I know it's about the entertainment, but on the other hand Criss is messing it up for all of us, only because his sleight of hand isn't that good nor is he creative enough to come up with good stuff that doesn't require camera trickery or fake spectators.
His team on the other hand is awesome. Banachek is amazing! If there is someone who should've done this show it should've been him.
But back to Criss. By doing the impossible things he does, spectators who have seen it on TV will think magicians are able to do such things, but we aren't. Even if anyone would come up with a real life method to do it, it won't ever be "as good as Criss Angel did it". Therefor, Criss Angel makes the world of magic bigger but at the same time closes ways to explore for any other magician.
Personally I dislike Criss more than the Masked Magician (the last one has been broadcasted over here in the Netherlands, Criss didn't but still everyone knows him thanks to YouTube). I can easily convince people that the stuff magicians do isn't anything like the Masked Magician explained it, that he did it all for the money and explained possible methods but not the ones I or any other magician uses (or ever used). People believe that easily. As for Criss Angel, who IS a magician/illusionist, it's way harder to convince people that he's a fake because they think everything is possible in this world and I would just look like "a jealous person who doesn't have enough money to buy such a method himself".
Give this a watch too (Sorry that I keep linking the same guy but he just says it all IMO.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHugOuXXPpE