Oh, also, not only do I like Sean Cheeseman as a choreographer, and he has an awesome name, but he's hot, too!

I would never hit flea for she is fantastic.

I do enjoy Kevin, though. He's so pretty, first off, and that counts a lot in my book. Amazingly, he has fallen below Legacy in the hip hop triumvirate, which I never thought would happen. But to really make the call, I'm going to have to see Legacy bust out some ballroom. I just think this week if Kevin hits B3 with Peter and Ryan, it would be a shame to see him go home before the last tapper standing or the ballroom stud. For me, Kevin, Ryan and Peter are all very similar. Cute guys, lots of personal charisma. Very good in their own styles, limited outside of their comfort zones. Kevin is just more interesting for me. Ryan is a famewhore in dancers clothing and I don't like it. At the same time, he's the only ballroom boy left, and they haven't had a good shirt taker-offer in a really long time, since Pasha in S4. So I can't see the judges sending him home this week. As for Peter, well, there's something slightly smarmy about Peter. And the staged class with the kids with identified special needs like he was some tapping Sally Struthers made me furious. Fool, please. He rubs me all the wrong way. So that's why I'll be really sad if Kevin is sacrificed this week to keep Peter around and keep egg off of Nigel's face, since he did label this "The Year of the Tapper" and all. If Kevin lasts through this week, I'd probably be OK with losing him soon thereafter because of the three hip hop guys left, he's my least favorite.

I would like to nominate Russell in the shirt-taking-off category. That was not bad, eh? I don't think we've seen Legacy shirtless yet, but I suspect he has potential too.

(Oh, god, now I am dying to see Legacy and Kathryn do a samba or something, with him in cuban heels and a shirt cut to his navel. It could be great or horrifyingly bad!)

Well, Legacy was in that half-ripped caveman outfit on week 1--definite potential there!

Yeah, I meant a good ballroom shirt taker-offer. Luckily, we have lots of eye candy this season, and I'm totally on board with forming Fans For a Naked (Russell/Legacy/Kevin). Sign me up. I don't really get the urge to see Jakob stripped down, although I'm sure he'd be lovely. And Nathan, well, that just feels like kiddie porn. But the show hasn't had a sexy ballroom, shirt off all the time, hot damn boy in a minute. Dmitri is the prototype. Then Pasha came along, but the past couple of seasons the pickings have been mighty slim. There was that old looking dude, Kayla's original partner from last season, who just could not fill the hot ballroom boy bill. And then there was that one pasty kid. He was a little bit thick, too, for a dancer. And the show claimed he was a latin ballroom specialist, but I swear I didn't see it. He may have been Karla's first partner last season. Or I may be totally making that up. But what I'm saying is that there has been a severe shortage of ballroom male hotness on the show of late, and they finally have a real, live hot boy in Ryan. So I think the judges would be very reluctant to give that up.

I didn't think Pasha was particularly hot. I preferred him with his shirt on.

Now, we could have had Lounge Lizard Gene this season (he got cut at the final round of 38, right?)

I thought it came down to Gene v. Ryan at the very end for a spot in the top 20, but I could be mistaken.

And I was all about Pasha from Russia and remain salty that the Hunchback beat him out for a spot in the Final Four with Danny, Lacey and Sabra. Bleagh. Though I will admit to continuing to be a little bit traumitized by the shirtless dance with the dress form. Still creepy after all these years.

Not only can he dance amazingly well, but, well, whatever wrongs the costumers have done in the past are forgiven after that gorgeous 60s-style suit of his!

Heh, was that the one that reminded me of the Prisoner's jacket?

Yep, it sure was. Very Carnaby Street, mid-60s. Either the Prisoner or, better yet, David McCallum in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

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On the whole, I think the costume folks are doing so much better this season than in past seasons. Aside from a few obviously egregious missteps (They are on the ski patrol and they are bank robbers!), the costuming has either been spot on fantastic or at least non-intrusive. Clearly, they checked into rehab over the incredibly short break between seasons and got off the crack.