Season 18 Week 10

Between this finale, and the beginning of The Bachelorette, some of us will have our eyes bulging out on Wednesday morning.

 

Here is an article that USN had forwarded to me.


SAT, 17 MAY 2014 AT 3:30 PM




Meryl Davis & Charlie White To Perform Together on 'DWTS' Finale; Amber Riley, Ariana Grande To Perform

Just two more days until the Dancing With The Stars finale — are you just as excited as JJJ?

Candace Cameron Bure, Meryl Davis, James Maslow and Amy Purdy will show off all their skills one more time on the ballroom floor, competing for the coveted mirrored ball trophy with their pro partners.

There are a ton of happenings on the show over the course of the two-night finale and JJJ has all the details!

On Monday‘s show (May 19th), each couple will perform three dances — the judges pick, the switch-up routine (from Week 4) and a supersized Freestyle that will be featuring special effects, additional dancers, and surprises, and possibly more. You never know with Freestyles!

Like with week’s past, at the end of the night, the couple with the lowest previous weeks’ viewer votes will be eliminated.

On Tuesday, it’s a whole different two-hour ball game. Check out the schedule:

– All 12 couples will reunite on the dance floor with the judges.
– Based on a Twitter vote, one of the three remaining couples will perform their Freestyle dance as an encore.
– The “24 Hour Fusion Challenge”, which is merging two contrasting dance styles that the finalists performed this season together. They’ll have less than 24 hours to prepare that dance for judges’ points.
– Team Loca will perform an encore (from Latin Week) so you can watch the team dance in full with Amy Purdy, who was unable to dance due to an injury mid-show.
– Drew Carey, NeNe Leakes, Danica McKellar and Charlie White will take on their most popular dances
– Meryl and Charlie will go from the ice to the dance floor and dance together
– Cody Simpson will sing his hit song “Surfboard,” with Witney Carson
– Amber Riley, the reigning DWTS champ, will perform “Do Your Thing” plus her first single “Colorblind.”
– Christina Perri, Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX and Ariana Grande will also perform.

There’s also a shift in voting. Because this is the final week, you now only have 15 hours to vote online beginning from the start of the episode on the East Coast at 8:00 p.m., ET/5:00 p.m., PT and closing at 11:00 a.m., ET/8:00 a.m., PT the next day. You can also call into vote, but 15 hours only. Have your speed dial all set!

WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN?


http://www.justjaredjr.com/2014/05/17/meryl-davis-amber-riley-ariana-grande-to-perform/

Don't know if you all saw that Mark got hurt during the dress rehearsal.  Dislocated his shoulder??  Something like that.  He was treated and released, but they're not sure if he'll be able to dance tonight. One of the other pros is learning his routines to step in with Candace if Mark can't dance.  Mark has said he's okay and wants to dance. 

Here's what everyone is dancing tonight:

Candace and Mark
Quickstep
Freestyle
 
Amy and Derek
Salsa
Freestyle
 
James and Peta
Tango
Freestyle
 
Meryl and Maks
Argentine Tango
Freestyle
 
Most looking forward to seeing Meryl and Maks do the Argentine Tango and Candace and Mark do the Quickstep.  I could be wrong, but I expect the Quickstep to be good for Candace. 

Rumors seem to think that all the freestyles will be contemporary style.  I can't help but think that would be a disaster.  It's been a good style for all of them, but it will make it harder, I think, for anyone to really stand out.  And since most of the contemporaries we've seen on DWTS have been these overwrought emo pieces, it'll make for kind of a dull finale, I think.  Someone did post that James wanted to do hip hop, which I think would make for its own kind of disaster, but he could end up winning the freestyle just because it wasn't contemporary! 

Yeah.  I mentioned that in last week's thread.  It seems that Mark has been saying he'll be ready to dance, but they said one of the other pros was learning the routines to step in, if needed.  I hope Mark will be able to dance tonight; it would be very sad for Candace if she were eliminated tonight and wasn't able to dance with Mark.

I broke down and taped last night's show so I could ffwd past Erin and her questions.  Just HAD to see Maks and how he's doing with Meryl.  I was stunned at the beauty in this partnership.  What a pair!  They're magical - and that little girl seems so fragile (despite the fact she's an athlete.)  She melts into him.

I was unimpressed by Candace and thought James did much better.

It was intriguing to see Amy's feet set to a toe position.  Does she always dance this way?  After seeing the sour grapes threads on the ABC board, I was surprised she does so well.

If M&M don't win this, something's wrong with America.

singlyme wrote:I broke down and taped last night's show so I could ffwd past Erin and her questions.  Just HAD to see Maks and how he's doing with Meryl.  I was stunned at the beauty in this partnership.  What a pair!  They're magical - and that little girl seems so fragile (despite the fact she's an athlete.)  She melts into him.

I was unimpressed by Candace and thought James did much better.

It was intriguing to see Amy's feet set to a toe position.  Does she always dance this way?  After seeing the sour grapes threads on the ABC board, I was surprised she does so well.

If M&M don't win this, something's wrong with America.

Hi singly.  Hope you arr doing better  I also often skip Erin's ridiculousness.  I was not happy how she treated Maks a few times:( 

So you agree with me about Candace.  I slow motion it a lot and I can see the intricacies or mistakes.  She is not up to snuff to be in the F3

You asked about Amy. She has three a few different kinds of prosthetics. so no she is not always in the ones that you saw.
When she did the QS she was wearing these curved blades that allowed her to just glide aorund the floor flawlessly!  It is trult amazing.  Heck, when I broke my foot, I couldn't even balance onthe crutches and fell over all the time!

I missed them dancing on Monday night.  Just watched the videos.  Only one comment:  OH MY GOD!!!!!


Thanks, SLA, for putting these up.  I'd like to thank you for all you have done to hold this site together; KUDOS TO YOU, MY FRIEND!!

       

I am so happy that Maks and Meryl won.  And I'm so tired of reading the other message boards all about how Meryl would have won with anyone and she never had to actually learn anything because she's already a professional dancer and blah blah blah.  You know, once the voting is over and the results are in on the final night, I really wish people could just give it a rest and be happy for everyone.  I don't mind if people say they're disappointed that their favorite didn't win, but why do they have to continue to trash the winner?  Ugh.  Love this board.  There's only a few of us, but it's not a nasty place to be.  Thanks for that, guys.

I loved the show last night for the most part.  I did not like that Iggy whatever - couldn't understand a word she said.  In fact, except for Amber Riley, they could have gotten rid of all the other singers.  None of them were terribly impressive. I was disappointed that the long-awaited Meryl/Charlie dance was 20 seconds coming back from commercial.  Seriously, they couldn't have cut Nene's time in half and given that to Meryl and Charlie?  Was also disappointed that they didn't have all the finalists dance one last time.  That's the first time I can remember that happening, and it was not a good improvement.  I thought all three of the couples did well in their fusion dance.  I thought it was perhaps Candace's best dance - she certainly seemed very relaxed and happy.  I was kind of wishing at least one of the judges would have loosened up and given her a 10, if not for her dancing then just because she was such a lovely person.  But it was not to be.

I knew as soon as they came out to announce the winner that MnM had won.  I realized a season or two ago that the winning couple is always standing next to Tom.  They change which side of the room Tom is on, but the winning couple is always standing next to him.  So no big suspense any more, but that was okay because I'm not sure I could have stood the suspense.    Loved how excited everyone was for Maks.  Even Derek was shown grinning and clapping like crazy.  He's made me really like him a couple of times this season. 

All things considered, this was a great season, I thought.  A lot of really good dancers, some decent but not great dancers, and only a couple of non-starters.  I loved the caliber of dancing we got from this group as well.  Some really and truly incredible numbers.  That said, I hope next season they back off a bit on the "ringers" and get a more evenly matched crew.  I know some considered Danica a ringer because she'd taken ballroom lessons in the past, but I didn't put her in that category.  What she would have learned in a regular ballroom class would not have helped much for the kind of show dancing they do on DWTS.  I don't consider former cheerleaders or gymnasts to be ringers either.  That's just me, though.  But I'd like to see a group with no senior citizens that can barely move (as lovely as they can be, they just never really stand a chance) and no clear ringers.  I think it would be really fun to go back to that and see what they could do.  While I love the level of dancing the ringers bring to the show, it's always more exciting to me to watch someone grow and improve and turn out to be really good who can surprise you.

I'll be really sad if this is indeed Maks' last year.  I think I'd also miss Len, if he doesn't come back.  He's the more sane one of the group.  I sometimes get annoyed with his occasional persnickityness, but he is the most knowledgeable one of the group, and he at least usually tries to judge the actual dancing.  He's not perfect, but none of the guest judges they've had on so far would be a suitable replacement.  I'd be tempted to say get Mary Murphy from SYTYCD, but I think the combination of her and Carrie Ann would drive viewers mad within a few weeks.  If they're not going to bring them back as pros (and it doesn't seem as if they are), then Anna, Louis or Jonathan would all be great replacements for Len, I think.  Or bring Maks back as a judge!!

Thank you for the Charlie/Meryl video.  I just loved that.  They did a beautiful job and wish it could have been much longer.  Bah humbug on Nene.  :\

SLA44 said, "One last thing - I know Disney owns ABC but I really would like it if they quit putting those young folks on this show. "

I'm going to respectfully disagree a bit.  I don't mind the Disney kids in general.  Kyle Massey was beyond adorable, and I loved Zendaya.  Chelsea Kane was okay but I didn't like the way they inflated her scores to keep her around beyond when most viewers wanted to see her gone.  I enjoyed Roshon Fagan as well.  I like the energy and fun these kids can bring to the show.  It's only when they get excessively pimped that I find it annoying.  Cody was a bit of a miss but only because he just wasn't as cool as he thought he was.  And I don't like the really young ones.  Shawn Johnson was good, but I wish she'd been on when she was a bit older.  The younger boys seem to fare better (because we've got generally a double standard), but the younger girls just make it seem kind of "icky" in some of the dances, and with so many of the dancers being naturally touch-feely, it's just not a good idea.  As long as the show isn't suddenly overloaded with kids, I'm fine with them.  I've liked many of them.


USN said, "In response to the Erin Andrews' comments, I have to say, I thought one of the smartest changes they made was replacing Brooke with her.  It was nice to have someone who knows how to conduct an interview, and has a good sense of humor.  Speaking of changes, I was glad they brought the skybox back.

A thousand times yes to this!  I think Erin has been a great improvement over Brooke (and I actually mostly liked Brooke).  And one of the few things they did differently this year that I hope they bring back and actually do a bit more of is showing the clips from the dress rehearsal.  Oh my gosh was that so much fun!