Television Producers Beware.

Here's my beef with So You Think You Can Dance this season. I suspect that producers have finally caught on to the fact that the fans of this show (and there are a lot now) do not like to see people fail. Unlike American Idol or Survivor, SYTYCD fans genuinely like to watch good dancing. And when millions of people are tuning in to watch something, and it's making advertisers pay you insane amounts of money to run their ads on your program, you give them what they want to watch. That's fine, I suppose, as a fan of the show. I too like to watch the dancers succeed. The problem is that the basis of the show is competition. Theoretically the "good" dancers are rooted out from the "bad" based on their ability to perform in a myriad of dance styles. No one is arguing that Philip is an amazing Hip Hop dancer but we'd like to see him dancing contemporary and see how he does. So far, he's been given Hip Hop twice. In four weeks. And that Pas de Deux which, admittedly, is one of the most beautiful things I have seen on the show was given to a classically trained ballerina. Just so that it wouldn't fail. I'd like to see Melissa try her hand at Hip Hop because I'm about 165% sure she would fail miserably.

I suppose I should stop complaining that reality television is not reality. I hasn't been for more than a decade now. But seriously. I expect more of you So You Think You Can Dance. Even if you are on Fox.