The Best Dance Show

So You Think You Can Dance. I love love love this show! It's honest, refreshing, and it's not about a fan base, it's about who is the best dancer. As it should be.

The judges don't score, but their opinion counts for a lot when it gets to the viewers' votes. There are guest choreographers, and some of them were dancers in previous seasons. Occasionally different judges.

I like the judges for the most part, but Mary Murphy gets on my nerves big time. Her horrible screechy voice is bad enough when she talks in a normal tone. Thank god I DVR so I can zip past her banshee wails. She's gotten real old real fast.

So what's going on this season. I haven't really picked favs yet. I can't remember all the names. I know who I don't care for. "Legacy". This guy is really winning over the judges, and I have to admit he's a pretty good dancer most of the time. But he's a crybaby! I hate that. So I'm against him. I'm not too crazy about his name either. The last one-name guy was Stitch, but he was good! Really good and really likeable. His name suited him. I don't get where this guy Legacy gets his name. Uh oh, am I the bad guy bashing a dancer for something other than his dancing? Maybe. I just don't care for him. So there.

Ryan (half of the husband/wife ballroom pair) is pretty good but he's too pretty for me. His wife is just as good looking and it almost looks like a genetic experiment when they are seen together. Like they both said, "I found someone who looks just like me". Weird. But both are pretty good dancers in the styles they've been given.

I love some of the new dance styles they're bringing. Last season they introduced Bollywood, and there's already been a great Bollywood routine this season. Last night, there was the Lindy Hop and that's so cool. I'm not real crazy about Contempory or Jazz, but sometimes they are interesting routines. Broadway and Disco are usually fun to watch. I like Hip Hop type routines if they are set to hard hitting music. Set to softer music, they just don't wow. Of course, any Ballroom is good to see.

All for now.

I'm a dancing fool.

Well, more accurately a dance-watching fool. I'm hooked on the dancing shows. Didn't get into the singing shows like American Idol. America's Got Talent is the most annoying talent show I've ever seen. I'll rant about that in another blog. Right now I want to talk dancin.

The first show that caught me was Dancing With the Stars. Oh yeah! Glitz, glamor, fun, celebrities, and pretty darn good dancers. And some really bad dancers for laughs. I was hooked big time.

Then I became really annoyed. The fans have way too much clout. Bad dancers were saved while good dancers hit the road. I heard through the web grapevine there was a site or something that encouraged voters to back the underdogs. And we had to suffer through more bad dancing while the better dancers were cut.

Lowlight 1: Master P or whatever that rapper was called. He was saved time and again and he wasn't even trying to dance. He looked like he hated it but was just honoring his regretted commitment. He was a big galoot gulumping around the stage with his little pro partner making the best of it. It was the worst thing! The judges tried to get him off with low scores, and the rapper fanbase kept saving him. Finally the lowest judge scores ever got him off.

Lowlight 2: Cloris Leachman. Oh criminy! What the hell was that! Why was she still there for so long? She didn't dance. She hobbled. She tried to steal the show with her unfunny antics and wasted everyone's time. Because she's an 82 year old woman, everyone tried to be nice and go along with her bullshit. Good dancers left, and we suffered.

Lowlight 3: Sabrina (can't remember her last name). This girl could dance! Right out of the gate, she was winning judges' hearts. And boom...week 3 and she was voted off! What!!! Everyone was stunned! I can't even remember who else was in that season, but I do know no one could hold a candle to her dancing talent. She would have been a contender for the Mirrored Ball. She never got the chance. And we had to watch less talent.

Lowlight 4: Emmet Smith (last name?) The football player. He won. On his fanbase, not his dancing ability. The runner up was better. Sure he was likeable. I liked him. But he was a big football guy. He was not that light or agile on his feet.

This last season was such a disappointment, I wonder if the show is in its death throes. No big stars that we could really get behind. Ok there's Donny Osmond and a few other names we knew, but it's looking like the show is scraping the bottom of the barrel now.

I do like some of the new things they've added to the show, like the dance-offs and team dances. I enjoy Kenny Mains and Jerry Rice on that recap thing they do. That's pretty funny.

Since it's fresh in my mind (I should of been blogging these things all along, eh?) I'll rant about the finals.

Donny Osmond won. Whoohoo. Not. He had the entire state of Utah behind him. Jeez, his family alone would cover a majority vote! I saw it coming and hated it. Mya so had it! She was the best dancer from the getgo, and having Dmitri for a partner was a plus. Kelly Osbourn made it to the finals over a better dancer. She annoyed me with her little girl voice and demeaner. I want to watch great dancing! Not fans' choice that has nothing to do with dancing.

Ok ok, Donny can dance but he wasn't the best dancer, and this is a dancing show, dammit!

I do admit Mya and Dmitri blew it with their lackluster Freestyle. They could have rocked our world. I don't understand why Dmitri backed off more challenging choreography. He's usually a risk-taker. In the rehearsal footage, Mya wanted to be more daring but he won out for some reason. Too bad. I think that lost it for them.

So now we have to listen to them go on and on about Donny's win. blah blah.

Oh and my favorite ballroom dances? Pasa Doble, Quickstep, Jive, Samba, Tango. I love to see them done really well and with good music.

In the next installment, I'll talk about the best dance show.