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Talia = HAWTNESS. Her hip swivels in that salsa/quickstep hybrid were gold, as good as I've ever seen on the show (watching that fringe flap around in unison was mesmerizing). Both of her routines with Ben were fantastic, but she did not bring it in that awful hootchie group dance. Her hip hop with Ben was the best hip hop routine this season. You often see great choreography making the dancers look amazing, but this is one of the few examples of meh choreography elevated to something special because of the dancers. I can't imagine any other couple combination pulling this one off, because aside from a couple of nice lifts, the only way this would work is to be perfectly in synch (which they were), and to bring the proper style and attitude (which they did).

It seems like Jason is setting the table to get Gianne in ahead of Kat. His criticism of Kat's foxtrot was a bit bizarre -- for one thing, he keeps working this "you're too young" angle with Kat beacuse she's 18, then turns around and tells BJ he's awesome even though he's only 19. Does that year or so make all the difference in the world? I don't see it. I thought that was BJ's best routine this season, and in Kat's top three. Easily the best foxtrot in either season -- the choreography was bulletproof. The circus themed dance was kind of a mess for me, although kudos to Kat for letting it all hang out back there. Jason's only real compliment to Kat was backhanded -- he said Kat was the standout in the girl number, but she was just best of the worst.

Tim and Amy's first dance was scary to watch -- like Bonnie, I also noticed how perilously close Amy's skull was to slamming into the floor, and that near-miss just took me out of a performance that was already clumsy looking with the kind of random looking choreo that a better couple could sell but just wasn't working with this pair. In contrast, The Wiz number was absolutely fantastic, although in a night with multiple fantastic dances, it doesn't even crack my top three of the night.

I feel bad for Charlie and Gianne. It's difficult to assess their performance in relation to the other pairs because they lost a day's rehearsal, but neither number was particularly good, and the real crime was that it wasted what could have been another amazing Supple routine. Hopefully, he will come back again for a Talia/Ben or Amy/Ben combo.

The guys'dance was another big mess. Tim was just all over the place, missing steps and not staying in synch. Interestingly, you can have a guy dancing in a thong leotard and it's still less gay than a guy dancing in a sports uniform. Especially to Robbins style Broadway.