An EIGHT for Mark Cuban?
Len Goodman, I am ashamed of you. Cuban needs to go.
Sabrina and Mark: Sizzling paso. Even if it was to technopop. Deserving of every ten. Wow. Hey, don’t Sabrina and Mark look more than a little smitten with one another?
Jane and Tony: Didn’t Samantha say they’d never done the “Viennese waltz” before? As opposed to what must be a different kind of waltz that they do every season. It’s not hard to see why they’ve not done the Viennese before. It’s frickin hard to fit in those three steps every time and on the beat. It is not a slow dance. They seem off the beat. Hell, I’ve tried to waltz to “Piano Man” myself. Uhoh: Lift rule. Wow–who is adulterating Len’s coffee this year? Len brushing off the rule? It was a very minor infraction if at all. It was an exquisite waltz.
Floyd and Karina: Ugly paso. I knew whoever said last week that this would be his dance was wrong–the floating and bouncing that are intrinsic to boxing are anathema to the paso. Nice leap, though. No, Bruno, it is not his dance. Okay, people, let’s get this damn lift rule straight, because if it’s really about “something you can’t do on your own,” then it gets broken every week and is a dumb rule. If it’s about feet off the floor … figure it out.
Commercial: A farmer shilling for Oregon’s Measure 49. God forbid other people be allowed to build houses around your farm. Where “water’s already hard to come by.” Are they serious with this garbage? The voters already spoke with Measure 37. Good luck taking that away. (I love being able to just throw in state politics on the side–I have so many new Oregon readers thanks to Rachel Lucas! Woot!)
Mel B and Maks: Too much dancing before the music starts! Not attractive! Silly! I still cannot settle into the Viennese thing. They keep looking like they’re off the beat. Like the marching band at the football game last Friday–if you try to do halftime to 3/4 music, you’re off step every other measure. It looks ugly. Not the same problem here–the music is 3/4 and so is the dance, but they need to keep the step on the beat.
Len continues to pick on Maks, which cracks me up. Len and his heel leads. Heh.
Cameron and Edyta: Superman paso. Not a bad concept … She’s far more Princess Leia than Lois Lane. That’s a good thing. See, okay, the woman can’t drag herself, yet that could hardly qualify as a lift and it’s a standard paso move. Let’s get that rule clarified before next week. Wow, judges are happy.
Marie and Jonathan: Ouch. Doubletiming. That’s got to be even harder than the Piano Man thing, which is probably why they’re not doing too many actual waltz steps. That may hurt them with the judges … or not. Len’s infatuated. Bruno misses the character acting. I think I’m depressed at seeing Marie Osmond getting old, even though she looks good.
Jennie and Derek: Wow, she can bring the power when she needs to. Good for her. I can’t decide about the technopop: Hot or Not? It’s annoying, yet it seems to work. Again with the lift. How can you do a paso without one, is what I want to know. Ten from Len!
Helio and Julianne: They need to be building chemistry. It’s not working for me so far.
Welp, I didn’t intend to blog this so detailed-ly, but the eight for Cuban sent me into a typing frenzy. And, I watched it on the air night, for a change, and blogs are for blogging.
Cuban Must Go! On all counts, including Tom’s “think about who you want to see half-naked next week, and vote accordingly” criterium. Shudder.