Yesterday’s So You Think You Can Dance left a really bad taste in my mouth. This season is all about change and so far I am hating all of them. They rushed through auditions which was OK, then they rushed through Vegas so that the judges could go to the contestants’ houses to tell them whether they made the Top 10 or not and that was not OK. All of the judges, but Nigel Lythgoe went and personally told them they were not going to be part of the show. I say except Nigel because Mr Capped Teeth did have the balls to personally tell them they were rejected, so instead he called them on speaker phone to tell them they did not make the show. Imagine getting that phone call, and to top it off they were hearing it on a speaker phone. That is just so cold. Nigel suddenly grew a pair when he had to tell them that they made the show, and karma bit him in the a$$ because he got lost trying to find Kent Boyd’s house. Once he got there he opted to go to the bathroom before telling him his fate. As if he didn’t wait long enough to find out. Earlier in the show Cat Deeley said that Nigel did not go door-to-door to all of the contestants because of scheduling conflicts, yet he told Kent “Do you really think I would have come all this way to say ‘no’? Do you honestly think I would think I would get a ticket?” Nice one to lie to the rejected contestants and to us like that. Another lie is he said the show is about the dancers, yet in almost every audition, we saw the judges’ reactions for a 1/3 of their performances. I don’t care what the judges expressions were during the performance because they are going to tell us afterwards anyways. Nigel do you love being on the camera so much that you feel the need to show us your face all the time. The camera isn’t in love with you as much as you think. So when you are in the editing room, can you remember that and let us see all of the dancers’ performances since you told us the show is about them and not you.
OK enough about Mr Capped Teeth, let’s continue how the show was cruel. Whenever the judges went to the dancers’ homes whether they were in or out, they played as though they didn’t make it. That got old fast and even stupider faster. Why plays games with their heads? It isn’t funny and you guys are dancers not actors and it really showed as you tried to fake it. I get you like the drama, but we don’t. And on the drama note Nigel, Adam Shankman and Mia Michaels stop being unnecessarily cruel during your critiques, it is a turn off to the show and to you. I find myself watching SYTYCD on my DVR just so I cast fast forward through the judges useless, cruel and self-indulgent critiques.
I will give SYTYCD another week but if things don’t change with the judges, my love of dance might not be able to keep me watching the show. This show used to be the show I would look forward to, but Nigel has changed the show so much to accommodate his ego that I have lost my love for the show. I thought that Adam Shankman would be a good add to the judging table, but within a week of his new position I grew to not like him even more than I don’t like Nigel. And now that Mia Michaels is joining them, I might find myself watch NCIS and NCIS: LA repeats instead.
OK I feel a little better now!
