It has now been a few weeks since I have watched the Season
1 finale, and almost a year since I started this project (I’ll be faster with
Season 2, I promise!). So the questions I now need to ask myself are: How does
this season stack up? How much of it do I remember?
The truth is, I don’t remember very much from Season 1. In
terms of the dancers, I remember Nick and Melody clearly, though with a little
effort, I can dredge some of the other dancers (Ashlé, Jamile, Ryan, Destini,
Blake) up from the mnemonic void. I can’t remember a single dance clearly. All
I can remember is that Mary Murphy is a damned good choreographer, and needs to
start choreographing again. Lauren Sanchez was an adequate host, but hiring Cat
Deeley to host Season 2 was one of the smartest moves the producers ever made.
The dancing definitely gets better as the seasons go along.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see any of the Top 4 show up as All Stars (Melody
already did) – but their dancing while they were competing on the show was not
anywhere close to the dancing we saw on Season 8. (I am reserving judgment on
Season 9 until we get decently into the performance shows.)
Overall Season 1 Grade: B-
And not a solid B-, either. The kind of B- you give to a
first semester freshman who’s really eager to do well, and is trying to work
hard, but doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing. It’s the scholastic
equivalent of giving someone a trophy for not sucking.
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