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.

SYTYCD - I am loving this results show so far. Rock.

Some random musings:

Oh, Wade? You crazy genius! I have no words for the awesomeness of that routine. It was . . . wow.

Why is Cat wearing coffee filters? Maybe it’s a PR Michael original?

Can I see that Wade number again and again and again?

What’s up with the Bourne Identity camera work?

OK, Twitch and Kherington, Chelsie #1 and Thayne, Chelsie #2 and Mark. Who, oh who could be in danger? And then they brough the nice fake out. I was ready to be sad for Chelsie #2 and Mark.

I’m enjoying the group love vibe. They may hate each other IRL, but they give a good impression of a funky bunch.

Is it time for the Wade routine again? Courtney was turning it out, up, down, and around! Mo’ fiyah. Mo’ fiyah. Mo fiyah. (Oh, Cicely and Olissa, where have you gone?)

Kourtni and Matt. Well, they’re obviously B3. What is up with the funky sound mix tonight? Bad, bad production values.

Wow, the judges really lied to Marquis and Susie a lot last night. I’m kinda surprised they’re safe.

Aw, Joshua putting a bandage on Comfort. Those two are the cutest things ever. What the hell is Rayven wearing? Chris should be thanking his lucky stars he got paired with Comfort.

Why are we even spending time on Joshua and Katee? They killed. Just send them over to the safe zone.

C’mon Courtney and Gev. Then I’ll go three for three. But a sad three because I love them.

Wow. Did not see the Will/Jessica B3 coming at all. Well, let that be a lesson, judges, in the dangers of overpraising.

And what’s this? Featuring dancers rather than extraneous pop singers? Look at the show learning and growing. And these two are ridiculous. Good lord! How can that man still move like that? And why isn’t that skinny kid on the show right now? I loved that! Hooray, show.

I didn't think legs could do what the jello kid did.

I could really do without the Snuggle smooth grooves from the Kodak Theater. I hope we don’t have to see that all season.

Solo Time. Bring it, bitches.

Kourtni – Shaky, shaky on those turns and extensions. But it was clearly a well choreographed piece and after last year when so many of the girls got up there and just did whatever came on them, I appreciate that. And extra props for the angsty, acoustic version of I Wanna Dance with Somebody.

Matt – Beautiful dancer. Lovely technique. He has got to lose those nasty competition faces.

Rayven – She obviously doesn’t want to stay. WTF on the clown suit. I hate what she’s doing. If she was going to do hip hop ballet, why didn’t she do it on point? We’ve seen her on point before.

Jaime – Oh no you di’in’t! Dmitri and his barely there shirt own this song. I know Dmitri. You, sir, are no Dmitri.

Jessica – Is a very boring dancer. There’s no real spark there. She’s fine, I guess.

Will – I don’t even have any words. He was just heaven. So beautiful. I could watch that forever.

Easily would lose Jaime. And none of the girls really made an impression. I could let any of them go, but I do think that Rayven was the weakest tonight.

And I see Nicole Scherzinger is back with the PCD. Guess the solo career didn’t exactly work out. But PCD can dance. They should just be a dance group, maybe open up a theater, or a cabaret. Oh yeah, that's how this whole mess started.

I think Jaime and Jessica are goners. Maybe Rayven, dunno. But there's no way Matt or Will are leaving tonight.

Jaime – Oh no you di’in’t! Dmitri and his barely there shirt own this song. I know Dmitri. You, sir, are no Dmitri.

amen. Very boring. that kind of dance should make your hips want to follow along. Not so much.

I love the way Will moved, but that tango was awful. I think he'll make it though