AGT is leading off with magic tonight with Aiden Sinclair doing a tossed out deck routine. It was very well received by the judges and audience. I got nothing bad to say about it. I am curious if he just got lucky that they all picked a different card, or if he used a method that allows that. In my limited experience with the tossed out deck, you usually name off the cards and then have people sit down all at once, giving a sort of dual reality in case there's a duplicate pick. I don't know if having two judges put their hands down at the same time could be covered by a "Oh, you must have looked at the same card," patter line.
This singer was good, though we only got to see the tail end of her performance. Shirley Claire is talented as well, especially for an 87 year old woman. Personally, I don't think she has what it takes to carry a Vegas show so I hope she doesn't take away a spot from someone that could. This next singer, Daniella Mass, is another very talented person. Again, I really don't care about the singing, but I don't think I could be mad if she went through.
I don't care for the puppet guy. I'm not sure why, I don't think it's just because of the singing. I just don't really care for it. I get that he's funny to some, but it's not really funny to me. I think I'd put him above a ventriloquist, but that's not saying much. I have friends who listen to Jeff Dunham on the radio. I don't get that. Without the visual of the puppets, it's literally a man talking to himself in different voices.
Benjaman Yonattan, the blind 14 year old dancer. Even I'm not a big enough asshole to talk shit about this kid. He's good at what he does, though it's still not something I personally would like to sit and watch for extended periods of time. I do have to wonder how much of the audience and judge love for him is because of his backstory, though. Would someone with perfect vision doing it exactly the same as him be viewed the same?
We've got a few more dancers coming back from commercial here. Only seeing a couple seconds of their acts makes it hard to really get a feel for it. It's okay, I'm not missing much.
We've got a guy named Wes doing a straitjacket escape. I do not remember him from the auditions. I liked his presentation of the escape though, getting out before a naked picture of him was revealed. This goes back to what I was talking about a few weeks ago, not all escapes need to be (or even should be) death defying. It was funny, engaging, and I liked it. The only thing I think took away from it is that he had to come out already in the jacket. I get that it's because of the time constraints, but I am less impressed when you escape from something you tied yourself up in.
I do remember Uzeyer Novruzov from his first audition. I liked him then, and I like him now. These are the kinds of acts I can get behind. I hope he goes far just for the sake of having something different.
I missed the name of this next singer, but he really is good. He's another that I don't really care for, but I can't be mad if he goes through. The Cragilewis Band is another one that falls into the same category. Aaaaand there's the golden buzzer, so they're going on.
I didn't really care for Dr. Danger's act this time around. Driving through the fire walls was neat, until he fell over. The jump was lame, and the flaming cowboy hats was just odd. I think they're not gonna make it through, but if they do they're going to run into problems doing their act at Radio City.
Dance groups time. Another group I don't care too much about, but I do like them more than singers. I really liked DM Nation, thought I still don't know that I would want to sit through a whole show of it. It was more that they were good enough to make me stop doing a crossword puzzle in the other window and actually pay attention to their act. The Chippendoubles was just confusing and not good. I'm not sue how they got through in the first place.
The hypnotist Chris Jones is back. I don't know if I've written about him before. He did not do well at all tonight. I suppose that's the risk you take doing hypnosis. I'm on the fence about this act. My mother was a clinical hypnotist, so I've been around it my whole life. I know it can work for relaxation, pain relief, smoking cessation, etc. but I also know it works because you want it to work. You can't hypnotize someone against their will, which is why a lot of these shows and stunts just don't work for me. As I said, I'm on the fence about this particular act because of what he did with Howie in the first audition. You can guarantee that he wasn't just playing along, especially when Mel and Michael Buble weren't going with it tonight. All that aside, this is my favorite hypnosis act ever. It's long, and I apologize for the ad but I love it.
Scott Heierman the drag comedian was funny the first time, but he bombed this time. I feel really bad, because I really liked the act. I'm sure he's going home which sucks, because I was looking forward to seeing more.
The choir is up, and despite being a singing group, I didn't really hate it. This is another case of not wanting to watch a whole show of it, but being entertained enough to pay attention to the act.
All right, elimination time! Let's crush some dreams!
DM Nation is going through, which I agree with. Eliminated a couple other dance acts, which I also agree with.
Benjamin is also going through. God for him I suppose.
Ladder balancing circus guy is going through, while cutting Chris Jones and the straitjacket guy. I think I agree with this since I love the circus act and Chris didn't have good luck this time.
Daniella Mass went through, though seeing who they sent her on stage with it wasn't really a surprise.
The puppet act is going through, cutting Dr. Danger and Aiden Sinclair. Sucks that a magician got cut, sucks more that the lost to a puppet.
The choir made it through in the last spot. They were good tonight, but like I've said a million times about a million acts, I'm personally only a fan in small doses.
That's it for this week! I wish I could swap Aiden Sinclair for one of the singers maybe, but hey I'm not a judge. Looking forward to next week.
- Andster
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