LJ Idol Presents:

if he doesn't throw twists out there to garner interest/encourage interaction, Idol will be just as dead as every other writing community out there

I disagree. While there are some people who say they like the twists (until they are personally adversely affected by them), there are plenty of others who dislike them and who eventually throw their hands up in the air and walk away.

Consider the percentage of people who dropped this season because of "real life" or "work" when all those intersections were required in the early weeks. And even as much of a pain as they were, they weren't as much bullshit as other twists that have happened in other seasons.

I mean, hell, as late as it is in the season, I still don't know if the number of "eliminated by the poll" contestants has caught up to the "self eliminated" contestants in Exhibit B.