When it comes to it, it's never been able to find our favourite songs, it's more about finding out our least objectionable. And the finalists won't necessarily be Dream Theater's least objectionable twenty songs, because I imagine a full half of Images and Words would be in that list. Because ultimately, it's a game. It's not a barometer, or a survey, or a census - just a game. "These are the rules, which song does best?" It's a good game, played for fun.
Except when TOWHTSTS survives for a round longer than Status Seeker. Then it's a horrendous game that needs to be stopped at any cost. Seriously, what's everyone got against Status Seeker? The Ones is
so dull!The point of a survivor is to eliminate songs individually based on honor system voting, not just a self-centered tug of war between folks who are bent on trying to get their way.
I thought the point of a survivor was to determine the top 2 songs on an album?
No, it's to determine the top song from each album. The 2nd best songs get invited to the finals just to make it a bigger group of songs or to placate those who were bummed out about 2nd place songs not winning for their respective albums and thus giving those songs a chance to fight another day as far as I could guess. If we only wanted to figure out the top 2 songs, we wouldn't bother running the final round for an album to determine a favorite.
Multiple finalists also helps give context. The second place song on Album A might not have a chance of beating the first place on Album A, but it might be able to beat the first place on Album B.
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Topic: Dream Theater Survivor 2012 - When Dream And Day Unite, Round 1 (Read 4988 times)