American Idol: 9 - 2 = lame

American Idol dismissed Andrew Garcia with about as much care and attention as they could fit in, I guess, which meant he basically got a pat on the back and a shoeprint on his ass. Unfortunately I don't know that he deserved much better. He already coasted a lot longer than he should have, and didn't do anything with it. So he had special treatment just in the fact that he got to give a good three extra performances in front of an audience of millions.

However, the elimination of Katie Stevens was just plain wrong. If the judges hadn't wasted their save, they could have (and should have) used it on her, but instead we're stuck with Michael, who has no chance of winning and most likely will be eliminated this week or next. Ideally, Tim should have been eliminated with Andrew, but of course things go wrong sometimes---usually not this wrong, though. I'm a little surprised the judges didn't even say anything about how she shouldn't have been eliminated! Perhaps they felt so stupid they didn't want to open their mouths and draw attention to their own mistake.

Katie was definitely one of the top 5 voices/talents on this season, and performed well enough across the board to deserve to stay. She should have made it much closer to, if not all the way to, the top 5. She wasn't a contender to win---she does need to grow more, and as I said all along, it may have been better if she's waited a few years before auditioning. But she didn't deserve to go before Tim and Michael.