Britain's got talent!

Post on life soon, promise.

Meanwhile, wanted to talk about Britain's Got Talent. Didn't really follow it all the way through, saw the first show then one of the semi-finals, then the final tonight.

And though I didn't think the best act won, I do want to say that the performer who would get the most out of winning won. Not to say that Paul Potts (a rather unfortunate name there, I couldn't stop laughing everytime they shouted it) isn't good, but rather that I think the idea of the show was to bring something new onstage to the Queen and say "here Ma'am, we picked this one out of the street, they're not professional, and look, an entirely new act you've not seen before, aren't your people wonderful?" And not to say that an untrained opera singer isn't great, but it's not something the Queen hasn't seen before, is it?

But amongst all the acts there on stage tonight, I would say he deserved it the most. He would get the most out of it. I was ready to throw the towel in, ready for the cute little girl with the dreamy voice and the toothless smile to win (and she really is the cutest little thing with an amazing voice), just like how the public voted Princess Diana as the third most important Briton in history (outweighing Darwin), when to my complete shock the ugly chubby man wins. I don't mean to be cruel, but that's how I expect most the British public will see him.

I guess it will be the show's producers more than anything that really sold him to us. In the first show we saw him unhappy, nervous, looking every bit a broken man, walk onto stage and face the judges and tell them that he was an opera singer. And just from that, you wanted him to succeed, and when he opened his mouth to sing, you breathed a sigh of relief as that amazing voice pours out of him and the audience cheer (standing ovation) and the judges look around in amazement. "Thank goodness" you say. "Thank goodness he's actually good".

I mean I guess all the other contestants would feel down for not making it, but you really felt that for Paul Potts this was his final final hope. That even though he got to the final, if he hadn't won he would've felt just not good enough.

At any rate, I'm glad he won. I'm glad the audience didn't choose the cute little girls or the fun bartenders or the really awesome breakdancers. I'm glad they chose the sad man with the amazing voice who has so much to gain from this.