So You Think You Can Dance: Finale Performance Show
I do love this show to pieces, but I'm glad this is the final week for it. Once the Olympics start, I'm going to have no time for all this silliness. You know one of the nice things about the Olympics? In the events where there is judging, the judges give you a score, but they don't get to sit there and monologue about it for 10 minutes.
Last week's elimination: I wanted Mark to stay instead of Twitch. I'm glad the final two girls were Katee and Courtney.
I wonder which two of the dancers collapsed due to dehydration this week, and I hope they're all ok now.
They better let Josh and Twitch to a hip hop together. Why even bother letting them do any other style?
Courtney and Twitch (hip hop): Please, please, please maybe this be the last Napoleon/Tabitha hip hop routine of the season... Twitch is getting type cast as the boyfriend with they crazy girlfriend/ex-girlfriend. I was distracted during the side-by-side dancing because Twitch is so much bigger than Courtney. Whoa, he spun her on his head...and then she kind of careened off. That routine didn't do much for me.
Courtney's solo: Nice spirit and musicality as per usual. Wow, the judges get to critique the solos tonight. Ok, by "critique" I mean "bestow massive amounts of praise on the dancer."
Katee and Joshua (a Wade Robson routine): Yea, it's Wade! Absence makes the heart grow fonder (as does having to watch two Napoleon/Tabitha routines a week all summer). Last week they were Romeo and Juliet, and now they're doing another love-themed routine. I like this routine better; there was nothing particularly big and flashy, but the movements were really neat and well choreographed. (Now all the judges are being especially nice to Wade. They learned their lesson about dissing his routines when they complained about the little foxes last season and he went MIA for most of this year.)
Katee and Courtney (Broadway): Broadway? Really? Weird outfits; I think the skirts are distracting. Not sure I'm following the story here... Their leaps while holding the parasols were a highlight. So did they give the girls this rather blah little number to ensure that a boy (Josh) wins? (Oddly, the two-girl numbers in the finales--at least in seasons 2, 3, and 4--have never gone over gang busters.)
Twitch's solo: Twitch seems extra big this week for some reason. Maybe it's something about the thing on his head.
Twitch and Joshua (Trepak Russian dance): I didn't know Josh and Twitch were having a rivalry all this time. Wait, wait, wait, they're doing a Russian dance?! This is brilliant/hilarious. Whoa, pants!!! Josh's amplitude on his straddle jumps is ridiculous. Ok, there doesn't seem to be a whoa lot of actual Russian dancing going on here... It was kind of like free styling while wearing poofy pants.
Katee's solo: She brought out the big guns tonight with Imogean Heap's "Hide and Seek."
Katee and Twitch (fox trot): They're making Twitch do a fox trot in the finale? Eesh. Katee's dress is pretty awesome. This is a very jazzy fox trot. Wow, the actual "fox trot" part was really slow. The lift was super. Well, it wasn't a great fox trot, but it was a nice performance. Twitch just has the most adorable smile.
Joshua's solo: Josh does look like a sprinter. Josh takes his wiggling and chest popping over to the judges table.
Courtney and Josh (jive): It looked like they were thinking really hard about what they were supposed to be doing, but they mostly pulled it off. It seems weird seeing a girl do a jive without heels on. As tired as these two look right now, I wouldn't be surprised if they were the two who collapsed. (Esp. since Josh had the super intense Russian dance too.)
Top 4 group number (Mia Michaels routine): There's a lot of plaid going on here. The routine was kind of weird, but it had a triumphant air to it and was entertaining.
I've never seen the dancers on this show look more tired after their performances than they have tonight. And I don't blame them, because I feel exhausted just from watching this finale...
My final pick: Well, I don't have a strong enough preference to vote, but if it were up to me, I'd give the win to Katee. After almost getting herself left out of the top 20, Katee has been nothing but fantastic all season long. My second choice would be Josh.
