Category Archives: So You Think You Can Dance
SYTYCD Season 7′s Top 4: With Great Power Comes Blatant Posturing
Season 7′s Top 4: With Great Power Comes Blatant Posturing August 4th, 2010 Well, America, the power is finally in your hands. I’ve written briefly in the past about how So You Think You Can Dance represents a strange sort … Continue reading
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When SYTYCD Art Meets SYTYCD Structure: Stacey Tookey’s Carefully Designed “Mad World”
When Art Meets Structure: Stacey Tookey’s Carefully Designed “Mad World” July 29th, 2010 I’ve spent a lot of time during So You Think You Can Dance’s seventh season discussing the non-dancing parts of the show, primarily in terms of the … Continue reading
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The Irony of Monotony: Why SYTYCD’s Season of Reinvention Still Feels Stale
The Irony of Monotony: Why SYTYCD’s Season of Reinvention Still Feels Stale July 22nd, 2010 Earlier in the seventh season of So You Think You Can Dance, I commented at length on how the All-Star structure seemed to take away … Continue reading
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Injury Time: Contestants turned Survivors on So You Think You Can Dance
Injury Time: Contestants turned Survivors July 15, 2010 Earlier this season, So You Think You Can Dance was creating its own problems: the new format got off to a rocky start, and early efforts to course correct felt like an … Continue reading
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Turning Over the Keys: Musical Guests in Reality Competition Programming
Turning Over the Keys: Musical Guests in Reality Competition Programming July 9th, 2010 LeBron James’ decision to join the Miami Heat in the fall isn’t half as interesting as his choice (nay, demand) to announce this decision on live television … Continue reading
Invasion of the Fan Perspective: So You Think You Can Dance’s Top 8
Invasion of the Fan Perspective: SYTYCD’s Top 8 July 7th, 2010 You could argue that tonight’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance is, in itself, fan service: after some have complained that the series’ switch to an All-Star … Continue reading
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SYTYCD (For the Cameras) & SYTYCD (with Another Dude)
SYTYCD (For the Cameras) & SYTYCD (with Another Dude) June 30th, 2010 I was going to discuss some of the ways in which the All-Stars format continues to wreak havoc with some of the important qualities of So You Think … Continue reading
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SYTYCD Squabble: Lythgoe v. Wall reveals Fallibility of the “Family”
SYTYCD Squabble: Lythgoe v. Wall June 24th, 2010 I don’t really have much to add to my previous opinions about So You Think You Can Dance’s seventh season, but I do think it’s important to note that they’re trying: they … Continue reading
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All-Stars, No Story: Confusion reigns over So You Think You Can Dance Season 7
All-Stars, No Story: SYTYCD Season 7 June 16th, 2010 When it was announced that So You Think You Can Dance would be changing its structure for its seventh season, in theory there shouldn’t be any complaints: after all, many of … Continue reading
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Being “Wrong” in Lost, The Big Bang Theory and So You Think You Can Dance
Being “Wrong” December 17th, 2009 In an interview with GQ this week (where they were joined by J.J. Abrams and the rest of the Bad Robot crew), Lost co-executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse spoke candidly about their anxieties … Continue reading
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