NBC's "The Voice" (Season 10)

[Samus Aran]

Blake let Dia and Jermaine do whatever they wanted and they were his home run hitters.

You have to take into account Adam's willingness to torpedo his fellow singers if he thinks it helps the one he believes is his shining star. He was the only coach whose points actually prevented someone from winning the popular vote last season. And in season one there are some who believe he picked Casey to be easier fodder for Javier.

Do we know anything about the steal option? I was under the impression that it's not an actual steal -- it's just a coach being able to pick up someone else's battle round rejection.

Also, I wonder why true amateurs would even bother going to The Voice first. The last two seasons, the finalists were all professionals with a lot of experience, and The Voice even takes people who didn't get far on other shows.

[MercsOwnz]

This is, IMO, the best singing show out there. Love it.

[Hayabusa85]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Blake let Dia and Jermaine do whatever they wanted and they were his home run hitters.

You have to take into account Adam's willingness to torpedo his fellow singers if he thinks it helps the one he believes is his shining star. He was the only coach whose points actually prevented someone from winning the popular vote last season. And in season one there are some who believe he picked Casey to be easier fodder for Javier.

Do we know anything about the steal option? I was under the impression that it's not an actual steal -- it's just a coach being able to pick up someone else's battle round rejection.

Also, I wonder why true amateurs would even bother going to The Voice first. The last two seasons, the finalists were all professionals with a lot of experience, and The Voice even takes people who didn't get far on other shows.

Yeah but it is more that Blake doesn't know what to do with non-country singers more than him being open IMO. And he made some brutal calls on songs last season. Adam does control his singers a bit more but that is because he can bring more to the table in helping them develop. Christina is the only coach that I find totally worthless though. Controlling, head up her ass and too much of an ego to care about her singers once the season is done. Also have to keep in mind they only have so many pre-approved songs they got permission to use so letting the contestants always pick the song would cause problems.

The wording was that a coach can poach a singer if they feel a coach isn't handling them right or something like that. Which wouldn't indicate that they need to be eliminated first.

This is, IMO, the best singing show out there. Love it.

I agree but there are some things I wish they would change. I love the auditions and the coach banter. Christina needs replaced though. But I hate the battle rounds since far too often two duds get into a battle together while two great talents end up in another. Would also like the coaches to have no say in who goes home. Should always be who had the least fan votes IMO. Would also like to see iTunes downloads count for a larger percent of the vote. But my biggest problem is that it needs to be once a year. Feels like the last season just ended just like it felt like the first season had just ended last season. Doesn't give the contestants time to properly get an album out and benefit from their exposure. Hell Simms was tweeting just the other day that she was picking up her Kia as this was starting let alone having time to get an album out

[Samus Aran]

Okay, the recap episode said the "steal" is being able to pick up someone who was cut from another team, so it's not even a steal. It's more like claiming off waivers.

[Mouse]

I actually like this idea of picking up someone who was cut from a different team. Gives the coaches the ability to give someone a second chance.

[Samus Aran]

I honestly didn't expect them to reduce the battle rounds to 10 second segments like they did with the blind auditions. You definitely don't get any sense of the work and improvements and changes the singers in question went through. Hell, you don't even know how they sang in the battle round.

But on the other hand, for the battle rounds they did show, it didn't seem like they were hacking the songs down for TV and actually let them play out. Last year there were a few instances where it was clear they removed chunks of the performance.

Too many contestants if they're not gonna let everyone have their time on the air.

I was also impressed with Domo dialing it back and was surprised CeeLo didn't pick her.

Also, did the previews for next week just give away a certain female performer that Blake cuts and Adam picks up?

[djgeneral]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

I honestly didn't expect them to reduce the battle rounds to 10 second segments like they did with the blind auditions. You definitely don't get any sense of the work and improvements and changes the singers in question went through. Hell, you don't even know how they sang in the battle round.

was surprised CeeLo didn't pick her.?

Yeah, I was skipping through the show because I don't really care about every 10 minute video package of them performing the songs and I missed the 2 quick performances thrown in there

It's tough when they only get a 1 hour slot though.

[Samus Aran]

I have a suspicion the battle rounds they blow through won't consist of singers who make it past the knockout round into the live rounds. Of course, last season Moses was one of the 10 second blind audition clips and he made it to the live rounds.