Thoughts on tonight's So You Think You Can Dance

[supercheesegirl]

So, this is my first season watching So You Think You Can Dance. But we needed an Idol replacement for the summer, and this worked, and we're pretty into it.

My thoughts on the dancers:

The girls are nowhere near as strong as the guys, just in general. Katee and Kherrington or whatever her name is are probably the strongest, and the blonde Chelsea who's been dancing with Mark. Mom noticed tonight that the blonde judge had nothing good to say about any of the girls, but I commented that that's because the girls just were not rocking it.

The guys, on the other hand, are awesome. My favorites are Joshua, Twitch, Gev, and Mark, I think. The fact that I like Gev and Mark is pretty darn predictable--the skinny angular dark-haired dark-eyed white boys? Um, yeah. Plus Gev's the shortest guy of the bunch and we all know how I like that. I like Joshua's personality, and the fact that he's so freakin' adaptable and that he's completely bringing it every time he steps on stage. Ditto for Twitch, plus the fact that he is rockingly hot. (Although, it's been a while since I've seen F, so the mere sight of a handsome man's rock-solid abs could just be enough to undo me.) Will is also a really spectacular dancer and a darned handsome man--I wish he wasn't shackled to that Jessica. When do they get to switch partners?

For some reason, I never realized before that this show isn't just about dancing--it's about really really attractive people dancing. Dude.

We are also entirely captivated by Mary the judge. She is so loud and coarse and weird. Have you heard her? Her laugh is insane. They could turn her mic off and everyone would still hear her loud and clear. At first we were really annoyed by her, but now we watch her every move--she's like a train wreck every time she opens her mouth, it's amazing. "Well, I have to say... THATYOU'REONTHEHOTTAMALETRAINTONIGHT!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!" God, she's awful. It's incredibly entertaining. Also, she's had so many Botox injections she can no longer close her mouth. She's like the freakin' Joker. The Paula of So You Think You Can Dance. OMG.

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completely off-topic:

[queende.livejournal.com]

but did you say you knew junot diaz? cause he was just on stephen colbert--too cool!

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[queende.livejournal.com]

back on topic: i can't watch that show because i hate the accent of the blond chick and mary's whacked out laughter. otherwise, i am all over the dance shows:)

[dominanefret.livejournal.com]

My favoos-
I love Chelsea Hightower, I think she's great. In past seasons most of the ballroom dancers have had a lot of trouble with the other genres, since ballroom is so upright and structured but she really rocked last weeks modern routine.
I think that she and Katee are the only two girls that hold a candle to the guys.

Katee has really surprised me. In the episode when they were announcing the final twenty and she was up there with her best friend (which I thought was pretty cruel), when she answered that she wouldn't audition again if she didn't make it she just seemed so negative. It really just made me not like her, and I expected her to be like that all the time. Kind of negative and snotty.
But really she's very bubbly, cheerful, cute, and likable. And very, very good.

As for the boys -

I loved Joshua from the moment I saw his first audition. When he did that split like... six feet up in the air I was like "WOW." I was laughing my ass off when they were talking all talking about how he couldn't just be a pop and locker, he's lying, obviously he's had much more training than that.
And he's CUTE AS A FRICKIN' BUTTON. He reminds me so much of Turk from Scrubs.

When I saw Mark's solo to Bohemian Rhapsody I fell in LOVE. It was ridiculous and amazing.I was like "why on earth is he in the group that they need to see more from? The must have just wanted to see him dance." When at the end they were like "It was unanimous, we all loved it" I was like UMM DUH. I was kind of worried he wouldn't make it into the top twenty because he didn't make it straight through, but I thought it was funny when they basically told him that his solo was what got him into the twenty.

Tonights dances-

Holy crap Joshua and Katee rocked it. When I heard they were doing a broadway routine I was kind of worried. My thought was "err, how is Joshua going to handle this?" But they were both FANTASTIC. The energy was absolutely incredible, holy crap it was fast, and they were so fricking cute. They blew it out of the water. They nailed it.
When the cameras panned over to the judges I "whoah"ed. I think that is the first time I have EVER seen Nigel get out of his seat, dance around, scream "NOW THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!" and talk out of turn. He was so fricking excited. And I watched every episode of the last two seasons.

Chelsea and Mark- Being a ballroom dancer, and doing the Argentine Tango, I thought Chelsea was going to outshine Mark - who I honestly did not expect to get this. I didn't think is awkward quirkiness would translate well to ballroom. But it turned out to be the other way around. While Chelsea was good, she is a wonderful ballroom dancer - one of the best that has ever been on the show, Mark was better. He really did look like a move star. He was poised, elegant, passionate, manly. He partnered beautifully, his lines were wonderful, and he was very graceful. I was completely shocked. (Also a lot of the time the "swishier" guys can't pull off the manliness, and passion which the judges always give them crap about. He did it very well. I don't know if he's gay, he could just be quirky.)

Twitch and Kerrington. Notoriously, the Viennese Waltz ends up being a huge let down. Pretty much every other time I have seen it done on the show it has been reviewed poorly, or really poorly. People just can't seem to get it right. This was beautiful though. Twitch shocked the hell out of me. I was so worried for him. I mean, it was a b-boy doing the frickin' waltz. But he was so beautiful and graceful for every second of it. Kerrington was stunning. The way she moved was so elegant.
Mia pissed the hell out of me when she told Kerrington that she shouldn't have been smiling so much. Come on now. The piece wasn't ABOUT his daughter, it was FOR his daughter. The entire point was that dance is one of the very few things that makes her happy, elicits a response from her. Being all serious and not smiling isn't going to achieve that. Shove a brick in it. I was so happy when Nigel called her out on it. I've never liked Mia though. I think she's really full of herself.

Mary amuses me too. With what you said and her gaudy cleavage baring tops and florescent orange fake tan.

Re: completely off-topic:

[dominanefret.livejournal.com]

That's why I DVR it and fast forward past when blond chick host talks. I also don't like her voice.
Plus, missing commercials makes a 2 hour show MUCH shorter.

Mary's crazy laugh annoys me too, but she amuses the hell out of me so it's okay.

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[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I do know Junot Diaz! We chatted in Key West. He's awesome! Isn't he adorable? I will have to look for that on youtube!

I'm reading his book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, right now, and it's amazing.

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[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that chick's no Ryan Seacrest. (Like Ryan's any great shakes either, but she's just kind of annoying.)

Mary's crazy laugh was really getting to us, too, especially because my mom felt compelled to imitate her every freakin' time. But now we all get in on it and cackle together. Ah, family bonding.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I thought the Viennese Waltz was really interesting. After last week's Broadway routine, I had a lot of confidence in Twitch, so I wasn't worried about that. It was interesting, we caught some bits that weren't technically perfect or that looked a bit awkward, but overall they danced it beautifully, very fluid and graceful, and because the feeling was there it didn't matter that a few parts weren't as perfect. The costumes were lovely, too.

I thought Joshua and Mark both really rocked it last night. Mark was very sexy on that tango. Yum.