I totally agree! I don't like Iveta, but she really did dance for her life - I thought she deserved to stay. I don't know what the hell they see in Ryan at all.
I thought they made the right choice with the boys, but it was much tougher - I liked both Wadi and Nick, and I would've like to keep the field to fewer contemporary dancers.
I love Sasha and Melanie to death too (and Ashley - her little lisp!), and while I think Nigel's right about the women being beasts this year, there are a couple that rub me the wrong way (Clarice is one of them (even though I think her performances have been really good), Jordan another). The guys as a field, they are less standout to me, though I have a lot of love for Marko and Robert charms me, weirdly (I keep waiting to find him annoying, but it hasn't happened yet). I also really enjoy Jess - he has bad feet (eep, that contemporary!) but I love his broadway performances. I don't mind that he's more of a performer than a dancer - Benji was like that in season two, and I loved him too (even though I wish Travis had won).
I am on the fence about the gender segregation (and I actually had to go pull the word 'girls' out of that comment up there twice, because in my mind, they're girls and boys, not men and women because they're so young (except Iveta - I can't call her anything but a woman), but I know that the show calls them girls and guys, which is stupid). Parts of me wish that we could just get rid of the two weakest dancers from the bottom six, be they both men or women, but then we end up with last season - systematically voting off the women one by one until only one is left. There's a bias against women in general, and it's disheartening to see so obviously as we did last season (though I was thrilled to see Lauren win it all, even as much as I loved Kent - she deserved it, for sure).
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I thought they made the right choice with the boys, but it was much tougher - I liked both Wadi and Nick, and I would've like to keep the field to fewer contemporary dancers.
I love Sasha and Melanie to death too (and Ashley - her little lisp!), and while I think Nigel's right about the women being beasts this year, there are a couple that rub me the wrong way (Clarice is one of them (even though I think her performances have been really good), Jordan another). The guys as a field, they are less standout to me, though I have a lot of love for Marko and Robert charms me, weirdly (I keep waiting to find him annoying, but it hasn't happened yet). I also really enjoy Jess - he has bad feet (eep, that contemporary!) but I love his broadway performances. I don't mind that he's more of a performer than a dancer - Benji was like that in season two, and I loved him too (even though I wish Travis had won).
I am on the fence about the gender segregation (and I actually had to go pull the word 'girls' out of that comment up there twice, because in my mind, they're girls and boys, not men and women because they're so young (except Iveta - I can't call her anything but a woman), but I know that the show calls them girls and guys, which is stupid). Parts of me wish that we could just get rid of the two weakest dancers from the bottom six, be they both men or women, but then we end up with last season - systematically voting off the women one by one until only one is left. There's a bias against women in general, and it's disheartening to see so obviously as we did last season (though I was thrilled to see Lauren win it all, even as much as I loved Kent - she deserved it, for sure).