Pam made it to sixth place, which was about right – wouldn’t call her abandoned by the Baywatch fans at all.
Sometimes? Frequently. That’s why I love it.
Santana has held up very well for someone who’s been around as long as he has. But I found his duet with a contemporary performer, doing something that sounded remarkably like an 80’s rock anthem (apparently Def Leppard, so I wasn’t too far off base there) to be distinctly weird. Santana can play anything he wants; he clearly had mad skills. So why, of all the styles in the world he could choose, would they choose an eighties rock anthem? Just strange.
Twickster, I’m with you. Hasselhoff was really bad, was tied for the bottom in judges’ scores, why did they find it so shocking that he would be eliminated? And your point about Cho was dead on; she dissed the show. There’s no room for irony on the dance floor, which is why Tom Bergeron will never take to the floor. I hope she picks up on this, because if she doesn’t, I may even set aside my irrational dislike for Palin long enough to try to vote her off. But my (gay) brother says she has a pretty strong following in the gay community, which may keep her on a while yet.
I’m not convinced that Grey will go the distance. A lot of last night’s hoopla over her was pure sentiment, and I don’t think that will last. Don’t get me wrong; she was competent, and will almost certainly go on for a long while, but it may end up Kyle, Rick, and Brandy. That young boy may be a bit chubby, but he sure as hell knows how to sell a performance! The challenge for him will be Ballroom.
One earlyish season (four or five, maybe?) there was a little featurette about him learning a dance and performing it. I recall no details about it at all.
ETA: Much as I hate her mother, I have no particular animus toward Bristol. Her shyness is painful, though – let’s hope she becomes comfortable enough to give a more-than-one-word answer to a chitchat question, though.
I started watching Season 3, and I don’t remember this (which doesn’t mean it didn’t happen). In any case, he should never be on the floor. He’s the Greek Chorus.
The “Situation” interrupted Len’s talk to him with an impudent compliment on Len’s suit. It was an obvious “Watch me work my charm on the judge” moment (complete with false humility and a shit-eating grin), and it failed disastrously.
What did we do before YouTube?
Well, he was better than most middle-aged white men’s first dance on the show. Still, that was just wrong. Tom’s existence on the show depends on his detachment.
Sigh. I really wish we had the opportunity to put Brooke Burke under the red spotlight.
Yeah, her fluency hasn’t improved any over the summer.
True dat. She takes banality to a whole new level.
I noticed that Tom was going solo on the dramatic french fry lights build-up. Apparently reading “the judges said x…did your fans say y?” off the cue cards was beyond her.
And Brooke interviewing Bristol … [shudder].
If a word ever cried out for air quotes, it’s the “interviewing” in that sentence.
OK, Brooke can’t be as stupid as she appears on DwtS. She not only aced the season she appeared, but she’s a really good amateur athelete, IIRC. You have to have some degree of intelligence to function at that level.
Maybe she’s illiterate, and crappy at ad lib. Because most of the time, she doesn’t manage to string her syllables together to make a coherent sentence. Her stuff can not be written as read, because there’s just no writer who would write her that badly.
How in the name of all that’s holy could they bring her back for a second season. Isn’t Melissa Rycroft available? Because, while she’s not exactly a Rhodes Scholar, at least she could string a couple of sentences together, and I’m fairly sure she can read.
I want Samantha Harris back!
Agreed, and I was never all that fond of Samantha Harris.
I’m surprised Hasselhoff left first. He was terrible, but I figured he had enough of a fan base to carry him for a week or two. Unless Margaret Cho gets a lot better, really quickly, she’ll be second. Not only does she suck, but comedians don’t seem to do well on this show.
I really wanted “The Situation” to go first, just because he’s such an arrogant SOB. I’m still not sure that Florence Henderson won’t turn into another Cloris Leachman. They really need to stop including a token senior who just can’t compete. At least last year, the astronaut (Buzz Aldren?) left mercifully early.
Actually, before she started the “comedy” part of her routine, she was doing fine, I thought. Not fantastic, but not bad at all.
I hope dwts considers having Jennifer and her dad Joel dance on the show. It would be pretty special to see. I don’t think they’ve ever worked together in the theater.
Just caught up with the Week One telecast, having been in Mexico on biz, but I pretty much agree with Oy! and Jacquilynne’s assessments. For myself, it seems, as usual, that the judges are scoring the sports figures much more generously than the celebs in the early going. Both Warner and Fox have potential, but I couldn’t see anything in either performance to justify a 7 or 8.
The Disney show kid is one I’ll want to see go far; he was all over the place, but I like the enthusiasm with which he threw himself into his routine.
Hasselhoff was bloody awful, and that shocked me a bit; I thought he’d at least entertain a little, even if, as I figured, he’d have trouble with the steps.
I’ve made a point of never seeing Jersey Shore or The Hills, so I didn’t bring any baggage in concerning the reality ‘stars’. Audrina seems to be a hard worker and was pretty decent for week 1. The Situation, on the other hand, seems to be every bit the douchebag that that he has generally been painted as. Hope he goes away soon.
I don’t have any particular reason to hate on Bristol Palin, unless she at some point starts to mouth off about the sophisticated political views of her mom, and she wasn’t horrible, but she’s obviously way out of her depth and I’ll be amazed if she can pull off anything resembling a polished performance in the next couple weeks or so.
Cho is another in a long line of comedians who just don’t seem to get the show. I don’t know why the producers even bother.
Disappointed to see Kyle in bottom 2. He was the most entertaining last night. Audrina was not bad, but I don’t see Rick being in final 3. Can’t really see him shaking his thang in Latin. We’ll see.