A sincere congratulations to Joshua Allen, winner of Season 4 and the new “America’s Favorite Dancer”!
I for one am very very surprised that Twitch did not win. But I believe that Joshua was the deserving winner between the two of them. I just think he showed more overall technique, more diversity in excellence, and more believability when it came to the serious, mature routines. If you think back to what he had to perform, including the Paso Doble, the Samba, and of course, the Bollywood — considering how terrifically he performed those routines, and how Twitch struggled with certain ballroom dances, I think Joshua was more deserving. I respect those who feel that Twitch’s performance value should have carried the day, however.
A quick note though – I still think Katee deserved the overall win. She really did display an amazing range, musicality, and devotion to the details. That Pas de Deux with Will really should go down in SYTYCD lore as one of the best routines ever, up there with the “park bench” routine with Travis and Heidi and that Ivan/Allison contemporary routine, both interestingly by Mia Michaels. And that Wade Robson Mikado-like routine with Hok and Jamie.
Nevertheless, great end to a great season!
Some final notes about the final episode:
1. Mary Murphy is much skinnier than I expected her to be. I guess I’ve never really seen her full on, just behind that judge desk, and I’m ashamed to say that based on her face (and chins), I had expected her to be a little out of shape. But her legs – wow!
2. Mary Murphy cannot really dance at an elite level any more.
3. Nigel Lythgoe truly stunk up the stage and kind of embarrassed himself, in my opinion. I guess it’s his show, but he kinda “jumped the shark” a little bit there for me.
4. I hope we never have to see Adam Shankin on that stage. That man just loves being on camera and will shamelessly take any opportunity to ham it up.
5. I am, however, intrigued at the idea of seeing Mia Michaels dance.
6. Philip Chbeeb really kicked that weirdo Robert’s ass. I don’t know what was going on there with the judges, but maybe it’s because Philip will try to audition again and they didn’t want to do anything to bias the fans of his? I don’t know, but it really wasn’t all that close in my eyes.
7. Very interesting to see the past contestants. But is it me, or did Jesus’ “Lovecatcher” look like Xanadu 2008?
8. I liked Blake’s dancing on the show, but man, he became show-bizzy very very quickly. Loves to drop names and show up dancers on his Canadian SYTYCD, apparently.
9. I realized as I was watching Chelsie dance that I really wish she had been in the Top 4 instead of Courtney. Courtney is great and all, but I think Chelsie would have killed that Jive with Joshua.
10. Thanks for reading! I’ll be continuing with more random SYTYCD posts, American Idol when it starts up, and of course, Mad Men. And finally, Lost when it starts up in 2009.
!! I’m so disappointed I found out who won without watching the show :(
Vcpcreations: Well, you didn’t miss much if you didn’t watch that 2 hour marathon finale last night… but are you disappointed about Joshua winning or missing the show last night?
Oh no… I’m very happy Joshua won! I wanted either him or Katee to win… Hopefully they’ll replay it?! I heard this was the best finale yet
Hmmm, I’m not sure if they’ll replay it, but you can catch pretty much every routine and moment on youtube or idolforums.net (there’s a video thread there).
I had predicted
1. Katee
2. Twitch
3. Courtney
4. Joshua
I guess I don’t know America as much I thought. Not bitter though because the situation means seeing more of Joshua’s finely crafted ass.
I srsly thought twitch was gonna win.
:(
@ nottibits: America surprised me on this one too, definitely.
@ Rizzo – yeah, I actually do feel for Twitch fans, b/c he definitely had a legion of devoted fans and I can see why people loved him. He’ll probably make a fortune selling his t-shirts and starring in some dance movie though. I think Adam really wanted Twitch to be in his movie.
im from aust nd i find it funny that i already know the winner even tho we r only on the U.S.’s second top 20 show or wateva
even tho the show has prob been finished 4 a little while in the u.s lol
Yeah, the show just ended last night for us! I would have thought they had an Australia-specific show, no?
The show is airing in Australia at the moment and I like kerington and joshua. They all deserve to win. But now I know the winner ( I like to find things out ) lols. Congrats to Joshua.
Also I think that Gev and Courtney make the cutest couple. Awww Gev like’s her :).