I agree with your comment so much. The emphasis on 'personality' (which translates into oversharing and acting-out on tv) over talent chafes my butt.
The whole season came across to me as people wanting Danny to make them feel important, and Danny just refusing to play their game. And I loved it.
I loved it, too. Danny also didn't wait for the judges to determine his worth. He knew his worth, knew he was talented, probably twice as much as the rest of the contestants put together. When the rest of your 'peers' live and die by the judges' comments every week and you don't, some people may perceive it as arrogance. I didn't. I want to say that some of this may have to do with race but they pretty much did the same thing with Blake in Season 1, I think.
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Date: 2008-07-14 02:42 pm (UTC)The whole season came across to me as people wanting Danny to make them feel important, and Danny just refusing to play their game. And I loved it.
I loved it, too. Danny also didn't wait for the judges to determine his worth. He knew his worth, knew he was talented, probably twice as much as the rest of the contestants put together. When the rest of your 'peers' live and die by the judges' comments every week and you don't, some people may perceive it as arrogance. I didn't. I want to say that some of this may have to do with race but they pretty much did the same thing with Blake in Season 1, I think.