. I do think the live shows were a bit stale that season even though there were lots of variety, just lots of undeserving acts that season. I don't agree at all that season 10 was forgettable though. Oh and who could forget about Piff? He was great. I honestly thought that Judge Cuts was the most enterianing thing about season 10 because it was brand new. Piff was okay, but he really blew it in the finals (you could see how he did the trick). As for Judge Cuts, I'd like them more if they brought in people that I actually recognize. I knew who all of the guest judges in Seasons 11 and 12 were, at least, but for real. Before this show, I had no idea who Marlon Wayans, Olivia Munn, and Martina McBride were. Maybe I'm just uncultured, but it would be cool if they brought in more common household names to be the guest judges :P

Also, when will they bring back Sharon Osbourne as a guest judge?! It would be cool if they brought in celebrities from other shows on NBC like Jimmy Fallon or Matt Iseman (Host of ANW)