This week's opening number (with the return of Sharna!) was an homage to the first dance ever performed on the show, Joey McIntyre and Ashly DelGrosso's cha cha cha:
I'm still offended on Chandler's behalf that she didn't get a 30 for her contemporary routine a few weeks ago, especially when so many other (much worse) dancers have received high scores for not actually doing contemporary in their contemporary routines. You will never convince me that Dwight deserved a 10 for his or that Danny deserved all 9s for his (while Chandler got all 8s for hers).
Too many of the female pros use contemporary as an excuse to let their athlete partners rely solely upon their upper body strength so that the girls can show off and do a bunch of lifts. Yes, there are lifts in contemporary, but Jenna basically used Joey as a forklift for the entire routine. He barely danced at all. The sad thing is that when she actually gave him an 8 count of some contemporary moves, he was fine. She could have given him more contemporary to do but as usual, she loves showcasing herself.
ITA that the number of pros they had return (just Sharna) was extremely disappointing. Like seriously? With 33 seasons and over 50 pros, they only bothered getting one former pro for this anniversary celebration?
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I'm still offended on Chandler's behalf that she didn't get a 30 for her contemporary routine a few weeks ago, especially when so many other (much worse) dancers have received high scores for not actually doing contemporary in their contemporary routines. You will never convince me that Dwight deserved a 10 for his or that Danny deserved all 9s for his (while Chandler got all 8s for hers).
Too many of the female pros use contemporary as an excuse to let their athlete partners rely solely upon their upper body strength so that the girls can show off and do a bunch of lifts. Yes, there are lifts in contemporary, but Jenna basically used Joey as a forklift for the entire routine. He barely danced at all. The sad thing is that when she actually gave him an 8 count of some contemporary moves, he was fine. She could have given him more contemporary to do but as usual, she loves showcasing herself.
ITA that the number of pros they had return (just Sharna) was extremely disappointing. Like seriously? With 33 seasons and over 50 pros, they only bothered getting one former pro for this anniversary celebration?
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