TC:M

I want to see Colicchio competing in TC:M.

I know! The SO & I were talking about this. We miss his presence on the show, but it would be made up for if we could see him cook. I'm still so smitten by the image of him in his tiny NY kitchen.

SYTYCD:

I agree about the opening dance. It really didn't feel like a Shane number, I was surprised when they said it was him. I sparkly heart Shane, so I was disappointed.

Yeah, run run leap stuff is my least favorite. I always feel like, really, there wasn't anything else you could do besides run across the stage? Again, too much like something I could do in my college days.

The camera work was really bad in a few places, I felt, not just the group numbers. It was frustrating, like the cameras had no idea what to expect and were all over the place. It's choreography people, attend a rehearsal.

Oh, and this is a pet peeve, but I don't love the dancers who were clearly gymnasts first. I know it's a prejudice from me, (maybe I'm bitter because I had to choose between the two and doing dance didn't give me a free pass to be a cheerleader, ha) but I don't like unintegrated gymnastics. If you can translate those moves and more importantly that ability into your dance, then fine. But I don't like routines where I feel like the dance is just the dancer moving across the mat to get ready for his floor routine.

and may I say ESPECIALLY if your dance is ballroom. gymnastics, a bit, can blend with contemporary.

I know! The SO & I were talking about this.

and the judges should be the runner ups from three seasons. They'll have a grudge :)

and may I say ESPECIALLY if your dance is ballroom. gymnastics, a bit, can blend with contemporary.

This was ridiculous. I wanted Tony and Louis to get up out of the audience and smack him. You do not throw a tumbling pass into your ballroom routine. It's just wrong. Honestly, I'm glad that Tony went home last night, but I'm more than ready to lose Jonathan and his partner next week unless they turn it up 1000%.

I didn't mind Sabra and I don't really mind Caitlin, but most of the guys who switch from gymnastics into dance, I find, do not make the transition successfully. Look at Neil from S3. He never mastered the grace to temper all the power tricks and his carriage was a nightmare. Hunchback! I mean he got a little bit better, more musical, better at connections and steps between the big flips and spins, but he never really got good. And I fear the same thing with Jonathan. For a ballroom specialist, his carriage is not that good. (And I don't know whether he's a latin dancer or smooth ballroom, but I sincerely hope it's smooth because his hip action is atrocious if he's supposed to be a latin ballroom dancer) And he just lacks grace.

As far as the production values on this show, since last season, the camera work on SYTYCD has been crappy (and sadly it infected AI this year as well). And the wardrobe folks on this show are seriously on that monkey crack. It's not even cute.

That sounds cranky. I criticize because I love.

Jonathan's the one who started dancing because of Season 1 right?

So that would mean he's only been dancing for around 4 years, he must have been a gymnast first.

Yeah, I was going to say about Jonathan -- he's only been dancing for a minute.

(And once again Nigel can bite me. This is not a Miss Congeniality contest, it's a dance show and that fool can dance)

Actually, this is a thing I like about the show's honesty -- it is never set up as the best dancer, but America's Favorite. To win, you need both.

TC:M

And those Girl Scouts were hilarious, especially the picky redhead. She really is an incipient NYT food critic!

I loved how the chef from NYC was all, "she's like a critic from TWENTY YEARS AGO!" That kitten's got claws! It was all very good natured yet competitive.

Gael Greene, eh?

I was so happy that they flashed to Keller's first appearance for the first quickfire of the first season. I *loved* that challenge. Made me want to watch the episode again.

I am looking forward to this show, and that surprised me.

TC:M - Oh, I know! I loved that quickfire. And for some reason I had it stuck in my head that it was Tom's restaurant, but of course it was Fleur de Lys. They showed the shot of Harold's hand just shaking! Hee. I remember that. And I was all smitten with Lee Anne from that challenge on; she was just so competent and quick.

Anyway, I'd forgotten that Keller was a part of this whole thing from the beginning, so it was that much more fun to have him be successful in the show.

SYTYCD: Jonathan is really doing superbly for starting dance because of watching the show. But that said, he has a long way to go.

Gah! There's a woman on WNTW that I just want to bitch slap! Nick gave her an awesome new haircut and all she's done is whine. "It's not my hair!" No and it's not supposed to be. It's supposed to be modern, attractive and flattering--everything your old haircut wasn't. Don't come on this show if you're not going to commit to the full effect.