Yazmeen
All we are saying, is give peace a chance
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I watched the freestyles today, and my rankings would have been 1) Josh (by far); 2) Adam; and 3) Tonya. None of them were anywhere near as spectacular as many we've seen in the past (ahh, Meryl and Maks...) but I don't get the extreme enthusiasm for what Tonya did over the other two (and this is my analysis on her dancing, not on Tonya personally). It was just a mishmash of old gymnastic and disco moves. Len was right; she just threw everything in there. And it was sometimes awkward, both her dancing and the flips, and the tumbling was overdone after the first two flips.
Tonya did very well in DWTS and definitely surprised me by being much more graceful than I expected. But she was definitely not as good a dancer overall as either Josh or Adam (or Mirai for that matter), and the judges', most notably Carrie Ann's insistence on overblowing some of her performances into almost the be all and end all of dancing just made it look like there was big push to get her further instead of letting her dancing do it for her. Tonya did great; she was able to shine on her own, she didn't need the overdone "redemption" focus and praise that the show decided would be her narrative. And that focus left a bad taste in my mouth as it did many others; I actually would have enjoyed her dancing more without the drama. Because in the end she was actually really good and her dancing stood on its own.
Tonya did very well in DWTS and definitely surprised me by being much more graceful than I expected. But she was definitely not as good a dancer overall as either Josh or Adam (or Mirai for that matter), and the judges', most notably Carrie Ann's insistence on overblowing some of her performances into almost the be all and end all of dancing just made it look like there was big push to get her further instead of letting her dancing do it for her. Tonya did great; she was able to shine on her own, she didn't need the overdone "redemption" focus and praise that the show decided would be her narrative. And that focus left a bad taste in my mouth as it did many others; I actually would have enjoyed her dancing more without the drama. Because in the end she was actually really good and her dancing stood on its own.