Dancing with the Stars...on ABC...in HD! - Page 163

That's what Dancing with the Stars is all about!

At this point the pro dancers are more stars than the contestants. Which reminds me I miss Edyta. I found it refreshing not to have the well known lousy dancer this year. All and all a pretty strong start and enough variation to find someone to cheer on.

I hate to say it, but Chelsea and Cheryl looked that they enjoyed the off-season a bit too much.

For a cast that could barely be called "stars", I was pleasantly surprised. We had the token lesbian (should go home), the token black athlete (surprisingly good, but not to the judges), and a bunch of other D-listers.

I best liked Driver and Jaleel (who?). Sheri was "light" for a heavy gal; Gladys wasn't.

Looking at the cast, I expected terrible ratings. It might not be that bad.

Did anyone have problems with the sound mix? I am watching right now in Seattle (Comcast) and all of the sound is coming from the center channel.

WTF?

I am in California also in the western time zone watching OTA and while most of the audio here is in the center there is some audio in the other channels as well. I did hear a commercial go by that had the dialog only in the center but the music content and no dialog in the L & R fronts.

Chelsea looked the same to me but Cheryl definitely packed on some pounds...she's sexy to me regardless but her face and body are bigger this season

Was I the only one annoyed by all the Twitter comments being plastered on the screen? If this is something they're going to do every week, it might be enough to make me skip the show. I don't care if xman4123 thinks the show is AWESOME!

Agreed! Now that DWTS is doing it we'll probably see it spread to other shows like American Idol, America's Got Talent, The Voice, The Bachelor, Survivor and so on just like the other screen detritus! (one does it they all do it).

KGO San Francisco via Comcast. The sound here was way top heavy on bass. I had to knock my AVR's Audyssey Bass offset to it highest level to get some of the audio detail back. OTOH, the overall PQ was very good here. I didn't see any blocking or artifacts during the broadcast.

The Voice started doing it last year and have been doing it extensively this year too.

OTA KSTP in MSP, 1 SD sub. Overall picture quality was about as good as ABC gets, didn't listen in 5.1 so can't comment on that aspect.
All in all I was quite impressed by the cast, no real stinkers in the lot. Thought the scoring was a little top heavy but don't think anyone really deserved less than a 6, I just would have given more 6's and 7's and less 8's and 9's.
Oh I also didn't care for the increased screen clutter by adding the Twitter clutter. For the first half of the show we had local blocking Wx scroll on the bottom, the ABC eye in the right corner followed by a rotating box(time/temp and station logo) near the left bottom all framed in a 16x9 box(pillar box to keep the proper aspect because of the large blocking scroll on the bottom) Thankfully the last 1/2 was free of clutter other than the ABC bug(inside the 4x3 frame).

Sheri was indeed surprisingly light on her feet, the "classical" singer from UK (sorry, forgot her name) looked like she had been watching actual dancing and knew how she was supposed to look in hold and also was careful with her feet. Jaleel, I thought, was pretty awful, which tells me that the judges fawning over him might be the result of producers whispering in their ears. But just my take.

Yup... Maria hot as ever, and I'm falling in love with Katherine... didn't know who she was but she's gorgeous..

Yeah it's between Martina and Melissa going home today..

I'm also liking Katherine quite a bit, she seems very genuine. As for tonight I think Martina might be the first to go home. Not that she was that terrible but this season really has no total stinkers so from the process of elimination she'll probably be the first to go.
BTW did anyone else notice Brooke's dress this week try as I may I just couldn't look her in the eyes

Told myself I was out this year...but I watched anyway. Definitely a more talented/polished group and there are 5 or 6 that can go all the way. However, the latin soap god is going to garner the female votes all the way through. Katherine is already wearing on middle american housewife...comments like...ringer, phoney, fake are pretty commonplace. I personally think she's got alot of class and hopes she stays. Donald Driver and Derek's partner have a ton of potential. Roshon will last awhile, but how many tweenish watch this show. I think Jaleel shot his wad in the opening. Not that he won't get better, but that routine took weeks to put together. He didn't look polished last night.

She sure is, although that horse laugh of hers is one of the strangest sounds that I've heard eminate from a human being in awhile.

I remember when Katherine Jenkins did her vocal guest shot in a Season 12 results show that, beyond her spectacular soprano, I was struck by her looks. Seeing her on this show, especially with the hair style that she sported this week while doing the Jive, I am now thunderstruck by how drop dead gorgeous she really is. She is stunning! Young Mr. Ballas has luckily fallen into it again (and maybe he'd like to in other ways).

Yep, she's hotter than a pistol. I can imagine her real personality is alot more fun than a stuffy classical vocalist generally personifies to the public.

I actually thought Derek and Maria got shortchanged tonight. Their rumba was nearly flawless, but since they danced early they got solid 9s. Then Kathryn and William danced later and scored 10s. I guess the judges just gave up trying to control the scoring. Whatever, the talent level of the top 6 dancers is as good as the best over the last few seasons. Heck, I think Donald is better than Hines Ward and he's having to fight his way into contention.

Gotta give Maria major props for, even with the injured ribs, doing Wrestlemania and DWTS in almost the same time space. From what I've read, she goes well beyond the average celeb in WWE and really sells out during her matches. She appears to be an excellent athlete and a very good dancer as well.

Yeah I love Maria... but I'm prediction a Katherine Vs. William at the very end..
Winner decided by mostly women? they'll vote for William..