2009 is here and with that brings a new season of Americans Best Dance Crew. Excited? I know I am. Despite its many flaws, this is the only MTV show I find myself capable of watching and not be e. The season premire happened last night and let me just say it did not disappoint (or at least not yet). For the premire we had to endure guest judge (stand in for JC who won’t be in until next episode) Rynan ‘Rainen’ Paguio from season 1 winners Jabbawockeez Crew. This was definitely a big ‘nay’, Rainen was not as annoying as Mario but was pretty damn close. Thankfully we don’t have to sit through his judging for longer than this first episode.mbarrassed to say I enjoy it
Anyway here is a breakdown of the crews and a star rating for their performances:
Quest **** - Beat Freaks **** - Dynamic Edition *** - Ringmasters **
Strikers Allstars *** - Fly Chicks *** - Team Millenia ** - BoxxCutterz **
GOP Dance *** (crew elimated)
The crew that was elimated in this first episode was the Puerto Rican crew GOP Dance. As you can see above I gave them three stars as opposed to a number of crews I only gave two. No I am not being biased because their Puerto Rican (though it does seem fair to do so after Lil’ Mama’s brawling over Brooklyns’ Ringmasters). GOP Dance was not great but was better than other crews, namely Team Millenia. Anyone who watched season two might remember Team Millenia from the live auditions, which they obviously did not make. But miracles do happen and now Team Millenia is on and has survived the first episode. Note the sacarasm. Did they improve from season two? o.O <= that was my face last night after their performance. Apparently improvement means turning into rockers. Their performance was a joke (and not even a funny joke at that). But the bigger joke of the night was Ringmasters, but heaven forbid Lil’ Mama shall hear me saying such a thing. Where was the dancing in their routine? I’m not going to deny that what they do is impressive, but I didn’t see enough (or any in my opinion) dancing.
I’m not going to get into details about the rest of the performances (the star ratings speak for themselves). But I am going to do some predications like I always do. The top three Quest, Beat Freaks, and Ringmasters (as much as I hate the thought of that). The bottom two crews are going to be Team Millenia and BoxxCutterz – the crew going home would be BoxxCutterz.
We’ll just have to wait till next week to see how right I am. Until then 1.