behind the scenes at SYTYCD -

cute read:

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I like Cat because she really does root for the dancers and I've seen her make comments on the show about, ooh I can't remember the phrase, but she called the dancers "my little ones" or somehting. This was last year towards the end of the show and I really believe she cares about them and wants them all to succeed.

Plus she handled whathisname's constant remarks with grace when I would have gotten fed up with him

The thing is there's a feeling of niceness and respect on the SYTYCD I don't get from American Idol. Okay Nygel is a letch and Mary needs to turn it down a bunch, but there's not the bickering and meanness that goes on with the judges and Ryan on American Idol and there's not a feeling of one judge being really dismissive towards Top 20 contestnants.

Also even the results show of SYTYCD is better, there's only 2 nights of this, since there are 10 performances and the results show has actual stuff and not just filler. Plus by the time SYTYCD is over, I'm kind of sad.This year I gave up on AI, it just seemed to drag on forever.

SYTYCD - during the auditions, they can get kind of mean, but often it seems to be in response to an unskilled/ untrained/ untalented person who has delusions about their abilities. Once they make it to this stage, the judges are more respectful.

Yes, and the judges like and respect each other, even when they disagree. I mean, it's clear that Simon has no respect for Paula.

Well, sometimes on SYTYCD it seems that Mary's taken a happy pill, but Paula seems to be, um, detached from reality.

Trib's chat with Stephanie - hey she knows the season 3 Dale too.

Ok, so i've been watching SYTYCD and blame it all entirely on Meara! I don't know what their lighting designer is on, but a lot of last night was terrible. The lighting was literally fighting with the choreography so many times that i could barely watch the dancers. It wa s a constant barrage of "what?" "now?" "that was so not with the music, choreography, OR Dancers!." Distracting is hardly the word, i was astonished at how poorly conceptualized the cuing was. Maybe there was some timing error with the cameras, or stage manager, or maybe the lighting designer and choreographer just didn' get enough time to collaborate but i kinda wanted to kill someone!

ION, the dancing was REALLY GOOD! I was astonished. Even the bad dancing was pretty good. OK, sure, it was obvious that someone of them were waaaaay out of their comfort level with ballroom, but still very watchable. I'm getting hooked ;)

Despite it looking easy, ballroom seems to be one of the hardest to learn. I think it's because in good ballroom dancing you have to do more synchronous moves with a partner who is being held much closer than you're used to. Much easier to trip each other up or blow a move, they tend to err on the side of caution and it shows.

Grrrrr! We are having tornado weather and that is all that is on my Fox station. Someone let me know who is in danger on SYTYCD!

Danger rangers:

Matt and Kourtni, Rayven and Jamie, and Jessica and Will, who Dan Karaty basically said did not belong in the bottom 3.