So You Think You Can Dance finale tonight
August 16th, 2007 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
- I have no clue who’s going to win. The theory that it’s all the screaming teenage girls who vote would tend to favor Neil, though I think both Danny and Sabra are the better dancers. But like Nigel said, this is a contest of favorites, not best.
- It’s been fun to watch the vote totals grow over the weeks. Just three or four weeks ago, they were just cracking the 5 million vote mark. Last week, they had over ten million. Tonight, I suspect they may even hit 12 million.
- Here’s the dance routine I wanted to see for Danny and Neil: Play some hard hitting music in the background, and just have a pirouette battle. Just like a drum battle, one contestant spins for his life, then the other attempts to copy it or do better. Over and over again, until one drops from exhaustion.
- Danny’s Lindy Hop was very slow. The judges gave him a pass on it, but it’s obvious he was tired and just couldn’t do all the jumps and kicks to the fullest.
- I kinda liked the fox number between Sabra and Lacey, but it was bizarre and surreal. Nevertheless, I “got” it, and think the judges did themselves a disservice by acting so weirded out by it. They liked Hok has a hummingbird, after all.
- Danny’s solo was amazing. When he lept across the stage doing splits, I felt both pain and amazement at how smoothly and flawlessly he did it.
- Lacey had a good routine, too.
- Neil did a good job moving straight from the hard core gymnastics into lighter dance moves. He blended it all, and it was his best solo by far this series.
- In fact, I think Sabra’s was the only one that didn’t wow me.
- I wish I had taken notes last night. There was so much there to talk about, but I’m out of time to type today, so make your guesses and leave your comments below!