Strictly launch show!
Sep. 6th, 2015 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessThe timing of this show is always weird. I'm still in denial about the end of summer, and shop windows displaying the poncy 'AW15' doesn't help with that, either. The show is as strongly associated with cosying up in the living room as darkness falls earlier and earlier as Downton is with autumn turning into winter. (Last series of Downton!!!) The Strictly launch show is just a taster, and although it's all very exciting to see the contestants and see who is paired up with whom, there will be several fallow weeks before the show proper returns.
This year Strictly has become a political lightning rod, of all things. Furthermore, speaking personally, the person who got me watching the show recently passed away. So, I'd be reacting to things and then realising that I'll never talk about whom I voted for, disagree about who's irritating or share what made me laugh with that person again, which added a strain of sadness.
I did laugh to, and the first thing that did it was Claudia falling out of the bed in the big opening number. When we got to the live portion of the show, it did get frenetic, overall, with all the celebs being nervous in different ways. They mostly seemed up for it, and the chief motivation for doing the show seemed to be daughters.
I'm not going to comment on the pairings (apart from feeling sorry for Katie Derham for getting Anton. She seems as if she deserves better. Show, we all love him, and I understand why you keep him, but he was the punchline to two partner jokes at least.) I'm glad Tristan is still here. Of the new dancers, Oti seems pretty, there's Vincent 2.0 and while I understood the reaction to Gleb's face, I was amused by his tendency to put his hand in his pocket, all casual-like.
I enjoyed the pro numbers, especially the three newbies' intro. 'Putting on the Ritz' was fun (so Jo is a performing pro but doesn't have a celeb partner?) and Jess Glynne's first number was your typical two couples thing. I don't know if they should have bothered having her sing the group number live. But I WANT TO SEE DANIEL O'DONNELL DO LATIN, ASAP. For all the wrong reasons. We'll see if the first two dances confirm or undermine first impressions about potentially good dancers. A lot of the female celebs seemed to have figured that laughing was the way to make themselves likeable, which is true. I am less annoyed by Peter Andre than I expected to be, so far.
The judges didn't have much to do, although Darcey was better dressed than Claudia and certainly Tess. Carol's dress was gorgeous in colour and the flare of the skirt.
ETA: I was a little disappointed that Caroline and Pasha's victory dance wasn't the Charleston. Ideally, it should have been the showdance. But the routine as was was a little ragged from her, although, as ever, she threw herself into it.
This year Strictly has become a political lightning rod, of all things. Furthermore, speaking personally, the person who got me watching the show recently passed away. So, I'd be reacting to things and then realising that I'll never talk about whom I voted for, disagree about who's irritating or share what made me laugh with that person again, which added a strain of sadness.
I did laugh to, and the first thing that did it was Claudia falling out of the bed in the big opening number. When we got to the live portion of the show, it did get frenetic, overall, with all the celebs being nervous in different ways. They mostly seemed up for it, and the chief motivation for doing the show seemed to be daughters.
I'm not going to comment on the pairings (apart from feeling sorry for Katie Derham for getting Anton. She seems as if she deserves better. Show, we all love him, and I understand why you keep him, but he was the punchline to two partner jokes at least.) I'm glad Tristan is still here. Of the new dancers, Oti seems pretty, there's Vincent 2.0 and while I understood the reaction to Gleb's face, I was amused by his tendency to put his hand in his pocket, all casual-like.
I enjoyed the pro numbers, especially the three newbies' intro. 'Putting on the Ritz' was fun (so Jo is a performing pro but doesn't have a celeb partner?) and Jess Glynne's first number was your typical two couples thing. I don't know if they should have bothered having her sing the group number live. But I WANT TO SEE DANIEL O'DONNELL DO LATIN, ASAP. For all the wrong reasons. We'll see if the first two dances confirm or undermine first impressions about potentially good dancers. A lot of the female celebs seemed to have figured that laughing was the way to make themselves likeable, which is true. I am less annoyed by Peter Andre than I expected to be, so far.
The judges didn't have much to do, although Darcey was better dressed than Claudia and certainly Tess. Carol's dress was gorgeous in colour and the flare of the skirt.
ETA: I was a little disappointed that Caroline and Pasha's victory dance wasn't the Charleston. Ideally, it should have been the showdance. But the routine as was was a little ragged from her, although, as ever, she threw herself into it.
