Tom: "For the first time in 16 seasons ... I got nothin'."
Andy lives to dance another week!
I don't think anyone was more shocked than Andy when he realized he wasn't "in jeopardy" this week! 
Same goes for Mark! I don't concern myself too deeply with any of the pros, beyond liking their choreography, or thinking they are nice eye candy. 
The only one right now that I could do without is the creepy looking one in the troop. Nothing against him personally, but he kind of looks like a vampire, and not the sparkly kind. A little creepy. 
Why we hate Anna:
I don't like Mark because I usually don't like his choreography. Like Anna, it's all about him and not his star. Even with someone like Aly he relies too much on simple choreography while he struts around like a rooster mugging for the camera. I *did* really like his Contemporary dance a couple weeks ago because he focused on Aly and toned it down for himself.
JMHO.
I understand why people don't like Anna, but am at a loss for why those same people don't dislike Karina, as well. I mean, Karina has literally walked out on at least two of her partners. Anna only "wronged" one. I also don't really feel like Anna makes it all about her with her partners, but have felt like Karina did that... especially in earlier seasons.
I can only speak for myself, but I was not a big fan of Karina's for a long time. She used to be so demanding, impatient and snippy. She redeemed herself in my eyes in season 13 with JR Martinez. Her attitude and demeanor changed with him. The next season she was given Gavin DeGraw and she was very patient with him ... far more than she would have been with someone like him a few seasons before.
I understand why people don't like Anna, but am at a loss for why those same people don't dislike Karina, as well. I mean, Karina has literally walked out on at least two of her partners. Anna only "wronged" one. I also don't really feel like Anna makes it all about her with her partners, but have felt like Karina did that... especially in earlier seasons.
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I'll scream right along with you! My "shimmy count" for Monday wasAs for Mark, reread what RobinB said. She forgot all the weird facial expressions he does, too. He's all tacky flash and not much substance when he can get away with it. If I have to see another shimmy from his partner, I'll scream!
but that's exactly what I meant .
I'll scream right along with you! My "shimmy count" for Monday was. BTW, I thought I covered his facial expressions with "mugging for the camera"
And that is what I just do not understand. Derek might break the rules here and there, but his choreography is, at least in my opinion absolutely top notch. In fact, I wouldn't know that he broke the rules if Len didn't point it out. When she was on the show, Julianne also did an absolutely wonderful job with her choreography. Both were trained by Corky and Shirley Ballas. Ballas as in Mark Ballas. He was raised around it. Julianne and Derek might have trained with them, but Mark lived it from the day he was born. Why is his choreography so weird when the other two do such a lovely job?You can't say that was how he was taught. As he, Derek and Derek's sister, Julianna, all learned ballroom dancing from Mark's parents. Derek & Julianna's dances, style & choreography are superb, sophisticated & elegant. Mark's dances look like he studied from a tape bought from Walmart.
(These of course are only my opinions and you may disagree.
I know, I know, I've read the sticky. I just happen to think it is silly. You base your entire hated of a human being you don't even know on one episode of a "reality" show that happened YEARS ago. Just seems uncalled for and a little judgmental to me.
And as for Mark, it is Ok if you don't like his choreography. We all have our likes and dislikes. What it all comes down to though, is we are armchair-quarterbacking. I am most certainly not a dance pro, and Mark gets decent scores from the judges, so he must be doing OK as far as they are concerned.
What Andy just said about wanting to be on a team dance with Kellie Pickler so that their team can be called (her last name + his last name).
Then Brooke, instead of just ignoring it and letting it pass and moving onto talk about something else, had to keep saying, "You can't say something like that! You can't say something like that! TOM!!! TOM!!!"
Now every kid watching wants to know what that was about.
Like Kellie said, they didn't get to choose their last names!
Everyone ready for Stevie Wonder night? What's your fav Stevie song? I really like "Superstition", but he has so many great ones it's kind of hard to choose.
BUMP!
