Originally Posted by fatskia:
“There are equal arguments for making them dance their best dance again, or their second-placed dance.
I would be in favour of the second-placed dance. It gives both couples a chance and makes the fact that they are dancing two dances mean more.
With their weaker dance they have a chance to improve, so the dance-off is more exciting. I thought Austin's salsa was worse in the dance-off because he knew there was no way to win unless Lisa fainted.”
“There are equal arguments for making them dance their best dance again, or their second-placed dance.
I would be in favour of the second-placed dance. It gives both couples a chance and makes the fact that they are dancing two dances mean more.
With their weaker dance they have a chance to improve, so the dance-off is more exciting. I thought Austin's salsa was worse in the dance-off because he knew there was no way to win unless Lisa fainted.”
I agree with you except that I thought Lisa was worse in the dance-off whilst Austin was about the same. There was a heck of a lot of gapping in Lisa's waltz the second time around which wasn't there when she originally did it.
I've never liked the idea of doing the best dance again because surely the whole point of the two dance stage apart from filling the program is weed out those can't do both the ballroom and the latin and the dance-off allows you to get through in spite of being weak in one or the other. Lisa has always been stronger on the ballroom side but she ended up in the dance-off because of her weak latin whilst it's Austin's ballroom that let him down - it would have been fairer to give them a second dance to improve those dances.



