All I really need to know about this is whole thing that Doug Ellin co-wrote Kissing a Fool with James Frey. That pretty much tells me how highly to value his opinion.

I'll check it out. I love beyond the pale.

I mean, I don't hate Nigel. He's pretty much solely responsible for the show's very existence (well, he and Simon Fuller, but I have no idea what Fuller necessarily did, while Nigel's fingerprints are all over the end result). And I don't blame him for trying to make the show more popular; I certainly don't want the…

Yes, I have seen the Chorus Line documentary featuring Tyce D'Orio, and he was just as insufferable in it as he is on the show. His choreography was almost always a low-point for me, precisely because it seemed like Broadway-lite, and not terribly well-thought our or taken seriously. His contemporary routines don't do…

I just can't imagine what it must be like to be a gay male dancer on the show. Do they sign contracts that state that they can't talk about their sexuality? That seems ludicrous. But it certainly does seem like a tacit agreement between the contestants and the higher-ups: there's going to be some weird 'shipping of…

Yeah, I was so disappointed that she basically just gave up because she got a bad teammate. And Mimi was actually pretty game, and seemed like she wanted a chance at redemption. Sad all around…

I'm trying to be the bigger man and give her the benefit of the doubt. But yeah, it's a distinct possibility.

The thing about Nigel is I don't think he's actually homophobic, at least not in the sense that he's afraid of/disgusted by gay people. I think that as a straight male dancer, especially hundreds of years ago when he was coming up in the business, his sexuality was probably speculated on a lot, and he got fed up with…

The whole Billy Bell situation was so heartbreaking because he was supposed to be on the show the previous season, injured himself, then came back, and there were huge expectations for him, and then… sad trombone noise. And the judges always pointed at something about his movement that wasn't sharp enough which I feel…

That's really too bad; she was always my favorite choreographer. It stings even worse because it was probably Nigel who drove her away with his utter ridiculousness.

It will be a psychedelic wonderland!

More female street dancers would be an awesome side-effect of this potential shitshow. I want to be hopeful, but you know… Derulo.

All-Stars was indeed a shitshow. If they ever decide to do another season, I hope they commit and ditch the "teams" aspect of that season. Sure, it gave us Rujubee, but it also gave us the spectacular flameout of Pandora Boxx and Mimi Imfurst (which was actually more Pandora's fault than Mimi's…)

I agree with you, but I feel like the show is right on the edge of cancellation at this point, and they're going to do whatever they think will keep it on the air. Nigel is being pragmatic to a fault, and might end up hastening the end of the show by trying to save it.

Ugh, I just used literally the way I hate. Somebody smack me with the Malaprop Stick.

You might be right, but I really hope not. Otherwise it's literally apples vs. oranges.

They should have kept the choreography round, and made all the street dancers do a contemporary routine, and all the stage dancers do a hip hop routine. I'm preemptively exhausted by the inevitable avalanche of contestants who flame out in Vegas because it turns out they can only dance one style.

No, you're right, the SYTYCD auditions have vastly improved ever since they stopped including the joke contestants, or the completely clueless ones (remember Sex? The guy who showed up with his mom every season and fell somewhere between trainwreck and performance art?) And it's the nature of the machine that they…

Also, can I just say how surprised I was that something Mimi Imfurst said actually made me laugh?

It's not the the voice, the show tends to prefer queens who have a distinct drag persona, and then a separate backstage persona. It's hard to build a story around a contestant who's trying to be in character the whole time, cause after a while it all starts to come off as disingenuous, and the show wants to develop…