Recap: American Idol 10: Week One Elimination

CAUTION: SPOILER

Wow...

So the wild ride begins.

The one thing I hate about the elimination round is how long and drawn out it is AND all the fluff stuff that keeps me hanging on for an hour to find out who's going home.

Tonight I had to endure Adam Lambert and Diddy aka Puffy aka Puff Daddy aka Jennifer Lopez's former boyfriend. Can we say awkward?

Ack.. it's been like, 10 years or something so there should be no hard feelings right?

Anyway..

So Ryan first pulls down Karen Rodriguez, Jacob Lusk and Stefano Langone. He reviews what the judges say.. asks each of them what they thought about their performance and then lays down the results.

All are safe EXCEPT for Karen.

Whhaaatttt???

Another round of performances.. another round of commercials.. and then he pulls down Lauren Alaina, Ashton Jones and Haley Reinhart.

Again he talks to the judges.. talks to the contestants.. and poor Lauren, she's in tears saying how sorry she was that she sucked last night. She watched the performance and yep.. she sucked.

Everybody was feeling bad for her and Ryan, being Ryan, told her he wasn't going to let her suffer anymore. He was sorry but...

She on for another week.

Ryan is SOOOO Ryan.

While Ashton and Haley wait for their results, Haley.. sorry.. but was like giving attitude. Maybe she was trying to save face.. I don't know.

Ryan then tells them that BOTH of them are at the bottom and that everyone else on the couch is safe.

I doubt that's what the other's were expecting because they just stared at him like W?T?F? .. THIS isn't the way it's suppose to go!! But they finally got it and cheered for themselves, albeit with prompting.

Before long it was down to the elimination. Karen, THANK GOD, was safe leaving Ashton and Haley.

Haley's attitude still wasn't sitting right with me.. can't really put  my finger on it but she was just.. cocky? Again, not sure but I didn't like it but maybe it's because I really don't like her.

Finally, Ryan announced who was eliminated:

Were you as shocked as I was?

Considering that she was the wild card brought in by the judges, maybe she just didn't connect with the rest of America. Maybe the people who voted just started watching the competition and didn't bother with the audition shows and Hollywood week. It had to be something like that because how else would HALEY beat her out?

This season (I don't know about other seasons) the judges have ONE save to use when they think America got it wrong.. so Ashton sings again but the judges choose not to save her. 

I'm going to bet that they would use it if someone like Pia, Lauren or Jacob got the least amount of votes!

So Ashton.. be brave, girl. Rely on your faith because you are amazingly talented and will one day be a star!