Karen and Victor go home — another mistake?
This week’s photo says it all. In the weekly “DOH!” that is the “So You Think You Can Dance” results show, another talented pair went home. Karen Hauer and Victor Smalley were eliminated just shy of making the Top 10 dancers, which means they would go on tour after the show ends. Instead, the pair miss that opportunity.
In the bottom three this week were Karen and Victor, Ryan and Ellenore (upset!) and Nathan and Mollee (no surprise there). The judges unanimously agreed to drop Karen over Mollee, and Victor over Nathan. The season’s supposed fan favorites, Nathan and Mollee have been in the bottom three many times. Some fans suggest that they would have been the ones to go home. However, as judge Nigel Lythgoe pointed out, Karen didn’t dance for her life and may have been resigned to go home this week. Still, I would have danced my patootie off to make the top 10!
Politics? Would the tour be more successful keeping Nathan and Mollee? Perhaps. No podcast this week because of the Thanksgiving holiday, but we’ll be back next Thursday.
Zap2it posted some great backstage interviews with the judges. Take a look.
– Yvette Walker
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This was the third time for Karen and Victor to be in the bottom three, so I expected them to go home after Tuesday’s performance show. Yes, Mollee and Nathan have been in the bottom three twice now, but I’d argue that in spite of their lack of maturity, they have more personality. Victor has never really shown personality, and Karen never takes the judges’ criticism well and looks angry or depressed during each negative critique. I was a fan of Karen the first two or three weeks and had her as my first place girl. But I actually came to dislike her the last couple of weeks because of some kind of attitude going on. Maybe it was like Nigel said and she’d just resigned herself to eventually going home. They may still go on tour as alternates, but I’m not sure since few fans voted for them to stay the last couple weeks.