Mia Michaels biased?

From season One on So You Think You Can Dance I began a twisted affection for Mia Michaels.  Her choreography is some of the most original and beautiful stuff I’ve ever seen.  I’m not a contemporary fan perse, but what she creates is magnificence.  Her personality on the show is a direct contrast to the admiration and respect I feel for her talent and ability to convert choreography from the spout of her mind.  She often comes off as a megalamaniac.  Her self obsession is worn like a badge of  honor on her sleeve, and while she’s earned the right the be a bit arrogant, her lack of modesty seems to have infiltrated the show in a way that I don’t think is right.

When it comes down to it, who listens to the judges?  Most of the time I agree with them, and when I don’t it really doesn’t matter to me, so my concern for Mia’s bias may be superficial in it’s ability to have any real affect on the dancers on the show, but it seems troublesome nonetheless.  Probably, because it takes away from the integrity of the show.  Where do I believe her bias comes from?  Contemporary dancers.  Review her comments each time she has judged and while she may tear the partner apart, she often offers compliments and wisdom and encouragement to the contemporary partner.  Even Courtney G. whom she openly disliked in the beginning she is starting to pamper with compliments.  Not too much has changed about Courtney’s personality, nor her journey.  She and Gev are rising together, but are the same couple the were at round one.  Last night when Thayne and Comfort danced, he did a fine job of the moves, even Comfort did okay, but the problem was the connection and the performance, but Mia declared he was brilliant, it was all Comforts fault.

There are many other circumstances where this has been an obvious bias on her part.  Go to the shows website So You Think You Can Dance or Youtube and search for a link that offers the commentary on what the judges stated as their opinions.  You’ll soon see the obvious pattern that Mia has set when she has judged.

She is a tremendous choreographer and a brilliant talent that brings so much to the show, it bothers me even more that her ego intrudes her opinions in such a biased manner.  Hopefully, Im wrong and this is all just coincidence, but I began to notice it in Season Two, and I’m fairly certain it is not a coincidence.

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Last night was full of performances with mixed emotions from the judges who often found themselves at odds with the audience, each other, and even themselves.  It will be interesting to see how much they waivered from last nights comments to their opinions today after a good nights sleep.

There were moments of particular harshness towards Comfort and Thayne from Nigel, who tried to be as comforting about it as possible, and also a slap in the face insult to Jessica from Mia Michaels who simply said to Will, “You look tired from carrying her.  You need a new partner.”  It was a harsh reality last night for a lot of contestents, especially those who had not yet been subject to negative judge reviews like Twitch and Kherington as well as Katee and Joshua.  The only couple free of scruntinization seemed to be Mark and Chelsie, and even Mark was once again given some pointers and room for improvement.

The Cat Meter last night?  Well, Cat looked beautiful from the neck up, her hair hanging naturally across her arms and back, and her face looking clean without any overdone makeup and of course in a terrible dress.  Even so, still stunning.  Last night she was a baaaaaaaad kitteh again.  With some inuendo about kitchen fornication the “Cat” meter earns several Meows for Miss Deeley.

Even with the tough and seemingly confused judges there were some pretty amazing performances last night.  A salsa with Mark and Chelsie was breathing hottness, a contemporary routine by Tyce Diorio with Jessica and Will was particularly smoldering and may be enough to keep at least Will in the competition, though they both will surely be in the bottom.  Chelsie and Mark were again solid with a broadway routine, but the night ended with the most impressive routine by Katee and Joshua who did a new genre of dance to the show: Bollywood.  And frankly, I don’t think any other couple could have pulled it off.

My Predictions?

Safe

• Chelsie and Mark
• Katee and Josh (thanks to their bollywood routine)

Toss Up?

• Twitch and Kherington (first bad night for these two-may resulte in bottom for them)
• Gev and Courtney (were good, but Twitchington has a huge fanbase that I dont’ think Courtney and Geve have)

Bottom

• Comfort and Thayne
• Jessica and Will

I think Comfort and Thayne will go home unless something unforseen happens, though they may send Jessica just to get Will with a new partner.  Comfort started off as one of my favorite dancers, but she has not grown or offered anything special or new in recent weeks and I believe her journey should end tonight, not Jessica who has demonstrated a far superior ability thus far.

Best Performance? Katee and Joshua again with their BOLLYWOOD routine:  Enjoy via YouTube: