*Spoiler Alert* Season 10 Finale
SPOILER ALERT! DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE SHOW!
It has been another great season and it’s always sad to see it go. Before I get to the run down of the show and of course the winners, I am happy to announce that Fox and Nigel announced that there will be a SEASON 11! Now on with the show that had a 17 min intermission (Presidential speech), well for the east coast. We had Judges favorites, top 4 favorites, and some surprises.
The Top 20 are back, even Jade even thought he can dance cause his knee isn’t fully healed yet. A fun routine choreographed by Ivan from season 2 (who has choreographed for Justin Timberlake).
Paula Abdul Favorite: Edge of Glory, Paul and Makensie
Jasmine H. Favorite: Blurred Lines she danced with Marko. She surprised me with this pick.
Adam Shankman: he picked the FikShun and Twitch hip-hop to Hello Good Morning.
The Top 4 got to see a special screening of Battle of the Year, that features Dominic from season 3. Also Legacy from season 6 is also in the movie (look it up on IMBD if you don’t believe me).
Nigel’s Pick: This really was a no brainer, I knew he would pick a tap number, I just didn’t know which one. It’s fitting that he chose the one with all of the tappers from this season.
Twitch’s Favorite: His choice surprised me as well, mainly just the fact that it was a Broadway number. Kiss of the Spiderwoman- Nico and Hayley.
Aaron’s Favorite: Kissing You with all-star Kathryn
They replayed the sand number with the Top 10 guys, which is actually one on my absolute favorites of the season.
Cat’s Favorite: Run the World, Jasmine and Comfort hip-hop
Mary’s Favorite: Medicine, Tucker and Robert
Puttin’ on the Ritz: Top 20. Really loved this innovative number that NappyTabs created.
Then another favorite of mine Mark and Jenna.
FikShun and Amy both picked the same dance as their favorite. After Party, the bell hop hip-hop.
So we are treated to the “partnership” of Nigel and Mary. Though the video montage, I’m sure I wasn’t the only that was wondering where they were going with this…a dance with Nigel and Mary. This did make my night, especially Adam not wanting to be left out of the fun.
The Top 5 moments from the Auditions with the number one spot going to Movement Box.
Twitter’s Travis Wall routine Favorite: Seriously no surprise that it is Wicked Game that he danced with Amy.
The Top 10 and All-Stars perform and fun surfs up number by Nappy Tabs.
Now time for the Winner’s, Cat announced that a girl got the top number of votes. With that said she began with the guys and then the girls.
The Season 10 Winners ARE….FICKSHUN and AMY!!! Congrats to them both and Aaron and Jasmine. What a great season can’t wait till next year.
Best finale show ever! Really creative and well paced to hold our interest. Loved the favourite picks, except for the Mark number (his work just doesn’t do it for me), although I thought Jenna danced it very well. When I see the highly emotional pieces, I sometimes find that they can’t really recreate the moment, which makes sense — you can never see something for the first time more than once. But I think I would cry no matter how many times I saw that Tucker and Robert piece.
We were not surprised by the results. And really, it’s like Cat said, this was a top four in which any of them were deserving of the crown, as indeed many of the other dancers would have been.
One thing I loved from this season was the general high quality of the choreography. It’s always been good, of course, and sometimes outstanding, but this season seems to have been particularly strong. Maybe it was that the choreographers had such strong and capable dancers to work with. Even some of my least favourites, like Ray Leeper, really came through with great numbers.
Can’t wait for Season 11! But this was a truly satisfying season in so many ways. Thanks for your blog! xo