SYTYCD: Week 3 Results Show

*Spoiler Alert* (In case you haven't gotten around to watching it yet.)

Tuesday night, I predicted that the bottom three couples would be Ellenore/Ryan, Pauline/Peter, and Molly/Nathan.

Well, I got two out of three. During Wednesday night's elimination episode, Karen and Kevin were placed in the bottom three over Molly and Nathan.

Seriously?! Come on, SYTYCD viewers.

This is the only aspect of viewer-voting reality shows that I despise, which is why I don't watch them (minus SYTYCD cause I love dance, and the winner always ends up being someone who is the best dancer): Viewers vote based on popularity and "good looks" rather than personality AND, most importantly, dance technique.

Nigel Lythgoe said that viewers only kept Nathan and Molly safe because young girls think Nathan is cute (Really...? He looks like he's fourteen and acts like he's twelve...which I guess is attractive when you're preteen?) not because he's a good dancer. THANK YOU, NIGEL!

It looks like Nigel is getting tough about the whole popularity thing this year, and I love it. Usually the judges always seem to accept that that's how the voting goes. But I think Nigel is getting as annoyed as I am that amazing dancers get placed in the bottom three because viewers choose looks over how well couples danced.

So the six dancers performed their solos. Sure, it was nice to see them dance in their own styles, but nothing stood out. Nigel even said tht no one gave a decent enough performance to stay in the competition. (He also told the crowd to "shut up" when they booed him for saying that. Love you, Nigel.)

Yes, he does seem a little tougher than usual, but you can't really blame him since, like he said, with two seasons being back to back for the first time, the season five dancers/performances are still fresh on their minds. And, according to the judges, season five had the best group of dancers so far...until this season. Which is another reason he's upset. The judges keep raving about how good the dancers are this season, and they don't seem to be proving themselves (some of them).

So who got eliminated? My guess was that it would be Ellenore and Peter. I was half right. Pauline and Peter were eliminated from the competition. (By the way, did anyone else find how Nigel broke this to Pauline amusing?: "We're going to let you leave the competition." He was just a ball of anger last night.)

Hopefully, the remaining dancers (and SYTYCD viewers) learn from last night. Though I have a feeling that viewers are going to keep Molly and Nathan in the competition because they're going to continue to do poorly, and the judges are going to be honest about it, and viewers are going to feel bad and "prove the judges wrong" by voting for them. (Yes, I dislike these two dancers that much...and also, it's true.)

Luckily, the judges have the final say on who goes home, which gives them a chance to make sure the best dancers are in the Top 10.