Another exhausting night. I still love this show more than anything (excepting Project Runway, of course). Moments last night did leave me completely slack-jawed, in the best possible way, but even so -- two hours, dudes. I wandered away at different points to look things up on the internets and to make limeade. I think I saw all of all of the routines. God, this must be a good show for Tivo, though. Nine two-minute dance routines over 120 minutes? That, Mia Michaels, is banoodles.
Thayne/Chelsea. This sucked. Is it possible Mandy Moore is kind of a lame choreographist? Because I thought her "Tainted Love" bit last week was bad, too. This is a whole new dimension, though -- who do we blame for the costume design?
Mark/Chelsie. I still really like these two. Funny that Mia said, in re Mark and Chelsie, that her two favorite things are "beauty" and "quirkiness." Argentine tango is always really exciting, mostly because usually the music is good.
Will/Jessica. This was better, more interesting and safer than last week's whatever they did. I think the judges are right that Will is probably pretty safe for a long time, on dance skills alone. Jessica's hair was bad during rehearsal but cute during the routine, a reversal of last week's. Huh.
Matt/Kourtni. Whatevs. I think these two might be toast: Matt is starting to look like he's got some problems. That wouldn't be a big deal, if he had a really good partner (ie, someone like Twitch or Comfort -- a big personality who can also dance) to prop him up, but I didn't think Kourtni was extraordinary this week, either, and isn't really popping with the judges, either.
Gev/Courtney. This was great, I thought. This is exactly the kind of piece I like on this show and the kids were great. Courtney's also got really good hair -- maybe she was the one (not Jessica) whose hair was so good last week? I like Gev, too, and they have great chemistry, like are they secretly doing it? That kind of chemistry. [This was a Mandy Moore piece. So I like some of her stuff. Maybe she's better at working with short people?]
Joshua/Katee. Joshua continues to be a favorite, but I actually thought that Katee stole this routine. Not as overwhelmed by it as the judges were, because I didn't really care about the emotion of it. Really impressive, though.
Susie/Marquis. Wow. These two are done, I think, and it's going to be really freaking sad, too. I mean, I thought this routine was kind of lame and I agreed with the judges about shoulders and whatever, but both Susie and Marquis seem like really nice people, and you know they're going to cry.
Twitch/Kherington. Eh. I guess I can't really criticize this because of angel babies and whatever, but it was Celine Dion. Come on. Oh, the business where Mia just went off for about 15 minutes about whether or not Kherington's fake smile should have danced the entire routine and then all the other judges and Twitch (albeit much less weirdly than anyone else) and the choreographistes and maybe even Cat Deeley argued about whether or not Mia was right to hate on the smiling and more baby angels and I give up.
Comfort/Chris. OK, wicked funny that our first krump routine was assigned to Chris, the whitest kid in this whole thing (um, Thayne might be whiter). Pretty good, funny exchange at the end about whether or not Chris can actually be menacing or I think the word was "gangsta," as uttered by 80-year-old Nigel Lythgoe of East Barmington, Hants., England. My criticism: wardrobe sucked. Chris looked silly in his enormous neckerchief and that's why he wasn't "gangsta" enough for Princess Margaret. Comfort was lost in her weird hat.
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