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Reality TV finale thoughts

I realize that Top Chef actually ended, like, two weeks ago, but I only watched the finale last week. Turns out Trinity already heard about what happened, so he delayed watching until I demanded to know why he wasn’t itching to watch it.

Photo from BravoTV.com

Watching the episode was agony. Hosea and Stefan were naturally at each other’s throats, bickering over foie gras and caviar. But what really hurt to watch was seeing Casey take Carla down, notch by notch. Oh, try to sous vide the beef, oh, why not a souffle instead of a tart… Carla! Girl, there’s a reason why Casey didn’t win the title of Top Chef. Sigh. And apparently, I’m not the only one who feels kind of, eh….about Hosea winning the season 5 title. If Stefan won, I would’ve been, well, he’s the better all around chef… If Carla had won (although she and everyone else watching knew that was not going to happen with what happened with her meal), I would’ve thought, I like her! And she’s a good cook! But Hosea…? Ughhh. First off, he can’t cook fish even though he keeps saying he can, second, he is so obviously always trying to keep up with Stefan. Third, he’s such a douche bag for what happened with Leah.

Anyway, last week was also the season finale of ABDC.

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Predicting the next few ABDC episodes

I know your game now, America’s Best Dance Crew producers. Now that the last of the two gimmick groups have been eliminated (I’m sorry, but clogging? On a hip hop dance crew show? Really?), I now know what the next few episodes are going to be like. Next episode, the Fly Khicks will be eliminated. (I doubt it will be the Strikers All Stars) It could be SAS, but I doubt it. Second to the last episode, somehow Quest Crew and Beat Freaks (or is it Freakz?) will get the fewest votes, with SAS guaranteed to be in the finale. Then Quest Crew will be eliminated, with Beat Freakz beating out SAS for the win.

This is, of course, all dependent if they follow the formula of the last two seasons. And why would they change what seems to be working so well?

Video of some of my favorite performances after the jump.

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Observations about ABDC, season 3

  1. Dude. What did Lil Mama do to her hair?
  2. Here we go with the corny metaphors Mario Lopez uses every single time he introduces a performance. Good God, who writes those things? The most clever thing he’s said in three seasons was his offhand comment about one of the Fly Khick’s sneakers being so small it could be a key chain. That’s pretty sad.
  3. Kid Rainen. I know you were probably nervous, but slow it down. But we did love it when you employed the accent to point out one of the Ringmasters jumping off the ladder with the Nacho Libre mask. That was awesome.
  4. Stepping, flexing and clogging? Really?
  5. OMG, I want the Ringmasters to go away. It’s horrifying for me to watch them pull their bones out of their joints to entertain people. It really is.
  6. When Lil Mama told the Boxcuttuhz they were very characteristic, we had to pause and just laugh. We were like, “characteristic of….?”
  7. I love Fullerton, and I love being Filipino, but I don’t see Team Millenia lasting very long. I hate to say it, but you guys weren’t as good as Kaba Modern, not as good as SoReal Cru and the rock persona doesn’t feel very genuine.

All that said, I am calling it right now, that the teams to beat are Quest Crew and Beat Freaks. Those girls were so awesome.

JabbaWockeez, live and in color

JabbaWockeez photo lifted from MuchMusic.com

JabbaWockeez photo lifted from MuchMusic.com

I’m signed up for countless email blasts, but one this morning happened to be useful. The America’s Best Dance Crew Live tour starts in Miami but comes home Oct. 16 to the Nokia Theater in downtown.

(Tickets for this went on sale practically two weeks ago…but I only got an email now? Sheesh.)

Now, excuse me as I go call up friends and devise a way to cover the event….or something…

MTV wins America’s Best Dance Crew

I suppose I’m disappointed that SoReal Cru didn’t win, and I like Super Cr3w. R.J. Puno won my heart when he shouted out to Filipinos. I also loved how he was sporting a big Filipino flag as all the crews hit the stage after the announcement. By the way, was Super Cr3w wearing Filipino flag jackets? That was dope. So congratulations to them.

But this season stinks of major backroom scheming.

A few things I have to note. Can’t a female get into the top spot? Also, we don’t seem to care that both seasons, West Coast crews have won. But, I guess that the West Coast does have a huge dancing population.

The stinky thing I’m talking about is the strong feeling I get that Super Cr3w was pegged right away to win. Hence, the three saves by the judges, even against Fanny Pak, the most theatrical, entertaining, talented and surprising group all season. Yeah, because even though voting ended just a few hours before the live finale, they of course have a silly trophy engraved with Super Cr3w’s name on it. Then again, I suppose a trophy is easy to make duplicates of, one for each crew, just in case, but media companies are not being really extravagant with costs right now…
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