Triple sensation made me sad, it really did. The kids on the show were so amazingly talented that it served as a reminder of how little Canada appreciates it's own talent. Many of these kids should be on stage, they should be in film and they should be on TV - but not, probably, Triple Sensation. All of it had a more 'stagy' feel - a little darker, the set a little more bare but overall it didn't do enough to distinguish itself. It was very much like all of the other, successful and unsuccessful, talent shows on television. The audition scenes: a staple of the talent show, felt just like all the others and the 'informational' scenes between the auditions had a feel that at times bordered on infomercial.
Triple Sensation has at least one distinction though, one thing that I will remember it for - it is the last talent show. I will never again be convinced that 'this one is different'. If you want to make a show I'll watch - have a nationwide audition, and go through 8 weeks of putting on a production, have it culminate in live, televised, stage production. No real winners or losers, no evaluation by 'experts' (who are never, ever as interesting as the performers) just a production that is allowed to speak for itself.
