{"id":109,"date":"2007-11-28T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T19:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/1196276538594.html"},"modified":"2007-11-28T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T19:02:18","slug":"blogentry-dancing-with-the-stars-finale-2007-helio-and-julianne-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Dancing with the Stars Finale 2007 : Helio and Julianne Win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, ok, not going to recap the whole two hour show.  I love how they eliminated Marie in the first 15 minutes, without even doing an extra dance.  It was like the producers finally caught up with the backlash that she didn&#039;t deserve to be there and were afraid that nobody would stay tuned to see her win.<\/p>\n<p\/>Helio probably deserved to win, mostly because of Julianne, last year&#039;s champ, who is 10x more appealing on television than Cheryl.  I think it&#039;s funny that when the cast list for this season came out and I stereotyped all the &#034;stars&#034; I called Helio, &#034;Young and exciting athlete, ala Apolo Anton Ohno.&#034;  Apolo won it last season with Julianne.<\/p>\n<p\/>I wanted Maks to win, for a couple of reasons.  I like Helio over Mel because he&#039;s not a dancer and she is and I hate how the contestants are stacked with professionals who &#039;sort of&#039; have a dance background.  But regarding Maks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repeat champions are bad for the show.  It&#039;s not supposed to be about the pros, it&#039;s supposed to be about the stars.  There&#039;s lots of dancers we&#039;ve seen every season, and people want to see other dancers get a shot.\n<li>The show needs another woman to win, thus showcasing the male pros. They&#039;re going to lose fanbase.\n<li>Maks is one of those guys that&#039;s been around from the beginning.  He&#039;s a raging ass, but the thing is, he&#039;s a good dancer and a good teacher.  He earned his spot.\n<li>I think Maks\/Mel&#039;s dances were better, because they worked together better as a couple.  All their choreography had some sort of chemistry to it.  Julianne had that last year with Apolo.  But this year each dance was more like a round of &#034;What can I make Helio do next?&#034; like a smiling little puppet.  That was never more obvious than in their freestyle, which was nothing more than an exhibition in weird lifts and no dancing.\n<\/ul>\n<p\/>That&#039;s my quick summary.  I wonder if the show&#039;s starting to jump the shark.  This season the episodes were all too long, the filler bits never really worked, the sponsorship was over the top (Macy&#039;s Stars of Dance?  really?) and the guest stars were cliche and boring, at best.  &#034;Do a classic and then do one off your new album!&#034; every single time.<\/p>\n<p\/>Dance Wars starts next, Bruno vs CarrieAnn.  Does anybody actually like Carrie Ann?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, ok, not going to recap the whole two hour show. I love how they eliminated Marie in the first 15 minutes, without even doing an extra dance. It was like the producers finally caught up with the backlash that she didn&#039;t deserve to be there and were afraid that nobody would stay tuned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}