There has been serious technical issues which led the EBU staff to go wild and give directions to the jurors what to consider and what not while rating, which was unforgiveable. But despite of that, from the aspect of audience, Israeli hosting was delightful. The stage let the artists have a chance to bring out magnificent performances for each. I can claim it one of my favourite stages.
Most of opening ceremonies and interval acts were nowhere close being boring. The Israeli hosts were nice too, maybe except Assi Azar, not because of him personally but because of his scripts. He looked like an absolute mad gay man who has only sex appeal to talk about for approaching men, and I find it extremely repellent. I think my favourite was Bar Refaeli. She was quite nice.
Song-wise, during the first half of the season, judging the submitted songs, this year looked like it was going to be the worst edition in years. But the second half changed everything. In conclusion, this edition was one of the most remarkable ones to remember. I loved most of acts, and qualifiers were almost entirely for my taste, although there has been some sad farewells. But compared to previous years, this year was the closest one to my ideal one.
If only we could prevent dramas. Many of them were caused by EBU itself. It looks like they try to prevent catastrophe in the last minute, only until they mess up even worse.
List of EBU behaviour this year that can't even be possibly considered reasonable:
* Not letting Norway perform for a second time during the jury final despite of the technical issues
* But letting Bjorkman get involved and give directions to SF2 jurors on what to judge, in favor of Sweden of course
* Changing the order of final scoreboards revealing once again to use artists as puppets to get attention on ratings. Not only are we unable to tell what is the televote order without checking on the internet later (because the order is now entirely based on how juries rate), but also giving embarrasing moments to artists during the results.
"Sorry Germany, you received 0 points from audience. You could see this without forcing us point out millions of people out there, but we just have to remind you with this new system."
"Speaking of which, John from Sweden, we have been giving you a false hope that you could actually win the entire time, only to show people out there how shocked and frustrated you become once you hear how you actually ended up within televote. Well, you may not forget it for a long time, but this is what we call "exciting" as Jon Ola Sand said, so it is all worth hurting you."
I don't want to be shocked, I want artists not feel humaliated.
In conclusion, I can say despite of EBU, this year was a great one thanks to performers and Israeli stage.
i was slayed.
