OK, that wasn't exactly a night of mad suspense.

After Wednesday's "So You Think You Can Dance," I predicted (see previous blog) that Melinda Sullivan, Billy Bell and Robert Roldan would be in the bottom three, with Melinda being sent home. That's exactly what happened.

It really had to. Melinda was also in the bottom three the first two weeks, but survived. On Wednesday, two judges said they'd made a mistake by not ousting her last week.

It's good that "So You Think You Can Dance" is requiring everyone to do a solo on Wednesdays. For a while, it seemed like we'd never see some of them.

The show was only requiring solos (on Thursdays) for people in the bottom three. That meant no Alex Wong or Jose Ruiz or Billy Bell or such; it meant seeing a Melinda Sullivan solo every week.

Tonight, everyone had to do one. And we saw that those people -- plus Ashley Galvan, Adechike Torbert and Kent Boyd -- are rather magnificent soloists.

Clearly, this is not the summer to be a woman on "So You Think You Can Dance." Adding up the first two weeks, there were:

-- Twelve chances (six each week) to dump a man into the bottom three. Only one was dumped there.

-- Nine chances (five the first week, four the second) to dump a woman there. Five were dumped.

In the first week, Alexie Agdeppa was ousted; Cristina Santana and Melinda Sullivan survived. Tonight (Thursday), those two were in the bottom again, along with Robert Roldan. Cristina was sent home.

"Our boys are so, so strong," Nigel Lythgoe said during Wednesday's round of "So You Think You Can Dance."

Tonight, we learned that the viewers agree. Consider:

-- The judges had picked six guys for the final 11. When viewers voted after Wednesday's show, all six escaped the bottom.

-- Judges picked five women for the finals; viewers promptly plunked the majority of them into the bottom three.