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I’m relieved that Jason is getting the ‘mediocre to inspiring’ arc here, because he also has the ‘more strikingly beautiful with each passing week’ arc, and if he gets all the way to the final I expect him to turn into a being of pure white light and ascend into the heavens.

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I love that I’m slowly aligning with your picks.

I fear for Evan, he simply can’t win this competition as charming as he is. However, whether he goes this week or next is neither here nor there.

The final three (6) has already taken shape.

–Marty

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Silly question from someone who never saw any variation of this show: It seems like most/all of the pairings are opposite-sex for the dance routines. Is my observation accurate?

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Great recap as always, so many great observations about the dancing!
I thought the men’s group dance highlighted the need for them to work on contraction, but their energy was good. Im annoyed with Tony and Melanie for not clarifying to Evan and Kayla that there is no rise and fall in Viennese Waltz because it confused the judges. As for their double heinous music choice for the paso? It makes me forgive the dancers a ittle because frankly, the choreography did not match the music at all. Same thing Jean Marc did with his paso. PLEASE, ballroom people, ditch the stupid movie soundtrack style music for paso on TV! Thank you.
Jason’s choice of Muddy Waters music redeemed him for his last solo. I love Evan, will someone please tell him never to dance in a jacket with shoulder pads again? We can’t see him dance! I like it on planet Kupono, but he’s not bringing the public with him on his journey, sorry to say.
I really enjoyed this show, despite my gripes, because even with the judges’ silly blathering, I felt their joy and pride in Travis and the dancers, and it made it all worthwhile.

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On the ballroom solo tip, would you approve of Pasha’s decisions from back when where he danced with a dress form?

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Well, you know how much I was rooting for Caitlyn to get the fuck home, and Jason really shined tonight!!!

What the hell was that Paso? How did you not remark on Randi’s dollar-store tranny wig?

I’m totally with you on the B-grade choreography. Tasty Oreo’s routines are derivative and super stale, yet he just keeps coming back. Then they bring someone in like Travis, and the dude pulls out genius like that Jeanine and Jason number! If Tasty is out of juice, cut him loose!

Juice. Just like the juice in an orange. An orange you have to press against one of those juicer things and twist so you get all the juice out. Like that.

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JQ_NW_American said on July 16th, 2009 at 1:28 am

Do y’all canadians get the commercials for “More to Love” every commercial break too?

I can’t agree about Ade’s solo–I thought it was too busy. I guess it may be because he didn’t really work with the music. It was like he had something ready, his music didn’t get cleared and he didn’t change a thing. Speaking of, wonder why Jeanine danced to her tango routine song?

This week was a big step backward. By this time last year, they had been doing two paired routines for two weeks. They should have scrapped most of the choreography segments and done two routines, solos and groups. They definitely had time. If you consider away the time it would’ve taken for two couples to do two routines and solos, you could have fit in the group routines. Step up your game, season 5! They basically had this week off.

Ballroom “solos”: get a partner, but half the time and no lifts? If I was on this show as a ballroom dancer, I would never be dumb enough to actually do a ballroom solo. In an interview, Mark and Chelsie said you could do whatever you want to do, so they should just do something else. Call it a theater arts solo–that’s balletics and ballroom put together… kind of. Not really. But it’s better than pathetic hip shakin’.

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Chris: I think the end-game the jidges were playing by sending Chbeeb home with their final cut should be becoming painfully clear here: Yes, he was consistently better than Kupono at doing stuff he still wasn’t very good at, but what every new routine really revealed was how great Jeanine was and how she needed to be freed from their too-comfortable showmance pairing in order to shine. By cutting Caitlyn, they did much the same thing with Jason (aside from the “too-comfortable showmance” thing, that is, because I never got the impression Jason and Caitlyn even *liked* each other much). Now he can get the benefit of being partnered by Jeanine, and really rise to the occasion…and much as I too miss Phillip, I’m okay with that.

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Was it just me or was Kupono’s solo influenced by Hawaiian dances?

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The final elimination show before the top ten did not give the judges the opportunity to eliminate Kupono; he wasn’t in the bottom three. The choice was Jason, Chbeeb, or Ade. As much as I like Chbeeb, and I like him a ton, I can’t honestly say at this point that I would have eliminated Jason or Ade ahead of him.

While watching that episode, yeah, I would have sacrificed Jason. But he’s looking much better now that he’s not partnering Caitlyn. The judges see more than I do, so I’m willing to assume they knew Jason was going to shine.

They could have dropped Kupono instead of Vitolio in the previous episode, in which case perhaps Vitolio would have been in the bottom three in place of Jason or Ade, in which case maybe you save Chbeeb… but the judges don’t control the votes and I think it’d be giving them way too much credit to assume they’d plan to that level of detail.

None of that negates the way the format hampers non-contemporary dancers, and none of it negates Nigel’s attitude towards ballroom and hip hop dancers. But I don’t think there was an end-game, just an unfortunate lack of Kupono in the final bottom three. If he’d been there, he would have gone home.

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