eurovision note

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: armenia for the win
ii: norton NOT AT ALL AS BAD AS WOGAN hurrah (in fact fine given i hate him; and given he was doing a total "wogan script")
iii: ukraine = is this the hardcore continuum i heard so much about? the whacky moscow camerawork was (i assume) putin-ordered sabotage
iv: utterly baffled by the unanimous runawayness of norway
v: brit song also did better than should have but it was a slow year really
vi: new voting system good for professional craft earnestness; will deliver pbs-ification of eurovision
vii: eurovision-as-carmodian-space news... i thought very little, except maybe continued rise of small, under-regarded nations (armenia, moldova) (were they even in any previous final? moldova is the smallest and poorest country in europe, i believe, and just returned an actual old-skool communism-for-communists party to govt by free and fair election)

Comments

Re: a

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, the phones-only votes are a carve-up between song, spectacle and regional diaspora effects: bringing in juries seems to leave spectacle the gooseberry. The problem is that spectacle is one of the main reasons for watching Eurovision (especially now the net and the semis mean the song ppl can make their judgements well before) so they're playing a dangerous game if they've instituted a voting system that downplays it.