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.

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!

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

Heh. That would be entertaining.

Four high scores and two low! Mixing it up!

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)

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

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.

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.

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

For reals.

I liked Fabio's the best, and I'm glad the girls pulled it together in the end. That was some drama in the workroom.

I wish they'd sent Gunner home just because I'm kind of sick of him, but I understand why they made the decision they did.

I thought Ven's dress was very well-constructed, but the only thing I could think of looking at that flower was, did an alien just pop out of her chest?

I seriously loved Melissa's -- I haven't had the right body for any of her stuff since Matilda was born, but purely from a design standpoint I utterly love the hell out of practically everything she's done (also, one of the TLo commenters outed himself as being a San Franciscan who works in some kind of retail and knows Melissa as a customer, and he reports that she's always been nice and friendly and fun and one of his favorite customers; people who treat retail drones like fellow human beings totally deserve bonus points).