TheGreenKnight

Emma Thompson, yay!

Favorite Male Characters: Dean, Sam, Bobby, Henry, Kevin, Death Least Favorite Male Characters: John, Gordon, Arthur Ketch Favorite Female Characters: Rowena, Charlie, Amara, Jody, Becky, Mrs. Tran, Billie, Tessa, Eilleen Least Favorite Female Characters: Bela, Lady Bevell Favorite Angel: Samandriel, Gabriel, Balthazar Least Favorite Angel: Lucifer, Gadreel Favorite Demon: Meg...eventually, Crowley...also eventually Least Favorite Demon: Ruby, Alastair, Azazel Favorite Storyline: The Darkness / Amara, then Michael v. Lucifer in season 5 Favorite season(s): 4, 8, 11 Least favorite season: The British invasion season Best Villains: Abaddon, Michael Worst Villain: Metatron...never found him too threatening Favorite Premiere: Lazarus Rising > In My Time of Dying > We Need to Talk About Kevin > I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here > Meet the New Boss > Keep Calm and Carry On Favorite Season Finale: Lucifer Rising > Sacrifice > Brother's Keeper > Swan Song > Alpha and Omega Favorite Episodes: ...That would take me ages to be sure, and would go at least 15+, so I'll pass trying to answer this one for now. Maybe next time I do a re-watch, I'll make a list as I go.

^ Yeah, but it was the whole "without commercial breaks" part that was news to me. That's some next level desperation.

I mostly watch this show for entertainment purposes, but every once in a while I hear something from The View I didn't already know--this time it was that Tucker and Ingraham aired without commercial breaks last night. I knew they weren't airing the hearings, but for heaven's sake... A shame seeing Lindsey there today since she was only listed for the first three days. *sigh*

So agreed with Joy when they were talking about Kavanaugh and she pointed out how elites like McConnell want immediate protections for themselves--so they can safely and securely take away our rights--but screw regular people who have to live in fear of gun violence for decades on end? Please.

Sunny was on fire again this morning! I can understand trying to seek anything that's possible as Murphy said he's trying to do yesterday, but hearing a shill like Lindsey use that same phrase to defend the do-nothing position was repulsive. For someone like her, politics is only a game and right and wrong doesn't seem to be a driving concern.

She tried to steamroll Whoopi. Pretty funny since she'd just asked Sunny to let her finish--when I thought she'd talked a great deal already by that point--she then refused to do the same for anyone else.

Joy to Sunny: "Honey, you need an acting class." 😂 Those one-liners have been about all that's been worth seeing the past seven shows or so. I know there are only two months before the season's done and May Sweeps is in the rearview for them now, but the show has been very low energy the past week.

Considering Granger was there and my mind can't stop seeing a 666 in today's date, I was expecting a raging dumpster fire when I turned this on this morning, lol. Ultimately, it ended up being pretty mellow, just like last week. I don't know why The View puts on these pretenses, saying the superfan believes they're about to be interviewed by local news... The mother and daughter on Friday's show had no reaction at all when it turned out to be Whoopi and The View speaking, so the lie is only for the viewers for some reason?

I didn't think anything she said was incorrect necessarily (about the past anyway), it was more that she was being a Debbie Downer on a fluff topic and making something intended for pointless banter oh so serious. I agreed with Joy and Whoopi, that those things happened with the U.S. government, that's the history of most institutions that are more than a century old. She did the same thing on the cancellations topic. It's like she wanted to one-up Joy for disagreeing with her by bringing up the Hollywood Reporter thing. She does that often with the other ladies, she will never accept simply agreeing to disagree on even the most anodyne of subjects.

This has mostly been a fluff week for sure, but I think today's show has actually been pretty good for a pre-recorded episode.

Actually, the only person in the segment who said that was Tara ("Getting rid of all guns is not the solution" or some crock) because she wanted to muddy the waters of the discussion, whereas the others had been focused on AR-15's specifically. I think that's the reason Whoopi told her she was blowing smoke.

I don't think Whoopi likes Tara any more than I do. That video of the old co-hosts was fun, I liked that they talked about Star's impromptu goodbye and all the drama around her weight on the show. And Whoopi's shoutout to the copycat shows.

I'm glad they made sure to give Joy her time in the second segment since she didn't get to say more than a sentence or two in the first segment, since they'll do the same for Sara and Ana. I did think it was a bit odd, because they tend to have a sort of order to the way they talk--Whoopi introduces the topic, then Joy, then Sunny, then conservative guest co-host, then Sara, then back to Joy and Sunny for a little back-and-forth with the others, then Whoopi gives the final word and commercial. I don't like Tara, but at least she hasn't shouted this week like she did the last time she was there, I can't take shouting outside of moments where it's needed (usually to stop someone like KAC last week who is a rat-a-tat-tat sort of talker who never ends a sentence). That clip compilation they played at the beginning of today's show...just wow. Inserting transphobia and racism into a conversation about shootings--truly obscene.

Why is Setmayer there the day the original hosts are back? Or is the stuff with the original hosts just going to be a video shown in the second half and not them at the table? That's a shame, if so. Aside from Meredith and the other original hosts, Sara Bareilles is really the only part of this week I expect not to be awful... Since they were determined to encore one of the episodes with Granger, at least they picked the one Paula Faris was on this time.

This. I think there's no doubt that what Joy said is true, that if you want something to be done about gun control, there's really only one option to make that happen. Whoopi's delusional if she thinks otherwise.

I agreed with Sunny today--too bad Abbott and those others don't show that kind of energy towards gun violence. Loved seeing Rachel Dratch and Vanessa Williams! Those Barbara and LL Cool J clips were worth showing again. As for Joy interrupting Sunny's legal note, much ado about nothing to me. It was surprising Meadows' own lawyer was contradicting him. I personally thought Sunny started over to make sure she hadn't misread the statement and that the names were correct, since Sunny said a month or two back that she has trouble seeing the teleprompter at times.

I've felt that way about Whoopi hemming and hawing whenever Sunny is speaking the past two days, especially when she confused the abortion discussion Monday. She did it again while Sunny was talking about her personal connection to someone there today. How annoying to come into today's show looking forward to having the original co-hosts back and have to deal with her neverending ego and jealousy issues. I guess the original cast will be here tomorrow; the one consolation is one less day with Alyssa Farrah than previously planned. Whoopi's meaningless kumbaya platitude Yoda act is never more hollow than on days like today. Joy was right that even people like Romney and Cheney have and will block any action on gun reform, Whoopi should stick to stuffing her face with crumpets and shut up. No idea why Ana's hair looks like she walked out of a tornado today.

A country guy--or a White guy of any genre for that matter--doesn't need help going far on American Idol. The Platinum Tickets were more about keeping the top 10 diverse to keep the audience watching more than anything.

Yeah, but Phillips Phillips hasn't had any hits out since that would trigger people to look back at his old music like Carrie Underwood does, so it's not a reasonable assumption at all. By that logic, No Air would've eventually passed Home if merely existing meant more sales accrued; Carrie is still in the limelight unlike Phillips and Sparks, that's the difference. Stronger has more of a chance of having grown with time than Home considering Kelly Clarkson is everywhere these days. You're the one who made the statement "Home" was the highest-selling song--prove it, because the 7X certification CU received at the Grand Ol Opry says otherwise. And my point to you is your "claim" has no more weight than mine does. IMO, he was TCO. He was packaged as the first audition of the season like many of their other TCOs.

Well, BHC has a 7X certification and Home has a 5X certification. Certifications aren't handed out by Wikipedia, so... What Chayce is marketed as has nothing to do with what he was on the show since the show has little control over what happens to them with the label afterwards. We can simply agree to disagree, but I'm not sure that's what you're interested in here. My opinion isn't changing, if that's what you're expecting.

Quite a step around what you actually said. But that would still require we agree that Chayce was a country contestant, and we don't. Comes from 2020, apparently, and the song's probably sold more in the two years since with her Gospel and Christmas albums putting her name out there on a loop.

Chayce may be country now, he wasn't on the show (much like Casey James), he was a rock contestant. And, anyway, I believe you're missing Samantha Diaz in there.... And I deleted it before because I was unsure before checking it further but: "Home" was #1 at one time (like "Stronger" before it, and "No Air" before that), but apparently "Before He Cheats" has passed it over time because of continuing sales; at least "Home" is listed as 5.4 million and Before He Cheats 6.8 million (with a 7X Platinum certification). At first, I thought that was simply sales of the album BHC came from, but the album is certified 9X Platinum, so the 7X Platinum for the single must be accurate.

Chayce was not country. I believe I said "all coronation songs trend towards bad," thanks. "I Believe" and a couple of others are also good, but most of them are bad...

Personally, I think they wanted Noah to win this whole time. His audition was the first one this year and I could tell immediately he would be the winner then because he was so good and country--a lethal combo on this show. Then the week before the finale, they switched the order at the last second for him to have the final spot (the pimp spot) over Nicolina to ensure he'd get into the Finale. Then on the finale, they broke the voting into parts. If the voting was split three ways and the third and second place weren't revealed until the last 10 minutes along with the winner, one of the women might've actually had a shot at winning, but zero chance in a one-on-one vote the way they broke the show in halves, and Idol knew that. Personally, I don't mind it since Idol has always had their favorites (we have a Grassy Knoll thread here somewhere) and I do like Noah. The Voice does the same thing to get the winner they want; I don't know why Idol didn't think to do a 5-person finale last year to help Willie or Grace win. Anyway, they probably wanted a star on the 20th anniversary they can promote in the coming years and hedged their bets thinking they might be able to get success with a strong country contestant since Gabby Barrett was the most recent "success" story they've had (and Carrie, Scotty, and Alaina are all still having hits--the latter two not as consistently as the former, but still). It's much harder to push a pop winner now with Idol's diminished audience than it is with a country contestant; most pop listeners and young viewers aren't watching Idol for it to translate to success these days, which makes it an uphill battle post-show. Probably a calculated decision to get the sympathy vote. They did the same thing with other contestants who've had a baby (like Fantasia, La'Porsha, etc.). And they did the grandmother thing once already this season with Nicolina's grandmother, so... (I remember something similar happening with Elliot Yamin's mother back in the day.) I admit I did find Noah's grandmother really sweet and the fact that the baby had his eyes was so apparent. Btw, didn't say it before, but I love the single cover of Noah's song. I wish the song itself had been better. Yeah, yeah, all coronation songs trend towards bad, still this one was weaker than usual.