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This is my first season of SYTYCD, but I didn’t watch tonight’s episode for two reasons: first, there was a truly epic Mets game on and I get all bent out of shape; and second, every time I flipped over to see what was going on, it was a segment about the dancers practicing.

Also, I would like to have permission to punch Nigel directly in the jaw, please.

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DistantFred said on June 11th, 2009 at 1:39 am

They totally fucking wasted Jai Ho.
They should have kept that song and its “Indian Song people actually know” factor for a group routine.

And yeah… that Broadway routine was total ass. The execution felt non-committal and the choreography felt half-assed.

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JQ_NW_American said on June 11th, 2009 at 1:59 am

I just voted like 150 times and this makes me want to vote 150 more.

I gave Asuka my vote because I gotta give it to my ballroom dancers. Hopefully, it will be Paris and Vitolio, but then again, Asuka did suck to all high hell. I liked the bollywood routine: I thought Caitlyn did a better job with this than anything else I’ve seen from her. She came alive more than expected and really caught my attention. She was sexy. The cha-cha-cha was not good! It wasn’t great choreography and the dancing was middle of the road. Beyond this, Jonathan’s shirt was off-putting. Speaking of which, why was there so much emphasis on costumes? Jerks; this is SYTYCD, not project runway. (Crossover?!) Randi and Evan were good–I hate them both! I just don’t like them. As people. Janette and Brandon were sloppy but showstopping. The samba was good for the first week. Hell, it was week three good. I never knew Van Amstel was a creative choreographer until now. I’m glad the judges didn’t get all ignorant on Wade’s routine. “That was weird!” Yeah, but it was good-weird. Totally character-based and sold. I love Melissa. She was so great.

Cat was flat out lying when she said that the dances came from a hat, randomly. Like fucking hell they did. Like 8/10 couples had a partner dancing their own style to an extent.

Whoever directed this tonight totally threw me off. It was visually so different. I hated the direction tonight. The recap showed me that there was good dancing, I just couldn’t see it. Speaking of, the recap was so crazy because all of the dances had this energy until they got to Wade’s piece, with the whistling. “It was weird!”

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It says something that I got home from a brutal day well past midnight, and still flipped on the PVR to check out the episode. Unlike past seasons I really didn’t know what exactly this season had… and I guess I’m still not entirely sure.

I guess the most interesting thing is that there still isn’t a clear front-runner, as opposed to some seasons where there’s clear trenches of talent that establish themselves pretty immediately. I just hope that isn’t because everyone is equally mediocre.

– Glad others liked Philipchbeeb, because I’m just afraid that I *want* him to be good and raise his game – just given how long we’ve followed him.

(However, I also *want* to like Vitolio given what we saw over the auditions, and man did that number stink)

– I think the judges comments about finally having a ballet-trained dancer were quite prescient; man was there some amazing flow in Melissa and Ade’s piece, truly effortless transitions. I’m really curious if they can keep that level of skill up in a more hard-hitting style. Bring on the Crump!

– While I generally agree with MGK’s predictions, there is no way Karla and Jonathan are going to end up in the bottom three. When Nigel refers to “America” (voting, learning, laughing, loving) he really means “the collective wisdom of millions of teenage girls” and there is no way Jonathan doesn’t exude enough sheer menudo-ness to coast through the first several rounds.

By the same token, “America” hates non-traditional choreography, especially in strange costumes – (see a couple of the Sonya Tayeh routines from last season), so I certainly wouldn’t be shocked to see Ashley and Kupono in the bottom three. Not saying it’s fair (and the judges certainly wouldn’t boot them) – but “America” likes imagining that the couples are really secretly deeply in love with each other (or, alternately, secrety in love with “America”), and anything that jeopardizes, or is outside that framework gets a beat-down.

(along that same vein, I really wish they published the vote totals. “America” is going to be torn between crushing on Evan and the fact that that hussy Randi has the audacity to be married… she’s in trouble the second that partnership splits up)

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JQ_NW_American said on June 11th, 2009 at 2:23 am

“menudo-ness”

So there is a technical term!

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I agree with most of what you said, which is a new phenomenon!

And am I taking crazy pills? I totally thought that the choreographer’s name was Tasty Oreo until the ladies I was watching with last night told me it was Tyce D’Orio or whatever his name is. And they were like, “Noooo!??” and I was like, “How have you never mistaken his name for Tasty Oreo before?”

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Long time reader, first time SYTYCD watcher (so chalk up one Getting People To Watch Dance point for MGK).

The Broadway routine was awful but my novice opinion is that they did a lousy job with it. Silent movies doesn’t mean automatons. Someone should have made those kids watch ten minutes of Buster Keaton before going on stage, maybe. It could have had grace.

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