tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post7971312093400876490..comments2024-03-15T09:03:33.742-07:00Comments on Jessica Dube Loves Scott Moir: It's not you, MaksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-35711264097416387882018-10-03T07:39:58.077-07:002018-10-03T07:39:58.077-07:00Re "...why she's got a memory like a siev...Re "...why she's got a memory like a sieve, and why she can't pick up some basic simple steps or get the rudimentary timing."<br /><br />Apparently, Maks is not the only one who never got the memo about Meryl's dyslexia, the one her family and friends told about in the introductory video of her story. Here's the link to her TED talk about her disability: https://youtu.be/VsY3LWgsaUo/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-45997614032000595732014-04-26T17:12:26.217-07:002014-04-26T17:12:26.217-07:00If we're correct, then I think 12:22 might be ...If we're correct, then I think 12:22 might be onto something. Tessa's body is changing exactly as it changed back in 2010, only here, she's ahead of where she was in 2010. It's closer to how she looked at the Calgary Stampede, skating Jack and Diane with a camisole under her midriff button down. oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-15221244077517003312014-04-26T16:20:21.655-07:002014-04-26T16:20:21.655-07:00Because she wasn't showing yet. I didn't ...Because she wasn't showing yet. I didn't show until week 20 with my second pregnancy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-14328565449896022082014-04-26T14:33:16.453-07:002014-04-26T14:33:16.453-07:001:04
It's unusual for anyone to be showing the...1:04<br />It's unusual for anyone to be showing the first month. In fact, most women won't be showing much at all, if anything, till the third or fourth month.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-30549288416055566902014-04-26T13:04:52.105-07:002014-04-26T13:04:52.105-07:00if the conception date is mid-January how come she...if the conception date is mid-January how come she does not look different in the sochi gala practice pics that 9:30 posted?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-639576802823870512014-04-26T12:22:04.144-07:002014-04-26T12:22:04.144-07:00"And what does "Too early to tell" ..."And what does "Too early to tell" mean? Some women blow up the second the rabbit dies. Others don't show til they're in the seventh month."<br /><br />Exactly.<br /><br />I also think this point is worth making. I think right now to say that it's "too early to tell" comes from a place of assuming that Tessa didn't get pregnant until after they got home from Sochi. I would not make that assumption.<br /><br />US beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings was 6 weeks when she and Misty May Treanor won their (3rd?) OGM in London in 2012. Hypothetically, let's say Tessa was already 6 weeks by the time of the individual event in Sochi. A woman is considered 2 weeks pregnant when she conceives, so that would put conception in mid-January. Right now, she'd be approximately 16 weeks. 16 weeks with a second pregnancy is in no way too early to tell. She'd be close to the mid-way point by the end of CSOI.<br /><br />I think the general rule of thumb is that in a healthy pregnancy, most doctors will clear a woman to fly internationally until around 32 weeks. The China shows that they're on the roster for will be done shortly before this time point if she's as far along as she may very well be. The due date (40 weeks) would be in mid-October (so don't expect VM to appear as spectators at SC this year).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-67293935572383609632014-04-26T12:06:56.046-07:002014-04-26T12:06:56.046-07:00^^ You're welcome....and yes, it's no hard...^^ You're welcome....and yes, it's no hardship to watch Mark dance (or do anything else really!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-63945890526619922942014-04-26T11:51:16.222-07:002014-04-26T11:51:16.222-07:00Thanks very much for this - it made me check out M...Thanks very much for this - it made me check out Mark Ramprakash out on youtube. First - he's one attractive guy. Second, it's fascinating to watch him because he doesn't know what he has at first. He'll hit lines and he'll move as if he's been doing it all of his life - he's a natural dancer as a mover, and has natural musicality. It's more than simply natural rhythm - he instinctively uses his body properly. And then because he's not actually a dancer yet and it's still early on in his season, you'll see him hold back at times, hesitate, or have small miscues. It was really a matter of him having confidence in what he actually already could do, it seems, because what a natural talent.<br /><br />That was 2006 and the show looks very like DWTs 2006, which means nothing like DWTS 2014. They've hyped the show up and amped it up to where we can hardly see the actual dancing unless we force ourselves to pay attention, because the dances are overproduced with the smoke effects, strobe lighting, other lighting, animation, CGI, etc. <br /><br />DWTs still handily wins its time slot, but abc has dumped the results show. The overproduction, and, I imagine, the early and often score inflation to which you allude - the ridiculous number of early tens - is a reaction to the fact that it now has merely healthy ratings instead of monster ratings. I guess it's all meant to convince us that the show is the best ever and can't miss, but it comes offf tacky and desperate. The show used to be tongue-in-cheek tacky and fun.oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-69052530908684307422014-04-26T11:04:37.000-07:002014-04-26T11:04:37.000-07:00I don't watch DWTS, but I've been watching...I don't watch DWTS, but I've been watching the original (Strictly Come Dancing) over here since the beginning, and have watched the evolution of producer manipulation. More and more judges are handing out tens very early in the competition. One of the best dancers they ever had was a cricketer called Mark Ramprakash - he was a phenomenal (for an amateur) dancer who had a great "journey" in terms of overcoming his own crippling nerves and self-doubt. He's still spoken about among fans as one of the best dancers SCD ever had....and he didn't get a ten until the semi-final. Now, the tens come out in week 2, all so that producers can push that this is "the best series" ever and also, I suspect, to prop celebs they want to keep in who are tanking with the viewers. I'm guessing they want Meryl and Charlie in the final - and from the looks of the marks, Meryl is the one in need of the producers help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-30007034609023083442014-04-26T10:53:32.266-07:002014-04-26T10:53:32.266-07:00I think the photos are showing that her body has c...I think the photos are showing that her body has changed the way her body changed the last time she was pregnant. And what does "Too early to tell" mean? Some women blow up the second the rabbit dies. Others don't show til they're in the seventh month.oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-82083595930082269122014-04-26T10:43:32.097-07:002014-04-26T10:43:32.097-07:00It's funny and very obvious with Meryl's s...It's funny and very obvious with Meryl's scoring, because when the show has somebody genuinely good, versatile, and popular (and Charlie is showing himself to be more that than she is, along with a couple of other celebs participating this season), then they don't just hand out ten after ten. They validate that the person is good but then sometimes start picking at programs that go over like gangbusters with the crowd and viewers at home, creating an outcry and lots of drama. The team becomes frustrated but vows to improve and address the judges' critique. Shortly thereafter, they deliver a routine that may or may not be as good as the routine that was critiqued and lowballed. The judges declare a breakthrough, and the tens come cascading down. That seems to be Charlie's story, and the story of a couple of others, like Amy (who has not been straight tenned). Meryl it's just,"whatever you want honey, here's tens!"<br /><br />The storyboarding has run into a couple of roadblocks in the past. One time, it was Carrie Ann Inaba lowballing Shawn Johnson's cha cha, her best dance by far (and I was not a huge fan), and then rolling in with a ten the following week for a dance that wasn't nearly as good. Those moments can be a little embarrassing and sort of show DWTs ass.oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-89431031060375808412014-04-26T10:42:51.624-07:002014-04-26T10:42:51.624-07:00If you're trying to show that she is pregnant ...If you're trying to show that she is pregnant at least use a better picture. Also its far too early to tell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-44047423997233952612014-04-26T10:32:47.645-07:002014-04-26T10:32:47.645-07:009:26 a.m., I was posting while you were posting, a...9:26 a.m., I was posting while you were posting, and your points make better sense as to what's behind the sudden protection of Meryl's scores. If she could deliver, then the judges could nitpick, assuming that along the way she'd blow it out of the water and then she, Charlie, and whoever else survived til the end would duke it out til the finals. As it turns out, she is an impoverished mover with a lot of technical issues her partners have to mask. I doubt either DWTs nor the folks at Disson knew this, since neither knows figure skating (even Disson - are they really scrutinizing the skating and the programs?).<br /><br />Of course the ABC/Disson partnership is key, and it's an affiliation I'd forgotten about. Of course you're correct. And given the issues that have presented themselves with Meryl, there's nothing for it but to protect the hell out of her in every way that can be contrived. Overscoring. Backstage packaging that tugs the heartstrings and brings the drama. Validation by the judges. And costuming that covers her legs and feet so we can't really see what she's doing and not doing.<br /><br />Charlie, as it turns out, is a pretty decent mover. A better mover than a skater. He can be taught. He can pick up new stuff. I love his partner and think she could settle down a little bit - not deliver routines as empty as Meryl's, but deliver routines that are more focused and less "here's everything and the kitchen sink." But both ABC and Disson can leave Charlie to his own and his partner's devices, because he doesn't need to be protected. They can score him more or less as they score the others.oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-68171329193596445712014-04-26T10:25:30.943-07:002014-04-26T10:25:30.943-07:00Here, with Meryl, we've got "Maks' st...Here, with Meryl, we've got "Maks' story". The chastened bad boy of DWTs, never won the show, returns a new man. He's got a ringer.<br /><br />Problem here is he doesn't have a ringer. That is the spanner in the works for the show and for him.<br /><br /> I'm sure he thought he had a ringer because you'd THINK, since his partner had just stood on top of the Olympic ice dance podium with a gold medal around her neck, but surprise surprise. Maks is a mediocre choreographer, as we can pretty much see. Lots of filler. Even in this past episode, with all his angsting around and self-pity, all his talk about pressure, he produces something where he and his partner walk side by side for fourteen and a half seconds to start (the long walk before starting is his hallmark). We can see the moves that Meryl repeats from dance to dance - all purpose moves that amazingly fit every dance. Val is a whole lot more technical than Maks and a smarter choreographer and HE had to use sleight of hand and HE had to repurpose what Meryl already does in order to get that AT. The heavy-handed production values assist as well.<br /><br />One presumes that when DWTs acquired Meryl and Charlie for the show, they assumed Meryl would be really good, as most figure skaters are on the show (unless they're pushing sixty and ailing, like Dorothy Hamill), and would also make a very strong showing in the fan vote, as figure skaters do. Her scores the first two weeks showed that.<br /><br />I believe that after the first two weeks they realized she's not very good. That's also when her costumes started covering her legs and feet - even in samba. The first two weeks, she was in short skirts. It was very notable that Val gave her an Argentine tango costume that covered an entire one side of her body down the leg, as a review of the show will demonstrate that when you've got somebody young and fit, AT costumes are short, with fishnets. Where the storyline is going, who knows. Are they storylining her to a win, because the story this year is that poor old bad boy crying to mama Maks feels insecure and worthless because he doesn't have a mirror ball? That he feels like "the weakest person on the show" as he said in the package? Is the show's story that this is the season he wins, and then the show realized his partner couldn't get it done, so the show has to get it done for her? Or is she playing the Ricky Lake/Stacey Keibler role where one person gets tens thrown at them week after week no matter what, to the everlasting frustration of the fans, blatant double standard scoring (as with Meryl's hold breaks in tango getting straight tens while Charlie's got marked down), until finally in the semi-finals and finals, an underdog has a breakthrough and takes the crown? It's one of the two scenarios, I suspect the first, with all of the emphasis on Maks.oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-42459340903073903092014-04-26T10:10:57.722-07:002014-04-26T10:10:57.722-07:00So IOW, you are using scores to argue her ability,...So IOW, you are using scores to argue her ability, not what she's actually doing to prove her ability?<br /><br />DWTs has never been a fair dance contest. In the first place, this has been an unusually high scoring season where numerous teams are pulling tens and nines straight off the bat for mediocre dancing that would have gotten steady eights in the past, maybe the occasional nine. If you reviewed past seasons, you'd see it. <br /><br />In the second place, and for many seasons now, DWTs producers, via the judges paddles, start storyboarding as soon as the fan vote comes in, and we end up with Drew Lachey held to a higher standard than Stacey Keibler, J.R. Martinez held to a higher standard than Ricky Lake, Sabrina Bryant getting tens for stomping all over the floor, Gilles Marini getting impossible music assignments for jive while L'il Kim gets "Jailhouse Rock" and tens for no jive content. It's not a contest. It's a reality show.oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-70212236931292505852014-04-26T09:39:29.392-07:002014-04-26T09:39:29.392-07:00Don't see it or don't want to see it?Don't see it or don't want to see it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-82574938429295316862014-04-26T09:37:08.766-07:002014-04-26T09:37:08.766-07:00i dont see it...i dont see it...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-49223687381274872442014-04-26T09:34:49.967-07:002014-04-26T09:34:49.967-07:00because dwts is rigged/has a predetermined winner?...because dwts is rigged/has a predetermined winner? as all dance shows? and meryl would make a baaaaad president or governor anyway but she probably have a chance considering how corrupt US politics are. remember that whole bush/gore thing? she could probably hustle an election just like she hustled that gold medalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-16013351600210969972014-04-26T09:30:48.076-07:002014-04-26T09:30:48.076-07:009:03, as with the last pregnancy, this same rule a...9:03, as with the last pregnancy, this same rule applies: Don't compare Tessa to other people. Compare her to her normal self.<br /><br />In the two months since the Olympic games, Tessa has gotten wider, she's gotten thicker, and her body is changing the same way it did the first time around. Tessa's normal figure is that she tapers in down from those broad, square shoulders to a very narrow waist. Her side are filling in now, just like they did when she was pregnant with Little Moir.<br /><br />For a comparison, here's what Tessa looked like two months ago at the end of the Olympics: <br /><br />http://cs540101.vk.me/c608823/v608823336/741b/iWPBhVX_A0o.jpg<br /><br />http://cs540101.vk.me/c608823/v608823336/743f/GitojMzYeHY.jpg<br /><br />She's also gaining in her hips and upper legs. And don't tell me it's chocolate and meat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-73063904110432227262014-04-26T09:26:24.438-07:002014-04-26T09:26:24.438-07:009:10, you're sorely misinformed if you think D...9:10, you're sorely misinformed if you think DWtS is a fair dance contest. It's not. It's storyboarded.<br /><br />ABC, like all networks, is a business. Thanks to the corruption within the ISU, DW had an OGM put around their necks in Sochi. There were no other individual skating medals to be had for the US. ABC has teamed with Disson to put 4 skating specials on the air. As DW have an OGM, even though they didn't actually win it on the ice, and there are no other medalists from the US, they're going to be used as the centerpieces. Neither ABC or Disson wants to lose money on these shows. They need eyeballs on them when they are. Pushing through DW on DWtS is about getting them exposed to as many audience members as possible in hopes that those people will watch the skating shows that air later. Like how DW ended up with that OGM in their possession, the DWtS scores has nothing to do with their actual abilities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-85510757136322828582014-04-26T09:24:34.319-07:002014-04-26T09:24:34.319-07:00Tessa looks like she put on a few pounds but i don...Tessa looks like she put on a few pounds but i don't think that's a bad thing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-72732672208767545892014-04-26T09:10:56.247-07:002014-04-26T09:10:56.247-07:00If Meryl is such a bad dancer, why is she kicking ...If Meryl is such a bad dancer, why is she kicking ass on DWTS? Why would the network and show want her to win? First the ISU, IOC, and NBC, and now ABC as well? What is the magical power that Meryl has that makes those in power to want her to win?<br /><br />On a related note, should Meryl run for US President in the next election? Would she win through the same power that makes her win everything else she enters? I wouldn't mind if she's able to then persuade Congress to get their act together...and I' m beginning to believe she might have the power to do that as well.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-58589019860203183782014-04-26T09:03:55.777-07:002014-04-26T09:03:55.777-07:00??? The fan standing next to Tessa looks more pre...??? The fan standing next to Tessa looks more pregnant than Tessa in that pic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-30353006857428531602014-04-26T08:56:04.532-07:002014-04-26T08:56:04.532-07:00Tessa, guuuuurrrlll https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm...Tessa, guuuuurrrlll https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmGQ7J2IIAAAp1y.jpg:large<br /><br />Baby on board?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583966972735299482.post-90187456892093080822014-04-25T14:26:13.367-07:002014-04-25T14:26:13.367-07:00Charlie would have gotten the best of that team-up...Charlie would have gotten the best of that team-up. Ben Agosto was/is a better ice dancer than Charlie.oycanadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14056686007756844095noreply@blogger.com