Noticed in the opening... only 3 girls left... and I'm not really all that crazy about any of them. Hey look, Cat noticed it too!
Ready now to bust out my personal review for your pleasure... Here we go:
Allstar Partners announced at the beginning of the show... not sure if this makes me happy or if I'd prefer a little more surprise, but here are my first impressions of seeing the pairs for the week.
Lauren with Neil doing Broadway - we'll do well because we're pretty? Really?!?! She bothers me for some reason. But I do love Neil so it'll be interesting to see if he lifts her up for me.
Melinda with Pasha doing Salsa - yeah... the tapper needs to go home already. I love me some Pretty Pasha, but I don't want to watch Melinda "act" her way through salsa please.
Billy with Kathryn doing Contemporary - Yes Please... just could it maybe not be Sonya...
Ashley with Ade doing Contemporary - Who is Ashley? I do love me some Ade though.
Robert with Courtney doing Jazz - I was on board immediately until he started making out with the camera... seriously - just dance.
Jose and Anya doing Samba - oh dear... this could be really bad or really good... Please let it be good.
Kent and Allison doing Jazz - YES PLEASE!!!! My absolute favorite girl I think EVER... Could she maybe win this season? No... Okay, well then how about Kent... cuz he's freaking adorable!
Adechike with Lauren doing Hip Hop - I'm hoping he brings a little more personality to the hip hop than he's done to everything else. I have to watch it to give you all my review of it, but I think I'd rather not...
Alex freaking Wong with Twitch doing Hip Hop - Heck yes! I am totally there hoping for some TRANJI action. (For those of you who don't know the meaning of TRANJI, please go to youtube and type it in and watch Travis and Benji from season 2 do one of the best hip hop routines in SYTYCD history by Shane Sparks.)
And now... we begin!
Adechike starts us off with a Dave Scott Hip Hop routine. Wow, chemistry in the prepackaged video... and it translated to the actual performance! It was cute... not the best I've ever seen, but the best Adechike has been on the entire show. Nigel hits it on the head when he's talking about natural swagger and chemistry and LACK of Nerves... And now we have a little bit of bordering on cocky... so it could go anywhere from here.
Up Next:
Ashley is with Ade doing a Dee Caspary contemporary routine. The prepackaged stuff makes me interested to see it... so let's go! Okay, she is a completely amazing dancer... her lines are B-E-A-U-tiful, her feet are sick, she's got great technique and she's a great partner - she reacted so well with Ade to every thing he did... but... she doesn't usually connect with me after the dance is over. I don't remember her by the end of the show, and I don't know why. I think the praise by the judges was a TAD emphatic and a little too grande... but still, she should be safe.
Next up:
Oh, it's a solo by Billy!!! I love the Billy. Awesome Billy with his attitude.
Now:
Robert dancing with Courtney dancing a Sonya Jazz number. Reminds me of Mark in this routine... and all I can think is how much better Mark would be in the routine. Don't get me wrong, Robert is a good dancer, but he just doesn't do it for me... For example, the hand spidery move thing ... not creepy enough, the strangling thing... where's Kupono when you need him... Just sub par for me.
Jose's Solo: Not even close to being the best B Boy we've ever had on the show... cute, but just not enough flow in his movement - he pauses between tricks and it doesn't look effortless - which if this is your style... it probably should.
Melinda and Pasha doing Salsa - yeah... she got her heel stuck in her dress... I remember a season past when another contestant had the same thing happen and she DANCED her way out of the snag... she didn't pause to fix it. And from that on, it threw the whole performance. She didn't do it for me at all. She didn't flow... maybe it's the tapping that makes her pause so much. I agreed with the Judges pretty much and I think they were right that they should have let her go last week, but I don't think they should have said it... they made their choice and it's not her fault it was a mistake.
Next:
Kent's solo... I heart kent in so many ways. I just love the Joy he dances with. He makes me so happy. That is what dance is about for me. Yay Kent!
And Now:
Alex Freaking Wong's Solo - Dude. He's incredible to me. He's just ... Manic and Powerful and musical. The roll to the beat of SYTYCD at the end... awesome musicality!
Next Up:
Lauren and Neil doing Broadway: ummmm... She danced her way out of her dress but I didn't really think she was all that sexy - which that song is meant to be. Mia hit it on the head in her remarks for me.
Solo - Ashley: She has too much hair. It hides her face when she moves and that is why she doesn't connect with me - she's just hair.
Next:
Billy and Kathryn doing Contemporary - beautiful lines amazing dancer... I really liked the song... that to me was a more moving piece than the "abuse piece" last week. More passion in it and more amazing... but mostly the passion was from Kathryn - and Billy could have stepped it way up. He's totally safe, I mean, duh... but the judges are right when they say he has room to grow.
Solo - Robert: I love this song. "Hold You In My Arms, by Ray LaMontagne" The CD is excellent... The CD is Awesome. Sorry, that's all I can focus on.
Next Up:
Jose and Anya doing a Samba: He caught her and didn't drop her... that says something. To quote Paris Hilton... that was kind of Hot... he had moments of really decent footwork and Latin face... The Judges are right about Jose's likeability. It's that Joy and his commitment to everything he does.
Melinda's Solo - Nope. I just cannot buy into her.
And Now we have My Kent - dancing with My Allison... sigh... okay, so I have to go back and watch that again because I'm sorry... when Allison is on the stage she is the one I watch. My eyes are drawn to her. And let me use this opportunity to point out... Allison has A LOT of hair, and her hair is down and whipping around... but you can still ALWAYS see her face and her expression... thank you. Moving on. From Kent I wanted a little more Justin Timberlake in this routine... little less farm boy. He danced it well, but the costume did nothing to help him look MANLY. I still love him though. I understood where the judges were coming from.
Adechike's solo... sick! he's amazing. End of discussion.
Lauren's solo - She's so athletic. I prefer her solos to her talking or her partnering.
And now... for the one we've all been waiting for:
Alex Freaking Wong and Twitch Hip Hop...Now THAT is what I'm talking about. ALEX FREAKING WONG! Ballet Hip Hop say WHAT!?!?! That was AWESOME! Cannot just... WHAT?!?! That was... So WONG it was RIGHT! Seriously... better than Tranji for me... and that my friends is saying something. So freaking AWESOME!
Okay... thankfully we have ended on the highest note possible.
Final thoughts:
I would really like for Tapper to go home. Can we make that happen?
