The Reality of "Reality"

Last night was the Dancing with the Stars Finale, which I watched with my two oldest daughters. Since Daylight savings changed everything is watched one hour later here, so on a school night the girls went to bed at midnight. Nevertheless our collective breaths were held when the first couple was to be eliminated...Marie and Jonathan, what a relief cause if they won we weren't going to watch the show again.

Dancing With the Stars is a DANCE competition, not a popularity contest, Marie should've been eliminated a LONG time ago. We were surprised when Albert Reed was let go and Wayne Newton remained (popularity vote), then Sabrina was gone and Jane stayed (popularity vote again) and Marie, I won't even start on that one.

The same thing happens on American Idol, remember Sanjaya, Nikki, and Taylor... Daughtry nevertheless got the last laugh on that one, as did Jennifer Hudson.

Although I enjoy these types of programs I wonder, much like Randy Jackson, "What was America Thinking?". These are either Dancing or Singing Competitions, we are not looking for the person that makes me feel the most nostalgic or the one with the coolest hair. Sabrina, Albert and Jennie were cheated "America got it wrong Dog!"

In two short months IT is back, American Idol returns, hopefully this season will be a la season two or four, cause if it continues as boring and predictable as the last two seasons I'll be tuning in to something else.

As far as Dancing with the Stars, how about some latino contestants (Roselyn Sanchez doing anything interesting?) or better yet a Dancing All Star Showdown between previous contestants like Joey McIntyre, Lisa Rinna, Stacey Keebler (?), Drew Lachey, Joey Lawrence, Joey Fatone, Apolo Anton Ohno, Mel B., Sabrina, Mario Lopez and Jennie Garth. But on second thought these Stars are currently too busy to go through this whole ordeal once again, specially when they got their second wind thanks to this show.

And in case American Idol sucks, we still have Dance Wars, So You Think You Can Dance, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Top Chef, Shear Genius, Survivor, The Amazing Race and a bunch of other "Reality" shows to keep us entertained.

:oDD