I like the ruffles.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


kat perez - Aug 30, 2012 7:43:19 am PDT #19851 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

( continues...) was mainly because the dancers didn’t show up with their heads in the game. More great choreo from Sonya. Sadly, I was only watching Alex. Was Lindsey even there? Because Alex owned that whole stage. Toe point of the gods. Nigel was right that there was not sexual tension, but that’s mainly because Lindsey wasn’t giving anything. Alex was serving and she was just there. Poor Alex. He did what he could with very inferior material. It was just cruel of Nigel to mention Allison here because she would’ve crushed it with Alex in this routine.

Bottom Two Girls

Lindsey and Witney. I think they are splitting the toothy blonde Mormon girl vote. I don’t disagree with them as the B2, though.

Bottom Two Guys

Will and Cole. Good heavens, America. Please stop voting for Cyrus. He is, much like Jesse Tyler Ferguson noted about Will, more adorable than a basket of kittens and puppies but he cannot hang with the rest of the dancers on this show.

Going Home

Please be Lindsey. Please be Lindsey. Please be Lindsey. Please be Lindsey. Lindsey. Aaaaah. That’s the stuff.

This is so hard with these boys. I never would’ve thought it, but I really want to save Big Pasty. But no. Dammit. Will goes home. You shocked the hell out of me, Big Pasty 2. I love ya. He’s so crazy tall. He towers over Cat. How does he move all that body like that? Awww.

So only two more weeks? This season seemed really short. I guess it's 'cause we're down to one show a week.


flea - Aug 30, 2012 8:04:10 am PDT #19852 of 23273
information libertarian

The show was short this year, though - Nigel has said they offered him starting with only 14 dancers. We found a way to take 20, but to do it he had to do two double-elimination weeks.

I agreed that Witney really served in the hip-hop piece. She was sharp and fierce. I wonder where Pasha is this year? I would love to see her dance with a ballroom partner.

Cole actually scares me a little bit. I suspect he is one of the dancers who is a total perfectionist and rehearses one zillion times. Alex Wong is like that too, actually, but he is much less creepy than Cole. I think Cole's creepy "act" is actually his personality.

Anyway, Eliana should win, boys I don't care now. The end.


Jesse - Aug 30, 2012 8:46:25 am PDT #19853 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

On a side note, Chehon gets tango? Ummm, I’m not so sure about that. Why did the two ballet kids both get ballroom?

I wonder if they are actually doing the thing they showed us at the beginning of the season, where the dancers pick numbers and then get to pick styles in order. I could see it shaking out like that, assuming other kids avoid ballroom and ballet kids would prefer it over (say) hiphop.


kat perez - Aug 30, 2012 12:56:02 pm PDT #19854 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

Oh, yeah. I totally forgot that they revealed they were doing that method this season rather than the suspiciously non-random magic hat method they claimed they used in the past. I might be able to see ballet kids picking ballroom over hip hop. Although, Eliana seems to be pretty versatile and Quikstep has traditionally not gone well on this show. Would she have gone with that over hip hop?

Dang, I can only imagine that must've meant that Witney picked dead last since I can't believe if a ballroom style had been left when her turn came up, she wouldn't have taken it rather than getting ratched with the hip hop and the diaper pants.

Now I'm going to spend way too much time thinking about what the pick order might have been. And I wonder if, when they pick, they get to learn the All Star along with learning the style now, because that would likely be a huge influence. So many questions!


Amy - Aug 30, 2012 4:52:24 pm PDT #19855 of 23273
Because books.

Project Runway: I'd love to see a challenge forbidding anyone from using black fabric. Just once.


-t - Aug 30, 2012 6:07:23 pm PDT #19856 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Heh. That would be entertaining.

Four high scores and two low! Mixing it up!


meara - Aug 30, 2012 6:30:16 pm PDT #19857 of 23273

I just got a chance to watch SYTYCD. All I can say is that I was surprisingly sad to see Big Pasty go. And thought Allison was AMAZING in her number with Cole...but I barely noticed him. Would love to see her dance it with someone else. And I quite liked the Tiffany/Ade number--I was surprised at how much I liked her in it.

I feel like the All Star formula makes it hard because on the one hand, so many of them (Cole, Cyrus) get massively outshined by the All Star. But on the other hand, when they do it well, it's super amazing (Eliana and Alex)


-t - Aug 30, 2012 6:39:02 pm PDT #19858 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, that was a surprise. Project Runway, that is. Has that ever happened before?


Vortex - Aug 30, 2012 7:21:41 pm PDT #19859 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I think that it has. I was surprised at first, but then I remembered that they lost two designers, and only replaced one with Raul. This was a good challenge to do this. Nothing was horrible.

I like the dress that won, although I think that it's going to be hard to reproduce. I'll bet that there are some adjustments to it before it is produced.

I really liked Fabio's dress. Yes, it was simple, but had some visual interest and was very versatile. Only thing is that the exposed zipper would have dated it quickly.


-t - Aug 30, 2012 7:41:50 pm PDT #19860 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, I remembered two people leaving and Raul coming back and then last week they teased us that might send more than one designer home and I lost track of how many people are supposed to be there. But if they are doing teams of three next week, they need nine people. And you are right, none of them were awful - I was thinking that it must be hard to send someone home when none of the dresses are seriously flawed just before they told Gunnar he was safe.

I'm kind of meh on the winning dress. It's fine, I guess. It does go well with the rest of the collection. I'm interested to see what the production version looks like - his explanation of how it could be mass produced made no sense at all to me.

I liked Fabio's dress, too, aside from the zipper. I rarely like the exposed zipper.

Man, there are no Lord and Taylors in California, I can't go try the Project Runway dresses on. Pout.