Aww, Chuy! I'm still sad he went home so soon.

And Dmitri is TOTALLY giving Nigel the finger, somewhere out there. Though granted, I think it's the costumers who are doing as much of the shirtlessness as the boys in the solos, and Dmitri was more doing it in the solos. And Will has the abs for it. Mmmmm.

And I'm with Kat--Mark, Will, and Joshua, though I like Twitch too. Gev is cute, and I'm happy he's in the top 5, but I won't be too sad when he leaves. But the girls I'm mostly meh about. Though I keep finding myself liking Katee more and more, shockingly. And I'll be very interested to see how they all do with different partners, but other than my hate-on for Kherington, the others I'm just meh on. Courtney is cute, but I don't especially like her. Chelsie has done OK, but I don't care. I mostly feel sorry for Jessica. I'm wondering how large she would look next to Gev. Hee. Or even Mark, because he looks so skinny, and Jessica looks pretty meaty for a dancer, though it may be a perception thing, and not reality.

I really liked Comfort at the beginning, and I wish I'd gotten to see her with other partners. Ah well.

I predict that Jessica will go next.

Well, starting next isn't it up to the audience, not the judges? The judges pick the bottom few, and the audience votes?

I fear he's like Danny and so in love with himself that he won't connect with anyone.

I still just do not get this perception of Danny at all. I thought his Hip Hip, Chin Chin piece with Lacey was one of the hottest things I've ever seen on TV. And of course his chemistry with the Hunchback was off the charts in Two Princes. I don't really see it about Will either, because I think he gives it in his dances and Jessica is the one who's disengaged. (Although I thought they had a better connection this last week than ever before) I remember in their disco piece, I thought Will was really trying to engage with her and you could literally see Jessica counting in her head and stressing out about the lifts (which she biffed anyway!).

They were AWESOME. And yet, I was kinda sad watching them, thinking "Damn, how few of the dancers on this show (over the seasons even, not just ragging on this season) could keep up with that? SO DAMN FEW"

meara, I thought the exact same thing. Will from this season, Danny from last season. Maybe Blake from S1 (although I think he's kind of a show pony). I can't even think of any others who could hang with the Ailey guys. It did make me a little bit sad for the show.

I'm so ready for Amerikker to get into the voting off to mix it up a little bit. This Top 10 was telegraphed from the first performance show of the season. Mark is the only one of this group who I would say was a legitimate "surprise" break out.

I still just do not get this perception of Danny at all.

I did for the first 3-4 weeks. He just had a stick up his rump coming right out his nose. By the time he got to Hip, Hip, Chin, Chin he'd lost it. I was rooting him on by the end, even though I voted for Sabra. If he'd won, I wouldn't have felt bad about Sabra losing, because they were both amazing.

I wonder if the Alvin guys could keep up when they joined the troupe -- I have no idea how it works, but I would guess that there is an A list of dancers and then a bunch in development at all times. But I do think that Danny and Will could probably keep up out of the box.

I was excited to see the Two Princes dance when I saw the live touring show, but it was actually kind of meh. I suspect because we were too far away to really see them glare at one another.

The girls don't do much for me this season - I find their stage presence sort of forgettable and that the most memorable moments are in front of the judges when they are getting a tongue lashing or a tongue bath. Both of which I usually consider inappropriate for various reasons.

This Top 10 was telegraphed from the first performance show of the season. Mark is the only one of this group who I would say was a legitimate "surprise" break out.

I really thought that Comfort was going to make the top 10. She was featured in all of the group dances. Perhaps they wanted her in the Top 10, but she just lost interest.

I really thought that Comfort was going to make the top 10.

See, I thought she had a good shot coming out of the Top 20 reveal episode. But the combo of getting paired with Big Pasty and her underwhelming performance from the very start (their week one jive was painful!) made me feel very early on that she wouldn't have the juice to make top 10. Her only chance was to somehow leapfrog Jessica, but it took so long for them to hit B3 for the second time. Comfort was already dead by that point, even though the judges clearly hate Jessica.

As far as the Danny thing, I guess on one level, I see how he could come off as arrogant, but it just never read that way to me. He just came off to me as very reserved and respectful in his interactions with the judges and kind of awkward and unsure of what to really say in his intro pieces and interviews. I chalked it up to his background (having studied at the Kirov school in DC and danced with ABT). And I always thought he had a connection with his partners when he danced. I'm not a particular fan of the Danny/Anya jive because for me I saw way too much of Danny, ballet dancer, in that piece for me to really feel he got the style right. But I think he and Anya had tremendous chemistry and sparkle and sold the dance on personality - and that was week one! Eh, different strokes.

Eh, different strokes.

This. I think you just vibe on certain people right away. There's no logic to it. My sister had a hate-on for Kherington from the get go. I actually didn't, even though the shoe thing drove me batty because it didn't seem fair. I think part of my problem with dancers like Danny and Will is that the over-loving of the judges makes me think they are getting an unfair advantage and my root-for-underdog instinct kicks in. Much like I sort-of wanted Comfort to stay longer because she got saddled with an unfortunate partner in the beginning.

See, stick up his ass or not, I felt like Danny was just such a clearly better dancer than the rest of them that I didn't give a shit what his personality was, I felt like there was no question that he deserved to be there.

And there were certainly moments when he was dancing that you could TELL that he was enjoying himself. Even in various different styles. And that was enough for me. I don't care whether he likes the judges. And I didn't feel like he hated his partner or anything. So he didn't have a bubbly personality, so what? I loved to watch him dance, that worked for me.