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Two things I wonder about "Harmony":

Bye-bye (same-sex) ballroom
I thought it was pretty clear they kept the butch one and sent the queen home. But of course they didn't want to comment on that.

How they gonna prove Iveta's age? Ask for records from Lithuania? ;)

Yeah what's up with all of that stomach-grabbing and sky-reaching, anyway? Do all of these dancers have really shitty teachers?

Unless Legacy gets a whole lot better at picking up choreography overnight, we won't have to put up with him much longer.

So Megan was really cut? I saw her briefly hugging someone and perhaps looking a bit sad, though it's hard to read expressions on her guppy-fish face, and I wondered a little. Not sad to see her go, not at all.

Assuming she is 29, she lived the first 11 years of her life under Soviet rule. And most of the rest struggling to recover from it…

I thought the stripper looked older, TBH. Or was it just that she looked like a trannie?

Ashleigh's faces
The reason ballroom dancers do that is that they're taught to play to the rafters. A ballroom audience isn't usually watching closeups on TV.

Only one?
I'd say there were two joke auditions. Three if you count the "burlesque".

You mean Megan? Yeah. I recognized her too. I remember liking her last season… until she started talking.

The audition is a very specific subgenre of dancing. Subtlety often doesn't pay off, so most of the dancers are in fact wise to cram all their most impressive moves into their solo.

Nobody to root for
Based purely on the cooking and coolness under fire, it would seem that Dave should be the front-runner. He out-performs most of the others one-handed. But he can't actually talk to people and I'm not sure he'll do well running the pass.

You didn't know that fingernails grow out when you were a kid?

I just watched the episode and there is no scene where the pilot is replaced. Though strangely enough the pilot arrives at the plane with helmet and oxygen mask already on, as if to disguise his face. Which makes little sense because when we do get to see his face it' s nobody that I recognize, so why would he try to

Gene in choreography
As for why the ballroom guy was sent to do more ballroom…

A palpable feel of non-excitement
Even by audition-episode standards this one was a snoozer.

No choreography rounds?
I was really bummed that we didn't get to see Anya and Pasha do their thing. Oh well, if there's going to be a glut of these audition episodes there'll be more opportunities, I guess.

In general, the contestants never seem to realize that celebrating a challenge victory by getting drunk is a bad idea…

@Quirk: there's a reason Scott calls this the lousiest date movie ever. Women have this knee-jerk negative reaction to the "mad gynecologist" idea. Go figure, huh?