[Speed Gibson,
Tuesday October 30, 2007 at 11:44pm]
Maximum Extreme Elimination
Nobody saw this one coming. Jane Seymour - safe! Marie Osmond - safe! Sabrina Bryan - gone! It's the biggest upset to date in Dancing with the Stars. Even host Tom Bergeron said he saw her easily being in the finals this year.
Obviously the phones didn't ring for her, no doubt partly because many thought she needed no help. She may not have the (adult) fan base required. But there also may be some reasoning behind this.
For one thing, Bryan has only one dance speed - fast and hard. It's thrilling when the dance calls for that, but out of place when not. The judges called her on it this week, giving her "only" 25 points, not enough it seems.
The bigger problem may be that as a Cheetah girl, Sabrina is as close to being a professional dancer as we've seen in any season. As head judge Len Goodman observed, Americans are all about truth and justice. The truth is, Bryan isn't an amateur and justice was meted out. The "wow" factor isn't all there because we know she had the ability going in. We want another Emmit Smith, a football star, but with no dancing background whatever.
It's a whole new contest now. Not everyone can win, but anyone can lose.
Obviously the phones didn't ring for her, no doubt partly because many thought she needed no help. She may not have the (adult) fan base required. But there also may be some reasoning behind this.
For one thing, Bryan has only one dance speed - fast and hard. It's thrilling when the dance calls for that, but out of place when not. The judges called her on it this week, giving her "only" 25 points, not enough it seems.
The bigger problem may be that as a Cheetah girl, Sabrina is as close to being a professional dancer as we've seen in any season. As head judge Len Goodman observed, Americans are all about truth and justice. The truth is, Bryan isn't an amateur and justice was meted out. The "wow" factor isn't all there because we know she had the ability going in. We want another Emmit Smith, a football star, but with no dancing background whatever.
It's a whole new contest now. Not everyone can win, but anyone can lose.