If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

