So Wrong It's Right

The streak is dead.  Long live the streak!

Y'all, I've never been so happy to be wrong in my life.  I admit it.  I was worried.  But I needn't have been.  I shoulda known I could count on you bitcas to do something completely unpredictable.  Finally!  And so Mark lives to bring the pretty for another day.  If he brings more shirtlessness and sleeveless, shouldery goodness, then I'm happy to be wrong every week.

But kittens, you can never have the sweet without a teensy bit of bitter.  And tonight, I lost one of my love bugs.  Gev danced his heart out and laid down another slamming solo.  And then he danced his miniature hotness off to wherever they make supremely beautiful former Soviet Union dancers.  I'll imagine him, Pasha and Dmitri standing around somewhere smoldering in that good natured way that they have and speaking Russian.

But enough about hotties (well, for now).  Back to the show.  The Bollywood group dance wasn't nearly as fun as the Katee/Josh piece, but it still entertained and was a huge step up from last week's NappyTab nightmare.  Mia's overwrought piece rehashed some of her greatest hits :Writhing around on the edge of the stage like last year's Imogen Heap piece?  The dancer catch and release like the S2 Top 6 routine?  Yeah, she and Tasty both need to take a little vacay.  Nigel's piece for the boys was super fun.  (I could've done without the step break.  See the ABDC opening group number, producers, if you want to see how to successfully integrate stepping into your numbers)  But I did enjoy the Moes.  And it's nice to recall that underneath all the perviness, Nigel really does have some cred.

As for the rest of our jidges, I love me some L'il C.  The way he took Kherington to task for her stank face response to getting the mildest of critiques from the judges last night (after weeks of unearned tongue baths) was beautiful.  I can put up with his somewhat tenuous grasp of English grammar, so long as he keeps laying the smack down.  And he's got such and "iron fist in a velvet glove" about it, too.  Well played, young 'un.  I'd love for him to take on Courtney next.  The remaining half of my love bugs severly let me down tonight.  She rushes on stage after losing her partner of 5 weeks so that she can immediately try to hug . . . Kherington?  WTF, Courtney?  Contrast that with the Mark/Chelsie bear hug of safety.  (Once again, let us raise our eyebrows at the "brother/sister" vibe.  Let us also ruminate on why Ms. Cat Deeley can't seem to keep her hands off of our Mark.  Now let us silently applaud these ladies for their good taste and move on)

So it's off to Top 8.  And now that Kherington and Gev are out, where do we go from here, kittens?  It's a whole hew frontier.  Will Comfort be able to hold on and make top 6?  Will Nigel and Co. pair her up with Mark and give them Irish folk dancing and watusi in an effort to finish both of them off for good?  (Be forewarned, Show, that I WILL cut you if we get Mark/Comfort next week)  How long can Twitch's likeability factor push him past more solid dancers?  And what new and exciting ways will the costumers find to get Will nekkid? 

The only sure thing is that if Nigel and Co. keep working these kids like field hands, there'll be a couple more cracked ribs before the end of the season.  They all looked beat down, poor noodles.  Why not have all-star week and bring back former contestants to do a couple exhibition shows so that the kids can get some rest?  I'd tune in for more Travis Wall in a hearbeat.