American Idol: The Road to Hollywood, Live Thoughts (Page 1/2)

Even though they said that Denver was the last stop in American Idol's nationwide audition tour, they lied. Because tonight we'll cram other noteworthy auditions that didn't quite make it in the city-specific episodes over the last few weeks into tonight's show. This episode was originally called "The Best of the Rest", until the folks at Fox changed it to "The Road to Hollywood". That makes tonight's episode a little pointless, at least to me. Uhh, why do we have to do this again? Can't we just go straight to Hollywood and Ellen DeGeneres?

Well, we're here anyway. And take comfort: this is the last audition show before Hollywood. One more hour of train wrecks (unless we believe the "we saved the best for last" line in last night's tease), delusional contestants, and Ryan Seacrest being very patronizing about contestants who are either "survivors" or have "faced the odds". And, yes, one more hour of auditioners who will hopefully blow our minds. And then, no more: we're one step closer to the actual competition. Let's just hope this hour is all worth it. I'll be here for the next hour, and I'll also be on Twitter, possibly ranting in between train wrecks. Let's all answer my question together: do we actually need this episode?

I apologize for sounding so cynical. Watching weeks of audition episodes has that effect.

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