I am very happy with the top three on DWTS.....the more I heard the "wild track" of the voice of the one going home, the more I disliked that person.....
So....on to the finals.
It's funny but even though I love Maks, I thought that it was Hope's attitude that was bugging me. She was not very good on Monday. Yet acted like the judges were marking her down because they disliked her and Maks. I found her attitude appalling. I think the judges were mean to Maks a couple of weeks ago. And occasionally they have made mean comments to him. What Carrie Ann said to him was mean. BUT that said, what she said to Hope was right on. The lifts were so awkward. I think even though Hope is an Olympic athlete she still was much more awkward dancing than any other athlete they've had on the show.
I am super happy with the F3. And i actually would be okay with any of them winning. I've never usually gravitated towards Cheryl's partnerships. But I love her and Rob. She has done so great with him. And she's so supportive. I really am enjoying them now.
I appreciate your take on the situation, DR Jennifer, and I know that many folks out there share your point of view, especially on Maks. I, however, have a very different take on the matter:
Regarding that night in which Maks and Hope were hopelessly outclassed by EVERYBODY else, Maks merited every comment made to him by the judges. He's a petulant, pouty prima donna. From what was shown on TV, he constantly lost patience with Hope in practice, and his teaching methods were poor. It's all about HIM. He is being PAID to teach and make his partner look better through each dance. Maks failed to do that and was brought to task because of it. Isn't it curious that since that night, Hope began improving?!!?? Maks FINALLY stepped up and started thinking about HER for a change.
Len told Hope -- and put the blame on Maks, where it belonged -- that she had not progressed beyond her first-week dancing. They were five or six weeks into the competition. He blamed Maks for not teaching her properly. Maks -- forgetting he was in a "competition" -- talked back and disrespected Len, suggesting Len had been working too long and needed to retire. Maks is expected to perform and somebody needed to point out to him that he was failing miserably at his task.
Carrie Ann jumped in Maks' stuff at that point. Good on her. She was right to do it, and Maks deserved it. Neither Maks nor Hope was disrespected. They were both told in no uncertain terms that they were not at the same level as the worst of the others and needed to shape up. Maks smarting off was the disrespectful part. He was there to be critiqued, judged and was expected to take the criticism like an adult and adjust his approach to his partnership. That goes for Hope, too. They signed a contract, they knew they would be subject to criticism. ( I don't blame Hope for anything...she's not really endowed to be a dancer. She has "hard knees", meaning that her dance moves will always look hopelessly awkward. That dance a week ago when the judges loved her was the night she was wearing tights with fringe down to her ankles. All that fringe masked the akwardness and made her look much better than she was).
Maks later (after he disrespected Len) announced he was sick and tired of Derek getting all the "good" competitors while he got the dregs (or something to that effect). No one dancing with Maks, not matter who it is, will ever really shine unless they're "better" than he is. What he also fails to appreciate is that his attitude, his comments and his antics will not see the producers "rewarding" him with the cream of the crop in any competition.
Rob is having a good week...that said, he was vastly overrated in competition the other night. No way was he only two points below Derek and Ricki. They are the class of the competition right now. Rob cannot shake his booty in every dance...and even Monday night, he was walking through his "dance"...shake your booty...walk, walk, walk...shake your booty...walk, walk, walk. The audience and judges ate it all up because he was finally having fun with it. But it's not great dancing by any stretch of the imagination, IMO.
