SYTYCD Episode 1: It was stupid and it was stupid!

I had forgotten that Mia Michaels' is from Bizarro world: Remember Superman’s alter world where everything is reverse? So for Mia brilliant is stupid, wonderful is stinky, and successful is sex-full…oh no, wait a minute, that was just a slip of her tongue. But then, Mia, sometimes what you say really gets lost in translation such as when you said that the popper Phillip Chbeeb was brilliant. Did you really mean it? If you meant brilliant, why didn’t you say stupid? This is soooo confusing!
To me, it was stupid (bad) that “S-E-X” was back. If Nigel thinks it is so ridiculous (really meaning ridiculous, I think) that S-E-X auditions every season just to see himself on TV, why do they show him on TV every season then? Why isn’t he just edited out? Why spend one, two, three minutes on him, instead of someone else? After all, Nigel, you are the producer of this show! Or is it that you want to pretend that you’re just a judge? Like with Gold Inferno, with his jumping and stomping workout routine: were you really “outvoted” and were going to let him through to Vegas? We did see that smug smile of yours and eye twinkle… Oh, Nigel, here we start again another season of your tricky manipulations. Didn’t “S-E-X” audition for American idol also? Which, by the way, is also your show, Nigel?
Mary Murphy’s hot tamale laugh is back: can’t decide if it’s annoying (amusing) or amusing (annoying). She was the most consistent of the judge’s panel tonight, I will grant that. No conceited remarks, no outrageous celebratory remarks. What was good, she saw as good. What was not so good, well… Nigel did cover her eyes when the guy that can’t afford dance shorts (Rijiy Ames) made the (bold/ball) statement of the evening.
Well, besides a bunch of brilliant (stupid) auditions, there were some stupid (brilliant) ones. Ridiculously awesome was Erika Gee: technique, pointing, turnout and consistency in a contemporary routine. High hopes for her. Asuka, the ballroom dancer, she’s also beautiful and seems to be a contender. Kherington, the soccer player, has potential but I saw a few technique problems. And Devin, the one with just one shoe, was her technique really that incredible? Stupid was, not stupid good, the tall girl who claimed tall people discrimination, or Ryan the silly cat, or Edwin’s the “dropper.” Interestingly cool was the guy who danced to a poem. Cool performance, but was it dancing? And then the Gemini dancers Aliona-Leonidas: weird, her comment “we are the same just one female body/male body dancer” – weird, weird, weird… Eye popping of the evening: that last guy (Robert Muraine). Who knew the human body could do that? How flexible can you be? Marcel Marceau’s spirit was channeled tonight. Miming yes, entertaining yes, performance yes, dancing?
Sometimes this show makes me wonder: What is dancing, after all? Or is this a stupid question?

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