I wish the show had been more creative at times
I feel like the show had so many missed opportunities for cool duet/trio pairings or new solo styles. They were doing like 30-40 episodes per season at the show's peak and there were still so many things we never saw.
Just a few examples of things I would have liked to see:
- A Paige solo that was any genre other than acro/jazz. Or a Paige solo in general for that matter; most of her solos were either intentionally screwed with to make her mess up or just not even shown
- A Maddie/Nia duet, or a Brooke/Payton duet, or any other duet pairings that we didn't see on the show (there were a lot of combinations they never did!)
- A lyrical or jazz solo for Brooke instead of the same acro she always did
- A Nia/Paige duet (I know they technically had one on the show but it didn't get great choreography or costumes and was a very drama-filled dance)
I feel like if you look at s8 or ANE, they are only like eight-episode seasons so there's no way they could have every pairing of dancers perform or have every dancer do a solo in every style. But the older seasons of dance moms had SO MANY episodes, they could have easily mixed it up more instead of doing the same thing over and over again