Another 2 hour special for American Inventor. The first hour is a look
back at how the final 4 made it to the finale. The second hour
showcases each finalist making a commercial. An audience vote will
determine the million dollar winner that will be announced in the
results show next week. Then I assume that is the last show for this
series.
Since I tried out for this show and wanted to be on this show as an
inventor myself, I am trying to determine how the finalists were picked.
What was I missing? I still don't know? The show has featured a lot
of down on their luck contestants who can not give up on their dreams.
I did not realize that was going to be a major criteria when I tried
out. However that criteria still fits me too well at the moment. The
million dollar question for me is still how were the "Round One"
(really the second round) contestants selected. That is the hurdle that
most of those who auditioned did not make it past.
I am not buying it
either that the only very best were selected because I saw some great
stuff at the Atlanta audition that never made it to the air. I am also
not buying the idea that the contestants who were the most in need were
selected. I am not buying the idea that the most interesting people
were selected. Finally, I am not buying the idea that the contestants
that wanted it the most and were the most passionate were the ones
chosen for the round one. So how were the contestants actually selected?
Erik Thompson is up first. He is from Detroit, Michigan. He has the
financial blues. I do feel sorry for him and he put great thought in
his invention. The thinking behind the idea that kids need help with
catching a football properly. His invention, "The Catch" will train
kids to catch footballs properly. He wants to help kids get scholarships
and even has a gym that does that. A gym that needs money to continue.
I can relate that he wants more out of his life. I do hope that if he
does not win the competition, that he still gets money from his
invention idea and that people with money offer to help out his gym.
The problem I have is not with him, but with the show being too much
about feeling sorry for these contestants. The focus show be on the
genius of the invention ideas.
All this sappy mush was a very bitter
pill for me to swallow while watching. I have had a string of bad luck
events myself that is hard for me to even comprehend. Things have gotta
turn around for me and I really think that they will. However, if
things don't, I am going to be in as bad of shape as these contestants.
Is that what it takes to get on this show? I need to have the worst
luck in the world in order to even have a shot of making it onto the
show. I know that this is a reality show, but I still think my
invention ideas should be what matters?
I could whine and complain, but I don't want to feel sorry for myself
anymore. I am in the mood to fight and focus on what I can do better in
the future. I hated the pity tone of this first hour and it made it
very difficult to write this show. Both the audience and the
contestants deserve to be treated better.
It seems like this show has been edited by people who don't understand
what it is like to want to be an inventor. The people who put together
American Inventor can see the outward signs of someone who wants to be
an inventor. The passion, the drive, the willingness to put everything
on the line for their dreams. That still does not get to the point
where non-inventors understand what makes inventors tick and want to
create inventions. I still understand too little about the actual
invention ideas. I wonder if the editors of this show did not understand
the inventions well enough to showcase them properly and make the
inventions the focus of the show?
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