How the Mightiest do Fall

How the Mightiest do Fall by Roxanne McDonald

Besides the work ethic theme, including early mornings, long rehearsals, and twenty-four-hour commitment, the theme of the week is personal creativity. Sesily’s opportunity to shine becomes a light on how dull she apparently is, despite how “creative” she gets with the excuses.

While the groups have “Shame” and “Don’t Leave Me this Way,” maybe they should have switched songs: the “Shame” group is confirmed as doing well once Robin checks in on them during rehearsals; but the “Don’t Leave Me…” group is a mess. They are not working cohesively on the dance floor, and they are not working well on any interpersonal levels, either. For some reason, the girls are cruel toward Asia as leader, and when she breaks down about it, Sesily is ever the sadistic one, saying how “life isn’t always pretty” or something indifferent and cold like that.

However, as Asia is determined to show Robin that she can be strong and put drama behind her, and as Melissa says, Asia becomes more confident, stronger, in spite of or

because of the problem between the three.

The mini-competition involves Ashley of The Pussycat Dolls coming and calling for the sexy side of each of the girls, saying how there is a Pussycat Doll in every woman, and ushering in some hot boys to accompany the contestants in a sexy choreographing challenge.

Mariela, who is more than thrilled with her partner, whom she says is “so hot” and “very good eye candy,” wind the elimination exemption.

Sesily has had control issues with her partner, who resisted her idea of lowering her to the floor Tango-style; and in true Sesily the Queen of Sour Grapes and Sadism fashion, has bashed Asia, again, for dancing like a drag queen.

In some token moment of contrition (not about Asia, though), Sesily comments how disappointed she is for not having won the challenge, and asserts that “That just shows I have to work harder for this performance.” Does it also mean, then, that had she won immunity she would not have worked so hard? Evidently it does.

For when she finishes her performance of “Don’t Leave Me this Way,” wherein she was supposed to of course work as a member of the troupe but also bring her own personal creativity to the show, Ron Fair says she had this Debra Harry moment with the pole that was odd to him, and the other judges, Antin and Li’l Kim, are equally disappointed.

Sesily is not the next Pussycat Doll.

And in exit interviews, in that way that still baffles me that such types would try out to begin with, Sesily backpedals, saying how she “went up there and didn’t do [her] best.”

What the hell, girls? One of you says you can’t dance and have no business being there; one of you says you are not really a singer and have no business auditioning; and now a third to be removed says she didn’t try. [to do either], really.

Now, I thought the fiery impette had some vocal chords, so I guess the final comments point to that very creativity Antin called for this week. Too bad it came in the form of creative excuses….

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