The End Is Near

The two Davids go head to head tonight in the two-night season finale of American Idol. The CORNY opening depicts a boxing match with both Davids decked out in boxing robes and sporting gloved punches in each other's direction. How lame.

There's a freakin' Coca-Cola logo littering the screen - not just in the backdrop, but in the forefront too.

I don't think I can do this whole watching, let alone blogging about it, thing. This could be the "Jump the Shark" year.

Did you happen to catch the season finale of Desperate Housewives the other night? I'm so wanting to just smack Cherry around for jumping his own creation. Stupid, stupid, stupid move in fast-forwarding the show five years next season.

But back to the other show that makes us angry.

Round 1 features songs chosen by music mogul Clive Davis.

David Cook is up first with "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." While it's a perfect match for Cook's voice, he does nothing with it to make it his own. From that aspect, I'm disappointed. The crowd certainly isn't though, but that's probably because his vocals were on the money.

"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is what Davis chooses for David Archuleta. He doesn't do much to change up this classic either. That said, this was the performance of an American Idol. Perfect.

Round 2 features songs submitted in the Idol song contest. Both contenders gets to pick from a pool of ten songs.

David Cook performs "Dream Big." The song is reminiscent of the 80s' Big Hair bands. Even so, it proves to be a good jammin' diddy for Cook. That's going to be a big hit on his debut album. Fun!

David Archeleta chooses "In This Moment." Girls are screaming so wildly I can barely here him sing this typical cheesy mush stuff. Decent vocals but the song does nothing to excite me. Yawn. Girls continue to go gooey.

Round 3 is Contestants' Choice.

David Cook picks Collective Soul's "The World I Know." Why would he choose this song? It's not a bad song but it's not a song that's going to win him the competition. Does he not want to win? Boogers! It's a good performance and the emotion of the night finally gets him in the end. The tears of joy and exhaustion could win him the competition. But Archuleta still lurks around the corner.

David Archuleta goes with "Imagine" by John Lennon. He's one smart 17-year-old for relying a song he excelled on early in the season. Go home boys and girls. Archuleta has one the competition. If I'm wrong, let's all get together for drinks and salute my insanity. He did it. He absolutely did it. A results show is totally unnecessary.

Confession: I enjoyed tonight's finale much more than I had expected.