Is it just us, or have all of the So You Think You Can Dance eliminations this season been perfectly righteous and reasonable? We haven't yet had to face the elimination of a really wonderful dancer (Melissa Sandvig) or a totally endearing personality (Evan Kasprzak). All in all, this season has been pretty copacetic, and tonight brought no change to that standard...
Fair warning: If you're just dying to be shocked and stunned by the Top 14 elimination results and haven't yet hooked up with your DVR, don't click in, dummy!
Memorable Moments
- The SYTYCD costumers and makeup stylists outdid themselves with the Cirque du Soleil-esque looks for the group number. What a wonderful Wiz it was!
- Caitlin Kinney's look of sincere astonishment when she was not in danger? That was the facial expression of the night.
- Special guests Desmond Richardson and Patricia Hachey are beyond dance. Desmond, especially, is like a human tangram—familiar shapes or elements are mixed and matched into an infinity of interesting silhouettes.
- Stay awesome, Kelly Clarkson.
- We feel a smidge repetitive for saying this constantly, but we notice it every single week: Cat Deeley has got to be the prettiest, nicest, most professional, charming, sincere and generally wonderful host in television. Tonight's adorableness was topped off by the tousled hairstyle. Accidental or on purpose, it looked great.
Bottom Six
The bottom-six couples were Jeanine & Philip, Kayla & Kupono, and Karla & Vitolio.
Cat Deeley agrees with us that Philip Chbeeb should be in the bottom group more often just so that we can see his solo work. Nigel Lythgoe was just talking crazy when he said that Philip was trying too hard.
In other dance-for-their-life news, Kupono's solo just seemed silly, even thought it was attached to a lovely, lyrical Israel Kamakawiwo'ole song.
Which technically excellent, choreographically coherent and generally pretty solo was best: Jeanine's this week or Caitlin's last week? Discuss.
Farewells
In the end it was Karla and Vitolio who went home. Maybe it was the familiar SYTYCD quickstep qwisis, but we believe that Nigel summarized Karla and Vitolio's woes rightly. Karla was largely blameless but simply didn't pop enough, personality-wise, and Vitolio had a magnificent, leonine presence, but he just didn't have enough creative strength to back it up.
In case you missed it last night, Cat Deeley's complete interview with Katie Holmes about the new Dizzy Feet Foundation is posted above. Who else is happy to hear Katie's confident tone on the topic of singin' and dancin'?
Did you find the week's eliminations fair? Is season five of SYTCYD working out for you, or are you cranky about something? Post in the comments!