The X Factor – Marcus can’t he

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum …

En route, someone shuffled along into another week who shouldn’t have. Marcus Canty, getting The X Factor equivalent of a Monopoly “Free Parking” space, received his rightful due by being eliminated a full seven days after the fact.

You see … Nicole messed up last week. The voting public, however, did not. I said a lot in my comments on Tara’s previous post, among them that it’s been time for Marcus to go for a long, long while now. For me, his ouster was no surprise.

The surprise instead was the fact Melanie wasn’t paired up with him as one of the possible two headed out of the competition. (Oh, sure: I know Steve “No Particular Random Order Boy” Jones would point out the elimination process had nary a rhyme or reason, but symbolically, didn’t you really want to see Marcus and Melanie up there instead of Chris and Josh? I did. Not that the end result would have been any different — Marcus would still have been dismissed.)

At the end of the day, I believe Chris and Josh will be pitted against one another in the finale … but, really, there’ll be no contest there. Sympathy votes for Chris notwithstanding, Josh will walk away with the prize.

Observations:

• During the group performance (and I’ve heard some pretty funky version’s of Tears For Fears’ Shout, but this one — a previously-performed-on-X-Factor-UK No Diggity / Shout mash-up — was right up there … and not in a good way), did you notice Josh practically inanimate awaiting his turn, picking at his nails prior to singing? Interesting. (performance below)
• Honestly: Who did you think was going through to the finals between Marcus Canty and Josh Krajcik? Huge no-brainer there.
• I didn’t catch it last night as I was watching casually, but I definitely caught it during this episode: Why has Melanie reverted back to her “non-Jamaican” (lack of) accent?
• And my little buddy Steve Jones didn’t use his trademarked “no particular random order” this evening. I was disappointed and now I haz a sad. *sniff*

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDFlHiNV5Y

Clacked by Michael Noble
on Dec 16, 2011 @ 13:04 EST5EDT