i have lived longer than bowie, i got that on him. hah!

correct, it is the mini tramp that is the villain for the smaller competitors. you need to get a hell of a bounce to get deep enough into the bouncing spider, and also for the leap that kacey missed. she was so amped to get the bounce she missed the apparatus, and suffered a humiliating flop.

you seem to have missed the point that TWO people finished, and the honor of being the FIRST to complete ANW does not count for nothing just because another competitor did it 3 seconds faster. BRITTEN may not have gotten the big bucks, but he was the FIRST.

that was an excellent review in a sea of tween bad spelling and squee, although you did kind of get petty peevish towards the end. you are too good to go in for snark, imo.

after reading the comments below i feel obliged to mention the thematic limitations of hip hop. i have one that drives me batty, or maybe two. the comic heist, or the spy duo. any one else care to add any they have seen repeatedly over all the seasons of sytycd, us, uk, can aust, netheland, ukraine etc etc?

this was the first thing i thought of as a response as well. though he parodied, the form, skewered might be better, he is a well known contemporary artist himself. and i also am reminded of this whenever a routine gets trite.

and i'm a 70 year old man, and i made almost the same comment in the facebook group i participate with even the weaker men have something to offer, virtually no cannon fodder, many of the girls appeared to me to be clones, leggy brunettes, what, 4 or 5 of them. i remember only emily, jessica, tanisha (more because…