The End of the Road for Two More Dancers

A little late on the blogging after spending Thursday night watching the Red Sox lose an extra-innings heartbreaker. But thanks to the magic of tivo, I’m just about caught up.

This is the last week of the current partner format on So You Think You Can Dance?. Starting next week they’ll dance with random partners as well as dancing solos. The voting will also be by solo dancer, and there’s no judges choices – the bottom dancers go home. I’m not sure how I feel about that…we’ll see what happens with my favorites!

I think that the bottom three were right, based on the performances Wednesday night. It’s not even that their performances weren’t good – it’s that the top three performances were that good. But even before the solos, it seemed like the judges decision would be an easy one. Aside from the fact that Dmitry has been in almost every bottom three since the voting started, he and Ashlee are the clear choices to go home.

The solos were not much help again this week. No surprise that Dmitry danced shirtless, and even though he’s good looking, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. The other solo that I didn’t think was great was Natalie’s. That surprised me a little; it might just be the difference between great choreography and what comes out of her head (there are phenomenal dancers out there that can’t choreograph their own dancing to save their lives). I also appreciated what Travis said after his solo (which was fabulous) that he hasn’t really gotten to show America why he’s in the competition – he may be one of the only dancers who hasn’t pulled his own specialty yet. So, I’m pretty confident that Ashlee & Dmitry should go home, but it might just be Natalie & Musa. Hmmm…

No real shock then when Ashlee was eliminated. (although did you see the reaction from Ryan when Natalie was told she was safe?) But for whatever reason, the Dmitry-lovefest continues and Musa is going hime. (although Nigel finally did mention that it’s not enough to just come out and show your abs) It’s a real shame – Musa’s solo was so phenomenal, as was his performance Wednesday night.

Next week we have new partners, and hopefully Donyelle will have healed enough by then to dance (she didn’t dance in the ridiculous group number because of an injury). Should be interesting…