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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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This week on the So You Think You Can Dance results show, the judges will have to cut someone I like for the first time. Onward and upward! The opening number is a disco extravaganza. It’s the clothes that make this one. Travis has a sparkly lavender jumpsuit. Ivan is a sparkly pimp. Dmitry is wearing a gold lamé shirt with white pants and suspenders. Ashlee has ironed hair and a one-legged FloJo-style yellow-orange jumpsuit; she looks a little like old-school Cher. Ryan is bare-chested with an open jacket and tons of medallions. Everyone else’s clothes are A-plus too. However, I can’t say I think that much of the dance. I now agree with the commenter who pointed out that disco numbers are not where we see the best dancing.
I had various guesses about what type of atrocity Cat might don for tonight, but I was way off. I don’t even know what to call this thing. A Slinky? A roll of tinfoil? A spacesuit? It’s a very short dress, and it’s dark gray with metallic gold stripes, and the stripes are horizontal, and it’s baggy with short sleeves. It makes her look about twenty pounds heavier than usual, not that that hurts her any. But really, it’s shockingly ugly. I would like to know whether she picks these clothes herself, or what.
Hefty bag. That’s the best I can do.
Cat says that we’re going to lose one guy and one girl tonight, and I am suddenly a little shocked. Wait a minute – she’s right! And none of these contestants suck! I don’t know how to feel! She says there were millions of votes cast last night – the highest total ever, more than for last year’s season finale. Again, I hope she’s telling the truth about this. I would love to see the general public get really frenzied about this show as the weeks progress. Obviously, it’s no American Idol, but maybe it could aspire to be the next Dancing with the Stars?
Cat introduces the judges, and for the first time, I am intensely interested in finding out what a male judge on this show is going to wear. I don’t think there is any way that Brian can top that piece of jewelry that he was wearing last night. Turns out he’s wearing a velvet blazer and a shirt with a stand-up collar. It looks like he has about twenty chains around his neck, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a pattern on his shirt this time. Sure, it’s an ugly outfit, but there’s nothing like that necklace, which will haunt my dreams for years to come.
Ordinarily this outfit would merit a slam, but it’s so much less scary than the last one.
Mary is all sexed up tonight, with a yellow shawl thing and tons of cleavage. I actually think this is a better look for her than all of those strange, tight, high-necked tops she’s been wearing, but there must be some sort of happy medium between covering yourself up to your chin and letting your whole chest hang out on national television. Cat asks Mary about the fact that Donyelle was not in the opening dance due to her foot injury. Oh no! I didn’t notice that. Mary jacks up the melodrama by pointing out that when a dancer is injured, he or she has no job security and might never dance again for the rest of his or her life. We don’t get any more deets on Donyelle, though.
Hey, handsome. Wanna dance?
Brian interviews that the dancers have progressed a lot since auditions. He singles out Musa and Ivan for praise in this regard. Then there is a lame standard-issue recap of last night. As usual, there are some bits and pieces of new footage. The most entertaining part is when Natalie and Allison play-fight for the camera, saying they are going to be Kerrigan-Harding redux. Wow, if only that were true.
Well, I guess Allison is Tonya, then.
Cat brings the dancers back out, this time in what I assume are their own clothes that they’ve chosen for their possible solos. I try to watch Donyelle and it does look like she might be limping. Then Nigel drops the big bombshell that he promised us last night. He says that as of next week, the contestants will no longer be dancing with their established partners. Instead, they will randomly choose partners, just as they randomly choose dance styles. I have to say, this is pretty weak, as shocking revelations go. For one thing, I’ve been told that this is how they did it last year, for the whole season. If the producers were going to revert to having the dancers choose partners randomly, I wonder why they bothered to keep established pairings for the first few weeks. Is this an admission that this season’s system turned out not to make sense?
Now, there are some other changes coming, and these will be more dramatic. First of all, as of next week, viewers will vote for individuals, not for partners. That should definitely shake things up. And second, next week each new partnership will do two dances, AND each individual will do a solo. What the? How are they going to fit all of that into two hours? Unless I’m counting wrong, that comes out to twenty performances total – ten partnered and ten solo. I don’t think there have ever been more than ten performances before in a two-hour show. I guess this means the end of filler, so I am delighted, although we will have to wait and see how things actually play out.
Finally, Nigel announces the biggest change of all. Starting next week, the guy and girl with the lowest vote totals will be sent home. The part of the show where the judges choose from among the bottom three will be gone. Hm – I don’t think I like that. I like it when they dance for their lives! Also, what will the results show be? A solid hour of all the filler that’s no longer in the performance show, with the results announced at the end? Nigel grins a maniacal death-mask grin at the end of his announcement. Perhaps he doesn’t like being made irrelevant.
Please don’t fire me. I promise I can still make you happy.
The first two couples up on the chopping block are Donyelle/Benji and Ashlee/Dmitry. Ashlee’s hair looks pretty cool. Donyelle and Benji are safe, so I guess we’re never going to find out what would have happened if she had been required to dance for her life with that foot injury. Ashlee and Dmitry are not safe and will be dancing for survival.
Next up are Martha/Travis and Heidi/Ryan. Heidi’s dress is just fugly. It looks like she stood still and let somebody drape pink and purple rags all over her. She also has a bad frizzed-out hairstyle, although I realize that is left over from the disco routine. Martha and Travis are in the bottom three. Heidi and Ryan appear genuinely shocked. They are safe. That seems weird, since they weren’t safe last week, and they didn’t dance better this week. I guess I’m glad not to have to watch a frenetic Heidi solo performed in that nasty dress.
Last up are Allison/Ivan and Natalie/Musa. Cat calls them forward and then burns us, and especially them, with a commercial. When we come back, there is a lot of the usual drama and then we find out that Allison and Ivan are safe, and Natalie and Musa are not. Wow, Allison is wearing a really random assortment of lace stockings and gloves. I’m almost sorry not to be getting a better look at that.
Nigel points out that of the bottom three couples, Natalie/Musa and Martha/Travis have never been in the bottom three before. He also tells us that the top three couples danced cha-cha, Broadway, and contemporary, and this is exciting for him because he thinks it means that America is becoming passionate about dance. Oh, whatever. America so does not care what the dance styles are. I guess maybe that’s his point? Did he go into this season assuming that America would just vote for the pop and hip-hop dances every single week? Come on, man, even America is not that brain-dead.
Ashlee is first to dance for her life. She pops, of course. I still really like her; she has lots of personality. She interviews that last week she brought “boogaloo-style popping, the funk, the derby,” whereas this week she popped “a little harder.” She says she deserves to stay on the show because she can change it up every week. Er, I’m not sure that being able to pop in different styles is quite the level of versatility that the judges are looking for, but what the heck – I hope they keep her. She gives a pretty impassioned speech about everything that she’s learned, and I think I smell a little bit of desperation. I must admit that her odds don’t seem good.
Sweet Little Ashlee’s Baaadaaassss Song.
Dmitry mixes things up in a big way by doing his solo to “Jailhouse Rock.” I guess maybe this is jive? I’m not sure. Of course, he does a decent job, but I think he’s made a mistake by not doing what he’s really best at here. Doesn’t matter – the judges will never send him home, especially when he’s up against Travis and Musa. Dmitry interviews that he’s sad to be losing Ashlee as a partner, because he felt like they had really formed a connection. Aw – that’s cute. I did like them together.
The best thing Dmitry showed us tonight.
Martha is next. She does contemporary – spins, leaps, writhing around on the floor, slow dramatic wailing music. I hate it, except that the height she gets on her leaps is really amazing. I’ve always liked Martha, but if that’s her solo material, I can definitely live without her. Of the two, I’d much rather keep Ashlee.
I can almost make out those wires suspended from the ceiling.
There’s a commercial and then Travis is up. Before he dances, I notice that Cat is wearing a ginormous ring that looks like a big dead bug on her finger. Nice. Anyway, Travis also does contemporary, and he almost falls into the Ben trap of just spinning a lot. But then he also throws in some impressive acrobatics and some other good moves, and the crowd goes absolutely insane over him. When he does his interview, he is crying a lot. He says his mom is in the audience for the first time and she’s the reason why he dances. He’s glad he got to do a solo because he doesn’t think America understands why he’s here. The judges seem happy with him. Things look bad for Musa.
Natalie does what is basically a pop routine, but with a lot of impossible-looking leaps and splits and bends, and a really powerful aura of self-confidence. She does something that I always think is a mistake, which is to take the time to make an entrance down the steps. Dmitry did this too. Y’all, you only have thirty seconds. Don’t waste six of them walking down the stairs trying to look cute. Anyway, it’s an impressive showing, and I suspect Natalie isn’t going anywhere. She’s totally out of breath in her interview. Cat asks her whether she prefers dancing solo or with Musa, and Natalie hangs Musa out to dry a little bit. She says that soloing is easier for her, and sometimes she and Musa get frustrated with each other over “not picking up choreography.” Clearly, that refers to him not picking it up and her getting frustrated, not the other way around. Natalie says they always pull it together in the end, but I get the sense that she’s trying to tell the audience and the judges that she doesn’t need Musa. I think that whatever love connection they once had has faded dramatically. She totally hams it up in closing, calling out, “Can I get an Amen?” Yup – this is what “having a personality” looks like. I like Musa, but this girl really is good on her own.
These are not the legs of a human being.
Musa dances last. He does a lot of tumbling interspersed with some energetic dancing. I thoroughly enjoy it, but I have a feeling the judges are going to say that he hasn’t really proven himself excellent at anything other than break-dancing. I’ll miss him. I think he’ll be going home; the other cut is a toss-up between Ashlee and Martha. If it were up to me, I’d keep Musa and cut Dmitry. Yes, I know – sacrilege. But Dmitry has started to bore me.
After the break, we get a performance from the Pussycat Dolls. Oh, yuck. I should have known; this is the exact genre of “talent” this show would tend to book. For some reason, the Pussycat Dolls are allowed to do a little interview segment before they perform. They talk about how great the contestants are. Then they do a song called “Buttons.” I think the “lead” parts of the song aren’t lip-synced, but all the background and choruses are. But it’s hard for me to tell, because all of it sounds like total garbage. I have no original views about these women. I have read the same things about them over and over: They can’t sing at all; they are much older than they wish to appear; and some of them really look like trannies. I can’t disagree with any of that.
The judges come back and Nigel says that they are not happy, but they are unanimous. The girls are up for elimination first. I think they’re going to cut Ashlee because they have seen her pop one too many times. This is the disadvantage of landing in the bottom three again and again. Nigel calls Natalie up and tells her that she is sensational, but the judges think she sexes it up too much in her performances. She’s playing a “French maid” character and she doesn’t need to; she’s a better dancer than that. Of course, she’s safe.
Nigel tells Martha that she has the “best elevation” of everyone there. Yes, that lines up with what we saw. He says that the judges think that she’s lost some of her magic, and they especially noticed this during the disco routine. Ooh, they’re being judged during the group dances? Makes sense, actually. Always assume you’re being judged during everything. Martha is sent back and Ashlee is called up. Nigel tells her that they all think she has a great career ahead of her, but unfortunately, she’s up against two stronger dancers, and they’re letting her go. Sniff – I will miss her. Meanwhile, Martha looks like she’s been run over by a truck. Reminds me of how Aleks looked after she got a reprieve that time. I suspect Martha won’t be around much longer.
Look who’s lost her mojo now.
Ashlee’s farewell clip package teaches me that she had many different colors of Debbie Gibson hats. Also, it makes me sad. This is the first time that I’ve ever been sad watching this show, except for all the times that James “Jaymz” Tuaileva did not get eliminated. And that was more rage than sorrow. Dmitry looks even sadder than I feel. It seems like this whole thing came down to Ashlee having less formal chops than the others, and I think that sucks. She was catching up really fast and she was a lot more fun to have around than most of them. Oh well. I think I need a little perspective on the importance of this show vis-à-vis my LIFE. Ashlee cries.
After the commercial, Nigel calls Travis up first. Wow, I really don’t know what Nigel is going to do. I feel like all three of these guys are in the running, considering that Dmitry just gave his worst performance ever. Anyway, Nigel tells Travis that the judges are just as proud of him as his mother is, because he was sensational tonight. Just like that, he’s safe.
Dmitry is next. Nigel tells him he has to step it up. “Just coming out and showing your abs is not enough, to be honest with you.” Ha! I agree, he’s been coasting. Nigel says that Dmitry’s pop routine was bad and his solo tonight was nothing. He sends him back into line. Then Nigel calls Musa forward and tells him that his solo was one of the best the judges have ever seen, and this was their hardest decision ever. He says they’re running out of time, which is why he’s rushing this way. I don’t get that, because my FauxVo is showing 9:58, and we all know that Nigel has no problem taking this show to 10:02 or later. I guess maybe he got yelled at for that.
Anyway, Nigel’s rushing through everything, which is a bummer. He tells Musa that he is perhaps the most talented of all the contestants when it comes to his own style of dance, but that when it comes to other dance styles, he hasn’t grown as fast as the judges needed him to. He’s out. Musa seems to take it pretty well; Natalie is sobbing, as expected. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s noticed that the judges have just cut the two people who were essentially street dancers without formal training. I don’t understand why they let them into the top twenty if they’re going to end up cutting them before the top ten on the basis that they don’t have years of training like the others. This reminds me of how Tyra usually lets one plus-size girl onto America’s Next Top Model, but that girl can never place better than sixth or seventh. Why even put on the charade?
Goodbye, my love.
Musa’s clip package reminds me once again of how hot he is. Man, if we’re going to keep somebody on this show as eye candy, I would rather keep Musa than Dmitry. All right, all right. They probably did cut the two weakest dancers. I will just have to accept it. Cat runs down the list of the top ten, and I am once again excited about next week. I think the front runners are Allison, Natalie, and Benji. Not sure who my own vote would go to. What do y’all think?
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Applause, Amanda, for another heelarious and TIMELY recap. Note to B-side and J-Unit: Get this gal a cheap plastic medal of honor STAT!
I didn’t think Musa danced all that hot in his solo. After all this time, I was looking forward to his solo and it seemed like he almost fell off the stage at the end. Talk about improvising!
Dmitry really did skate by tonight and I was glad that Nigel called him on it. But, poor guy, he has danced in almost ALL of the elimination shows. Cut him a little bit of slack. He’s gotta be running out of steps by now.
Martha’s solo was also disappointing. I really had hoped for more *POW* from her.
Ashlee is cute and obviously a very nice person, but did she really think she was gonna POP in Vegas with La Celine?
Benji is in your Top 3 of potential winners? My fair Amanda, I will have to take umbrage with you on that call. He is good but he makes my skin scrawl for some reason. I sincerely hope he doesn’t win it all.
I am pulling for Donyelle. I’d like to see her with a different partner. The sucrose factor between her and Benji has been enough to make me floss after every performance for fear of getting cavities!
This show is SO addicting. I am looking forward to the change up of next week. Imagine Ivan and Heidi together? Or Repressed Mormon Benji and sex-kitten Natalie? Good times!
I really wanted to see Travis and Martha go home – not because they’re bad dancers, but because I just don’t care about them. I loved Ashlee. I love Dmitry (or just want him… really bad). I love Musa (’cause he’s hot… wow I’m feeling shallow). I knew Natalie wasn’t leaving, and I was ok with that – but why Ashlee? Sadness. I totally agree that Natalie needs to stop the french maid act, but if Dmitry knows what is good for votes, he’ll never wear a shirt. Ever. Don’t listen to the judges Dmitry – your abs are the highlight of my “So You Think You Can Dance” experience.
I love Benji. He is precious. Honestly, he would make a good dancer for Celine Dion. I mean… what would Musa or Ashlee want in a Celine Dion show anyway? She doesn’t sing a lot of hip-hop.
I’d love to see Heidi and Dmitry dance together doing one of those latin ballroom type things they are both so good at. It would be great; however, that won’t happen, because one of the dancers must be “challenged” by the style, and I don’t buy the alleged “randomness” of the drawing for a second.
This show is like audio-visual crack. I will not leave my apartment when it is showing. My friends think I’m crazy. I try to hide it (yeah… I can go out tonight, but not until about 10:30. Why? Oh, I just have this thing to do.) I’m scared that next week I will feel compelled to vote. I’ve never voted in anything except actual government (or a few student gov’t) elections. I need a support group. Seriously.
As a side note – why can’t anyone on this show spell their damn name normally?
I am totally enjoying reading your recaps of the show. I think it is some of the best comic writing that I’ve read…specific, witty, brilliant sarcasm but not mean-spirited…Bravo!
You mentioned that Dmitry has had to dance for his life three times and that he might be running out of steps. Actually Dimitry is a competitive latin dancer. This genre encompasses 5 different dances. In Dmitry’s solos we’ve seen three of them: paso doble (man wearing dress), samba, and jive. So he’s got at least two different complete new dances that he has yet to showcase in his solos (cha cha and rhumba).
Anyways, I share your affection for Ashlee and was really sorry to see her go. There was something so infectious and real about her personality. The way I was rooting for her felt like how I was rooting for Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.
Keep up the brilliant and timely work. You have me laughing so hard that I have to explain myself to people working around me!
Did anybody notice how SAD Dmitry’s face was to see Ashlee go?? He was literally devastated it seems..I smell a love connection or maybe just a one-way obsession from Dmitry’s side lol
Jesus Christ addicted076 (#2), I know what you mean. Friends happened to make plans on Wednesday night and I (very bitterly) gave up SYTYCD, more in the name of not letting TV rule my life (but if I don’t let TV rule my life, then why to do I check TVgasm religiously?)
My humble opinions: Honestly Natalie bugs the shit out of me with her stupid vamping and pulling faces all the time, and yeah she is obviously a talented, trained dancer, but she sacrifices it all for that stupid French maid act. Thank you Nigel for calling her out!
I love Martha and Travis, but Martha’s solo was really not graceful: weirdly bent legs and unpointed feet. She seems to be faltering. AND Travis, I know its your first solo but it would be nice if you could do something other than what you auditioned with! Isn’t growth and journey and trajectory what this show is all about?? Dmitry was adorable but uninspired. I love how he is just milking the torso thing, and didn’t even bother with the shirt tonight.
Musa and Ashlee were fun, but they are untrained, and it will start to show in the coming weeks.
The disco costumes were amazing, thank you so much for the Ryan screencap, loved it! Thank jesus Brian didn’t have that inexplicable medallion on!
I was pretty disappointed when I realized that the opening number was going to be disco (for some inexplicable reason, those group numbers are my favorite part of the whole show, and I expect Footloose-level routines every time damn it!), but when I saw those outfits? SHAZAM! The contestants are okay, but I enjoy them being publicly humiliated ever once in awhile, and the disco costumes did the trick quite nicely.
I was also irritated that they were all dancing with their own partners during that routine (I like it when they mix it up), so I was glad when Nigel said they’d be changing the rules next week. Someone PLEASE give Dmitry a partner who can actually dance. We might be able to figure out why the judges kept him last night.
My mom thinks Cat is five months preggers, which is the reason for the hefty bag. She can’t explain Mary’s clothes, however. (And, as a side note: the only person I can get to watch this show with me is my mother.)
Anyway, Amanda, you and your recaps are awesome. Thanks for getting them up so quickly!
Wow! It is apparent by the length of these comments that most of us SYTYCD fans have no one else with whom to share our love for this show. I haven’t seen such verbosity in the TVGasm comments since the “Lost” conspiracy theorists!
Hello, my name is subgenre and I… I… watch SYTYCD.
Hi subgenre!
(((group hug)))
THIS is why I love TVGasm. Here, I have found my people.
I’m have to put in a word for Travis (who would be an amazing Peter Pan, btw). Dance is, after all, an expressive art form, and I feel like the solos have pretty much become a cutesy/vampy aerobics blitz, jumping about and seducing the cameramen. Nigel pretty much asked the soloists to show all they can do, but they aren’t showing what they feel; they show “personality” (i.e., sexiness and smiliness) but not soul. I was blown away by the emotion in Travis’s solo, I think he really was showing what dance means to him. I felt like I was watching an artist, for the first time this whole competetion. I can totally see him dancing alone in a studio like that, not to show off for the judges but because it’s his passion.
Of course, if I’m right, I hope he DOESN’T win. Backing up Celine Dion is not the way to open your soul. To anything good, anyway.
subgenre,
I think what we have here are people who both love the show and understand that it has some of the worst production value in the history of television.
Some of the fans who don’t understand the campiness (see the official message boards where people practically threaten to kill themselves if Allison and Ivan are voted into the bottom three) take this crap way too seriously. Here, we can come and snark away, while also admitting that we are as obsessed with it as they are. We’re like the land of the misfit SYTYCD fans.
Indiogirl (#4) – My thought was that Dmitry looked sad because he thought he was next to be eliminated since his partner was just eliminated.
Subgenre (#7) – Hug backatcha.
Subgenre – You’re right! I have no one else to discuss this show with except my sister. We are texting fools during the performances but it’s great to chat about it.
BK_KT – I am so with you on Natalie! She’s gorgeous and she’s a good dancer (I wouldn’t call her great or top 3 by any means) but I was so glad Nigel called her out on her French Maid thing. Did you see her face? She looked really embarrassed.
I thought Travis was phenominal. Maybe it’s what he auditioned with but they all do that – remember Melody and her leg extension last year? They use what they’re good at and he is ohmygod good.
As for Dimtry…well, I disagree Nigel. It IS enough for him to just come out without his shirt on. Amanda, I wish you had a screen shot of Cat totally blushing when he came up to her after his solo. It was so cute!
That opening number was crotch-tastic! I loved Ashlee’s hair/outfit during the disco portion. She’s so cute…I’m sorry she had to go.
Next week should be really interesting. So excited to geek out for 2 full hours!!! :p
I just read that it’s Dmitry’s birthday today.
I thought about walking around with my shirt off all day to celebrate, but since I’m a woman, I reconsidered.
Great recap again Amanda. But please go back to typing “jidges” which is how Cat pronounces “judges”. That’s so funny, it stuck in my head and I went around all day saying “jidges.” My wife and I were sorry to see Musa go and felt it should have been torso-boy instead. I also really like Ashlee.
Umm, I’m sure Ashlee is a nice person and all, but, seriously? WORSE COMB-OVER EVER! She should have been kicked out of the country for that hairdon’t.
I agree with you though, they should have kept Musa over Dimitry. Musa is delicious, and Dimitry is just dim. I didn’t buy that whole, “I’m so sad to loose Ashlee as a partner” deal at all. I think it more like, “I’m so sorry that everyone I’ve partnered with has been kicked off the show, and its really making me look bad. I like women, I swear.”
Also, I think Ryan seems “tense” and “like he’s holding something back” because he is “gay” and “not comfortable with that yet.”
I think Cat’s dress was really reminiscent of King Tut. I have noticed that she wears “semi-classy” on competition night, and “fugly hip” on Thursdays.
Dmitry/Musa, I didn’t really care which one left. Musa really doesn’t deserve to be top-10, though, so it’s all good.
I do not know WHAT is going on with Heidi, but I think the pressure is making her crack. The girl is unstable in just about every way. She even thinks she’s Tina Turner.
In case no one noticed, Allison is from Orem, Utah. I don’t know if that means she, too, is Mormon, but tonight’s outfit was decidedly unchaste, too. She was in “High School Musical” on the Disney channel.
Ashlee’s comments made me think of the bumpkin waitress in The Blues Brothers movie, who says “we have both kinds of music: country AND western.” If Ben couldn’t get away with seven pirouettes into a la seconde, I don’t know why she thought that four kinds of popping were going to get her through. Having said that, though, if I’m being honest: I wish Heidi was gone instead. There. I said it.
Shockingly, Dmitry appeared with his shirt open. Knock me over with a feather.
Travis and his crying, and his mom — Jesus, dude, save it for a private moment. That whole exchange just gave me the oogs.
Pussycat Dolls suuuuuuuck.
I do vote, but only using my cell phone. I don’t care that it costs me minutes. I don’t want those bastards putting my home phone number into the telemarketing database I’ve worked so hard to rid myself of.
Thank you for letting me vent!
I really can’t believe that I am posting on this stuff. I love to read the blogs but something deep within gives me the yearning to post and share my feelings. Although not in a crying-after-my-solo-I-love-my-mommy-blow-kisses-at-my-mommy sort of way.
Thank you to Skee-lo for posting about Ashlee’s hair. Dude, WTF? She looked horrible and she most definitely looks better when she is done up in some style other than her 1992 Head of the Class outfits she wears on her own accord. She really is a pretty girl when she escapes the clutches of her own fashion tendencies.
Would anybody else support me in saying that last year’s top ten was better than this year’s? Maybe it’s because Mary Murphy was sober or maybe it’s because I need to drink more this year.
Nonetheless, I can’t live without this show and that’s disturbing.
Cat Deeley: hopefully she will take a permanent maternity leave. She is not good.
Thanks for the recap! I feel your pain on the cutting of the really interesting dancers who lack formal training.
I was way too invested in spikey-haired Ryan’s (was that his name?) fate last year – he worked so hard to learn the styles forced upon him, and his own stuff was totally jaw-dropping.
Then they had him on this season for a performance…pretty much an admission that his work was much more entertaining than that of the other dancers they let stick around.
Which brings me to my second point…
“I think I need a little perspective on the importance of this show vis-Ã -vis my LIFE.”
Um clearly, I have this problem as well.
I like to think it’s because there is little else on the tube to entertain me during the summer?
Otherwise my level of involvement with this show would be cause for concern…or, heaven forbid, an outdoor hobby of some sort.
Is it me or does Mary look like Marie Osmond (maybe someone already said this)? I keep waiting for her and Donnie to break out in song on stage…
I watch this show, not as much as Mrs. GiadaFan, but enough to recall all the goodness on the recaps. My faves are Benji and Ms. Vietnamese herself – Donyelle. Too bad they are being split, but then I forget the ultimate goal is to get one dancer to join that skinny Canadian expat’s background dance troupe.
And you’re right, Musa and Ashlee don’t seem the type to jump for joy at a prize such as that; it’s something better suited to a formally trained dancer.
And what was Mary’s (or Nigel’s?) deal about no steady work for dancers or something. Is there a Local 213 for dancers? Are there collective bargaining units and votes for a new contract?
Either way, a great way to spend Wed and Thurs nights in a season of repeats of The Office.
Am I the only person in the world who still likes Celine Dion?
Hey AMANDA! I actually watched the last part of this show. See the influence you’re having? By the way, Cat’s dress reminded my of an armadillo and not in a good way.
GiadaFan, do not suggest that Mary sing- not with that voice. Way too scary an idea.
Oh and georgiababe, I only wish that were true.
Thanks for the recap, Amanda.