So You Think You Can Dance - Season 10 (1 Viewer)

[DaveF]

I really liked Anna. She's my second favorite this season after Chrisitina Applegate, who should be a regular judge.

 

[DaveF]

Tonight's episode is making me angry. How do they keep Jenna and cut Amy or Malece? This makes no sense.

 

[DaveF]

I don't understand. I was mezmerized by Malece, which Nigel blasted. I was bored by Jenna in a mediocre second Pasa Dobley, which Nigel praised.

 

[DaveF]

Malece goes home. Jenna is saved. Im baffled. Ballroom dance is punished by the viewers. I'm worried that Amy is at risk next week, having danced the Viennese Waltz. Alan was no surprise.The dancers are all very good now, and the most painful eliminations have started.

 

[Citizen87645]

I thought the hip hop by Jasmine and Aaron was mediocre. My dvr didn't record the first 30 minutes, so I missed Maleces' routine.

 

[schan1269]

Sadly, I think Malece was the weakest dancer here. Her dancing this week was riddled with excess steps. Alan, not surprised as Paul has been "better" each week. No way were they keeping two ballroom males.

But Paul/Makenzie tonight...best dance of the season...That final lift...are you kidding...

 

[Hanson]

I also noticed how many extra steps Malice was taking. I thought that was easily the weakest performance of the night. Other than a very good contemporary number with Marko, Malice has been mediocre to awful every week.

I wasn't overly fond of the Paso, but it seemed like the problem was lame choreo and not an issue with Jenna's dancing. Meanwhile, Jean Marc's Vietnamese Waltz was one of the best on the show. When the choreographers pull double duty, it's rare that both routines are great, especially if one of them is. The last lift in the waltz was jaw dropping.

Yes, I'm totally biased because I've been on the Hayley bandwagon since week 2, but the broadway number with her and Nico was the best of the night. Some stunning lifts and a combination of great dancing and choreo in an A plus package. Hayley now sits as the only girl not to be in the bottom 3 and must be considered the front runner at this point. But it's not a runaway by any means -- as Amy and Malice can attest, B3 can sneak up on you out of nowhere. Plus, many, many winners have hit B3, with Jeanine Mason hitting the B3 two weeks in a row right before the top ten in season 5. Still, not hitting the B3 is a huge for Hayley. The cynic in me assumed Malice was the front runner because her pixie adorableness covered up her mediocre dancing, a la Melanie Moore in season 8, but it looks like the voters were much more dance savvy this time around. And congrats to Nico and Hayley for finally shedding their lame partners. It was like a scene out of Harrison Bergeron, only instead of weights and shackles, they discarded Alexis and Curtis to finally show everybody what they were capable of.

Jenna and Makenzie have hit B3 three times each. Neither have any shot to win. Considering neither Paul, Aaron, nor Fik-Shun have ever been in the B3, Nico and Tucker are also out of the running. But then again, I have zero investment in the guy winner.

 

[Hanson]

How painful was it for Malice to listen to the judges heap praise on Amy's waltz? Nigel basically said that Amy was staying, which meant Malice was gone. It was bad enough that he dressed down her jazz number -- but when he went on and on about how awesome Amy was, the writing was on the wall and written in fire.

 

[Josh Dial]

her pixie adorableness covered up her mediocre dancing, a la Melanie Moore in season 8

Whaaaa?! Melanie is one of the most technically-perfect dancers the show has ever had!

 

[DaveF]

I don't understand either, Josh. Malece has been great, both mesmerizing and a great dancer. I enjoy the Broadway style, and this week's was a lot of fun.I thought Nigel's hesitation in stating who was cut was more than the usual dramatic pause, but a real emotional reluctance to cut Malece. Last weeks quick step was incredible (but viewers seem to hate ballroom). And her hip hop two weeks again was great. She shocked everyone by dropping the pixie and bringing the swag.

 

[Josh Dial]

I don't understand either, Josh. Malece has been great, both mesmerizing and a great dancer.

I was referring to Melanie Moore, the winner from season 8

 

[Hanson]

Whaaaa?! Melanie is one of the most technically-perfect dancers the show has ever had!

Yeah, I could never understand your infatuation with her. She was thunderthighed blandness who coasted to the end. The second least deserving winner next to Russell the Fake Krumper.

 

[schan1269]

Not every dancer is Lauren Froderman...

Bland dancer? Seriously. The Stone Dance is proof, in and of itself, she isn't bland...nor thunderthighed.

 

[DaveF]

I was referring to Melanie Moore, the winner from season 8

i read too fast but I loved Melanie; she's my favorite dancer of the seasons I've watched. Her dance Stone is the standard I hold the show to.Malece is not that good, but I've enjoyed her dances a lot, sometimes to my surprise.

 

[DaveF]

Yeah, I could never understand your infatuation with her. She was thunderthighed blandness who coasted to the end. .

Anything she lacked in technical perfection was more than made up for in her emotional performance. SYTYCD is not a pure dance contest. It's about the best dance performer. Cyrus is the epitome to me: he was not very good outside his spectacular Animation. But he has incredible charisma and gave superb performances that made him more interesting to watch than better dancers. That's why I'm a fan this season of Amy and Jasmine. The are both great dancers. But they also inhabit the character and have emotionally resonant performances. It's tough to say who I prefer (though I still give Fik-shun good odds; the way he absorbs new dance styles shows a stunning innate talent). Jasmine's tree performance was something else.

 

[Patrick Sun]

As soon as they announced Malece and Amy as the bottom 2, I knew Malece was going home. I think they just wanted to see Amy do her "dance for her life" routine, otherwise, had Jenna not done hers previously, she'd been in the bottom 2.

 

[Hanson]

You're right, Patrick. Although they have the DFYL in place, Nigel has already decided who's going home before the night even begins. Actually, that decision is probably made before the choreography is assigned. So DFYL is used as a showcase rather than a genuine chance for one dancer to gain favor over the other. That's why Amy danced instead of Jenna and why Jasmine danced the week before. That's also why you can tell who's going home by how harsh the critiques are. Telling the audience that Malice and Alan are terrible later justifies his decision to cut them. Still cannot understand why they ever moved up the elimination to before the performances. That made zero sense, unless it was merely a publicity stunt.

 

[schan1269]

You mean a show doing something that makes people talk(and bitching is still talking) about it at the water cooler the next day...nah, they never do that...

 

[Citizen87645]

I would have picked Jenna to go home, but oh well.

 

[Hanson]

You know, you think you watch a show for 10 seasons and you think you've seen it all. But then they do something that absolutely shocks you like the judges did last night. Now, I'm sure Paul and Witney's Cha Cha was better in dress even though I have my doubts that it was ever standing ovation worthy. But on the live show, which is televised on cameras and everything, they missed a hand connection, Witney fell out of a couple of moves, and Paul dropped her on the first lift. When you factor in those glaring errors (which are shocking considering they're both ballroom specialists) there is absolutely NO FRIGGIN' WAY they deserve anything close to a standing ovation. They did a similar thing a few weeks ago with the ribbon dance with Jenna and Tucker, but having two ballroom specialists completely screw up multiple times in their performance is way more egregious than a few problems with props. Even so, I don't think Jenna and Tucker deserved their standing ovation then. But Paul and Witney? I mean, that's just an insane lack of integrity. Mary Murphy, especially, should be ashamed of herself. I'm now pretty sure who Nigel wants to win on the boys side.

I think the uneventful hip hop that Hayley got will put her in the bottom two, which means she's a goner. Nigel will just push Jenna through. That's the bottom queen Jenna, who looks like she's Quagmire's daughter. Giggity. Also, she's boring. I would have kept Makenzie, who actually shined last night. It's the only time since the auditions that I liked her. Is Nigel planning on pushing Jenna all the way into the finals? I mean, back in the day, top ten is when the voters had final say. I know the show is rigged on a certain level, but just letting unpopular dancers get a pass on what is essentially a popularity contest makes zero sense. Does the oft repeated phrased, "America's favorite dancer" mean nothing? The fact that he kicked out the wrong dancer just compounds the problem.