Have any of the damned theme weeks been thought out? Has there ever been a week of DwtS where they didn’t have half a dozen songs hideously inappropriate for the dances they were supposed to be doing?
Foxtrot to American Woman, which last time I looked, was not exactly a paean to America (and was absurd to try to foxtrot to)? Seriously? Proud to be an American, which was so cheesy that I was sure I remembered it from Wag the Dog (which caused me to watch that after DwtS, where it turned out the song I was thinking of was The American Dream. :smack:)? Where’s the vomit smiley when you really need it?
I thought Karina’s attempt at integrating a two-step into a samba was clever and technically skilled, but Ralph was not at his best this week. She might have been better off with straight samba.
Chris looked fantastic. It’s so easy to lose sight of the fact that Cheryl won two out of the first three seasons, and she’s really, really good at making non-dancers look good with her choreography. She got kind of over-shadowed by the Hough clan for a while, but she’s just as skilled as ever.
I guess Petra’s quickstep was OK, but I just don’t enjoy watching her. She leaves me utterly cold.
Romeo must be dealing with some serious issues, but thus far, he’s really managing to deal with them effectively. He seems so painfully anxious to remind the world that he is black and male and cool, but underneath that he is so very, very anxious to please, and he’s done a darn good job of letting that part of him dominate his performances. It’s like there’s this really sweet kid who has been told over and over that he will be an utter failure if he isn’t cool enough. When he manages to let that go, the really sweet kid shows through. And the really sweet kid is a good dancer. Props to Chelsea.
Hines appears not to have passed puberty. Kym is a genius. That man doesn’t seem to have a romantic or dominant bone in his body; he’s just a nice big, goofy kid. But she really teaches him to fake it well. Louis is wrong. Dancing doesn’t have to be any more honest than anything else; if you go through the right motions and your audience has the right expectations, they’ll read the emotions in for themselves.
Kirstie’s foxtrot seemed quite flat. But I just can’t over how much Maks seems to be enjoying this season, and what a difference that makes to his own appeal.
Kendra, welcome to DwtS rather than whatever daytime talk show you’ve been in so far. Not enough time in hold, but very nice dance.
I thought Mark’s choreography was just fine this week, and Chelsea danced very well. It was a fun, festive samba, just like a samba should be. Chelsea could use some hips. I don’t mean she needed more hip action: that was fine. She just needs a little broader hips. I kept thinking her bottom was going to slide down to her knees because she didn’t have enough hips to keep it up. I wonder if they superglued it on to her.