DWTS Season 22, Week 04
REVIEW: Doug & Karina
Dancing a terrifically fun Jazz to “A Spoonful of
Sugar” from Mary Poppins, Football
Legend, Doug Flutie, and his
Professional partner, Karina Smirnoff, presented their Disney Night Routine!
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Doug & Karina
DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night |
Well, apparently, it seems that just a spoonful of sugar will help the medicine go down, as whatever this fun and fresh Jazz Number may have lacked in Technical Execution, it MORE than made up for with a sweet amount of Playful, Performing Pizzazz and, of course, that all important Disney-like Quality!
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Doug & Karina
DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night |
I mean to say, I positively adored this Routine!!
But then again, honestly, who wouldn’t have adored it? It was just so purely … Oh, what is that word? … “Happy”!!
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Doug & Karina
DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night |
(You know, Guest Judge, Zendaya Coleman, that warm and pleasant feeling that just seems to immediately evaporate out the Ballroom’s atmosphere whenever you speak …)
True, this delightful Dance did see more than its fair share of mounting errors throughout the course of the performance, including but not limited to: some sloppy footwork, some lifts gone slightly awry (Although major kudos, Doug, for pulling through both times, and finishing the Lifts anyway!), and what seemed like some kind of physical aversion to that other Mary Poppins’ timeless classic, “Step in Time”!
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Doug & Karina
DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night |
However, it must also
it be said that, by Routine’s end, while Flutie’s
Dancing had certainly displayed all
of the above, it equally reigned as some of the fun-est of the evening, having been so scrumptiously preserved with an endearing amount of Proper Character
Portrayal and Showmanship by Doug, and some seriously
fantastic Choreography, courtesy of the ever-talented Karina, whose inclusion of Terrific Table-Top Tricks, both
at the beginning and at the end of the Dance, one or two elements of too-cute
Comedy, and those always-crowd-pleasing Judges’ Desk Kicks was in absolute PERFECT keeping with the Night’s Theme!
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Doug & Karina
DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night |
“I saw the makings of a good Routine,” voiced Panel Judge, Carrie Ann Inaba, when the Dance was over, “but I don’t think you actually delivered on it … and I feel terrible … I saw the intention, I could tell you put in the work, it just did not come together tonight.”
(A fair enough critique, Carrie Ann, although I can’t say that I appreciate the implication that this Routine just up and fell flat on its face either, instead of being recognized for the enjoyable showing that it was overall!)
“There were mistakes, you know, and that happens,” offered the 19-year-old, Zendaya (… Ah, good! Here we go with a more sane perspective …), “… I think the number one thing is, always remembering that, when you’re on the stage, [to] like, [always be] ‘Channeling’ all that aggression, all that anger, all that ‘Upset’, and just, into ‘Disney Magic’!”
<Record Scratch!> Wait, WHAT?! Am I crazy, or isn’t that JUST what Doug had already accomplished, only minutes ago???
“You know this is Disney,” the presumptuous TEEN continued, “this is Disney Night, [so] enjoy it!”
<Drumming Fingers> … That’s exactly what Doug did, you twit! … Still waiting, by the way, on an actual critique, or did you even have any accurate thoughts to offer on the current topic at all?!
“Take it from a ‘Disney Girl’ myself, sometimes, you know, there [are] times I’m mad, I’m angry, but I just, I channel that into positivity! …”
Oh! Oh, now I see, you weren’t critiquing this Dance at all, were you, Zendaya? (Or, if you were, you 100% FAILED miserably!) But no! … It would appear to me that all that Channeling Crap and seemingly Genuine Gusto were all mere verbal ploys to afford your own, “Perfect” self the ultimate gratification of a Side-ways Compliment!
Good grief, girl (and while I feel pretty sure that, on Disney Night at least, the show would have set up one or two Evil “Mirror, Mirror”s on the wall, in the back of the building somewhere for vain individuals, such as yourself), would it be quite alright with you if the REST of us were to proceed with the critiquing and subsequent scoring of the ACTUAL PERFORMANCE AT HAND?!!
... Honestly, what a Self-serving, Self-aggrandizing ... !
“Well, what I liked,” began Head Judge, Len Goodman, with some sincerely voiced opinions on Doug & Karina’s Jazz, “You got right into the ‘Character’ of the Dance! You made it fun, you made it entertaining, it was enjoyable to watch, it just got out of Sync a couple of times during the Routine, but, Doug, I dig it!”
Well, thank YOU, Len, and there we have it, folks … <Casting an arched glance in Zendaya’s general, misguided direction> … Len “dig”s it, so THERE!!
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