So first night of Dancing with the Stars.... I don't watch a great deal of television, but I was looking forward to tonight's show. I thought we were going to miss it, because the electric was out on our road for most of the day, but it came back on in time for DWTS.
For some reason my 6 year old daughter didn't want to watch it tonight. Which is odd, because usually she wants to because she "loves the pretty dresses". She loves the ones that are long and flowing and pink. Those are the ones she goes crazy for. My little fashionista. LOL
So it was mostly just my husband, myself, and the baby. My 7 year old son watched the first half or so, then lost interest and moved on to doing other things. When they introduced Buzz Aldrin my son said the funniest thing. He said (in a somewhat annoyed voice), "WHY do they always call people that go to space Buzz?!?!?! WHY?" He then went on a several minute rant about how stupid it was that they don't call him by his real name and why they call all people who go to space "Buzz". It was great.
When he first started, it took me a second then I realized what he was talking about... Buzz Lightyear, Buzz Aldrin. LOL! Then I got a kick out of it. Too cute! I love the things kids say!
Buzz Aldrin actually did a pretty fair job, in my opinion, considering his age. I'm not saying he was a great dancer. But he did a better job than many of the older men they have had on the show in previous seasons. And it was cool to see him there. He has a great attitude about life. And how can you not love the guy after this:
Ah yes, always makes me smile, now back to DWTS....
I thought Kate Gosselin, Niecy Nash, Jake Pavelka, Chad Ochocinco, and Shannon Doherty all did well considering their total lack of experience and that it was their first performance. Niecy Nash was fun to watch! I felt that they went awfully easy on Chad Ochocinco, in comparison to Kate Gosselin and Shannon Doherty, whose routines were far more challenging than Ochocinco's. I can't say I've ever really been a fan of Shannon Doherty, but it was nice to see a softer side of her tonight than she typically shows the public. Also I thought Bruno was just plain harsh when he said something along the lines of she was "swinging her arms around like a primate". Really? Was that necessary? I think not. It was just mean, considering it was night one, she has no experience, and she didn't look like a primate. Seriously. It was just mean. And even though I've not been a fan in the past, I must say the tears in her eyes when he said that were hard to watch. I mean no woman wants to be compared to a primate on national TV. Geesh Bruno!
Moving on...
Evan Lysacek did well for a first night, and you could see he truly is struggling with the fact that all of the turns are in the opposite direction of ice skating turns. It was so nice to see them put make-up on Anna Trebunskaya (his professional dance partner this season) that was actually flattering to her! Typically she looks lovely in rehearsals sans make-up, then on performance night they ruin her with harsh red lips and garish make-up. Granted her eyes were heavily done tonight, but it was appropriate for stage and flattering to her coloring. And the more nude shade on her lips was nice to see. She's a lovely lady, they don't need to ruin her looks with too much "stuff".
Erin Andrews and Nicole Scherzinger both did very well tonight. Nicole by far the best technical performance of the night. But what do you expect? Both ladies have a lot of previous dance experience, and have discussed that publicly in interviews leading up to DWTS. They were certainly fun to watch. But I feel bad for the people who are truly new to all of this, being put up against people with so much more dance experience. Even if it isn't ballroom they have in their background, it certainly gives them quite an obvious edge.
And last but not least, Pamela Anderson. Wow, what can I say? I'm thinking she was either a little inebriated in some sort of fashion, or she has just played the ditzy bimbo for so long that she doesn't know how to not be that way? I dunno. Maybe that's just her natural personality/behavior. She was entertaining. I'll give her that. LOL!
I wasn't crazy about the new set design. It's ok. The band as usual sucked. Seriously, why can they not get a band/singers that can perform the songs properly? It drives me crazy when you can plainly see the band/singer mistakes affecting the dancers. That's just wrong. I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to practice to a song all week, then come out and have them play it off time! I would rather see them dancing to recorded music, played properly, than hear some of those singers butcher some of those songs. They are not all bad. But wow some of them are just awful. They could at the very least try to stay in time with the music. But that is a problem every year. It is hardly a new thing.
Former DWTS Professional dancers that are not paired up with "stars" to be included this season include Lacey Schwimmer, Kym Johnson, Karina Smirnoff, Dmitry Chaplin, Corky Ballas, Anna Demidova, Julianne Hough, Jonathan Roberts, Alec Mazo. But I assume we will likely see at least some of them in group dances later on. I would guess that chances are fairly high of seeing Alec Mazo and Jonathan Roberts since their spouses are competing this year (Edyta Sliwinska and Anna Trebunskaya).
This was the first season with Brooke Burke hosting (previously she competed on the show). She did good. I knew she would. I've seen her on other hosting gigs and she is confident, relaxed, professional, etc. There's something about the idea of having a female host that had not posed for Playboy that I liked. But... she did a great job, like I knew she would. Tom Bergeron was great as usual.
All in all, it was a fun show. :)
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