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[mjr]

Sophie and Emilie in the bottom 2

I know him so well was the song.

Emilie got fewest votes from the public.

ALW sent Emilie home!

[mjr]

These are from digital spy, can anyone confirm these results?

[CaityGlinda]

FINALLY! It was just cruel to keep her in any longer just to be humiliated every week. She simply didn't have a strong enough voice.

[bananafrit]

These are from digital spy, can anyone confirm these results?

Yup - I was there. I'd say it was right that these two were in the bottom two and that Emilie went.

Emilie 'cracked' on her last note of SOTR but given the emotion of it all, I don't blame any of them for buggering up that song at some point really.

[Matthew Winn]

FINALLY! It was just cruel to keep her in any longer just to be humiliated every week. She simply didn't have a strong enough voice.

I really don't understand what the panel saw in Emilie, unless their comments were motivated by the fact that the public voted her back in and they were afraid of going against the public will. Last night was painfully awkward to watch.

[Danube]

I agree.  History shows that nothing makes a floating or apathetic voter pick up the phone faster than some harsh comments from the judges.

[emkay]

To me, it looked like the entire performance episode was designed to get Emilie out.  First, they gave Emilie a bad song, that has been done badly before on Maria (with Meliz being voted out after she sang it better than Emilie did), and then they gave her lukewarm comments with a few hard lessons thrown in ("you have to learn to take criticism in this business, because in the real world it's a lot worse than this").  Then, they went on and on in the rest of the show about who could be contenders for the part, and even praising not-so-great performances like Jessica's because it looked to me like what they were really saying was "look viewers, all these performers might not be Dorothy, but they deserve to stay another week over Emilie".  

I really think all this was calculated to get viewers to not pay much notice to Emilie and turn their attention to other performers, and apparently, it worked.

[Leopard]

To me, it looked like the entire performance episode was designed to get Emilie out. First, they gave Emilie a bad song, that has been done badly before on Maria (with Meliz being voted out after she sang it better than Emilie did), and then they gave her lukewarm comments with a few hard lessons thrown in ("you have to learn to take criticism in this business, because in the real world it's a lot worse than this"). Then, they went on and on in the rest of the show about who could be contenders for the part, and even praising not-so-great performances like Jessica's because it looked to me like what they were really saying was "look viewers, all these performers might not be Dorothy, but they deserve to stay another week over Emilie".

I really think all this was calculated to get viewers to not pay much notice to Emilie and turn their attention to other performers, and apparently, it worked.

Have to say - I was no fan of Emilie but I think there is something in this. She did get given awful songs really that just didn't show off her voice.

She looked totally outclassed in the solo performances but yea - I really think in the group numbers and the more musical theatre stuff she totally held her own - rather unfortunate treatment I think...

[emkay]

^Oh, I didn't say I thought it was a bad thing.

I think that the producers of the show did what was best for Emilie in the long-run.  The viewers were doing her no favors by voting to keep her in each week, so that she could go up onstage and embarrass herself and be subjected to some fairly nasty comments on the internet.  I think the most merciful thing the producers could have done was to quietly and effectively engineer her exit, and that is what I think they did very smoothly last night.