I've only seen about half an hour of The Voice, spread across two or three episodes, but a lot of people have sounded off-pitch to me, even the ones who are experienced or who got a lot of praise. I wonder if they have a hard time hearing themselves on stage.

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I think the jazz girl the other night did get noticeably more nervous once they started turning around, but I think she had potential.

Idol, on the other hand, is ... I don't know. The top twelve guys are on tonight, and I don't know if they're all nervous, but a lot of them sound pretty sad.

I don't think Dana is wrong. There has been a lot of off singing according to my house acoustics. This group as a whole does not sound as good as last season's.

I was surprised at how off the Broadway guy got -- I mean, if anyone can do it, shouldn't it have been him??

I just have to report how proud I have to have deleted my season pass (or whatever) for ANTM before accidentally getting sucked in!

American Idol is just painful this year.

I watched one-and-a-half episodes of The Voice and just couldn't stand it. To me all the voices sounded off and/or weak. There was one young man who sang Grenade (I think that's the name of it), which was the first time I ever heard that song, and I thought, huh, good song, but he doesn't sound quite up to it. Then the next night on Smash, the male lead singer sang the same song and blasted it out, and I thought, ooh THAT'S how that's supposed to sound! Sorry, The Voice guy.

Do we ever talk Mythbusters in here, or is it all reality contests? Not that there's anything wrong with that... just not so much my thing.

There has been Mythbusters talk, certainly. Whatever's currently airing does tend to dominate.

So, Top Chef! That happened.

Reading the blogs, it sounds like this was a great season for the judges. I'm glad, because for the viewers it was a total snoozefest.

I didn't even watch last night. I just didn't care. And I really didn't like the female chef in the final two.