So You Think You Can Dance 6/28, 6/29 (spoilers)

murgatroyd · 06-29-2006, 03:01 AM

What a frustrating night.

Worked late and had a late dinner and barely got home in time to watch the show and vote.

Judges: Nigel, Mary Murphy, Cicely and Olisa

Once again, applying the "let's watch that again" rule, do you want to run the TiVo back and see the performance again, my top couples were:

Ryan and Heidi with Alex da Silva's cuban rumba

and

Benji and Donyelle with Brian Friedman's pop/jazz routine

All others made me want to tear my hair out, wishing that some other couple had drawn that routine or that the one dancer that I really liked was dancing with someone else.

Individual thumbs up to these members of the class of 'damn I wish you were dancing with someone else':
Ashlee
Dimitry
Allison

The 'this ain't working for me' department:
Jaymz and Jessica
Martha and Travis

The 'holy crap you drew the wrong dance this week' award goes to: Natalie and Musa

Jaymz and Jessica brought back my Season One bugbear of really not liking contemporary despite its similarities to other stuff I'm familiar with. There were individual moments in tonight's performance that I liked, but every time the two of them have to touch each other, I see them making some fiddly little adjustment because the timing is off or the spacing is off. The transitions are never the smooth, effortless unbroken flowing move from one to the next that makes you go WOW. There is always a seam. And every week, the judges don't see the seam. I just can't feel a connection between them when they have to pause and adjust, pause and adjust. It breaks the mood. Oh, well.

Note to Jessica: there is more to dancing than flinging your hair about. I'm just saying.

I get the feeling that I might actually like J&J with the right choreography. Then I see them and say: well, that wasn't it.

Ivan gets a tip of the hat for improving, I guess, but eh.

The go-home signal goes to: Alexandra. Jeez, her waltz was awful.

Here's Dimitry doing his manly-ballroom thing, and the choreographer is setting up a backstory which is made for them, the first meeting, falling-in-love at first sight -- and she's out there stiff as a board.

Musa and Natalie had a horrible time with the quickstep, but at least they got the character parts right. You knew that even if they couldn't do the steps well, they at least had a clue about what the music was about.

Alexandra didn't even try.

Jan

HIHZia · 06-29-2006, 09:36 PM

Tivo changed channels at nine. Which guy got voted off?

Langree · 06-29-2006, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by HIHZia

Tivo changed channels at nine. Which guy got voted off?

Mine just flat out got cut off.

johnb41 · 06-29-2006, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Langree

Mine just flat out got cut off.

Mine too. I just padded it by 2 minutes so hopefully it won't happen again!

John

knitjen · 06-29-2006, 10:22 PM

Ben was let go, but only after Nigel chewed out both Ben and Jaymz for not putting forth enough effort in their solos.

Funny that Nigel mentioned Ashlee's hat--I childishly refused to watch her solo after she came out in the hat/suit combo AGAIN. She looked so great last night--without the hat

Langree · 06-29-2006, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by knitjen

Ben was let go, but only after Nigel chewed out both Ben and Jaymz for not putting forth enough effort in their solos.

Funny that Nigel mentioned Ashlee's hat--I childishly refused to watch her solo after she came out in the hat/suit combo AGAIN. She looked so great last night--without the hat

I'm not surprised it was Ben out of those 2.

Bill Reeves · 06-30-2006, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Langree

I'm not surprised it was Ben out of those 2.

Jaymz may have tripped or slipped or something towards the end of his solo. It looked like he lost his balance and while he recovered and didn't fall, he ended up off the stage, I think, and he was fighting back tears when he was talking to Cat after his solo.

Overall though, not surprising it was Ben who went home. I think Nigel has been waiting for him to be voted as one of the bottom 3 couples so he could kick him out.

murgatroyd · 06-30-2006, 01:15 AM

Whoa. I was sure Natalie and Musa were going to end up in the bottom three after suffering the Curse of the Ballroom.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next week with Dimitry and Ashlee.

Jan

JoBeth66 · 06-30-2006, 05:25 AM

I knew Ben was going as soon as he was picked for the bottom 3. Nigel's had it in for him since they GOT to Vegas, that was just a matter of time. His whole 'I fought to keep you' was so faked. His solo was 100 times better than Jaymz', who should be kicked off just for the spelling of his name.

Ben at least LOOKED like he was dancing to the music that was playing. Jaymz looked awful, there were several times during his solo he appeared to have lost it.

Next week should be interesting. Hopefully it'll keep Dmitry out of the bottom 3.

HIHZia · 06-30-2006, 08:08 AM

It looked like it was going to be ben because of his attitude, even though I thought his solo was better. I don't blame them for letting him go. At least pretend you made an effort.

murgatroyd · 06-30-2006, 11:10 AM

What's the big deal about Ashlee's hat?

On the one hand they're complaining that people aren't showing personality, then Nigel turns around and bitches at Ashlee for her hat. Jeez, it's her Look.

Yes, if she wins and turns pro, she'll have to learn to dance without it.

But the girl's not stupid. It's not a 'hey, I'll get attention by wearing a hat' gimmick because she can't think of any other way to show off her personality.

The hat suits her. It's very flattering to her. It frames and balances out her face.

Obviously she's not going to wear a hat like that for a Viennese Waltz, but for the styles of dance where it is appropriate, I don't see why she shouldn't wear it.

Jan

murgatroyd · 06-30-2006, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Jobeth66

Next week should be interesting. Hopefully it'll keep Dmitry out of the bottom 3.

Well, if I had had my way, Joy and Ben would have gone home in week 1, which would have paired Dmitry up with Ashlee for week 2. Wouldn't it have been interesting to see what Ashlee would have done with the jive if she had been dancing with Dmitry?

I'd also love to have a spy camera to see the choreographers' reactions when they see which couples have drawn their styles.

I really feel for the ballroom choreographers. It is really asking a lot to take people who have never done ballroom at all, and throw them into the quickstep as their first ballroom dance. No matter how good the dancers are, the choreography is bound to look sucky compared to other routines where the dancers actually have a prayer of doing it well on five days' preparation.

Note that on Dancing with the Stars where they toss the guys into quickstep on week 2, the couples work together a month before the show first airs, so the pros have some time to lay the groundwork for the quickstep before the week is it assigned.

Jan

hapdrastic · 06-30-2006, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by murgatroyd

Nigel turns around and bitches at Ashlee for her hat. Jeez, it's her Look.

I don't htink he was really chewing her out for the hat. I'm pretty sure he was just saying that she *only* shows her personality when she's got the hat on and he'd like to also see it out when she is doing other dances (that is, without the hat). I don't think it was a complaint about the hat itself.

David Platt · 07-02-2006, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Jobeth66

His solo was 100 times better than Jaymz', who should be kicked off just for the spelling of his name.

Hey, at least whoever does the opening credits for the show finally caught their typo. Until this week, his name at the beginning has been spelled "Jamyz."

murgatroyd · 07-02-2006, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by David Platt

Hey, at least whoever does the opening credits for the show finally caught their typo. Until this week, his name at the beginning has been spelled "Jamyz."

So that's where I got that spelling from!

Jan