Bummer – the only tap-dancer in the bunch is the first one eliminated. 
(She’s pretty darned good, BTW).
I’m digging this show, though. Is anyone else watching?
I was going to start a thread if I didn’t see one. I’m really enjoying this show.
I figured Sandra (the tap dancer) was going to be voted off. She’s got tons of personality but I think she wasted her 45 seconds by doing a very tame tap.
I needed Jonnis to leave and I’m glad he did.
I think this week it will be Michelle and Jamile. I would prefer Snow leave rather than Michelle but Michelle is just not appealing to the crowd.
I’ve been watching it. I was sorry to see Sandra go because she seems sweet and we haven’t really seen what she can do but it didn’t look good for her. Glad to see Allan get to stay a little longer.
I was rooting for Snow to leave, she can dance but she seems to have an attitude. I was annoyed when Nigel congratulated her for playing to the camera last week when they were signing out. I thought she was being a camera whore and I swear some of the other female dancers were rolling their eyes over that.
I am afraid to say my favorite in case I jinx him but at least he’s safe this week. I’m rooting for Ryan.
What is with the studio audience though? They loudly protest EVERY SINGLE TIME a judge says something even faintly negative about any of the dancers.
What’s with that? Does the audience think that everyone is equally perfect all the time? Do they not understand that this is a competition, that is, that the dancers are being judged, and that for someone to be ‘better’ it means others must be ‘worse’?
It’s getting really, really tiresome.
Damn, isn’t it, though?
There’s about eight people who just aren’t up to the rest of the dancers – and Allan, dimpled teddybear of emotional need that he is, is one of them. It’ll be nice to get those eliminations out of the way so we can look at the rest of them.
It’s no secret I’m an old fogey who loves movie musicals – but damn, gotta say, I really don’t care for the huge number of hip-hop dancers in the finalists. It’s dramatic, it’s acrobatic, it’s hard – but hell, it ain’t dancing. I love that they’re making people do different styles – though making them do quickstep as a ballroom entry just seems mean – it really is fascinating watching them tackle something so far out of their ken. Who’s the Asian guy with the ugly spiked hair? He was great last night.
And there was something else I was going to say but I can’t remember what it was (see “old fogey” comment above 
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I’ve remembered what the other thing was:
How do they deal with the fact that two people will be eliminated, when it comes to assigning partners and learning routines? Do they somehow arrange for the two who will be eliminated to be partnered and make them learn a routine anyway? (They would have been the second salsa dancers, last night.) I forgot to watch – were the four who were also on the chopping block paired off? (Someone asked about this in a previous thread but I never saw an answer.)
I posted speculation about this last week – but since I was all wrong, nevermind.
It looked very much to me as if they had taped a separate ‘elimination’ episode with all the dancers and an audience, very much a la Idol – they just showed it right in front of this week’s show. Which is why the show was 2 hrs instead of the 1.5 the TV Guide had listed. (Glad I wasn’t taping.)
So, basically they boot the two lowest (probably the morning after the show, to allow maximum time for rehearsing) and THEN they do the pairing up.
It’s really the only way you could do it sensibl7. As I said elsewhere, if you ‘cheated’ the draw somehow and matched the two the producers knew are leaving, and had them learn a dance…well, it would only take a week or so for the dancers to realize that if two of the six in danger are paired up, then sayonara!
BTW, each of the four ‘survivors’ was paired with someone someone who wasn’t at risk last week.
I like Ryan, too – he’s dong amazingly well for a hiphopper who picked ballroom dances both times.
I am also very, very tired of that blond women who choreographed the lyrical dances this week. All that feel the dance and she seems to be the kind who weeps at the drop of a hat.
SBS – Yeah, that makes total sense. (And I’d also noticed it was a two-hour show – but thought I’d just misremembered what the listings said.)
Yeah, Ryan – damn, that intricate snaky thing they did with their arms was really cool.
Actually, I thought the spiky haired guy did a much better job last week with the Mambo number. This week was ok, but his partner did most of the work. I also thought that the Quick-Step was asking a whole hell of a lot for dancers that had never done ballroom before. While I really liked the lyrical number that Blake and Destini did, I wasn’t impressed with their abilities, because it was the same style they normaly dance. Both weeks those two have been partnered together doing the style that they’ve both been trained in. I’d really like to seem them have to do something else. Hopefully we’ll see more of that next week. Still like the show.
Oh man, I heart Ryan big time. I felt myself tearing up with amazement watching him and Melinda (Melissa?) do the mambo the first week. I was just blown away. I want a Ryan for my very own.
Allan will stick around because people like him but after a few more eliminations it will become very clear he’s out of his league.
I’ve missed it the past couple weeks. Is Allen the fat guy? (The clues were “out of his league” and “dimpled teddybear of emotional need.”) He’s still in? HOW?!?!?
Allen is the fat guy. Last week was the first week where the audience got to vote on who’d stay, who’d go. The judges decree three pairs as deserving to be booted – those six people each get 45 seconds to free-style something, and then they open the 800 numbers. Allen, and his partner Snow (the Siberian ballroom diva), were up for being booted – but at this point he’s still a popular choice. I think he’s safe for a few weeks just on personality.
He wasn’t one of the three pairs on the block this week, BTW.
As many of you know, I’m gravitationally challenged, myself, so I know fat and the gracelessness that comes from it and Allen lumbers around like a dancing bear. How the hell does he get a pass?
Because he’s got personality. He’s the Everyman. He’s just lovable. That’s pretty much why the judges kept him for so long. Yeah, he’s out of his league but I was glad to see him stay and Jonnis go. Jonnis didn’t impress me at all and his solo dance looked like he was having a seizure.
I think to be fair they should take the previous partner and dance styles out of the hat for the next week. If certain people keep picking the same partner and dance style (that they are familiar with) it seems to be an unfair advantage.
Ryan is the spiky haired Asian guy, my favorite. I don’t especially like hip-hop or break-dancing but Ryan is impressive because he’s had no formal training in any dance style and he is picking up the dances better than the “professional” dancers. I am really rooting for him. I haven’t voted yet for anyone, I will if he’s ever up for elimination. But he really gives me the willies when he bounces around on his head.
Not worth starting a new thread, I don’t think – hope my fellow fans find this one.
The serious mismatches this week are interesting – blondie and Artem, Melody with Allan, Snow with Ryan. Since a good dancer can get dragged to the chopping block by a bad partner, it’s good their fates aren’t tied when the voting starts.
Cool seeing Ron whatshisface coaching the ballroom teams this week – I recognize him from the PBS “Evening of Championship Dancing” shows.
I hope Snow leaves, I’m tired of her, and I think Allan’s time has come. I wasn’t that impressed with Ryan’s solo but I think he’s great and would hate to see him go. I would love next week to see Ryan and Melody paired together.
I was really sad to see Craig go over Jamile.
Snow’s a jinx, getting paired with her seems to mean you end up in the possible elimination group. She’s also a camera ho and she does the same dance step every time and it’s getting old. Ryan may do similar dance moves everytime in his solos but at least they’re exciting every time, though they make my head hurt.
I sure hope everyone’s voting for Ryan. Stupid judges! I think they wanted to put him opposite Allan in the hopes that one favorite could beat out another.
I think Snow thinks the show is called “So You Think You Can Prance?”.
LOL!
Do you suppose she’s feeling persecuted? Not only has she been put up to go every week, but she’s also been picked for “oh god don’t make her my partner” both times.
Who I want to go this time: Snow and Allan.