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Last year I was screaming at my TV when Angie Miller got sent home. I think she would've been a marketing dream. AI often shoots themselves in the foot. This year's finale? Meh. The announcements are giving me deja vu......haven't those special guests all been on there before? Jason Mraz was there like last week. You could tell that Alex was surprised (not).. Scotty looks like he's been hitting a few keggers in college. JENA's brother seems very overly excited about this thing. How old is he? Does he ever attend school? I kept thinking he was Sue Heck's friend Brad from The Middle.

Jessa is becoming dangerously close to talking like a Valley Girl (or whatever it's called these days...Kardashian-speak??), pausing to say "Yeah" (Jill does it too), and inserting "like" into every sentence. Maybe they will have to send her to BabyTalk Camp where she will learn to simper correctly. And use the toddler word for things whenever possible.....such as "tummy" for stomach, "ouchie" for hurt, etc, even when speaking to other adults. And remember to never use pronouns while speaking. (Now, Josie, look at Mama. Mama wants Josie to take turns with brother. Mama is going to be watching Josie to make sure Josie does what Mama says.")

Georgia Seacrest for the WIN!!!!!

Jessica gets Jennifer Nettles for the finale and looks as happy as she's capable of looking...and Malaya gets John Legend and goes into spazzoid orbit......and then Sam gets PP???? And has to act excited? That's going to be like watching Perry Como and his younger brother, Barry Como perform. What? Did the budget run out, because I'm sure PP comes for free as an indentured servant of AI. Can't wait to hear who the rest of them get. Maybe Caleb will get Taylor Hicks ( freebie) and Alex will get Kris Allen (another freebie). Surprised Malaya didn't get Fantasia. I would DVR that.

I never liked Jill before, but she and Derick are so darn adorkable, that I can't even be snarky. I think she's a hopeless romantic to the core. I hope things work out well for them. But I do think she's going to have tons of babies....and soon. The Kool-Aid's in her veins. I think JB planned the courtship for Jessa as a way to keep ratings up, then the Jill/Derick thing kind of just cropped up unexpectedly.... thus Jessa/Ben is on the back-burner for now. I'm sure JB wants to spread out the wedding specials. Ben does kind of have a nice body. (Can't believe I just said that. Guess I'm being defrauded by the tight t-shirts......good thing I don't read them.) Why is Michelle admitting she was a tom-boy and little hooligan? Must be a long-term ulterior motive....hmmm.....JB must be plotting a redemption arc for her...... So now Jinger pawns off bread-baking to JoyAnna? Maybe Jinger will become Jessa's lady-in-waiting. Must suck to be JoyAnna. Jessa's day must consist of texting Ben, applying make-up, deciding what to wear, styling her hair, skyping with Ben, painting her nails, calling Ben, accessorizing, talking selfies, and going to Starbucks. How does this differ from a day (not night LOL) in the life of Paris Hilton?

Just some random thoughts on this horrible night: The hometown visits used to be a bigger deal. Is there over-saturation of this? Randy's jacket was annoying to figure out. P2 still can't cobble together a sentence of over 12 words. Early Clay makes Alex look like a GQ model. My guy walked by while JENA was doing her thing, and asked why she gets to sing in her native language and everybody else has to use English. Caleb made me yearn for Bo Bice and Adam Lambert. Ryan doesn't age. JLo needs to learn that God gave her that big ass as a hint to sit down. I didn't remember most of the Top 13 from this season. And I've watched the whole thing. The movie ad with Tom Cruise came right after the picture of Nicole Kidman. Gross. I forgot who Candice was. There was a doctor once before for someone....complete with stethoscope or some such prop. The scrubs were stupid...like he just came for the ER. I was waiting for them to all start smushing that cake in each other's faces, like a redneck wedding. The songs were all boring.

I think Jessica's sing-out was her best performance (vocally) of the season. I didn't see any 'death stare'...I saw the same look she had every week, maybe with just a little sadness thrown in...hard to tell with her. ((shrugs)) I feel she'll go the way of last year's runner-up (Kree?). I think TPTB could make anyone 'happen' if they feel like it. If they can make that dullard P2 into a hit-maker, there's hope for anyone. They just throw stuff up on the wall and see what sticks. I would never buy any music from any of the remaining 3.....if I want to hear Caleb's type of music, I will listen to 80s rock, if I wanted to hear Alex's stuff, I would listen to Ryan Adams, and if I wanted to hear JENA's stuff....well, I wouldn't bother at all. HATE how AI name-drops only the past idols who are making $$...they never mentioned Jennifer Hudson until she won the Oscar....now they call her "their own". Gag. Sooooo sick of JennyFromTheBlock and her grand entrance and goosies and strut and stupid faces and chair dancing and saying "competition" like she's patented the word. Can't wait for her to take complete ownership of her girl JENAFromTheSuburbs. And, no, Mr. JourneyMan, that was NOT one of the greatest performances on AI ever. Hardly.

That was the most emotion Jessica showed all season, and it still didn't seem like much. She was dry-eyed. I like her voice alright, but her demeanor left me cold....kind of like Crystal Bowersox in her season. Alex needs to hire a stylist before next week.......there's got to be something they could do, like start with unrolling the stupid capris and make him wear socks. I don't know....have to say his hair and skin look better than at the beginning, but that's about it. I want to liposuction his neck and chin so bad. Oh well, I tried. He won't win anyway. Caleb will "WOO" his way to the finale....still think he studied up on Taylor Hicks, Bo Bice , and Adam Lambert, combo-ed the whole thing and here's what we've got. JENA (gag) will win this thing....there're going for the next Demi Lovato/Lorde/ Lea Michele or something. This show is big on copy-catting. Get ready for no short vowels except O. Remember : She's in-TEG-ral (read off a cue card, but didn't know the meaning) to this competition. tm JLo

The overhead photos were the same ones that have been there the whole time, in the same order. Keith's singing is boring, and now that we're all accustomed to the short songs that the contestants sing, it seemed to go on forever. I don't care for the singing style of any of the three judges, in all honesty. I was hoping for the drama of a shock boot, ala Daughtry looking like Jack Ruby just shot him. Dang.