Chbeeb was great at what he did, though. Jose's just pretty good. Even in last nights solo, he started strong but he seemed to not know what to do for the last 10-20 seconds.

Chbeeb was great at what he did, though. Jose's just pretty good. Even in last nights solo, he started strong but he seemed to not know what to do for the last 10-20 seconds.

So right! Retracted. I have yet to see anyone do what he does as well as he does, or even the way he does.

For me Jose is a new kind of thing on this show. We've had other overly hyped, overly propped projects in the past, Chbeeb, Cedric, Ivan, even Evan in his own way. But I can't really think of another dancer in another season who was propped by the judges while consistently bombing in dance styles outside his/her genre who wasn't also the bomb diggity at what he/she did. Chbeeb and Cedric are ridiculous hip hop dancers and do things in their own styles that I've not seen anyone else do. Ivan, as a hip hop dancer, was a prodigious talent. I still love Evan doing Broadway and wish that he and bald brother would be invited to choreograph on the show. Comfort was severely limited in other styles but she's a monster in hip hop. Jose is something else all together. Not good in other dance styles and not that impressive even in his own style. For the life of me, I just don't get it. Sweet kid with an infectious smile should not be enough to make top 6 on this show. You should have to at least be one of the best at what you actually do.

I really wonder how Jose got through Vegas week. It should have been pretty obvious there that he couldn't really dance that well.

I don't remember Vegas that well. Maybe he was better than any other hip-hopper at the other styles?

This whole SYTYCD season is a letdown. I cannot believe how half busted this top 11 is. What's more is it's a kid's show now. I cringed to think of someone tuning into last night's program for the first time-- actual KIDS dancing competition pieces, that awful pitchy musical performance, and with the possible exception of Robert, the remaining dancers are all approximately the age of babies. None of the pairings have any chemistry. Watching adolescents partner is... not interesting. Hell, even Neil or Evan could fake adult desire.

That baseball dance with Neil and Kent made Kent look like a tween! Not dancing wise. I thought he held his own, but Neil looked like an adult. Kent didn't.

Lauren on the other hand strikes me as more mature than 18. Probably because we had to put up with Molly last season.

Anyway, they shouldn't cast a hip-hopper just to have a hip-hopper. They should make sure the dancers have, you know, actual dancing ability.

Lauren on the other hand strikes me as more mature than 18.

Lauren could definitely pass for 20 or 21, but I think her dancing and her composure is also miles more mature than Molly's.

I could not even speak on the mini-ballroom couple last night. And Cat arm wrestling little Fernando, just no. I'm sure those kids light it up amongst the 11 year old junior ballroom dancer set, but I don't want to see them on my SYTYCD stage. I know they've had adorable moppets dance before. (I see you, Lil Demon!) But in the past, the little ones have danced along with older kids who might actually be old enough to get on this show.

The musical guests are always uniformly awful and mainly firmly pointed at the Disney Channel set (Horrid J-Pop group. I still have nightmares about them) so that piano girl croaking in her flat and under the pitch way doing her best AI top 10 contestant impersonation was expected.

I think my biggest disappointment with this season was that we were supposed to be getting the 10 absolute best. That was the whole point of the bullshit all star flip, right? The 10 who made the show were supposed to be the ones. And we were supposed to get high quality, out of this world, phenomenal dancing that would raise the game. And then they went and knocked grown ass contestants like Anthony Burrell out of the competition in favor of a pale imitation of same in Adechike. They cast Kurt at least two years before they should have. (But y'all know my feeling that they should raise the minimum age for this show to 21 and I stand by that, now more than ever) And the whole thing just never quite gelled.

(But y'all know my feeling that they should raise the minimum age for this show to 21 and I stand by that, now more than ever)

I agree with this wholeheartedly; it might even be better for injury prevention. But tweens watch and love this show, so, not going to happen.