Commenter Mike makes a good point about last night's Dance War:

I thought Bruno made an appropriate comment tonight. Isn't this show called "Dance Wars"?! So why is there so much emphasis on the singing?! I thought dancing was the focal point of the show. Ok, maybe singing and dancing, with dancing being the foundation of the performance. But, when you are being judged more on your team's singing singing ability and how tight they sounded or "featured" as Carrie Ann puts it. Come on!! Give some credit where credit is due! I've been siding with Carrie Ann at first. But, tonight's performance, in MY opinion, I felt Bruno's team OUT DANCED and out sang Carrie Ann's team.

I think this is only part of the show's problem. The structure is a mess. The teams perform and then they find out which team got the most votes based on the previous week's performances. When the show is over, voting is open for an hour and theoretically based on that night's performances, but the freshest thing in people's minds is which team lost the vote last week and how they handled it. And if a team totally steps it up and puts on a great performance, it doesn't matter -- the votes were cast the previous week. It's clunky, to say the least.

Not to mention that the show is pitched as being about dancers -- or at least dancers who can sing. But the prize is a recording contract, which seems to me like it's about singers who can dance.

The whole show is kind of a muddled mess, and I can't really imagine either of these groups making it big-time.

(Photo of Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli courtesy of ABC)