Thursday, July 17, 2008

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT'S BRAVE ABOUT BROKEN RIBS? Two comments on last night's mix-'em-up-and-spit-'em-out SYTYCD performances.

First, I think this is the first season where there's been so little remixing of couples during the first five weeks (given the unusually high number of occasions on which both halves of a couple were simultaneously ousted), and now we're seeing the results . The top half of the show was rocky at best as the new couples struggled to find their footing. Who knew that Kherington so desperately needed Twitch as a partner? (Here's some dish from the live audience -- good stuff.)

Second, if ever there were a moment during which I could no longer suspend my disbelief as to the randomness of the supposedly random partner and dance selections for the back five, it was (1) the newly rescusitated Comfort being (a) paired with Twitch for (b) a hip hop routine, combined with (2) the Will and Katee partnership on a bona fide pas de deux of astronomically difficult proportions. There is simply zero chance that those things all happened randomly. Zero. Not that I'm complaining, because there is no one else on this show who could have done that Desmond Richardson routine, and I am overjoyed to have gotten the chance to see it in all of its one-mistake perfection. (Despite the fact that it meant that I unexpectedly had to listen to David Archuleta.)

Bottom four: Kherington, Comfort, Gev, and Mark.

And this is as good a moment as any to mention the Emmy recognition once again for SYTYCD choreographers: Mandy Moore for the Neil/Sabra office table routine, Shane Sparks for the Pasha / Lauren Transformers dance, and a little bit of choreography by Wade Robson that we around here like to squeeeely refer to as the Hummingbird Dance!

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