"...You Can Dance": Conspiracy!
By Eric Rezsnyak on Jul. 25th, 2008 at 8:47am 3 Comments
Last night's "So You Think You Can Dance" had a shocking elimination: Will, often talked up by the judges as the best dancer on the show in ANY season, is history.
Oh, and Comfort went home again, for the second time. Thanks, Comfort! You were kind of fun! But woefully out of your element!
While Comfort's boot was all but a sure thing, I also thought her partner on Wednesday, Mark, would be joining her in the former reality TV star unemployment line. Not so - he didn't even land in the Bottom 2. And that's where I start to call shenanigans.
Remember "American Idol" Season 3? It was the show's least talented season (up until this last one, at least). For proof look at Jasmine Trias, who ended up in third place. Jasmine was a pretty, seemingly sweet girl who somehow kept getting pushed through each week despite weak vocals. More talented singers - like Jennifer Hudson and LaToya London - got axed while she kept on going. Then the conspiracy theory emerged: the Hawaii vote.
While the three time zones that make up the continental United States are home to millions of people all fighting to get through the phone lines to vote for shows like "AI" and "Dance," Hawaii is off by its lonesome. Its relatively small population has unfettered access to the phone lines, meaning that while you keep getting busy signals while trying to vote for your favorite dancers/singers, the people of Hawaii are a lot more likely to get right through.
Guess who's from Hawaii? Mark.
This is, of course, just a theory. Mark could have legitimately scored enough votes to put him higher than both William and Twitch (his partner in the Bottom 2; more on him in a minute). He may have gotten the sympathy vote after being brutalized by the judges Wednesday night.
It's all possible. But not probable. I have a very hard time buying that Mark is the second-most popular male dancer on this show. And if he somehow makes it to the finals with his bizarre, useless solos, I'll be annoyed.
Just like how annoyed I am by Nigel and Co.'s continued over-hyping of Twitch. Last night after Will wrapped his solo (which I totally don't think he had planned out; I think he was blindsided by his ouster), Nigel opined that he was shocked that both Will and Twitch were in the bottom, since they were the strongest male dancers Wednesday night. Nigel? Allow me to introduce to Joshua, who is f'ing amazing and performed two VERY difficult routines Wednesday night nearly perfectly. (Yes, he was clearly exhausted during that disco routine, but Jesus, he'd danced THREE TIMES by that point.) Meanwhile, Twitch performed well, but I don't think either of those routines held a candle to the difficulty Joshua was pulling off.
Nigel has been licking Twitch's ass all season long, and I'm really, truly sick of it. HE'S NOT THAT GOOD. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but there have been better hip-hop dancers on this show since Season 1, and EVERY WEEK we're told how amazing he is, to the point that judges have actually gotten up and bowed for the man. Would they do that for any other contestant? HAVE they done that for any other contestant? I have yet to be impressed by a Twitch solo. It's nothing I haven't seen a hundred, a thousand times over in the audition episodes of this show.
Last night, when being told he was in the bottom, Twitch completely spazzed, and ran to the corner of the stage, crumpled into a ball, and cradled his head in his hands. Are you kidding me?! This is what we call a desperate plea for attention. After that little stunt he practically has thing sewed up, as you know the dimwits at home are all going to be, "Poor Twitch! He's so sad! I need to vote for him." Drama. Queen. If any other dancer pulled that America would have rolled its eyes, but because it's Darling Twitch, that totally fake emotional outburst is going to be lauded and used as an excuse to push him to the win. Bull shit.
Out of the remaining dancers, this should go to Joshua, Chelsie, or Courtney, who have all been awesome all season long. But they won't win. Now that similarly preordained Will is out of his way, this all belongs to Twitch, and I'll be curious to see if Nigel can look any of the other dancers in the eye afterward since he's been orchestrating this since the very first Top 20 performance night. Garbage.






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Jacob on July 27th, 2008
I agree with your Twitch theory. I don't know if alot of people remember but Twitch was on a show on MTV called "The Wade Robinson Project". It's no secret that Wade Robinson is frequently a guest judge and coreogropher on the show. Coincedence?
Anya on July 30th, 2008
This is a brilliant theory! I really was shocked about Will; I thought he was going to win the entire thing. I think it is possible though, just possible, that the whole voting system could be a scam. They've never cited a company that counts the votes...
Also, now that they've got Will off, the show has gotten a ton of publicity. It could be something like that too.
All worth investigating I think! Of course, this could be a bunch of bullocks but, who knows?
Kathy on July 30th, 2008
I had no idea Twitch used to be part of the Wade Robson Project! No wonder Wade hasn't been choreographing routines this season. It's a shame too, a lot of his from last season were my favorites (Vagabon Cabaret by Sara & Jesus, the Hummingbird & the Butterfly by Jaimie & Hok and the Good v. Evil by Neil & Lauren).
I'm another one who does not get the Twitch love. He's good, but not as good as we've seen on this show. We've had much better hip-hoppers on this show (like Hok and even Sara), and some even this season (Joshua is amazing and Gev was pretty good too).