One thing I've noticed this season is that there seems to be fewer acts that they bring on just to make fun of how bad they are. I appreciate that. I used to think that these auditions were basically open casting calls and delusional people showed up in front of the judges and got told no. Then I found out (really, embarrassingly, late to the party on this) that you have to audition in front of producers first and they call you back to audition in front of the judges. Which makes a lot of sense, but then I feel bad that these people that just suck are getting told by producers to come back and they've got to be thinking "Wow, I really am good! I can't wait to tell everyone!" Then they come on in front of judges and get told, basically, "You suck, we brought you here to laugh at you, go home." As much as I like the show, that aspect of it sucks.
Second commercial break just ended and they called for magicians!
Aiden Sinclair is the first magician up tonight. I liked his trick, although I'm not 100% buying his reformed conman shtick, especially when Googling for a bit of background info on him brought me to his Facebook page where he talks about changing his public image from a paranormal magician to a more general magic image. Anyway, the trick was cool. I was expecting it to be an invisible deck but it doesn't seem to be which is pretty neat. Question is though, is his method, whatever it is, any better than just using an ID? Hard to say.
Uzeyer is not a magician, but this act is mesmerizing as hell. I really liked this, don't have much to say about it. Just wanted to make sure people saw it (if anyone reads this dreck) and say how much I enjoyed it.
I might have misunderstood the theme for this week. Oh wait, Nick is saying the next hour steps up the game. Let's do this.
Damone Rippy makes this look easy. I had two thoughts while watching this: 1) I wanna do this so bad, even though I'm almost positive it will end with me drowning. 2) This is gonna be hard as fuck to do at Radio City if he gets through and harder to make a Vegas show out of.
Not a lot of magic this week. Makes sense though, not many magicians fall into the danger act category. I figured there would at least be an escape artist or something.
Not gonna bother linking the video, but isn't BASE jumping going to be hard as fuck to do in a live show too. And for that matter isn't jumping out of a helicopter, by definition, not BASE jumping? I think at that point it's just low altitude skydiving. Splitting hairs here, cause I'd still never fucking do it.
All right, Dr. Danger is on and there's about 6 minutes left so I've gotta assume this is about the end of it all. Interesting night, but lacking on the magic end of things. I think the danger acts themselves were kind of a letdown based on previous years. Hopefully there's some more in the weeks to come.
Tune in next week for another AGT recap!
-Andster
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