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'So You Think You Can Dance': Melanie Moore is America's favorite dancer
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As expected, Melanie Moore, the 19-year-old dancer from Marietta, Ga., totally won Season 8 of "So You Think You Can Dance." But, really, as Nigel Lythgoe said at some point earlier this season, it's really dance that won. We got to spend the steamy summer months watching amazing dancers performing routines by some of dance's best and edgiest choreographers. Both men still in the competition -- Tadd and Marko -- were cut first. That left Melanie and Sasha -- two strong, and very different, dancers. The votes were with Melanie, but we have a feeling Sasha and the rest of the top 4 will find plenty of work considering the fab series of performances they turned in this season.
Speaking of which, we need to give some love to the folks behind the judge's table. This season also featured guest judges like Lady Gaga, Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Mullally, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Christina Applegate and -- hello -- Katie Holmes, all of whom actually added to our appreciation of the art. Ferguson was back for the finale -- the only non-dancy person behind the judges' table.
We weren't going to mention the visit from "Glee's" Naya Rivera, Heather Morris and Harry Shum Jr. who stopped by to invite the top four to the "Glee 3D" movie premiere, but well, we just did.
Now that's out of the way, we'd just like to mention that we're not sure why the finale had to be two hours -- the competition was over at airtime, the votes (all 11.5 million of them) had been cast. All that remained was to crown, as Cat Deeley says, "America's favorite dancer."
Yes, it was sweet to go back and revisit some of the season's best routines (including appearances from the top 20) and it was kind of like getting a free preview of the "So You Think You Can Dance" tour, but our TV schedule is packed as it is -- and we sat through two hours of this on Wednesday.
What did you think of the results?
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:D I'm so happy
btw Season 8 not 7 :P
I... as well as millions of fans thoroughly enjoyed the show toinight. If you didn't you shouldn't be doing the recap. And by the way you did lousy recaps when you did them during the season. (insert derogatory obsenity here!)
I am flat sick of this writer constantly using SPOILERS in the headlines of her articles! SYTYCD hasn't even aired on the West Coast, you moron! This is the last time I visit this site! TVLine, here I come!
Hmm, echoing some of the other comments here - this *was* a crappy recap. I forgot why I stop visiting Zap2it. Thanks for the reminder.
Way to wreck it for us on the West Coast. Crappy recapper. FInd a new line of work!!!
Congrats to the 4 finalists. They all deserved to be in the top 4. Big congrats to Melanie for the win. She really deserved it and was my favourite dancer since the first episode.
West coast? People in Hawaii get it even later than that! I guess the rule is to not go on the Internet until you have watched a show. The results were no surprise. The only suspense was which guy guy would come in fourth, at least for us. Nigel has known all along who was going to win. He sees the raw votes each week.
I'm tired of people blaming reporters for their own stupidity. This is a news site and reports news. You knew this site reports news. If you didn't want to know who won, why come on the site? Duh.
I came to this site last night to check on something else last night. As I scrolled through the articles, there was the spoiler. Not surprised that Melanie won, but it seems that Zap2it would welcome traffic on it's site anytime it could get it. If I have to avoid this site because some of it's bloggers disrespect me, that seems like a problem.
To ME: I don't read results articles ahead of time. I'd accept your derision if I purposely read an article that reported news and then complained. But having the name of a winner in the title of a post IS a spoiler in the true sense of the term. Other posts will say "spoiler alert" and the writer will be respectful enough to warn the reader to read no further. I don't think that's too much to ask.