Last night, I watched the season finale of Dancing With The Stars. I’m not a huge fan and have never watched it regularly, mostly because watching people dance poorly makes me cringe, but if I remember, I do turn on the season finale while I am doing other things and catch just the dancers that are competing. I’m not at all interested in seeing the people who were knocked off prior to the finals, and I don’t care about all the other blather (and interpersonal drama).
I knew immediately that Nicole and her partner had to win, because they totally blew me away. Truly incredible dancing. Not that Evan and his partner sucked, but it lacked in comparison. The third couple did, in fact, suck somewhat, and it wasn’t until they’d been removed that I finally figured out it was Kate Gosselin (the reality TV show mom with way too many kids and far too much life drama). I’m not at all a fan of Kate.
At one point during the show, after Lin came home and we were both actually sitting and watching instead of doing other things while listening to the show, there was a clip of Kate arguing with her partner and other moments between them. Mostly just reinforced my negative feelings about this woman, but there was one thing she said that made both Lin and I roll our eyes.
“90% of my audience hates me.”
She says she doesn’t care, and I’m certain she doesn’t care at all on her way to the bank with the money she’s making (while ruining any chance her kids have at a somewhat normal life), but I do wonder if she’s ever considered how many people who aren’t a part of her “audience” hate her as well. There are a lot of people who don’t watch her at all, and some of us don’t watch her show(s) because we can’t stand her. Yes, it’s true, some people actually don’t watch people they don’t like on TV.
I think she needs to meditate on the fact that if only 10% of her “audience” likes her, the number of people who don’t like her at all, whether they watch the show or not, has got to be huge, and that the number of people who don’t watch her show and can’t stand her is probably higher than the total of her entire audience. Then she needs to pull back a bit on the attitude. I am seriously surprised her dance partner didn’t strangle her with his bare hands. Seriously.
Anyway, even though I really like Evan, I’m glad Nicole won, because … WOW, that was some great dancing. Any other outcome than Nicole winning would have seemed wrong. And now I can go back to not caring about Dances With The Stars again until someone reminds me the next season is about to end and maybe I want to watch it.
The only reason I watch season finales for some network TV shows is because they are the shows everyone I know will be talking about the next day. I am never in the loop on network TV programming, but I do like to at least know what my friends are talking about when they are ALL talking about it.