It's Tuesday, and you know what that means ...

[apocalypsos]

-- What the HELL is Cat wearing? Oh, honey, you look like you're wearing a toilet seat cover.

-- Ryan and Noelle's hip hop: ... this is hip-hop? Ooookay. It was a fun routine, I'll give Nigel that much, but funk? Funk. Yeah, okay.

-- I'm kinda happy that now that we're down to the wire we won't have to stoop to force-feeding the audience those "What is your partner's favorite color?" attempts at talking heads.

-- Ashleigh and Legacy's contemporary: I hope this isn't the routine they were both Tweeting about when they complained about being tired because it feels like it should be sharper or faster or something. Then again, they look exhausted, so maybe it really has harder than it looks.

-- Mollee's solo: Eh, it was okay. She still isn't doing a huge amount for me.

-- Russell's solo: See, THAT'S why he's got a huge fanbase. And his parents are lovely, too.

-- Kathryn and Nathan's Broadway: You know, every once in a while in the right light Kathryn looks very Katie McGrath/Keira Knightley-esque. Tonight is no exception. Loved the music, and I liked Nathan a great deal for a change, although ... oh, honey, you can smile. It's okay.

-- Noelle's solo: I don't think she's going to last to the top four (or six), but she does seem like a more tolerable version of Mollee's sort of adorable. And her solo was gorgeous, really full of joy.

-- As an aside, I've finally found something that makes me contemplate watching the next season of AI, and it's that kid in the commercials who looks like Zac Efron with Peter Gallagher's eyebrows. They're hypnotic. I feel like he's sneaking in speakers.

-- Jakob and Ellenore's fucking quickstep: First off, I want to have sex with Ellenore's dress. And secondly, that might be the first time the quickstep on this show hasn't made me want to turn my attention to something less painful like shoving hot needles into my eyes.

-- Ryan's solo: Aw, his step-dad is too adorable. And then, BWAHAHAHAHAHA. He's acting like a fucking matador. I approve, though. His face is still very FAAAAAACE, but I liked that.

-- Kathryn's solo: She is such a pile of lovely, I swear to God. I have the biggest girlcrush on her, I swear, so yeah, admittedly I'm a little bit biased when I say I love that solo.

-- Russell and Mollee's lyrical jazz: That turned out a lot better than I thought it would. I really liked that move where he hooked her elbow and swung her around. A little jerky at points, but it really dig drag out a bit of maturity in her. I'm not sure it would have been quite as serious with Nathan on the other end of it.

-- Nathan's solo: It was nice. Didn't thrill me, but then there was crying and ... yeah.

-- Noelle and Ryan's waltz: I thought that was really lovely. It's times like this we get to see Ryan either in his element or close to it and it's always a reminder why he's there.

-- Ellenore's solo: I love all these shots of the dancers back when they did that group number for the top 20. I was just watching that number today and remembering how much I loved it. And I could watch Ellenore dance all damn day.

-- Ashleigh and Jakob's hip hop: BWAHAHAHAHA. Dear young women who watch this show, you watch Twilight, right? Well, this is like that, in that Legacy's wearing a cape and therefore coded as vampire, much like Edward's in love with Bella and therefore coded as an idiot. Yeah, that routine was painful. I'm almost a little amused that they're not getting shit on quite as much as Dave Scott is for choreographing that disaster.

-- Nathan and Kathryn's rumba: His outift's throwing me off. And the color of her's is lovely but is it wrong that the color of a dress can throw me off a dance? 'Cause Mollee's yellow samba dress did the same thing. (Granted, I didn't like her dancing, either.) And yeah, Nathan's sourpuss is aggravating, too. He's responding to "be serious" to "make a bitchface".

-- Legacy's solo: Legacy's friend Flea looks like a scruffy Adrian Brody. Aw, Legacy's dad. That was fantastic. I love that Cat was like, "Kathryn's back stage screaming her head off." Dude, you're not helping me NOT ship them. Heh.

-- Jakob and Ellenore's contemporary: ... WOW. Sonya's got her flappyhands face on. And yeah, Sonya and Ellenore probably share brain space. Aw, I loved when Jakob scritched Ellenore's hair. And then when they turned to each other at the end and were all, OMG WTF YAAAAAY!

-- Ashleigh's solo: Ah, so that's what Ashleigh's mystery illness was. Aw. I kinda love her by now. Ashleigh always looks tall somehow until she stands next to Cat. Heh.

-- Russell and Mollee's jive: It was actually pretty good. There's something that was off for me, but nothing too serious, and I do kind of feel like that was a better pairing for the two of them than the ones they had previously.

-- Jakob's solo: Oh, my God, dorky little Jakob who needs a haircut. Hee! Aaaand it's shit like that that's going to win this competition for him, honestly.

Comments

[valerie]

The Sonya piece was just SICKINGLY good. Adam said exactly what I was thinking: it was totally The Garden 2.0, but I saw it more as if the roles were reversed.

And I personally FLOVE "Every Time it Rains" so I was glad to see someone finally dance to it. But seriously... with the number of Charlotte Martin songs that have been used for solos over the seasons, she must be pulling some serious bank. Now, someone just needs to choreograph a waltz to "Beautiful Life" and I'll die of happy.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

I was pleasantly stunned that Russell and Mollee pulled off the jive. I love me some Russell but I admit to doubting he could do it no matter who his partner was. So for him to pull it off and for him and Mollee to partner surprisingly well on it was, well, a nice surprise.