Until quite recently, Tim Urban has been dragged through the mud. Even Ryan got in on the "fun" this week. Would you say that Tim has been treated in a racist fashion?
This racist nonsense nauseates me. There has never been any evidence that any of the judges are racist. Quite the opposite, in fact.
As far as the mentoring is concerned, Adam didn't say that Andrew is boring. He said that the arrangement Andrew chose and his performance were boring. We only saw a tiny bit of the session. I'm sure that Adam said this in the context of Andrew being capable of a better performance. Many good teachers express themselves that way. It's often very constructive. It's not as if Adam said, "You stink."
The only thing that bothered me about Andrew's elimination was that they went back to the shock tactic of skipping the expected Bottom 3 variation. That must have been unnecessarily jarring to Andrew, who couldn't have known that it would be like ripping a Band-Aid off, except with someone else besides you in control. They haven't pulled that in a long time (as far as I can recall). There was a Top 24 contestant in Season 4 named Judd Harris who was eliminated in a similar way...even worse, in fact. He was positioned behind Ryan, who wheeled around to face Judd out of the blue and told him he was out.
