DWTS13 Week 2 Power Rankings

And tonight, ladies & gentlemen, is a prime example of why week 2 is TOO DAMN EARLY TO DO THE JIVE! Ranting post to follow later this week 😉

Tonight was a disappointment, overall.  Disappointing performances, disappointing judging, disappointing scoring – just…meh.  Seem like the quicksteps fared SLIGHTLY better than the jives with the judges, but not by much.  This cast is “surprising”, no doubt – suprisingly mediocre thus far, minus a few standouts. And you already know it’s gonna be an off-night when the judge that annoys me the LEAST is Bruno 😯

1.) JR & Karina – It’s nights like tonight that make me wanna kick Carrie Ann in the mouth…and kick Len in that old sausage he was going on about earlier in the night.  Could those two have looked like bigger assholes after this jive??? The whole crowd, plus Bruno, is on their feet & cheering – and these two look like someone just commented on their mother’s bedroom prowess.  Lighten the f*ck up, ya killjoys.  This was the only jive of the night that delivered on both execution & entertainment for me – JR was the only celeb of the night that really kicked and bounced correctly, and managed to look like he was having the time of his life while doing it…and Karina did, too!  Carrie Ann’s hung up on the “lift”? Good grief, I’ll swallow a lift or two if it means I actually get to see a decent jive! Len’s pissed that there was “too much Lindy”? Who the hell cares, since there was also some legit, well-executed jive in there, too? Honestly, with some of the truly unremarkable dancing I saw tonight – I’m more than a little pissed that these two got so hung-up on stupid stuff. But thankfully, 22 is still pretty damn good (given that their still tied for 2nd highest score, and the points spread drops down to 17), and JR was given the pimp spot for a reason 😉 As long as these damn judges can resist the urge to storyboard, I can still see him easily taking the MBT this season. 😀

2.) Ricki & Derek – High score of the night, and a fun jive.  But the best? Errr…maybe not.  It seemed awfully slow to me, and Ricki still seems to be working on getting comfortable out on the floor.  I was also a little thrown by how sexual it was – I’m no prude, but I’m also not used to jives being so…saucy. 😉 Content-wise, it may have been a litttle fluffy, but I’m completely disregarding content right now because tonight, content did not necessarily equate greatness.  But I will give Ricki props for being bubbly and excited, which is more than I can say for some of the other couples tonight.  Not a ton to say here – other than if they keep working hard and improving week after week (and the other couples continue to only do marginally well), they’ll likely make it to the final as well. Read more..