'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: Eight Ball

In a night where each contestant divulged what led him or her to dance, the biggest bomb of the night was dropped by Comfort. To be fair, there have been a few contestants whose hard candy shells have melted away to partially reveal gooey sugary centers. Chelsie's ''family issues'' came off more like middle-class credit-card debt; ''solely street-trained'' Joshua admitted to dabbling in ballet lessons. But during Comfort's ''this was my dance inspiration'' video, the supposed B-girl came clean and admitted that she went to a performing-arts school and did ballet. That's news to us.

Mark's solo was, um, better than last week? Though he and Comfort have little in common, they both seem to be wilting a little from landing in the bottom. I hope the once-favorite Mark will get his super-expressive game face back on for good, make it through this week, and keep going until the final four. We still believe, Mark!

Chelsie and Joshua were last night's couple to beat, even though they picked the dangerously technical Argentine tango and the dreaded disco. It always surprises me that Chelsie can be little more than a charmingly obstinate brat off stage, treating her partners like big brothers, and then effortlessly bust out the va-va-voom when she has to wrap her legs around them on stage. This tango was no different; both she and Joshua strutted out on the dance floor like they wanted it. The naughty chair work had me swooning at home, and I really appreciated that the music was true to the dance and wasn't one of those out-of-place '90s songs you're embarrassed to still have on your iPod. The disco was the best the show has seen. Thank God for DVR, because I had to rewind the last spin, where Chelsie changed position in midair about five times, to believe it. Both of their solos were good — Chelsie's considerably better than last week's hop, skip, and thump, and the bootylicious Joshua's only missing a callback to his childhood expertise: the moonwalk.

Before I turn the keyboard over to you guys to share your thoughts on the top eight, let's observe a brief moment of silence for our fallen B-boy turned Broadway-contemporary dancer, Gev. I hope he's popping and locking to more Michael Bublé somewhere.

So who takes the top four spots in your dream finale? Did last night's show affect your rankings? Were you as happy as Cat was to see Dmitry from season 2? And although Mia Michaels' routine rocked, has the show finally overdone the fighting-couple bit?

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