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**** Britain's Got Talent 2014 ****
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when Paul Daniels or equivalent has his own tv show again at the top of the ratings then I may take Magician acts seriously on BGT. They were mildly entertaining circa 40 years ago but whats new to see?
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Nothing new to see, but he's some eye candy for the ladies and the other acts are hardly doing anything new and original
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Dynamo has done ok?
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He's got 24m youtube views, someone must like him
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balloon knot rubberers
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I had to google that
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Winners on this are voted for from the heart, not the head. Doesn`t matter how `clever` the act is, if it doesn`t engage the emotions, it won`t be winning. Look back at all previous winners, all very much emotion-stirrers. A couple of them have also been `clever`, but that`s not what won it for them, it was the emotions.
From what we`ve seen so far, Darcy is very much in the `traditional` magician camp. Do they stir emotions? Certainly not. While he may tick lots of boxes he, nor any traditional magician will ever actually win this. A Dynamo type, with a fast-fire trick every 10 seconds, and incorporating plenty of humour would have a far better chance. However, Darcy is absolutely perfect for Vegas, and an honourable third or so would allow Cowell to try to tap in to the bonanza that Darcy in Vegas could be. |
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Spellbound?
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And i would put Attractions Final victory down to being clever rather than emotional
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Ashley / Sampson don't really fall into that category either. Jai only if you count patriotism. Diversity won because their final act was clever and funny (surprise elements)
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Not one act this year has evoked that type of emotion (imo) in any case. Ukranians closest, but not really.
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I knew someone would pick out Spellbound, and I really should have known it would be you! Don`t forget, we on here are all cynics, but Spellbound won because they were perceived as `thrilling`.
thrill·ing adjective 1.producing sudden, strong, and deep emotion or excitement. Even if borderline, they`re the exception. Let`s not allow the facts to get in the way of a good lay! (Although not yet, he`s likely to go much shorter on due pimpage arriving.) |
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Maybe Darcy will thrill the audience tonight
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I suspect he only needs to walk on to thrill many of the women watching
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timbuctooth • May 26, 2014 5:36 PM BST
I knew someone would pick out Spellbound, and I really should have known it would be you! Not sure if i should be flattered or consider myself an argumentative nob head  |
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I retract the Ashley reservations, after reviewing her final vt with Hoppipolla backing track lol.
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I was emotional when she was weighed in all right
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Figgy and Darcy sitting in a tree
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you really should stop projecting bear |
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It's a good job you weren't sitting in a tree with Belguim boy
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I was sitting with his mother
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Attraction very nearly blew it with their final show, BUT they had already won it with the emotions they had previously generated. I remember arguing this point strongly during that final when others thought they had blown it.
Sampson and Diversity were dancing, an act that is instinctive to all humans, it`s a part of our make-up, linked right in to our deepest psyche. Which is all about emotions.Also, Sampson was very young, and Diversity had the much younger curly-top as the front man.A guaranteed tear-jerking category of winner. Pudsey? Such a link between a girl and her dog isn`t`an entirely emotional thing? Most viewers would have laughed during their routines, many would have been brought to tears. |
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Subo had the emotion that year. Diversity won with skill in my view. Ashleigh had an emotional vt but the act wasn't emotional at all. The connection with her dog would have had a lot of empathy of course.
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^ I'm with you tim
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If it was all down to emotions Connie would have pi55ed up
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Half the GBP love their dog more than their partner....tapped straight into that....the fat opera singer didn't connect at all. Subo had the surprise factor more than the emotional connect...surprise gone by the final.
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And that poor girl who sang edelweiss
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kids never really tap the emotions...its all superficial
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So you're not with Tim at all then
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Laying every kid in every special and you could retire...no sick jokes please
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I suppose I shouldn`t be too surprised at the dismissal of the `emotion` argument. I have no doubt that most of us are cynical, grumpy old men. One further piece of evidence, though, if I may?
When TPTB want to pimp someone, do they spend five minutes telling us how `clever` the artist is, how many GCSE`s they have? Do they phuck! They bombard us with emotional sob-stories, all to the backdrop of highly emotional music. They know where the balance of power lies between `clever` and `emotional` |
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I agreed with the emotional connect bit....have said before I didn't see Sampson as a kid....curly top was young but not cloying and there was the older guy as well......lets say I agree with him much more than you thinking Connie had an emotional connect. Other people's kids are as boring as their holiday snaps. Bars and Melody a lay for me for that reason.
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Be worth trawling all the failed kid pimps...USA versions have plenty as well and the Yanks are much more maudlin/pageant loving than us.
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'I didn't see Sampson as a kid'
What did you see him as then? |
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..and isn't that the Stuart Hall defence?
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So we have spellbound a bunch of kids, Sampson a kid, Diversity with a kid and Ashley who was about 16-17 and you think kids have a poor record
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I think singing kids definitely fail to connect. Dancing kids a different story
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