So You Think You Can Dance Recap: Good Goth

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   Pikey578
   Posted July 27, 2012 at 12:09 pm

   One minor detail: “I forgot that Witney (that silent “h” is so 1988) and Chehon (he’ll take the extra “h”, thanks) are now a couple since the other halves of their couples were axed last week.” Actually, no. The new couple this week is Brandon and Amber since their partners were let go last week.

   I was sad to see Amber go – she is an amazing dancer. But I was not surprised. Maybe she will now join the dance troupes that have been recruiting her! I really don’t like this new show format. I don’t see why the station can’t give them a 1/2 hour the next night (even at 7:30) to announce the results.

   I love the Olympics so don’t mind the wait – I just hope that the audience comes back…

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   Tiffany
   Posted July 27, 2012 at 12:14 pm

   So far so good, but Amber & Brandon were the new partners. Witney & Chehon have been together since week 1. Continuing to read the recap….

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   ApplePie
   Posted July 27, 2012 at 2:43 pm

   Whoops! Those funny “h” names bamboozled me! I am super embarrassed since I’ve watched every ep of this show since Season 2. Thanks for keeping me honest, @Tiffany and @Pikey578!

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   sagittariuskim
   Posted July 27, 2012 at 3:20 pm

   I didn’t really like the opening number, I kind of find Charlie Chaplin creepy. One thing I miss about the live group routines is seeing what kind entrance the choreographers created for Cat.

   I liked both of hip hop routines. I wish they would stop showing Tabitha demonstrating the moves. I don’t like seeing pregnant women being active, I keep expecting the baby to fall out or something.

   I think Christina had good idea when she said Eliana should start working with Cyrus, and preparing him for contemporary.

   I’m not surprised by who went home. I loved that Brandon had a smile on his face the whole time, I think he didn’t expect to make it very far.

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   Moli
   Posted July 27, 2012 at 6:23 pm

   @sagittariuskim, thank you. Every time I see a very pregnant woman being overly active(in my eyes) I think the baby is going to fall or at least begin the process to fall out. I was in and out of like for the opening number. I did not like the salsa and but damn did I love Amber, the Lindsay and Cole piece and Chehon and Witney’s. Of course Cyrus did well but Eliana surprised me, I appreciated Tabitha and Napoleon giving Eliana a few ballet moves. Thank you Christina for giving for the most part honest feedback ^5 to the Eliana helping Cyrus. I am beyond surprised Amber went home and expected Brandon’s ride to be short, the judges already have their pony…Cyrus.

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   ApplePie
   Posted July 27, 2012 at 6:38 pm

   “ethic lawn gnomes” was supposed to be “ethnic lawn gnomes”. Another whoops … guess I shouldn’t write these things in the middle of the night. I agree with all of the comments about Tabby’s activity while hugely pregnant. We can already see her belly button through all of her shirts (and you know how I feel about belly buttons). I kept waiting for her to go into labor during the live show. The way everyone connected to the show promotes their own projects, nothing would surprise me at this point.

   I hope Cyrus can show us more next week, although I didn’t think his jive a few weeks ago was as terrible as Mary said it was. Remember when they used to show us the couples picking each other’s names and their dance style for the week pre-rehearsal? I used to think it was filler, but now I miss it. I don’t trust that they’re actually getting random genre assignments this year.

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   jerseyj
   Posted July 28, 2012 at 5:49 am

   @applie pie, they don’t show the hat pick anymore, because it’s not random anymore. Now they pick numbers randomly and in order of the numbers they pick their routine out of the choices for the week.

   As for the routines, I LOVED Cyrus and Eliana. I like Lindsey/Cole alot too. Witney/Chehon did a good job and it was really pretty, but I’m with Apple Pie…I didn’t really feel the chemistry. Despite teh judges breaking down and crying I just didn’t feel it that much.

   As for the bottom 6…what the hell??? How the hell were George and Eliana in the bottom. All I can guess is the foxtrot brought George down…it never really gets many votes. And, Eliana is gettng screwed by being with Cyrus. She gets dumbed down choreography because Cyrus can’t handle anything else and then doesn’t get votes because of it. (while he coasts along on his personality alone). I think he’s a nice guy, but just isnt ready for the challenge of the show. At least this week they had hip-hop so could do some more complicated choreo.

   I felt bad for Brandon and Amber, but I wasn’t surprised. The votes were based on last week, not this week. I loved how positive Brandon was, smiling the whole time even after he got the boot. Amber just had a sourpuss the whole time. Made me not like her.

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   vallegirl
   Posted July 28, 2012 at 8:01 am

   Based on the solos, I’d have kept Brandon over Dareian but realized that if they kept Brandon he’d be on his third partner in four episodes. If we hadn’t spent all that time with Alexa and, yes, Cyrus during the auditions and Hollywood week, maybe some of these other dancers might have some kind of fanbase, but now Alexa is gone and Cyrus is really not up to snuff with the other dancers and better dancers than Cyrus will get cut, maybe even his partner.

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   gun kata
   Posted July 28, 2012 at 8:24 am

   I hated it came down between Amber and Eliana. Amber is really, really good and her solo was beautiful. But, Eliana is better. Being with ballroom guy hurt Amber. He wasn’t able to fake any chemistry with her. She had no difficulty with Brandon.

   I pretty much didn’t like this episode. Everything seemed off somehow.

   Nice to see Christina Applegate!

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    Corinthia
    Posted July 29, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    >I hated it came down between Amber and Eliana.

    I don’t think it did. I think the judges knew before the show even started it was Amber. But they probably wanted to let the people who were leaving do solos, and had already blocked out the time for them… And Amber had to do her solo “against” somebody… So I think they just said, okay, Amber’s leaving and we will let her do her solo… then for the other girl’s solo, do we want to see a ballet solo or a ballroom solo? Easy decision.

    Of course this is all just speculation on my part… but it makes sense doesn’t it?

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    Andrea
    Posted July 30, 2012 at 9:32 am

    I actually think they just wanted to show us what Eliana can do, as Nigel has said several times that we haven’t really seen it in the weeks of live competition. He wanted to show that there was a mistake made by putting her in the bottom three so it could be avoided next time, in my opinion.

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    Boosma
    Posted August 7, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    I absolutely HATE HATE HATE (sorry to shout:)) the new format. It’s just another way for Nigel to rig the show. After watching it since season 2, I’m not even sure I’m going to keep watching the “Search for Nigel’s favorite dancer”.

    Double ug!