Back On the Chain-Gang
564 words out the gate, which I guess is a lot better than nothing/the way it's been; I've cracked section two, which means the smackdown is finally heading towards reality. Now, if I can just keep it up...
Last night's So You Think You Can Dance, which saw the creation of this season's Top Twenty, capped a particularly frustrating audition-and-Vegas-Week grind. I agree with mightygodking that the selection process has seemed ridiculously slanted towards contemporary dancers this year, and that every other genre is probably going to suffer as a consequence; I also felt that many of the oddball cuts they made seemed punitive and strange, both in intent and execution. He suggests that Nathalie may have been cut specifically in order to separate her from Brandon and keep her "in reserve" for the next season, which will apparently start up again during the Fall--but seriously, if I was her, I'm not sure I'd even want to come back. That was some cold-ass bait-and-switch game they played, and they deserve to have it bite them deep in the collective bum.
The two truest phrases ever spoke, thus far--first, Nigel, while ragging out the execrable first day applicants in Seattle, growling: "We don't even have a show, at this point!" And then Mary Murphy finally snapping, after Mia Michaels goes off on Brandon yet again for being--what? Too happy? Too nice? Too "arrogant"? Other people having told her he was so brilliant that he himself couldn't help but disappoint?: "I just can't listen to any more of this CRAP anymore!" Here, here.
If this is the way the judges are going to be all season, it's gonna be a long damn haul indeed.
Last night's So You Think You Can Dance, which saw the creation of this season's Top Twenty, capped a particularly frustrating audition-and-Vegas-Week grind. I agree with mightygodking that the selection process has seemed ridiculously slanted towards contemporary dancers this year, and that every other genre is probably going to suffer as a consequence; I also felt that many of the oddball cuts they made seemed punitive and strange, both in intent and execution. He suggests that Nathalie may have been cut specifically in order to separate her from Brandon and keep her "in reserve" for the next season, which will apparently start up again during the Fall--but seriously, if I was her, I'm not sure I'd even want to come back. That was some cold-ass bait-and-switch game they played, and they deserve to have it bite them deep in the collective bum.
The two truest phrases ever spoke, thus far--first, Nigel, while ragging out the execrable first day applicants in Seattle, growling: "We don't even have a show, at this point!" And then Mary Murphy finally snapping, after Mia Michaels goes off on Brandon yet again for being--what? Too happy? Too nice? Too "arrogant"? Other people having told her he was so brilliant that he himself couldn't help but disappoint?: "I just can't listen to any more of this CRAP anymore!" Here, here.
If this is the way the judges are going to be all season, it's gonna be a long damn haul indeed.