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The judges keep saving her, AMT. Many of us love her. Apparently, out in that other world, people think she has "attitude..." which means the tweens are skeered of her confident femininity. I have actually really liked her in every week but last week (and I think she was deliberately trying to tone it down). But... be warned... she looks worse without makeup.

I still get annoyed when people say the choreos are catering to Legacy." I have seen signature moves from every recognizably good dancer this season, from pirouette sequences to Ballroom hands. I think it is a SMART move on the part of choreographers to do that, so long as it does not take away from the dance (as it did earlier in the season with Jakob taking off in the middle of Melanie's routine to do his thang... and Adam kinda spanked Melanie for it).
I actually disliked Leagacy in the Waltz, true... but PLEASE, Drew. Brandon's Waltz was equally bad. Not worse, perhaps, but certainly not better. He looked terrified the whole time, and was extremely restrained in his moves.

I LOVE that this season the front-runners kind of flip around a bit. We have Karen on top (so to speak), then she flubs it. Then we have KAthryn rising up slowly over the weeks. We have Ellenore missing in the middle, but coming back full-force in later weeks. We have LEgacy showing some strength, then messing up in the Walts. It makes the whole thing much more exciting; and to me, it shows that we have a much better group of dancers than ever.

Russell needs to go, now. I realized what it is, with him. He skates by on reputation: "He's so good!" Yet I never remember anything remarkable. Outside of the Afro Jazz number, I can't remember anything at ALL that was even more than adequate. What he really has in his favor is swagger. EVERY dance he does has swagger (and there it is... the choreos taylor the dance for him! yawn). He shimmies his hips and gives swagger, and people think the dance is MUCH better than it is. He has GREAT musicality, but that seems to be the bulk of his talent, and not enough for me to stay interested.

ETA: FINALLY I get validation for what I hate about ballroom. Thank you Adam for pointing out EXACTLY why I think ballroom is cheesy as Hell, for the most part.