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brightcupenny

if you feel like dancing

Jun 17, 2010 00:17

Anyone wanna talk SYTYCD Season 7? First (competitive) performances were tonight, and I have things to say!

( I have opinions on this whole All-Star thing )

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Comments 6

bailunrui June 17 2010, 14:55:04 UTC

I agree with you on... well, just about everything. And the sad thing is that by the time the Top 10 would roll around, I'd be rooting for someone already. I'd have my winner. Starting here, I feel completely in the wind. I have no favorite and no investment and without the partnerships where we get to see their personalities, I'm not sure if a favorite will ever develop for me. I HATE this change-up.

brightcupenny June 17 2010, 18:32:16 UTC

Yes, exactly! I think of the fluff pieces before each dance, when they would ask things like "What's something America should know about your partner?" and "What's the best/worst thing about your partner?" Completely silly, but part of the whole, you know? Can the all-stars answer that? Will they ever even ask them?

It's one thing to change partners every week once we've had a solid five-week base of learning who these people are and how they dance and what they're working toward. It's another thing entirely to do it from the beginning. I mean, technically this is a reality show, but the dancers are still characters, and I'm *always* most invested in the formation of relationships between the characters.

(PS, your icon. LOVE.)

soniag June 17 2010, 16:31:58 UTC

It'll be interesting to see how their ratings are affected by the all-star addition. Like you, I got emotionally invested in the COUPLES (deeply, deeply invested), and though I'm very intrigued by the new setup, I will miss watching those emotional attachments grow over the course of the season. Will the show lose viewers because of this?

And yet it all seems so much more FAIR with the all-stars factored into the equation.

I love NappyTabs as a couple, but their routines are getting really tired.

brightcupenny June 17 2010, 18:23:28 UTC

Exactly-- it *does* seem more fair to the individual dancers, competition-wise. But I wonder how the whole experience is affected, when half the dancers aren't actually competing and partners change every week. I've always loved how close all the contestants become. Will that still happen? And how will the tour work? (They better go on tour! Unlike the poor Season 6 kids, who got totally shafted.)

zaphod_groupie June 17 2010, 17:59:34 UTC

Totally with you, for the most part. I really really love Alexie, and I hope she rises above the cutesie, but other than that? Just not loveloveloving any of the girls. Though I do like Melinda's style. Also, I thought Nigel's critique on her original audition was bullshit, I *loved* the way she used that particular song ( ... )

brightcupenny June 17 2010, 18:20:49 UTC

Oh man, I hated Mollee so much. Couldn't stand her. I think Lauren may be the new Mollee-- especially with that awful "sexy" audition routine where it was super-uncomfortable because it was just so...fake. Kent definitely has heart to spare! He dances because he loves it, not because he wants to be famous. I like how genuine he seems to be.

I too love Alexie. I hope that next week she pulls a routine that won't be quite so precious.

Agree on the elimination by gender-- people definitely got burned by it in the past. I'm really, really curious how these first weeks will play out.

TBH I didn't pay a whole lot of attention during Lauren's routine because it bored me. :-/