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I hate to be the one to break this to you, but Battle of the Blades was swiped from a UK Show

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_on_ice

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I feel that as your Torontoist link posts get shorter and more and more essentialist, eventually it will simply be a capital T linking over to the article.

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There’s a reality show about mutant teenagers with superpowers?

HELL YES on Once Upon A Time In The West. What an awesome movie. Quentin Tarantino owes it a million jillion dollars.

As for FlashForward, prepare yourself for a letdown. It’s an assemblage of very interesting ideas wrapped around some really terrible character work and world-building. And Joseph Fiennes is just flat-out awful in it (everyone else is good, though). But then, I thought the new V was terrible and I seem to remember you liking it, so who knows.

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There is a fundamental problem with Battle of the Blades.

We’ve all made asses of ourselves or seen others make asses of themselves at karaoke.

We’ve all done the white man’s overbite on the dance floor, and stepped on our partner’s toes during a waltz.

These are both activities at which we have tremendous exposure at the amateur level. So we can appreciate sub-par performances on Idol / SYTYCD/(whatever the show is) for what they are – amateurs trying their best.

The problem with BoB is that most of us have never seen bad figure skating. The vast majority of us have only ever been exposed to World Class Skating. So we get presented with sub-par routines because Tie Domi just can’t skate gracefully (although they tried to mask it by doing lots of lifts using his strength to his advantage). So I saw sub-par routines, geared to the ability of the weaker of each couple and then then see them receive scores in the mid to high 5’s. To me, it’s like hanging your kids painting on the fridge. We do it because we love our kids, and want to encourage their creativity, but by no means is it good.

I think they should mix it up with a bit of 4 on 4 hockey. As a Torontonian, I’m used to bad hockey.

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