The SO wasn't very impressed with the result last night either.
DWTS, Season 6, Week 8 ... (spoilers)
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RIght, it was a countdown thing. Each dance was shown again, with the judges and stars comments at the end of the dance, all film clips from past shows. So there was nothing new in that first hour other than the Top Ten list itself.
anp73ga31
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I thought that Apolo and Julianne did a viennese waltz to Rascal Flatt's song but everyone is saying it was a rumba. What the heck was I looking at/hearing?! 
Update: I just looked at it again on MOIB and I STILL think it was a viennese waltz. Maybe I misread what people were saying about Apolo doing a rumba...
Update: I just looked at it again on MOIB and I STILL think it was a viennese waltz. Maybe I misread what people were saying about Apolo doing a rumba...
two_left_feet
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anp73ga31
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Well, I thought so, but then I started to doubt myself. lol!
I'm with you, though, I didnt particularly like the routine...some of it was good, and I DO love Apolo and Julianne, but it seemed thrown together, or rushed/hurried or something. I dont know what it was about it that I didnt really like...
All in all, though, it was a good show and I was happy to get to see Apolo/Julianne and Max/Mel dance together again. Of course the pro number at the beginning was my favorite because I love to watch the pros dance.
gingerbread
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Thought the opening Pro number was sensational. So glad the entire nation gets to see what good dancing is all about.
All my friends in the theater world snipe that Mario Lopez isn't a good enough dancer to star in a Brodway show. I see what they mena, but he managed to hold his own and in the real Chorus Line version the part he plays, Zack, doesn't have to dance all that much, although he still seems miscast for that part.
Emmitt was even better than I remember, Mel B. was fabulous, but Apollo wasn't as good as I remember.
I am so very upset that Mario was voted off in place of Marissa. I was positive she would go and he would stay. Even just from a point of view of fan base, I really thought his fan base was bigger than hers. Not a fair decision, in my book. At least Jason is safe. I might have screamed though had he been eliminated.
All my friends in the theater world snipe that Mario Lopez isn't a good enough dancer to star in a Brodway show. I see what they mena, but he managed to hold his own and in the real Chorus Line version the part he plays, Zack, doesn't have to dance all that much, although he still seems miscast for that part.
Emmitt was even better than I remember, Mel B. was fabulous, but Apollo wasn't as good as I remember.
I am so very upset that Mario was voted off in place of Marissa. I was positive she would go and he would stay. Even just from a point of view of fan base, I really thought his fan base was bigger than hers. Not a fair decision, in my book. At least Jason is safe. I might have screamed though had he been eliminated.
I doubt Kristi is having trouble learning the choreography of 2 dances per week. She's been learning choreography her whole life. She should have an advantage over others when it comes to having to learn mutiple dances.
I think its more that figure skating technique translates better to some dances than others. It doesn't surprise me that Samba was a challenge for her. What surprises me is that quickstep was not more of a challenge.
Her skating style was always smooth and flowing rather than dynamic and bold. Horizontally even. She was not known for quick footwork or showy routines. Not alot of POW!
However, even though the footwork is fast on quickstep, the body is pretty still and steady which would fit with skating. Samba has more bounce, and all the latin dances have more isolation of various body areas moving independently (as opposed to the stillness of the upper body in Foxtrot, etc)
For all her beauty and grace on the ice, Kristi was not a dancer, and her skating style did not achive a wide range of variation. I say that even though she was one of my favorite skaters. She is also very shy, therefore seductive or uninhibited movement is more of a challenge for her than elegant smooth movement.
It also doesn't surprise me at all that she accepts the judges comments with class. She has been judged (very publically) for her performance efforts for decades. She is used to the judging process, whether it rewards her or seems unfair. Skaters need alot of composure to get their world level scores on international tv, knowing their whole future depends on those scores and that it is going to be, at some level, subjective judging.
two_left_feet
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She may have an advantage in learning choreography, but before she learned the choreography, she had to learn steps and body movements she had never done before. And to do it for two new dances in 4 days, that might've been tough.
Yes, but so did everyone else. I'm just saying she's not at any more disadvantage than most of the others in that. And her advantage in choreography would be far greater. Besides, Choreography IS steps and body movement. Amatuer skating draws from a specific vocabulary (as does any specific dance) but proffesional show skating usually expands beyond the amatuer repertoire and new styles must be incorporated.
Kristi was also a World level pairs skater and competed nationally in pairs and singles at the same time (she and Rudi Galindo were the US National Pairs champions). She is used to drawing from and switching totally different formats, steps and movement methods within a single time period.
Another Elizabeth
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I'm sort of surprised that Kristi has pairs experience, because most of the practice footage involving lifts showed her going up like a sack of potatoes. You would think she would have experience in how to be lifted. Maybe they coached her to do bad lifts for the practice footage.
gingerbread
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I had totally forgotten she did pairs, and therefore very difficult lifts. That really is an advantage over the other contestants, isn't it?
I think those excerpts of practices they show (and the comments by the participant interspersed) are specifically selected to make you think there are going to be problems.
If they showed practices where everything was fine, there'd be no suspense or tension while you watch the actual performance.
Some of them go so far overboard with trying to make the viewer worried, its laughable. I'm getting pretty tired of all the pre-show drama they try to create only to have the dancers turn in 9 & 10 rated performances. Every dance is not on the verge of being a major disaster for pete's sake!
Kassia
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I actually think that Marissa is the most improved of all the dancing stars.. But she is too perky and smiles way too much.. It got a bit annoying after about the 3rd week..
I am beginning to also think that Len needs to be replaced with a more "modern" judge?
As for the votes of the viewing public i think that they should only count for a portion of the final marks... Say 40% of the total.. The rest of the marks being from the judges.
I really wonder how many points separate them at this stage.. Just a few? Or thousands? You would still be in the bottom two or get eliminated with just one less vote.
I was also listening to Mario's songs on youtube the other day and am wondering why nobody has danced to them? They would be great slow rumbas i think.. Or is that taboo.. Dancing to your own music? Altho i do recall Billy Ray Cyrus doing that, don't I?
I am almost glad it is over it's becoming a bit tedious to watch.. Same old thing every week.. Time to move on i guess...
I am beginning to also think that Len needs to be replaced with a more "modern" judge?
As for the votes of the viewing public i think that they should only count for a portion of the final marks... Say 40% of the total.. The rest of the marks being from the judges.
I really wonder how many points separate them at this stage.. Just a few? Or thousands? You would still be in the bottom two or get eliminated with just one less vote.
I was also listening to Mario's songs on youtube the other day and am wondering why nobody has danced to them? They would be great slow rumbas i think.. Or is that taboo.. Dancing to your own music? Altho i do recall Billy Ray Cyrus doing that, don't I?
I am almost glad it is over it's becoming a bit tedious to watch.. Same old thing every week.. Time to move on i guess...
Beto
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Wasn't just him. Mel B danced to a Spice Girls song last season with Maks.
Indeed. Thankfully So You Think You Can Dance is starting up again in a few weeks.