User blog comment:Jam7/Thoughts on the new episode.../@comment-1734566-20100611210131

As I said above, this premiere actually met my expectations. See, ever since the TDA premiere, I was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the first episode of TDA was great (and even ranks as one of my top favorite episodes of the entire season), but the premiere just really lacked a lot that I was hoping for. But the TDWT premiere? To quote Cody, "I'm pleasantly surprised."

Again, it had an abundance of Ezekiel; something we've all been waiting for for a LONG time. And I'm glad to see that, for the most part, he's dropped the "Homieschool" gimmick. Yes, he still says "Yo" and "Dog," and stuff like that, but for the most part, he's just replaced it with the whole "I'm in it to win it attitude." I have a strong feeling that this will foreshadow a great performance from him. I mean, in the last two one-hour specials we've had, a lot of the confessionals of the contestants who are in the next season basically just have them saying, "I'm gonna win this time!" As a matter of fact, Gwen, Zeke, DJ, Duncan, and Alejandro all said that in the TDA special. But with Zeke...they've carried it right into the actual episode, and even into his own solo in the musical number! So I'm confident that this can only mean that he will accomplish what everyone else doubts that he can do, and will actually go far.

And the musical number...wow. I was always thinking that this would be crap, and would be just plain cheesy. Yes, it started off bad, but once it took off, it was absolutely EPIC! Some of the lines, such as Noah's, were absolutely hilarious. And the song was actually a parody of a Frank Sinatra song, "Come Fly With Me." The moment I realized that, I thought, "Wow, maybe the creators actually DO have a good taste in the music they're parodying." So that actually made me love the musical scene, and I currently anticipate more. In my opinion, the best three singing voices of the entire cast are those of Courtney, Bridgette, and Ezekiel.