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Oslo 2010: Semifinal 1 results

Well, what can I say? Obviosuly I'm disappointed for Finland not making the final after all. Now I am very curious to see the full scoreboards afterwords! But checking the top tens of most everyone who has published them in blogs and sites no one made 10/10 and very few 9/10 (Escadaily's Luke, AKOE's Keith and Andrew and Esckatz's Mike) I made 7/10 which seems to be the most common score. However it is evident how seeing the rehearsals on spot in screen helps. I changed by list when seeing them finally on TV and scored 8/10 tonight based on the live show instead. I still didn't believe in Russia and Moldova and had Finland and Malta qualifying instead. Tonight I dropped Slovakia and Russia (!) and replaced them with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Belarus.

Ok, overal a bit boring show wasn't it? I didn't get the feeling of the audience or was it empty there? Presenters were good. Not exceptionally good but good in a lowkey way. Postcards were something new but I think the idea was better than the final look. For that microsecond they travelled all over Europe to film the crowds? Graphics were very clear and ... proper, bordering boring again. Besides, the screen went balck at least here three times; during Estonia, Finland and Serbia - what was all that? But I have to admit the moment when the fans assaulted the Japanese tourist bus was priceless! I also liked the Human Voice thingy. 

What else? Estonia still had the Russian snow falling down. Slovakia and Finland got big applause but did it help? No. But it was nice to see Haddy amongst all those Finnish fans! Vukasin really has piercing eyes, he almost made me unconfortable in my sofa, no wonder he was voted in! The Polish act was very confusing indeed, and they even used that weirdest part in the recap! Also poor Aisha who murdered her song got the part in recap where she really wasn't at her finest. On the other hand Belarus's recap is the part when the guy no 2 sings, the only one with a Voice. Albania had the best backing group, those ladies were rocking! The worst was FYR Macedonian girls, they totally ruined any chances they had to qualify! And in the end Hera got the place really heated up.

Oh the qualifiers?  Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Russia, Greece, Portugal, Belarus, Serbia, Belgium, Albania and Iceland. Makes one wonder what effedct did the jurys have? I have a feeling this time it was the jurys that got Russia and Belarus in. What do you think?

Comments

Anonymous said…
finland robbed once again, do not understand how belarus even managed to scrape the top 10 when they were horrific - russia makes you wonder if there is any point if something so bad can get within a top 10!
slovakia i also thought was robbed they deserve a final space much more than portugal for example.

although i was pleased belgium finally qualified i thought it was all a bit muted like the majority of the show but it got him through i guess

out of all of the songs tonight i think i would tie it with iceland and finland for standing out the most and actually being the best songs - and even FYR Macedonia vocally was very strong, and had a much more interesting song than its balkan (serbia and bosnia) counterparts

i also saw the "snow" of russia all the way up to albania which i thought although silly really isnt the fairest thing that another act should have minor disctractions such as previous acts props :S

apologies and all the best for next year - to make up for a few years worth of injustice!
Gandan said…
Russia is scandalous! I can't believe that Russia is in the final! Shame on Europe! :(

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