Scattered thoughts: Live the Dream Top 3

What's the deal with making contestants sing in Asian languages that are not their mother tongues? Is this to give Dawn Yip something to do?

Dawn is judging this show in the exact same way she did on Campus Superstar! Lots of comments about "feel" and "performance quality". She's rather cool about this whole gig and is really getting into the spirit of things.

Ken Lim is determined to pigeon-hole the Revelina boys into the Harry Potter sweet geek box. As reality TV boxes goes, this is one of the weirder ones and perhaps the most limiting. Poor kids. Maybe poor Naza really wants to ditch the glasses but he's stuck with them now.

Wow, Dick Lee shows his bitchy side and tells off the Catsine Cradle guys for apparently not paying attention to him! So much for him being the Paula Abdul of this show! I like bitchy Dick.

Oy, butchered Mandarin is not fun to listen to! Neither is butchered Korean.

Ken Lim has a dig at Channel U's Superband! Hahaha! I love it! I am dying to know whether he thinks Revelina is better than Milubing, the winner of Superband, or if he just thinks Revelina is generally better than the typical group that competed in Superband. Either way, he's right, but I rather like to think that he is slyly knocking down the sweet but decidedly non-super Milubing kids.

And Ken has a second go at Superband! Even after lukewarm comments for By Definition, he says they are another group that is still better than Superband!

Suddenly, I am thinking how absolutely awesome Ken Lim would have been as a Superband judge. What wonderful and scathing put-downs would he have offered to the wannabe goth stylings of Lucify, the gimmicky cutesiness of Milubing, the emo warblings of Brods, the OTT theatrical tendencies of Qinobi? Boy, oh boy, how he would have taken apart the really bad ones whose names I cannot remember, like the all-girl group that could neither sing nor dance that well and the mixed-gender non-instrument playing group that got the lowest points ever.

Why are they devoting so many minutes of the results show to the two Project Superstar champs? One's a bit of a non-singer and the other is a bit of a non-performer (not saying who's which). We could wrap up the result show 5 minutes earlier without this bit of filler. Was this to give Darren a chance to shill the new staging of Beauty World? Dick Lee could have done it.

Aaaand ... they pull a"nobody goes home" gimmick ala American Idol during the self-congratulatory "Idol Gives Back" episode. Of course, this week's Live the Dream is tied to the President's Star Charity and you can't have someone being eliminated when votes are actually counting towards the PSC donations. Bleahhh, it's not even an original coup although the contestants did seem genuinely taken aback.