DWTS...fair?

Crystal: So, I don't watch Dancing with the Stars at all....but I saw some highlights on Fox 11 news this morning from last night's airing....I hadn't realized that Nicole Scherzinger was on this season...isn't that unfair to the other contestants??? She's in a girl group who is pretty much known for their dancing (Pussycat Dolls)....yea, they sing too....but they're more known for being entertainers versus singers.

How do you throw into a dancing competition, a professional dancer (who is drop-dead gorgeous by the way), and a bunch of others who if anything have just done it for fun on the side. I mean, Nicole Scherzinger vs Kate Gosselin or Shannen Doherty...or Buzz Aldrin?? I guess Kristi Yamaguchi would go under the "experienced" category too, although dancing on ice and dancing on stage are a bit different.

It just seems very weighted on one end...

Again, I haven't watched the show, so I don't know how well Nicole is actually doing, but I would bet she's doing pretty well....please fill me in if I'm incorrect though.

Jen: I'm not a huge fan (my mom is!) but I've caught bits and pieces this season because I was interested in Kate Gosselin. My very first thought was that the choice to extend an offer to Nicole Scherzinger was SO wrong! This is what she's known for! That makes it unfair, but even more importantly for the success of their show, uninteresting!

Again, I don't really watch the show so I can't say for sure, but is there enough room for Scherzinger to grow to keep audiences tuned in? I couldn't care less about the show now that Doherty and Gosselin are gone.

Super Bowl

Jen: Who here watched the Super Bowl yesterday? I spent the afternoon with my teenage brothers and tons of munchies (7-layer dip, YUM!). I was lucky in that the Saints and Colts are my two favorite teams, so it was going to be a win in my eyes either way!

I also loved a few of the commercials! My favorites were the Doritos and Google commercials! What about you?

Crystal: You know, I didn't know you were such a football fan...seriously. More and more I'm surprised by how many females like football!! I am so anti-football that I just keep thinking everyone else is like me too, lol. :) :)

I did go to a Super Bowl party yesterday though...and they had 3 football pools that we played in which makes it much more fun to sit through hours of sports...and the commercials make it better too, although they have the sound kinda low and there were a TON of people there who were loud, so I actually couldn't really hear the commercials...just watched the pictures. I'm glad you posted the Doritos commercial though because I saw that one and could imagine what the kid was saying, but it was much funnier when I actually heard it. :)

The only commercial that really stood out to me was the Bud Light commercial with the human bridge...but I didn't watch ALL the commercials, and I definitely couldn't hear them all, so there were probably some better ones. :) :)

Oh - and my new favorite party dip, while we're on the topic of 7-layer dip, is Buffalo Chicken Dip!!! OH MY...TO DIE FOR. Dan's cousin's wife made it twice now and it is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo DELICIOUS. We'll (aka Dan) make it for the next get together. :)

Jen: You know, it's not that I'm a huge football fan (I'm a basketball fan!), but over the years boyfriends subjected me to it enough that I chose the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" route. I do love football movies and TV though. I'm a huge fan of Friday Night Lights!

Buffalo Chicken Dip sounds amazing, by the way! I love dips, and I love buffalo sauce, so I'm in! I'll have to make Pizza Dip for you sometime, too. So good!

Crystal: I just recently started watching Friday Night Lights!!! I haven't gotten through the first season yet as I don't get time to watch it much...but I'm about halfway through it and I love it. I'm totally caught up in the story line....I don't get the football scenes at all, but I still feel the happiness when they win. :) :) :)

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett

Jen: I'm stunned after hearing about Michael Jackson's passing. I can't believe this happened the same day that we lose Farrah Fawcett. It truly is a sad day :(

Crystal: It's starting to sink in a little more now...the MJ thing at least. I wasn't as familiar with Farrah's work and so I don't think her death affected me AS MUCH as MJ's....

Dan and I were talking about it as we drove to the Palm Springs area this past Thursday as we were on the road and heard about MJ going to the hospital and then kept up on TMZ on my iphone to see the latest because I figured he was going to pass based on the reports.....this was basically like the Elvis or the Beatles of our generation....this was going to be one of those things 20 years from now where someone goes: 'where were you when Michael Jackson died?'....well we were driving to Indio, CA. for a vacation in the sun.

The one benefit from this whole thing is that I have re-fallen in love with so many of Michael's songs that I just haven't heard in ages. The whole weekend in Indio we watched videos on tv and listened to him on the radio...he was truly talented. I'm mostly disappointed that he will not be able to continue to make beautiful music for the world to hear...and that his children will grow up without a father...

...but otherwise, I feel that he lived a life that was filled with both good and bad....and that in his short 50 or so years he lived more than most of us....whether all of it was good is probably not the case, but perhaps he is happier now where he is. :)

Jen: Joe and I played his albums all day on Sunday, and I was a little surprised to find how much I still loved his music! I kind of figured that it was a phase when I was younger, but apparently not! I even tried my hand at Moon Walking (and failed!), and it hit hard that MJ was so very much like Elvis. Funny that he was married to Elvis' daughter!

What's truly sad was his horrid relationship with his father- the man who so obviously turned him into the idiosyncratic person that he was. It disturbs me that reports say his father was there when he died. I mean, MJ didn't even put him in his will, and that's coming from a VERY giving man! And now his father is using this publicity to plug his new record label. It makes me sick.

Crystal: LoL I would have loved to see you trying to moonwalk! :) And Dan said the same thing about his music...when we were listening to all the songs and videos he said he forgot how much he really liked MJ's music...he had thought maybe it was just a couple he liked, but then realized he liked just about every song being played. :)

I did find that really coincidental that he was married to Elvis' daughter....although a strange relationship and some think it was a publicity ploy...but who knows...she said it was real.

The whole father/son relationship between MJ and his dad is a strange one...I don't know what went on between them two...I've heard stories of abuse or just stage-dad drama....but sometimes I wonder if it went further than that just based on the way MJ was and his personality (what we could publicly see at least)....very strange, a little disturbing...mysterious, and we'll probably never know the true stories unless someone in the family publishes a tell-all memoir on their deathbed someday..............

SYTYCD

Jen: I know I just asked you, Crystal, so I know that you don't watch So You Think You Can Dance. But wow, you should! I'm not a fan of American Idol at all, but I love SYTYCD even though it's the same setup. I believe that it's the passion and art of moving one's body that draws me in. Singing is cool, but it's not as personal to me as dance.

Anyway, in case you're interested, here's this season's Top 20! I love so many of them already!

Crystal: I think that if I still had a DVR, then this would be on my record list (it actually was when I used to have a DVR)....but since I don't, I just don't have the interest level to reserve time each week to watch. And I also think I prefer singing to dancing.....although I do like both. :)

I didnt even watch American Idol this last season, and I do love that show....I watched maybe 1 whole episode and portions of a couple other ones....but not having a DVR really does change your viewing habits! Lost was the only show I would make time for each week. :)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer...or not?

Crystal: I was super excited when I saw the headline on AOL today - 'Buffy Reboot in the Works'....until I read the story: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i666afabc28491e6a5d5861d83ae30855

So....it's another Buffy movie...but not? So...they're not using the same characters...possibly not even Buffy herself...has nothing to do with the tv show...but yet they want to use Buffy the Vampire Slayer as reference just because the same people who OWN the rights want to make a new movie...I feel like they're just playing with us loyal Buffy fans and taking advantage of us by throwing the Buffy name around but in the end just making another vampire movie.....right?

Or am I misunderstanding this?

I do get that you shouldn't ruin a good thing by taking the tv show and making it into a movie...especially since they're not even using Joss Whedon to make it...but it should still have some of the same basis around it....right? Otherwise it's not Buffy.

Thoughts?

Jen: I heard about this yesterday :( You know what a massive Buffy fan I am, so I'm sure you already know my feelings on this! PUKE!

Aside from being a Buffy fan, I'm a Joss Whedon fan. Poor Joss gets screwed in every project he takes on it seems. He's an absolute genius and the networks put him through the ringer, show after show. And in the end, what you have is a new cult following for every one of his endeavors. I honestly don't think he's ever had a single failure, so why is he excluded from his own creations?

On a happier note, his new show that premiered last season, Dollhouse, is awesome and has been picked up for another season! He had a long battle to get the show up and running (as always) because of the network and them wanting to change everything about it, but in the end he won and it's a hit! Hopefully he'll change his mind about this being the last TV series he ever works on, because everything he does is golden!

P.S. Crystal, I remember you making a comment before about how maybe Joss has a crush on Eliza Dushku because she's his leading lady in Dollhouse and being a big character on Buffy, but as it turns out, they created Dollhouse together- he didn't just choose her! She's actually the producer!