All of our fears of the partnership between Sara and Pasha were apparently unfounded. Which says a hell of a lot about both of them as dancers. I wouldn’t mind it one little bit if Sara walked away with the whole thing.
Sabra and Dominic’s hip hop was cool.
Neil and Lauren were a fantastic finale. THAT was jazz!
It says a lot about the quality of the cast when the bottom three are likely to be Cedric & Shauna, Hok & Jamie, and Anya and Danny.
I was shocked by Sara and Pasha’s routine. I had no idea she had that in her. I think it’s great Benji got to choreograph them.
I watched Lauren and Neil’s routine twice. Wow, she’s amazing.
I didn’t see what the judges saw in Shawna and Cedric. Especially during the heel-to-toe part at the end of the routine. Cedric looked like a gangly legged puppet trying to keep up with her.
I’m really liking Sabra and Dominic more and more.
He said that 1,000 people had signed a petition to have her reinstated, complaining that she had not been voted into the bottom three. But he said that if they reinstated her in this instance, they would have to deal with the same thing every time a contestant complained of an ache or pain and claimed they couldn’t dance. He likened her to an Olympic athlete who breaks a leg the day before a competition. Too bad, but life isn’t fair.
I’m fine with Nigel’s explanation of Jessi’s departure. I never really cared for her in the first place, so I wasn’t all that broken up when she was sent home.
Sara and Pasha and Sabra and Dominic had my favorite dances of the night.
She had dehydration and a heart palpitation from which she fainted. She was taken to the hospital for treatment and missed the performance. Her partner (Pasha) danced with his choreographer’s assistant. I wasn’t all that fond of her either, but I’d hate to base such a decision on that. It could just as well happen to my favorite.
I thought he was terrible too, and I thought the judges would call him on it. I think they either realized their harsh treatment of him last week kept him on the show, or simply watched the tapes and felt bad about how they came off.
In either case, the dance was praised, and will have to stand on its own merits. Which means Cedric si probably going home, and Shauna will probably be able to save herself again for a new partner.
Re: Jessi
I was satisfied with Nigel’s explanation. This is a high-stakes competition, and if you miss the boat for whatever reason, you should probably be SOL, but they didn’t want to be that heartless. Allowing her to stay unconditionally, however, would have been a slap in the face to the other dancers who had to risk elimination. It was a fair middle path.
Of course they didn’t try to justify why they thought she had the worst dance for her life, which was what was REALLY confusing about the whole thing, but they’re the experts. Mybe they weren’t willing to cut her any slack at all. Professional dancers routinely perform immediately after, and sometimes during, illness and injury, and are expected to be in top form regardless. I guess they felt she didn’t cut it.
The judges were to kind to Cedric, only because they didn’t want a backlash like lastweek. They were adamant that he should be eliminated last week, which was harsh, but so true. the public sympathized with Cedric after his emotional plea for prayers (yeah right) and voted to keep him in.
Jesus came back a second time, yet they sacrificed him again.
I’m ready for Cedric to be gone. I like the kid, but it wouldn’t be fair to lose Danny or Dominic or anybody else to him. The way last night went, I agree with scotandrsn about the probable bottom three, and I doubt that the judges would ditch Danny in favor of Cedric. Hok is a little more on the edge, but I think he’s proven himself more worthy–if not this week, then certainly last.
I don’t really miss Jessi, though I have to say I’m getting a little sick of Anya. It’s not that I think she’s bad, or that I dislike her dancing in any way. I think it’s her damn hair. Can she have one performance without her hair stuck to her face all over the place? What are the hairstylists thinking? Updo, for the love of Og. Updo!!!
[sub]Aw hell, I’m not (very) scared of Liberal.[/sub]
Compared to Shauna, Anya’s dancing skills seem quite limited to me. Her solos have all been pretty rotten. Therefore I am annoyed.
That being said, Anya is blisteringly hot. I’m a totally straight woman, and I was all: “Damn!” when she came out in that leopard-print unitard. But she has no idea what to do with herself without a partner.
Yeah, I’ll admit that Anya is a one-dimensional dancer (like most of them, really). But she’s three feet tall and has a flat head, and that’s what matters.
If, as they said, they were considering their entire track record (which is kind of inconsistent with how they seem to judge it at other times, but that’s what you get to do when you produce the show), then I actually think they made the right decision.
Anya has done some amazing work on the show, mediocre solos notwithstanding, whereas Shauna has been involved in some so-so routines, as became clear to me when they showed her goodbye reel (before that, I thought it was bullshit too).
Of course it’s all going to suck from here on in
We’ve got:
Anya
Danny
Dominic
Jamie
Hok
Lacey
Lauren
Kameron
Sabra
Neil
Sara
and Pasha
One gets a quarter million bucks, the other eleven get whatever they can scrape together from the publicity this show has given them.
Every elimination is going to feel like bullshit now.
