Dancing with the Stars

Erin's dress, yuck; didn't care for her hair, either.

Simone, I could see her rythym was a bit off, but she looked gorgeous.

Bonner's dance not so great. Sharna, in an icy blue negligee, was smokin hot.

Nancy Kerrigan. You'd think she'd be less emotional and more confident. Olympic medalist, long legs that go on forever. I think she should and could have had a lot more attitude with the paso and could have killed it. Needs a major shot of confidence.

Nick, meh. Peta's hand flung to her bosom to make sure she didn't pop out as she was bouncing around.

Now Normani, that is confidence and sexiness. Whoa.

I really like the baseball guy, so decent and down to earth. Not sure why they did the lift if they couldn't perfect it and it wasn't a necessary move. I love his platonic relationship with Lindsey.

Rashad, nice dance. Emma's dress was va va voom.

Heather's dance was okay, nothing major. Judges loved it. Messy hair again. It's like her security blanket.

Team dance: the guys, fun. Some sensual crotch grabbing by Rashad.

Girls: I agree with Carrie Anne and Len that the dance didn't come together.

At this point, I hate to see anyone eliminated! About this time in the competition I start to vote.

I really liked Normandi and Rashad, and I'm going to revise my thinking from Simone to Normandi to take it. Poor Nancy just goes to show you what she must have gone through to be so perfect as an ice skater and the look on her face, she was sure she was going home. Loved the guys dance, they really seemed to be having a great time together, everybody gelled - the girls really didn't seem to fall into place as a team.

I was somewhat surprised by this week's eliminations too.

I liked all the dances, thought they told their stories well. I thought the guest judge's comments on Simone needing to enjoy the moment were very true. Technically she is great, but I see some others with lots of talent and more passion. I loved all the dance-off music. Very fun!

Missed the whole thing! We had a 12 hour city wide power outage from about 5 last night to 5 this morning due to some trouble with adjoining electrical substations. Will have to catch the dances on YouTube today when I have time.

oh my gosh!!!! Loved this trio dance by Normani!!!!! So cute, clever, energetic!!!

I liked Dave's dance, the drama of it, even if he is kind of stiff in his movements.

So.....will see who goes tonight.......

Very much agreed with the results tonight.

Solo dances: I liked Normandi and Dave's the best, mainly because both told stories they felt deeply about. which showed in their dancing.

Trio: l loved Rashad and Normadni's dances!

It was a fun night. I think that Simone hasn't been able to make the mental jump from being a gymnast dancing to a dancer who is also a gymnast.

Tonight is the best I've seen Erin look. Her hair soft and casual, the simple glitter silver dress...loved it.

Normani and Val, okay.

David and Lindsay, I always love their feel good routines

Erin is actually talking nicely as well. So far, so good!

A terrific dance. She definitively deserved her scores. I loved gramma!

Whoa! Did not see that coming!!! At all!!

Well.......this is why they need to change the voting structure. This is the second time this season that a person has had a breakthrough night, gotten all 10s, and is gone.

Although I think Dave is a very lovely person, IMO he is not close to the other 3 in last night's competition and should not have been scored as highly as Normandi (for an example) in the first round. I think he was over-scored all season.

Simone, I think she was under-scored all season. I really thought that she had finally let loose and added the show-biz/fun/passion factor to her incredible dancing ability, so I am very sad that she is gone.

Normandi, beautiful lines & really brings a lot of personality to her dances. Also, Max is a great coach/partner.

Rashad, I really like him. Gorgeous, sweet, strong, has the personality component to his dances as well.

So..... I'm bummed about Simone & hope they rethink how/when to count the votes. I hope Normandi and Rashad come in #1 and #2, in either order.

Oh, I agree 100% that Dave was scored high and Simone low all season. I could sense how Simone often danced for the technical qualities but often didn't connect on a personal level somehow. I very much feel like Carrie Ann should feel guilty for her endlessly harping on the personality side. It is, sadly, an instance where the easy going older white guy gets the breaks and the young black chick gets harshly critiqued and then questioned about why she isn't smiling. It sucks. It really does.

At the beginning of the season, I would have said we would see Heather Morris and Simone Biles in the finals. As I said before, the level of dancing this season is below what we've seen in previous ones. I do hope Normani wins, but the finals still lack that excitement I've felt going in to other finals. Normani has the one move that she puts in just about every dance, kick the leg straight up in the air to the left and swirl it over the the right and bring the foot down to the floor. You know, there could be more variety there.

It is nice to see both Lindsay and Emma in the finals, some professional fresh faces rather than the usual "suspects". And I am thinking that we will still get a pretty good show.

Very fun show. It would be nice for either Whitney or Emma to win as neither ever have before. David is very sweet, Normandi has lovely lines, but I am voting for Rashad as I think he puts both the sweetness and lovely lines together.