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I don't think it's just lack of suspense. I think this season, more than the last, is being carefully engineered by the producers and maybe the judges to create a particular top twelve. They've been very careful about who's had screen time and pimp them even when they suck. When singers that haven't had screen time hit it out of the park (Ricky Braddy) they call them bland or boring or something else is wrong with them. kris Allen was a fluke -- despite the judge's best efforts everyone else they were pimping totally flopped and the audience could tell. In fact, the existence of Kris Allen in the finals is the only thing that gives me any faith that actual votes are still being counted in this competition. Or maybe the producers just knew that after those group two performances they couldn't slip something so obvious over on the audience as putting Matt G or Kai through.

I think the wildcards will truly be telling. Since it appears obvious that six guys will make it through in the group rounds, will the judges only consider females in the wildcard? Will they continue their insistence that there be even numbers, or will they let the superior male group of singers prevail (remember in season two we endedup with a top twelve because the girls were so dismal in the group rounds but they had to get Clay Aiken into the finals -- so they created four wild cards and gave three of them to girls). Pretty clear from the pimping so far that Tatiana and Megan will be wildcards -- will anyone who doesn't bring the right element of drama/backstory really have a shot at making it?