TV thoughts

Last night’s American Idol results were the first that I really disagreed with.  Nadia was one of my favorites, and I don’t think it was her time to go.  The song she chose was an obscure choice, but I still think she did an excellent job of performing it.  Scott is decent, but compared to the rest of the contestants, he definitely lacks in star quality and vocal ability.  I hope he goes next.  I wish Constantine would have gotten voted off a few weeks ago, because now he’s starting to grow on me.  I still think he’s over-hyped though. 

I hate the Wednesday elimination shows.  Usually, I just watch the last five minutes to see who was in the bottom three and who goes home.  I didn’t realize that they were dragging the show into a full hour last night.  That caused me to miss a good chunk of the Megastructures program I was watching on the National Geographic Channel.  That particular episode was on the Itaipu dam in Brazil.  Megastructures is a very fascinating series.  I’m just amazed by how smart the engineers are that design these enormous structures.  So far, all the episodes I’ve watched have had a common theme.  They start a huge project, they make a lot of progress and accomplish some amazing feats, they hit some sort of setback, and finally they overcome the setback and finish the projects successfully.  I’d definitely recommend watching this series.