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.

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.

I like that the producers and the judges are honest about the fact that they are casting a show and that they are looking for America's Favorite Dancer, too. I just disagree that appealing to the audience and getting them to vote for you equates with approaching the show like it's a Miss Congeniality contest and shucking and jiving for votes (which I think is what Nigel likes, but that's just my opinion). Be yourself, dance your ass off and see what happens. I haven't seen any lack of personality in Vitolio. In all of the behind the scenes clips so far, he has been personality plus - cute as a button with a compelling backstory. We hardly saw any of his dancing during Vegas week thanks to the show's editing. And his solo was lovely and full of passion and emotion. As for that Broadway piece, nobody could've saved it, I don't care if Jesus was dancing. So for me, that wasn't a failure of personality, it was a failure of choreography. Sadly, Nigel has his script and he's sticking to it, even though it doesn't fit this kid at all. Not everyone needs to or wants to clown. Just because he's not Tony, constantly mugging for the camera, doesn't mean he doesn't have a personality. And Nigel saying it doesn't make it any more true or any less annoying. But he's been pulling this on dancers since the beginning. He always likes the "big" personalities, Lauren and Neil and Dominic or the perky, cute types like Sabra and Nick. Whatever. It's his world, I just live in it. But his narrow definition of what constitutes "personality" or likeability just chaps my ass and I don't think his preferred personality type is the only type that appeals to voters. If it were, someone as quiet and unassuming as Kris would've never won Idol this season. I just think he really needs to fall back a little bit with the whole "no personality" angle and Vitolio. It's annoying and it doesn't even fit with what their showing on the screen each week. Boo, Nigel. But overall yay SYTYCD for being honest about the manipulative nature of reality show competitions.

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.

OMG, I can't believe she actually went and got a weave after. (Or whatever she did -- my recording cut out right as she was going to "get her old hair back.")

But his narrow definition of what constitutes "personality" or likeability just chaps my ass and I don't think his preferred personality type is the only type that appeals to voters.

Oh, absolutely.

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.

I know I'm already on record as not getting the women that cling to their hair, but she really took the cake with all her whining, especially her conviction that men wouldn't like it. Not her husband whose tastes she knows (which I almost get), but all men.

And, unlike some women, hers was really a great change. Since she is older, it really had impact. I thought it made her look years younger.

OMG, I can't believe she actually went and got a weave after. (Or whatever she did -- my recording cut out right as she was going to "get her old hair back.")

I missed that, I was really hoping random compliments might get her to keep it in the days to follow.

She let it go a month and then went back and got a ratty weave. OMGFUGLY!