I was very happy with Lauren winning, although I would've loved Robert to win because, weird puppy-of-disbelief-faces aside, he was my fave from day one (it didn't hurt that he started with a Sean Cheesman routine that made me sooooooooooooo happy and put him in my go-to happy place), and I thought he was so beautiful in everything he did and he got stuck with the quickstep for goodness' sake and yeah. But I'm happy with Lauren, too. Kent is also a beautiful dancer, but he could've sat on the vine like your tomato-lets for a couple of years before coming on the show, I thought.
And in the end I decided to be happy with the All Stars thing because it allowed them to pair up guys with guys and chicks with chicks that that forced the choreographers to be more creative and to step away from the fall-back "the guy is a business man and the girl is beseeeeeeeeeching him" formula. Like, the Billy-Ade thing or the Kent-Neil thing, or the Twitch-Alex thing or the Lauren-Allison thing wouldn't have happened otherwise and I liked that a lot. So, I'm giving it a cautious thumbs-up in the end.
Robert grew on me SO MUCH; he put me off at first because I felt like he was really fake, but it became apparent later that he was being fake because he was overcompensating for being kind of uncomfortable, which is a thing I totally understand (whereas fakers who are fake just to try to get ahead or to cover up their own arrogance or just because they're incapable of sincerity or whatever are very difficult for me to like). We finally just watched the last couple of shows last night and I wish Robert and Lauren could've BOTH won, honestly. (The two of them snuggling while they got their critique after their final dance together--the one with the pillow--was SO adorable, I just wanted to squish them both to pieces.) You are so right about Kent, too--obviously talented but just SO SO YOUNG in so many ways, even compared to Lauren, who is exactly his age. So I wouldn't have been happy with him winning.
And yes, about the All-Stars format and the way it forced them to switch up some of their old patterns. I said to Mr. McK last night that it has basically felt like a different good show this season; the All-Star thing had its advantages and its drawbacks, and there are still things I definitely miss about the other format, but... I didn't hate this as much as I expected to, I guess.
And in the end I decided to be happy with the All Stars thing because it allowed them to pair up guys with guys and chicks with chicks that that forced the choreographers to be more creative and to step away from the fall-back "the guy is a business man and the girl is beseeeeeeeeeching him" formula. Like, the Billy-Ade thing or the Kent-Neil thing, or the Twitch-Alex thing or the Lauren-Allison thing wouldn't have happened otherwise and I liked that a lot. So, I'm giving it a cautious thumbs-up in the end.
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And yes, about the All-Stars format and the way it forced them to switch up some of their old patterns. I said to Mr. McK last night that it has basically felt like a different good show this season; the All-Star thing had its advantages and its drawbacks, and there are still things I definitely miss about the other format, but... I didn't hate this as much as I expected to, I guess.
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