DragonFlyzz

Why why why do I keep subjecting myself to this passel of multi-generational morons? Apparently I also need to see a therapist.

Thank you. I was like shut up and give him a chance to answer you stupid cow.

That’ll hurt her more than it hurts him.

Unfortunately.

Last I checked you’re well into adulthood Rebecca. You could’ve told your bossy daughter that you were going to the airport alone. When you didn’t have enough sense and/or spine for that you should’ve insisted Zied go home from the airport given the length of the flight he just got off.

I’ve used Sea Island Cotton which is a very fresh scent. I’ve also used Enchanted Orchid which is very floral.

A little bit??????

That’s fine. I’ll take the good looking one that isn’t a perv. 😯

I just can’t with Jaime. Every time he demonstrated the slightest redeeming quality he backslid immediately. I never really learned to share and no guy is worth sharing with another woman especially when that woman is his sister. 🤢

What’s with insulting Jon? Andrew wishes he looked like Jon Snow. 😯 Jon never looked as greasy and slovenly as Andrew. I might be something of a fan of Jon’s. 😍 Maybe just a scoshe.

Mom is claiming the whole weekend. I think she knows the 9th isn’t on a Sunday. She doesn’t want their wedding anniversary to fall on her weekend. Gotta love it.

I wouldn’t want to be “required” to take care of any of the animals. She is living in her future in-laws home so helping around the house is a perfectly reasonable expectation. However, the farm is, to me, a totally different situation. Who was responsible for taking care of the animals before Julia arrived? Why can’t they continue to take care of the animals?

You can borrow mine. 😀

I’m glad, though, that no one’s dinging a great dancer over her hair. It’s beyond stupid when they know the rookies will get makeovers (except probably this season). I wish we got to see more of Elli’s and Dani’s solos. I also wish we got to see all of the dances to the actual music. The performances lose something when the show dubs in different music. Sometimes the show’s choices suck.

I LOVE CLAIRE! 💞 I love how she interprets the music with her body. Did I mention that I love Claire? Total girl crush. 🥰

Showing the ring on her finger went with the song to which she was performing, which was Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It). She also included a couple of moves from Bey’s video for the song. I guess that all played together since DCC liked it and put a ring on it. 😍

Kelly mentioned that they wouldn’t be doing the jump split. She mentioned it when speaking about the kick line and how the ladies would not be hooking up for the kick line. I wonder if that messes up any of the rookies that make the squad when they return for their veteran season. Maybe they’ll teach it to them at some point during the season.

I made the wrong reference. It’s actually rhythmic gymnastics. @SMP637 got it right. A few seasons ago one of the ladies had been a rhythmic gymnast in her teens. Kat was Caucasian, blonde and very thin. Kat was super flexible with great kicks but she had a problem with power. She was a one and done. She came back for her veteran season and was cut. Current DCC Kat said she did gymnastics for fifteen years. She seems to have done what most think of when they hear gymnast (i.e. handstands, backflips, tumbling, etc.).

If Kelly decides she likes you, she’ll fight tooth and nail to keep you, against all comers. On the other hand, if she doesn’t like you ...

Meredith wasn’t a rookie she was a vet. A vet who had serious struggles as a rookie. Struggles that she still hadn’t overcome. I think she really lacks self-awareness. She shouldn’t need anyone to tell her when she’s messing up the choreography. She should know when she’s off timing wise and when she makes a misstep. At one point Judy asked her if she knew what she’d done wrong and despite her affirmative response I don’t believe she did know. I think Meredith was more at risk than a lot of the others. She was one of the weakest veterans in training camp and she was being out danced by most of the rookies. She was coming back after a season on the squad and was still making the same mistakes. The fact that she was unaware that she was hanging by a thread was part of her problem. Either she thought she was good so she didn’t work hard enough or she worked really hard and still couldn’t get her arms around it. In either case she didn’t have what it takes to be a DCC. I hope she finds something that she loves and at which she excels.

Occasionally I think doing what they do best doesn’t work for them. I think since Kat the rhythmic gymnast, from a few seasons back, had struggled with power as a rookie doing another lyrical solo didn’t help her when she reauditioned. It wasn’t fair to ding her for her solo that season but they did. So much for telling them to do what they do best. 18-year old Brianna from NJ was another well trained technical dancer whose solo Kelly, in particular, loved. Despite atrocious kicks Brianna made it into training camp but couldn’t translate her technical training into DCC style. Legacy Madeline was yet another classically trained dancer with a lovely solo who couldn’t adapt. Sometimes they put too much weight on the solos. A meh solo doesn’t mean they can’t pick up DCC choreography and an amazing solo doesn’t mean that they can.

I’m with you on all of the above. Meredith deserved to be cut ... in fact she never should’ve made the squad. If she hadn’t been Kelly’s girl crush she wouldn’t have made it. She has a lovely face but nothing else to recommend her for the job. Her timing was off and Judy and every choreographer last season noticed and commented on it. Her figure didn’t look good in the uniform. She didn’t do well at the cameo photo shoot and she didn’t do well at media “training”. Any one of those things would’ve gotten another girl cut. Being on the squad last year was a gift. The problem for her this year is that even with a season on the squad under her belt she’s still on the struggle bus. Her timing is still off and she still can’t pick up and retain DCC choreography. A bigger problem is her disconnect with the reality of her deficiencies. She thinks she’s top 36, she thinks she’s a stronger dancer this season, etc. She can’t address her issues if she won’t acknowledge that she has them. All that being said, watching her face when they cut her was hard. She seems to be a genuine sweetheart. I wish her the best.

That’s another annoyance with Kelly continually harping on Meredith’s training/technique. It doesn’t matter how much training she has if she can’t pick up and retain choreography or master DCC style. Great training/technique didn’t save Erin from being cut as you mentioned and it didn’t save Brianna, who was another of Kelly’s obsessions. Funny how Kelly mentioned that having great feet wasn’t the end all be all since those lovely feet will be encased in boots. She seems to keep forgetting that even though she said it herself.

A reasonable compromise. Too bad the word isn’t in the vocabulary of either of these thimblewits.

You’re calling me a liar? What a blow I’ve been dealt. 😭