Dancing with the Stars - Week 4
Published June 23, 2005
The fourth week of the smash summer hit, Dancing with the Stars, has seen the four couples battle for the three open slots in next week's semi-finals. This week the couples performed twice, but only one counted towards their total score. This week had a shocking conclusion as well. One that I know I didn't see coming.
Before the end, let's begin at the beginning. This week's dance was the Samba. and the first performance of the night was Joe McIntyre and his partner Ashly. I think the two performed well. Not as well as they did last week, but definitely were good.
Following Joey was Rachel Hunter and her partner Jonathan. In the past week's, Rachel and her partner have definitely stole the show in my eyes. Receiving high scores from the judges, and wowing the audience. This week, the performance the two put on was definitely not their best, but not all that bad either.
Next came John O'Hurley and Charlotte. Week after week, these two have been the ones to beat, and in my eyes they once again put on the best performance of the four couples.
Lastly we have Kelly Monaco and her partner Alec. Week after week, these two have put on the worst performance consistently, and this week was no exception to that. In my untrained opinion, Kelly was loose. She was solid in any form of her performance. However, as well saw the judges scored her quite high, so my opinion does that mesh with the judges.
Following the last performance, the four couples performed a group dance of the Waltz. I didn't see the point in this. It wasn't judged, and you can tell the couples didn't place as much importance to this dance performance.
After the group dance came the inevitable. It came time for one of the couples to leave. The scores were tabulated, and I have to say I was the most shocked by who went home.
By the combination of the judges scores and the public vote, Rachel Hunter and her partner had the lowest scores, and that meant they were sent home. At the end actually when it was John and Rachel standing there, I was in total shock. I think in my mind it was between Kelly and Joey. Even with the stellar performance Joey and his partner had last week. Seeing Rachel sent home made me feel very uncomfortable. She had been one of the best in my eyes. Now it is up to the three remaining to see who will be their in the end.
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- Dancing with the Stars - Week 4
- Published: June 23, 2005
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Reality TV
- Writer: Regina Avalos
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how exactly does one get one's results anopunced?
Again - I'm the non-dancer married to a dancer. Lovin' this show!!!!
I agree with Regina - what a shocking conclusion and certainly not deserved. I thought that Rachel and Jonathan improved every week - although this week's performance, while receiving incredibly high marks from the male judges (perhaps infatuated with Rachel?) was not as good as the score indicated. It was nice to see how Rachel had evolved from one not terribly focused on her dancing in the beginning to someone very involved and emotionally connected. As the scores were unveiled, I thought that now we were having a great contest between Rachel/Jon and John/Charlotte. Quite frankly, the others were not in their class.
My wife commented that Joey and Ashly were much better than the scores indicated and my wife (British - not that keen on winning - it's the game that matters) was screaming "It's fixed!!"
I definitely agree that Kelly/Alex were mediocre. At the end of the show I really felt that Kelly/Alex or Joey/Ashly would be voted off - they clearly were not in same league.
So - seeing John and Charlotte - who are SUPERB - standing in the lowest vote getters last night - well, I'm worried. If they are voted off next week - I'm voting too - with my Remote - and not watching any longer. They are classic ballroom dancers (probably not suited to the Latin dances) with chemistry, grace and style - and so fun to watch!!!
Finally, it would be more fun if they judged the second dance.
Can't believe I am doing this. This show is a farce. I am a mega-non-dancer, with dancer daughter, but even I can recognize that Kelly Monaco should have left the first week. The worst thing about her is she doesn't even realize how bad she is. "I worked really hard". So. You still can't dance. If the audience vote carries as much weight as it seems to, what's the point of professional judges rating the couples. Why not have guest judges, say Jimmy Carter, George Bush, and Bill Clinton for former Presidents' night, or John Dean, Charles Colson, and G. Gordon Liddy on Watergate night, who know as little about dancing as the people who are voting. Then it will be a true popularity contest a la Hollywood and not a pseudo talent contest.
I completely disagree with your take on Kelly/Alec. Kelly has gotten better week after week and last night she was fantastic, wardrobe malfuntion and all! Kelly's really going for some difficult routines and she's doing a good job with them.
This is not a professional competition. Some of the celebs have had some sort of dance experience, ballet, free-style, etc. Evander and Kelly were/are the only two true amateurs (no dance experience whatsoever). I don't judge any of the celebs too harshly because of this. They've all done very well and have worked their butts off!
I feel the judges were unfairly harsh on her the first two weeks critic-wise and score-wise and too lenient on the others critic-wise and score-wise.
To Phillip:
They don't use the judges actual scores in order to decide who gets eliminated. They re-rate the judges scores from 4 to 1, with the highest judges' score getting 4 and the lowest getting 1. They do the same with the audience votes, and add the two together.
So we know for the purposes of elimination, the judges scores were Kelly/Alec - 4, Rachel/Jonathan - 3, John/Charlotte - 2, Joey/Ashly - 1. (If I remember the judges scores from last night correctly).
Hi everyone. Nice to wake up to so many comments with everyone discussing the show. I'm pulling for Joey Mac, but I think that might be because I'm a fan of his since his New Kids days. I even know last night he came down to him and Kelly leaving. In my mind, it had to be.
Seeing Rachel go home, when just before the results were announced, I was talking to my brother who is also watching the show about how in the end it would come down to Rachel and John. They are the two best out on stage. Seeing Rachel go home just totally shocked me.
My brother said it looked like a popularity contest, or perhaps like someone above suggested. It was fixed. I really hope that isn't the case. I don't know how they got to the conclusion they did and sent Rachel home. I stand behind my opinion. If anyone should have gone home it was Kelly. After Evander, she was the next weakest performer. Then Joe. And the top two in my mind were Rachel and John.
Hmmm, yeah, rachel and john are the strongest celebs -- but it seems to be a popularity contest -- perhaps less voting power to the people during the first 3 rounds, where the judges could eliminate the proper couples (half a point for audience votes given above explanation?). I've been dancing for a number of years and in my humble opinion rachel has great posture, balance, and movement -- john also has good posture and a good lead, his sense of humor on the floor makes him fun to watch -- bailas como sos (you dance who you are). Rachel seemed to be the most consistent celeb dancer, can't recall a particular dance being lame -- all were great. Yeah, kelly or joey should have been eliminated. Alec being such a strong dancer gives his partnership with kelly an advantage -- joey/ashly seem disjoint at times, trying too hard to perform, selling themselves and not their partnership. Kelly had a great samba, samba is difficult -- you gotta let it all hang out and yet have control -- kinda like trying to hip-hop and not look like a dork. Anyway, I have a bad feeling that joey/ashly will win.
Did anyone else have this thought? When Rachel and Jon were voted off - I said that I thought it would have been great to have seen John O'Hurley and Rachel dance as partners. Okay - I'm getting into this dancing way too deep!
John & Charlene dances with class
I vote for them, should be the winner
hand down
Kelly and Alec were the finale' winners?? The fix was in. Their second dance had two very obvious flaws. Yet all three judges awarded them tens!!! Up until this time no one had received even a single ten.
Besides the aforementioned flaws, their dance was heavy on acrobatics, weak on technique. This was really a disappointment. Too bad. Up until last night it was a wonderful program.
WOW! What a shame and a sham! Our TV critic in the Orlando Sentinel tore ABC's decision apart.... made the point, he and many many viewers will not bother watching again.... I totally agreed. Kelly is an ABC soap star and they made sure they protected her. Too bad...such a great concept but I won't waste my time again.
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I do not see how last nght's anopunced results are possible mathematically. Rachel and her partner had 25 points from the judges. If I underatand the rules correctly, they had to get one more,even if they were the lowest in audience rating. Thus they had a minimum score of 26. Since the most a contestant can get from the audience is four points, neither of the two couples at 20 and 21 could have beaten them.
Am I correct???