Okay, it's the top ten! A Philip-less week, very sad. But Debbie Allen is on as guest judge, so that should make up for it.
So now all the rules are different, new couples and people do solos. Also group dances. And audience votes only, and voting for individuals instead of couples. Man, they really are worried about the audience getting bored, aren't they? Also, it's still a two hours show they need to fill on Wednesdays, so pretty soon, I'm certain, they will be doing an extra partner dance with a random person in the audience.
The first dance is a group Bollywood number with the girls, which was good, but because of the costumes I found it difficult to figure out who was who. Kayla is the lightest and Janette is the darkest, the rest were a bit blurry. I can't get as excited over this dance than the judges did, but what are you gonna do.
Evan and Kayla, aka the shortest guy and the tallest girl, and they are doing the waltz. Isn't the waltz one of those doomed dances? Well, as far as I'm concerned, they just knocked it out of the park, that was gorgeous. And if those damn judges shit all over Evan again, I'm throwing my shoe through the TV, because he was terrific. Nigel is starting out by complaining about the choreography, but he went on to say nice things, but Mary is talking about all of the ways that it wasn't good, and I'm just sick of these damn people being all meh about Evan. Fuck you, I love Evan. And now Debbie is being great! You show them, Debbie.
Brandon solo. Now to me, almost all of the solo dances that I have seen that aren't by Philip or Melissa or Evan (and Ade's knock your socks off solo last week) are all the same thing, lots of jumping around and rolling on the floor. I just don't get why there is no variation. This is just like all of the others. Although I kind of liked the way he was being flung about by the music. Good Lord he is tiny next to Cat. Is she a monster? He looked smaller than Evan there.
Janette and Ade - hip hop, the funk doctor. I love the way they are trying to pretend that Janette is having trouble and might not be good. You aren't fooling me, Janette is the best dancer of all of them, bar nobody, she can do anything, and if she doesn't win the whole thing outright it is a travesty of justice. I have spoken. I love how Ade's comb is part of the plot of the dance! And that was the awesome. They are both completely amazing.
Randi's solo. More flail flail flail. And she fell out of her pirouette.
Kupono's solo. Now this one I liked. No flailing, all precision, no rolling on the ground until the last second. And he made his costume, if by "made" you mean "cut up".
Jeanine and Jason, each of whom just killed their partners, are being partnered up. Contemporary, choreographed by someone whom I would know who he was if I wasn't coming to this show so late. If the old seasons were just on DVD I'd watch them all and catch up and not seem to be such a newbie, but alas, I'm just going to have to not know who Travis is. Well, that was a really incredible dance, and if that was his first choreography, it won't be his last, and I've never liked Jason before but that was absolutely the best thing that I have ever seen him do. Wow. Nigel didn't need to make that little dig at Philip talking about how Jeanine has a partner that can keep up with her technically. It doesn't make this dance better.
Melissa's solo. Also, why do they seem to have nothing to do with the music so often?
Evan's solo. Now that's more like it. Had a relationship to the music, didn't seem to be just flinging himself around, wasn't just every step that he knows how to do in a random order, also, I love Evan.
Kayla's solo. Same old same old.
Randi and Kupono - paso double. I wonder what would happen if they picked their old partner out of the hat, would they have to throw it back? Randi is wigged, I suppose so she won't look like a kewpie doll. Was I dreaming, of was she off-balance a lot? As I said, she fell out of her pirouette earlier, is she a little loopy today? This is one of the few times that the judges really go after the dancers and I agree with them. Basically, they just told them that they are both going home. And though I totally thought that Jason would be going this week, he ain't going anywhere after that routine with Jeanine, I wouldn't be surprised if these two did go home.
Ade's solo. Nothing like the awesome solo of awesomeness last week. Much too desperate. What was Cat talking about "You know what you did"? It was something about the layout, I know that.
Commercial for the new Fame movie. Don't talk to me about the new Fame movie.
Jeanine, in a very unflattering costume, soloing. It made her look really fat, and since she isn't at all fat, I'm going with a poor cut of costume. Too bad Kupono didn't come round with his scissors and help her. The dance was the dance.
Jason's solo. Pretty good!
Melissa and Brandon - Broadway. They are doing a piece from Hair. Which Melissa thinks is from the 70's. Which is unfortunate. Also, this flat out sucks. I have said from the beginning that this guy is the worst choreographer on the show and he proved it by making a complete hash out of Aquarius. Nigel loves it. Nigel has gone completely demented. Everyone loves it. I stand up as hating it, though. I also hate whomever edited the song with a chainsaw.
Janette's solo. Great. Because she is great. She's great enough not to do everything in the solo, just do what belongs in the solo!
Men's group dance, African. I have a feeling it won't go as well as the women's group number. And I was wrong, that was actually really awesome!
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