The thing about Mya being a ringer is, well, she’s a ringer. She studied dancing and moved from D.C. to New York to make it as a dancer and not a singer. Of course she dances great, she’s a dang professional dancer!
In case you missed it in '03, here she is in her Like Whoa video. Feel free to fast forward to 2:30 if you don’t feel like watching her strip and pull stuff out of her cooch first.
There goes my theory that we’d see at least 2 more guys go before a girl.
All I could think was, “Oy! will be happy.”
I was surprised the Hobbit was in the bottom three, but I guess he doesn’t have a regular fan base in the target audience; the prepubescent girls are probably going for Aaron, despite Louie’s superior cuddliness. I’ll have to fire up the computer and vote next week.
I barely watch the results show since my husband must watch his CBS fogey shows. He does switch back and forth (he watched DWTS from season one, so he’s the real fan), plus I’m not usually a fan of the variety mishmash, let’s-fill-up-time part of the show.
So he tells me the Hobbit is danger of leaving and this person is safe and that person isn’t safe and this other dancer isn’t in the bottom 3. . … Is there a format of elimination that gives out this information?
“Format of elimination”? No, you have to watch the results show.
Hint: The actual elimination never happens before 9:58, so you can watch your other show in its entirety and still watch the elimination.
You are so right! One incredible evil down, one to go.
I was a prepubescent girl lo! these many years ago, and I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that Aaron would be considered hotter than Louie by that set. The hobbit is so cute that I can forgive him for being a walking stereotype, whereas the only way I can justify Aaron’s existence is - well, I can’t. He dances well, I guess.
It would appear that either Satan got a big sympathy vote or he has a dedicated fan base. I’m going out on a limb here and guessing that liberals probably aren’t a big component of the DwtS audience. Plus, his horror of a Wild Thing notwithstanding, he doesn’t dance badly for a man his age. Except for the very end, where apparently his foot gave out, his tango was superior to Debi Mazar’s, IMHO.
Donny is just a phenomenon. To do a jive like that at the age of 51 strikes me as remarkable. Just compare him to Melissa Joan Hart, who is almost 20 years younger. Or Chuck (ten years younger), who is trying, but stomps around the dance floor like an eager-to-please T Rex.
I told you guys at the beginning of the thread that Mya was a ringer. But she is a pleasure to watch.
I’m guessing that the finalists will be Aaron, Mya, and Donny. The semi-finalist could be the hobbit, Natalie, Mark, or Joanna. And we’re going to have to live with Satan in the lineup for at least three, maybe four more eliminations.
In order to drag out the suspense, they tell various couples throughout the hour that they are either “safe” or “in danger.” At the end (the last two minutes twicky was talking about), they usually (but not always) identify a “bottom two.” Then they finally let the poor sod who’s going home know it.
Ah!
So, the only thing known for sure are the bottom 2? In this case Mazer and Kathie?
If they show two contestants in the beginning of the show and tell one that they are safe and one that they are in danger-- but later on the ‘in danger’ couple are not in the bottom 2-- does that neccessarily mean that the ‘in danger’ couple had a lower score than the ‘safe’ couple?
I don’t know. Actually, the “in danger” without being in the bottom two seems to me to be new. I think in the past they just identified the bottom two.
But I find it useful, because the more we know about what order they came in after the voting, the better I can figure out how best to spend my votes to make sure the people I want eliminated (i.e. Satan) are. Now we know the hobbit doesn’t have much of a fan base; that means I’ll be sure to vote for him several times next week if he doesn’t score extremely well.
I’m deeply disappointed that Satan wasn’t even “in danger,” especially given that he shared the lowest judges’ marks with Kathy. That means he got a lot of votes.
BUT!
It could be that ‘in danger’ means nothing if all they actually announce are the bottom two.
It could be that the Hobbit scored lower than whoever was deemed ‘safe’ in comparison, but scored higher than, say Delay, even though Delay was the safe contestant in his pairing.
Or, since we don’t know the order of the other couples, the Hobbit could have scored higher than the safe couple in his pairing but the producers felt like fucking with the audience, influencing the voting or pumping up the drama.
Yes, you’re quite right. They give no definition of “safe” v. “in danger.”
So, I just got around to watching this week’s shows. Was anyone else as amused as I am at Donny Osmond dancing to a song by DEVO?
We live in a country where there are commercials showing staid middle-aged men getting their groove on to Superfreak.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Oh wait, it is.
Never mind.
Actually, I don’t think it’s a particularly bad thing. I just meant that Donny Osmond dancing to a DEVO song doesn’t particularly amuse me, because it’s just a drop in the bucket.
I was making a joke.
Apparently not a very funny one, but it was a joke.
And I can’t get too wound up about Donny dancing to Devo – I heard Chuck E Cheese doing “Whip It” 25 years ago.
If Cheryl Burke were MY daughter or granddughter, I’d be in jail right now and that smarmy dirty-old-mannish crook Tom Delay would be minus his leering smile!
He drools over all the girls like a playground predator. I’m referring to him as Aqualung.
Geez oh pete, I loves the Hobbit.
That Len would like it if dancers can find a way to dance without moving at all.
Len really has it in for Mya or maybe Dmitri; I don’t know what’s the problem there.
I think Mark is dancing much better than his scores reflect. Joanna is quite solid. Mya is her usual ringer self. Melissa looked enormously better to me this week than she had in previous weeks. The Hobbit is adorable. Debi just looks haggard and awkward, and I hated the feathers. Donny managed to do a rumba that was entirely romance, with no sex. I rather liked it, but I imagine most won’t. I liked Mike’s samba much better than the judges did, but he’s still not a good dancer.
Natalie looked great this week. In part that was because she had great music to work with; that makes such a difference! Chuck, on the other hand, is just pathetic - the man simply can’t dance. Aaron was performing, not dancing and not romancing. But then, he doesn’t appeal to me at all - in fact, something about him really puts me off. Kelly’s samba was quite good.
I want to rip my eyes out every time I see him, but Tom Delay actually dances remarkably well for an injured man of his years. Still, I very much hope he goes home this week, but lots of people will vote for him, thinking he’s noble for dancing with his injuries. I don’t think it’s noble; I think it’s stupid, and sets a really bad example for others. He might as well get swine flu and come on TV to sneeze on everyone. Dancing on two broken feet is a good way to make his treatment much more difficult and expensive (on the government’s tab, I might add) and possibly to leave himself permanently injured. Way to go, Tom.