Dancing with the Stars recap

I finally got MythTV back up and running (a post in itself, maybe I'll do that next to hide this post) so I was finally able to watch Dancing with the Stars the best way to do so: with massive filler-skipping and commercial-skipping. I watched the 90 minute Monday show and the 60 minute Tuesday show in a single hour of treadmill running. Now that's efficiency.

Looks like Kristi Yamaguchi has this one in the bag, but then again, everyone thought Cheetah Girl whose name I can't recall had it sewn up. It's kinda unfair since Kristi has at least some kind of dance background (I'm sure all figure skaters take some ballet), but a woman hasn't won since Season 1 I think, so hey, let it be Kristi.

I loved the whole Shannon Elizabeth/Derek Hough thing. I don't like the "showmance" junk; couldn't care less about the "are they or aren't they" thing (although if I were Derek, I mean, c'mon, it's Shannon Elizabeth for crying out loud!), but oooh, the footage of her just falling apart and Derek complaining about all the other couples' faults? Love it. Heh heh heh.

I thought Cristian's foxtrot was overrated: I was unimpressed and didn't think he held his intensity enough to warrant his score. Jason Taylor is getting better, not sure if he's good enough to stay on. Frankly, I thought Mario pulled it off best of all... he got criticized but I thought he had the hip action and the arm lines down pat.

Although I'm not a fan I thought Tony Winner Girl's reaction to her 9s was priceless. And I was sorry to see Marlee Matlin go: I always thought she was smokin'. It was just too difficult to pull off I guess.