Why Lee will win American Idol. At least on paper.

Since season 6 of American Idol there has been a test that so far has predicted who will win American Idol, or at least who will not win.

The front runner doesn't win, at least, not the initial front runner. In season 6 Melinda was consistently great but she only got 3rd. In season 7 David Archuleta came out a front runner at least a few weeks before David Cook. Last year it's hard to say whether the front runner was Danny or Adam, but neither of them won. But with this season I'd say that Crystal was the initial front runner but not by that large or a margin, so I'm not sure my test will hold this year. I think Crystal should win but I think it will depend a lot on tonight's performances. As American Idol gets closer to the end of season the voting becomes more cumulative but I don't think you can say that either contestant is that much better than the other.

Some people think American Idol is going or has gone downhill. I think they just got a bad draw of contestants. The only way it's popularity can go down is for undiscovered talent to lose interest in auditioning and that certainly is possible. There probably are bad decisions that the producers could make that would ruin it's reputation but for first season it had no reputation and they ultimately got Kelly Clarkson, one of their most successful contestant. Even if it's popularity is going down it will most likely be quite a while before the producers decide to cancel it.

Super Mario Galaxy

Yesterday Lost ended and Super Mario Galaxy 2 was released. It's metacritic score was 98, the original scored 97, super mario 64 scored 94, and super mario sunshine scored 92. I haven't heard much of SMG2 but I don't agree super mario galaxy should've outscored either Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Sunshine for a few reasons. One reason is that the SMG homeworld is so bland. It only takes about 10 seconds to walk from one end to the other. All it really does is glow in the dark; I think the Super Nintendo homeworlds were more exciting, and those were just maps. SM64 had the castle that had all sorts of places to explore and find secrets, but it is a little lonely. The SMS homeworld is also much better; it's an entire village. Each of those homeworlds had secret levels hidden around, with SMG not really. Another reason is the levels seemed so much more straight forward than the other ones. The other games had levels were you would walk all over the place. In SMG it seemed that a lot of levels were just about about getting from point A to point B and it was often nighttime. I admit that it's possible that I feel this way because when I played SMG I was older than when I played the other games.

Lost Finale

Tommorrow the last episode of Lost will be broadcast. According to the fansite wiki Lostpedia there are about 116 Solved mysteries, 16 partially solved mysteries, and 13 unsolved mysteries, and 1 canonically explained. 5 of these unsolved mysteries were brought up during this recent season. It seems unrealistic that all 29 remaining mysteries will be answered but keep in mind that some mysteries such as Adam and Eve, the Origin and nature of the smoke monster, and the whipsers have been addressed, but not with out bringing up a few quesitons in the process. I think the problem with unanswered questions is that the producers honestly planed to answer a lot of them but then they thought of some way to make the show wacky and they got so excited that they ran out of time. Some of the unsolved mysteries include the Hurley bird, the supply drop, the sunken island. Walt's been one of the biggest mysteries since season 1 and I'd be surprised to see him in the finale at all tommorrow. Something silly about Lost is is that some mysteries should be answered. In season 4 or 5 Locke visits Walt after shcool in New York and all they did was say hi. Wouldn't Locke want to know why he saw him in the Season 3 finale when he was in a pit; wouldn't Walt want to know how Locke got of the island. A simillar thing happened in this season when Kate and Claire were together and Kate didn't ask why Claire walked off that one night leaving Aaron. It's unrealistic that asking these questions would not have occured to the characters but in reality the characters say what the screenwriters want them to say. They might actaully be able to solve quite a few mysteries by simply stating or implying the the smoke monster (whose name we may or may not lear) is the solution. But a lot of mysteries will have to wait a few years untill Lindelof and Cuse are at Comic Con or in an interview about their next project.