1. First, I'm watching it, and a little bit hooked. Apart from Q&A (which I mostly don't watch these days, because of how infuriating it can be) and Insiders (which I'm often just not in the mood for first thing on a Sunday morning), it's the only show currently on tv whose time and day I know.
2. The judges are a fair part of it, especially Seal, but really all of them collectively. (Also, Megan Washington is kind of scary. And - unexpectedly, and not totally comfitingly - Delta Goodrem is kind of hot.)
3. There's a bit of humanity there too. Especially in those bits when the camera holds on the singer post-performance while the compere guy tells everyone how they can vote for them...judging by the discomfort on display there, some of these contestants are real introverts (and/or maybe it's just a basically awkward setting).
4. It helps that there are some actually really talented singers on the show. My favourites so far: Emma Louise Birdsall, Brittany Cairns, Darren Percival. Of course, one of the nice things about actually following the show is that your feelings about the singers have a chance to develop over the show - three in particular, Karise Eden, Sarah De Bono and Diana Rouvas, were much more impressive in their first round 'live' performances than I'd registered in seeing them in previous weeks.
5. And it turns out that, going by the results of the first week of the live rounds, I'm pretty much entirely in sync with the voting public - I thought that the two who went through based on votes from each of 'Team Seal' and 'Team Delta' were definitely the two strongest from their teams (and the judges then got it right in the other two each who they put through, each whittling the two weakest of their crews).
2. The judges are a fair part of it, especially Seal, but really all of them collectively. (Also, Megan Washington is kind of scary. And - unexpectedly, and not totally comfitingly - Delta Goodrem is kind of hot.)
3. There's a bit of humanity there too. Especially in those bits when the camera holds on the singer post-performance while the compere guy tells everyone how they can vote for them...judging by the discomfort on display there, some of these contestants are real introverts (and/or maybe it's just a basically awkward setting).
4. It helps that there are some actually really talented singers on the show. My favourites so far: Emma Louise Birdsall, Brittany Cairns, Darren Percival. Of course, one of the nice things about actually following the show is that your feelings about the singers have a chance to develop over the show - three in particular, Karise Eden, Sarah De Bono and Diana Rouvas, were much more impressive in their first round 'live' performances than I'd registered in seeing them in previous weeks.
5. And it turns out that, going by the results of the first week of the live rounds, I'm pretty much entirely in sync with the voting public - I thought that the two who went through based on votes from each of 'Team Seal' and 'Team Delta' were definitely the two strongest from their teams (and the judges then got it right in the other two each who they put through, each whittling the two weakest of their crews).
