What2Watch: Can Kristi Yamaguchi Break Into The Boys Club?
May 21st, 2008
I’ve mostly stopped complaining about or even marveling at the continued success of Dancing With the Stars, which crowns its sixth champion tonight (ABC, 9 PM), preceded by a repeat of last night’s final performance show). People clearly enjoy watching the once-famous or famous-only-to-a-subgroup (Cristian de la Fuente and Jason Taylor would qualify here) learning how to perform ballroom dances, and the formula isn’t showing much wear and tear, possibly because the amateur dancers aren’t around long enough for us to get tired of them, and the show (unlike American Idol) wisely downplays the role of its judges.
DWTS has a long history of “surprising” outcomes, where the dancer perceived as the leader all season long is nipped at the wire (Mario Lopez grumbles about it to this day). More notably, there has not been a female winner since Kelly Monaco in Season One, an oversight attributed to both the traditional male leadership role in ballroom dancing and to the desire of the female audience for the show to keep the hot male celebs on as long as possible. But this might be the season that ends the streak: Kristi Yamaguchi has been so far and away the best that it’s hard to imagine there are enough Miami Dolphins fans out there to stop her. Besides, she’s an athlete too, and that’s been as helpful as merely being a guy.
American Idol (Fox, 8 PM): David Archuleta vs. David Cook: the elfin balladeer against the haircut-challenged grunge knockoff. The final performance show of the season is always highlighted, if that’s the right word, by the revelation of the winners’ single, which is usually something icky-sweet enough to make Mister Rogers’ teeth rot out of his head, even as he is spinning in his grave.
NCIS (CBS, 8 PM): Word is that a series regular dies in tonight’s two-hour finale, and there’s a further complication near the conclusion. Another death? I haven’t recovered yet from last night’s House, which had me, um, dealing with the sudden flare-up of a medical condition that causes my eyes to water uncontrollably.
Tags: ncis, show, tv
May 21st, 2008 at 10:29 am
I agree with your over-all point, but the greatest likelihood is that the lurking shadow is a member of your own family. Like you said, it’s easy to make a mistake when you’re nervous and sleepy.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:19 am
Given that I grew up listening to this song on the radio I think Aunty Beeb must have had another drag, thought about it a bit and said ‘Stuff that, play it.’
May 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Could someone put that in more common-sense, less inflamatory, less hyperbolic terms?
May 21st, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Oh right.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Then they will have killed an innocent man. Another reason we need to take this country back from the Facists currently in the white house.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Only criminals fear our government. If you’re not hiding anything illegal in your butt cheeks, you have nothing to fear.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Yes, because I generally like people. Its also possible that I might have only a small amount of remorse if it were someone I knew that had a bad report with me. But thats just opinion since the closest I’ve ever been to killing anyone was in an automobile accident.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Downmodded for use of the “s” word. (You know the one.)
May 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I think you’d be surprised how many people in these states that can carry are prepared and capable of dealing with a home invasion. You underestimate a lot of people and their reactions when a family is threatened with an unknown assailant.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Actually, in view of the armed homeowner, it kind of makes sense to disallow suing the cops. It also makes sense not to prosecute homeowners defending with lethal force against unannounced agents of the state trying to force their way in , as the precedent in this decision appears to support. Cops get gunned down for not knocking and announcing and nobody goes to jail for it, they might modify their actions.It also then makes sense to have automatic arms available as well. In case there’s more than one intruder, you’ll need to lay down suppressive fire.Cops might just reconsider knocking and saying “we’re the police - don’t shoot”.Honestly, it looks like the SCOTUS might be de-evolving into a primitive formalist state, seeing law as infallible, and the impact of their decisions as not part of the decision making process. “Consequences to society? Like that’s supposed to matter?”Not good. Certainly not what Oliver Wendell Holmes would advocate.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. — Confucius