I cannot bear Tyce in any capacity, I am telling you.

word with a side of word sauce from the word restaurant.

But I'm rooting for Abdi here - if they got more time to work on their final projects he could do very well.

I've liked Abdi from the beginning, and he really has progressed. His piece tonight was stunning. I had hoped that Nicole would make it. I liked her and thought that she was really talented. I am vaguely annoyed with the judges. If Miles had done that piece, they would have creamed all over it. She also got robbed of a couple of wins during the season. I want Abdi to go all the way. He's incredibly talented and a good person.

SYTYCD: Oh my stars, Cat Deeley, why? I know she's claimed to do her own styling, but I have to think the $5.00 hooker face paint and I don't even know what to say whickety whack 'do were the handiwork of the tranny's in hair and make up because otherwise, just . . . no . . . I don't even know.

I can't with Tyce on the panel. No. Just shut it. His Guys and Dolls was better than his typical faux fosse, but I still found the choreo lacking, especially for Lauren. She could do so much more than what she was permitted to show in that number. Kent, however, was made to dance Broadway. My word, he was magnificent. I want someone to make an old 1940's MGM style musical and cast him as the male lead, kind of Mickey and Judy let's put on a show. I would buy a ticket and see it in the theater multiple times and then buy the DVD and watch it every day.

Pieces I loved:

Travis Frikkin' Wall. Although how that dance for two "friends" was different from any other "lovers torn apart as interpreted through the powers of dance" piece is beyond me. Still, it was gorgeous and Kent was amazing in it. He destroyed Neil (who was actually quite good for a hunchback). There were so many moments, when Kent did that Russian split leap over Neil? Ridiculous. And all the side by side work was gorgeous and synchronized and clean and just, ah, that's how I like it.

Robert and Dom in the NappyTab clown piece. And I'll be damned if NappyTab didn't bring it. I loved that choreography. The business with the balloons downstage? Genius. And Robert shut it down. He was fire. He got the whole feel of the piece. He was so sharp. That's the most I've ever liked him since he came on the show.

Black widow Lauren in the Sean Cheesman jazz. The bitch was fierce and Tyce can bite me. He wouldn't know ferocious if he sipped it out of Fosse's ass crack. The lift that Nigel mentioned was insanely difficult as was that flip that she did over Ade's legs and she landed it perfectly in heels. What? She was all kinds of fabulous. I so enjoy the Cheesman when he's not doing African Jazz because his African is really just warmed over Ailey, but we'll get to that in pieces I wanted to love but didn't. As for this piece, bravo Cheesman. Loved the eight counts of handwork.

Pieces I wanted to love but didn't Quite:

Lauren's tango with Pasha. I didn't quite buy the chemistry between the two. And it killed me that no one mentioned the botched lift at the end because dammit, it was a good attempt but they missed the lift. And despite what Nigel tried to imply later on in the show, I think the miss was mostly Lauren's fault. It didn't look like Pasha had the perfect hand placement in the small of her back, but it also looked like once that happened, Lauren didn't really hold her weight correctly and so the whole lift fell apart. The impressive thing was how they saved it and made the end still looked polished and not rushed. That takes mad skill.

Desmond and Dwight's piece for AdeChike and Kathryn. The piece was not my favorite from Dwight and Desmond. It felt a little to frantic and look at this, now look at this, now look at this. I don't know, it didn't really gel. That said, Kathryn was serving. And Ade wasn't. As usual. The notes that the judges keep giving him about being too stiff through his upper back and needing to release and really stretch through moves apply as much here as they did to, well, every other time they've told him that all season. His dancing just feels constricted. And you know, he's not a star. I think as a dancer he is limited. He's competent. But he doesn't have the thing, whatever that thing is, the secret sauce that makes me excited to see a dancer perform. And yet, I take umbrage for AdeChike tonight. Even if I think from a talent standpoint that he probably should go tonight, the judges were so condescending to him and his "journey" on the show, that I'd almost like to see him make top 3 just as a big ole fuck you to them. And WTF with not showing his video package until the (continued...)

( continues...) end. It's racial, I tell you. Racial. (I miss Martin Lawrence!)

Pieces I just straight up didn't like

I never want to see African Jazz on this show again because it's not really a thing, but also because they don't have any choreographers on staff (besides, oddly enough, Tyce) who have shown that they can produce pleasing African inflected dances. This piece was all the worst kind of cliches of faux!African as fed through the Ailey blender grafted on top of some tired, 70's style jazz. And once again, AdeChike and his lack of expansiveness through the back and chest made him not all that compelling to watch.

Doriana is always a no. Kent's cheese factor was out of control. I'm glad Kent was too small for Doriana to pull out her usual trick factory. But since she couldn't just throw lift after trick after lift after trick in, she was so exposed for the sad choreographer she is. My five year old little cousin could've made that dance up.

Robert and Anya's Viennese Waltz. How I wish the judges would stop pimping this fool. This dance was not good. The arms were terrible, stiff and poorly placed throughout. There was not enough work in hold in the dance, so much side by side dancing I thought I was watching a contemporary piece. And yes, Robert managed to muscle that stag lift up, but it was hella shaky. I thought he might drop her. For a big guy, he really struggles with lifts.

As long as Cat's hair and make up go, I won't care who or what else leaves tomorrow night.

Cat's hair was awful. So was the waltz. But I liked Robert for the first time as a clown...maybe because I couldn't see his face.

And I agree that Kent was so born to do Broadway!

I have to say, WTF is up with the disco love?? We got NO west coast swing this year (it is a sexy awesome dance!), have only had two-step once (a TRAVESTY of a two-step), and we have disco ALL THE FREAKING TIME. Seriously, WTF? Can we revamp this a bit? I just hate disco so much.

I was all distracted during the tango because now that I've been taking tango classes I was like "Ooh! I recognize those moves!" (well, the basic ones. Not so much the random fancy lifts and shit)

And I was glad to see Adam say something about Teh Ghey, and Nigel not be a big jackass homophobe either right then, or after Travis' "this really isn't gay at all nope nuh uh" dance.

There was not enough work in hold in the dance, so much side by side dancing I thought I was watching a contemporary piece.

Exactly what I was thinking while I was watching!! If I didn't know better, I could have sworn it was contemporary, because I saw no more than five seconds total of actual waltzing. Last season's VW with Jakob and Mollee was a great example of how to blend contemporary styling into a Viennese waltz, and this was soooo not.

Benji and Donyelle still have my favorite Viennese Waltz ever on the show. That was back in the day when they actually made these kids throw a little ballroom up in their ballroom. Contrast that with whatever Anya and Robert did this evening.

And it's not like Anya can't do a proper Viennese Waltz. She was lovely in this piece with Danny, and while it did have some contemporary elements, there was much more work in hold which she executed quite well.

Bleagh. I just did not enjoy that dance with Robert tonight and can't understand why the judges were creaming themselves over it.

Now that's Viennese Waltz done right on SYTYCD, dammit. Sigh. I miss Danny so, so much.

Kent could dance on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth! They would be pocket-sized together!

The judging was totally wackadoo -- when Nigel complimented Robert's lift and they showed a replay? It looked like shit! I mean, right? I just don't care any more. I wish there were some way to vote for Alex to win anyway.

Although how that dance for two "friends" was different from any other "lovers torn apart as interpreted through the powers of dance" piece is beyond me.

Yeah, it was just in the closet.

BB: Am I crazy, or is a showmance supposed to be a mostly-fake romance for stragetic purposes, not Tru Luv?? I feel that Dr Will would be disappointed in the use of the word.

Seriously. Those Bachelor type shows would sell their grandmothers to have this "success" rate.