"So You Think You Can Dance" (Week 3) recaplet: This show's banoodles!

Choose Mark! That guy is just totally charming and gorgeous and not to forget extremely talented!

I love the show, and hate that some of AE take a bad view of it because of some of Nigel's "masculine" comments, which at times may actually be justified, if unpleasant.

Thanks for bringing recaplets to AE - my only gripe is that I don't want to share my SYTYCD season 2 boyfriend, Travis with anyone!

I'm so glad that AE is recapping this show. I've just started to watch this season. I haven't watched dance shows in years. Was a huge fan of Solid Gold, Dance Fever and Soul Train, when I was a child. I blame it on Step It Up & Dance and Cody Green being such an amazing dancer, that I've discovered the joy of dance again. I also, *heart* Joshua and Katee. I think they're an amazing team and she's proven herself to be a credible dancer. They both make each look great on the stage and he IS a "wonderful and innocent bear of a boy". I just love watching them perform.

I agree that Jessica and Will should have been in the bottom three, with Jessica and Chris being sent home. Well, maybe next week will be the end for Jessica.

Love me less, but love me a long time - Les Chansons D'Amour

Thank you Dan for the recap!  I've been waiting for someone at AE to start recapping one of my favorite summer guilty pleasures! :)  And you sure do have the same taste of SYTYCD boyfriends as I do.  LoL :P

This season is harder for me to choose because all the guys are great this season, for varying different reasons.  But for me, it's come down between Twitch, Mark, or Joshua (with guilty pleasures in Matt, Thayne and Gev).

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Thanks so much for recapping the week of SYTYCD. I was hoping afterelton would be covering the show. My favorites are Twichington, Katee and Joshua, Will, and Mark and Chelsie. I didn't like Mark and Chelsie at first, but with three weeks of amazing perfomances they are my top couple. I didn't like Twitchington this week. It really didn't do anything for me. Katee and Joshua surprised me this week. Their samba blew me away. They had such great technique, chemistry, and sexiness.

 

Season 4 BF - Twitch? Seriously? I just don't see it. Mark is already my BF of the season. I suppose we could share. lol

Check out Mark's youtube channel for more dances: mKIK808

Pound for pound certainly these kids are much more talented than the American Idols contestants. Mark surprises me week after week  that how talented he is. I was putting Will and Twitch as the one to watch in the begining. Now I'm watching Mark and Joshua as well. 3 weeks in the roll the couples Mark and Chelsea, Joshua and Katie were stepping up. Both Will and Twitch are certainly strong competitors on their own. Can't wait til the top 10 where they begin to switch partners. A tell tale sign of who is a better dancer.

P'S I 'm writing this before I watch the result show.

 

Scratch Napoleon from your pretend boyfriend list after his gay panic attack when he got behind Mark in rehearsals and felt the need to proclaim that "he shouldn't be doing this so close to a guy". For fracks sake - how does he survive in the dance world if he's so afraid of catching the gay?

This week in fuck/marry/kill I'm going Will/Mark/Nigel

 

I am so glad that this show is being recapped here as I became hooked on it the very first time I watched it last summer and it was not only because of my crush on Van Hansis lookalike Neil, Pasha, and Kameron. Dennis Ayers' 5/15 Best. Gay. Week. Ever and Dan pretty much sum up why I love this show.

Stumbling into it last summer was like seeing Chicago on stage for the first time, as this show makes dancing seem as vital as breathing. The contestants are true athletes showcased in an open arena and are challenged in ways that gave me a new appreciation for the genre and the execution of what a reality competition can be like when executed well. Even the results show is genius as there is always a great group dance routine, and I love that the jugdgeeeees (why does Cat not say the word "judges" with the audience anymore? So cute!) take America's votes into consideration, but shows the dancers strutting their stuff to give the show actual value added rather than having a full hour of filler. It also prevents the audience from taking full ownership of the show as that can lead to some great talent leaving if they were unable to connect with the audience early on.

The only thing I generally fast-forward through the musical number as it can usually leave it. But that is coupled with seeing certain routines over and over again. I thought that 6 out of the 8 performances were awesome and was hoping that they would clean house with the two dancers who wound up going home. Boring Chris got to stay an extra week when the judges missed the ball for the first time this year. Matt's solo was AMAZING and I knew that your girl Kourt would stay as she gave a quiet power house performance that the judges like. 

At least we'll finally get a new couple as Comfort and Thayne may actually benefit from a shake-up.  I agree with you about disco and the quickstep being the kiss of death, with the latter needing to be banished from the show but thought that Jessica and Will did as decent a job. I am not sure that I'd agree about Jessica and Will being set-up to fail as Miss Debbie Allen would knock Nigel's long Chicklets all the way back to England if he took out her protogee before his time. I think that he's amazing. 

The boyfriend picking keeps growing for me after initially not seing anyone who could replace Neil, Kam, Dom, but each week these guys show the personality element that gets me every time. All but Thayne have something really appealing to me. 

Dan, I'll going directly to your site to check-out all the goodies as I love this show. You are forgiven for liking Bravo's trainwreck dance show. With regard to MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, I liked it a great deal, but since I've grown to dislike Mario Lopez and no more Jabbas I am skipping it ....More So You Think You Can Dance. I heart Cat 4ever...

Irrelevant side-bar: How surprising (to me at least) is it that Adam Shankman has worked with Adam Sandler and continues to do so? As long as it keeps Shankman employed and able to do other stuff, maybe it just shows that even a gay choreographer can direct/execute those annoying middle of the road projects that America loves. Versatile.....

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this show and so glad to see it getting the recap on AE, although I think you need to put the PC gun away when talking about Nigel and his remarks.  The truth of the matter is that certain dances require a hardness and that others require a softness.  That's not homophobic...it's the truth.  With someone like Chris trying to dance hard to a Marilyn Manson song (and the previous week with Krump) it just doesn't work because he's too soft and feminine in his movements (which is appropriate for contemporary dance).  So let's put the comments in context shall we?  On to the show!

I was not surprised with Chris being sent home and wasn't that surprised by Chelsea either, although I think she should've been allowed to stay another week.  There was no way they were going to pick Kourtni b/c they believe she's a strong dancer (rightly so) and she shouldn't have even been in the bottom 3 to begin with.  But the reason, friend, that Kourtni and Matt were in the bottom 3 to begin with is because the audience didn't get their number.  Nigel was so right on when he said that most of the voting audience would be confused by this different contemporary number b/c we're used to seeing Mia Michaels romantic/break-up pieces.  I don't think that most people got the awesomeness of the routine and the outfits didn't help either b/c you couldn't see the amazing power of their body movements.  I also think that hip-hop is more popular in terms of voting because it's a style that the average viewer relates to b/c that's the music of the moment.  So even if it's done only reasonabley well, Twitch and Payne, they're going to respond w/ votes (plus Twitch is a favorite...a lot of us know him from last year when he lost a position on the show to Hawk...we remember him and root for him).  I think Jessica is a weaker dancer than Chelsea but she's not going to be in the bottom three for awhile as long as she's paired with Will, who is an amazing dancer and is given more kudos b/c he seemingly carries her in every number.  So that would leave a choice between Comfort and Chelsea.  Let's get real here.  Comfort is the only female in her style and I think the judges might feel that there's room for some of the more contemporary/jazz/ballroom ladies to go home rather than the only female hip-hopper they've got.  Is that right?  Don't know.  But I can see the reasoning.

I personally would've rather have seen Thayne go home than Chris but I don't like Thayne on a personal level so I recognize the bias.  Plus I just thought that Chris was a really beautiful dancer and didn't get to highlight that in the show.  His partnership with Comfort was awkward at best and he's just not comfortable going into the harder dances.  When he just "can't" grab his crotch on television even though it's a part of the style of the dance, there's problems.

My favorites of the night were Mark and Chelsie (the best of the evening IMO) and Katee and Josh.  I think in the overall scheme of things, Josh and Kate are the team to beat.  Josh has shown that he's a versatile dancer (although don't buy that he's only a popper...anyone who saw his audition knows that he got called out by Debbie Allen b/c he did a movement that is definitely not something a popper would do...very ballet).  Kate has also shown that she's a great dancer and she and Josh have great chemistry together.  I think the audience have forgiven her for her little slip-up about not coming back if she didn't make it, although I didn't see the big deal anyway.  These people were fucking exhausted and it was down to her and her best friend and she's tried before.  She was probably out of her mind @ that point.  I think Mark and Chelsie have come out swinging as the surprise couple and I just love them.  Mark is so versatile and Chelsie is just a great dancer.  They make a great couple and, if they remain together, I think Mark's quirkiness tempers Chelsie's steel enough that they could make a run @ the finals.    

Anyway, glad to see that the show is being featured.  I don't think we need to get into this silliness of comparing all these dance shows to one another.  ABDC is a show about groups, not individual dancers, and they're judged as a group.  Even though the SYTYCD has couples, the judges obviously look @ them as individuals.  And Bravo's stab @ the dance competition genre was a bit too high on the camp and attitude and not high enough on the dancing.  I love that this show really just seeks to highlight them for what they're competing for...best dancers...and not so much on the drama off the stage and the animosity directed at other competitors just to get your face on television.  SYTYCD truly is a dance competition.  And that's what makes it awesome!