Strictly Week 9 results show
Nov. 18th, 2024 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessThe show started with a group Argentine tango. I’m not sure what the storyline was – follow the hankie in a hotel lobby? But who cares, really? You could tell who the real Argentine tango pros were, although it was obvious that the Strictly pros were enjoying themselves a lot, especially Michelle.
The recap grouped the top 3 at the top, and Chris’s love of ballroom was clear, the middle three as the middle and the bottom two as the bottom. Tess was wearing a sparkly silver jumpsuit, while the judges seemed to have toned it down to what looked like almost monochrome, except it turned out Shirley had gone sparkly too. Claudia was wearing a leopard print blouse and looked much more normal than in the live show.
The top three couples were called safe, so there was no shock save, but Montell and Johannes were in danger again. On the one hand, they did a disco samba that I wasn’t feeling, on the other, I, like other audience members, had vote for a weaker white male celeb.
I realised I wasn’t a fan of Vito’s slicked down hair now that I was seeing him sitting down on a sofa.
We saw some of the pros dance ‘with’ Bluey for charity. Anchors Aweigh it wasn’t. But then, I’m not in the target audience.
Craig was offered an opportunity to expand on why he’d given Pete a four, and boy did he, talking about all the mistakes he’d seen and why he felt totally justified. This led on to him getting to introduce a replay of Claudia’s faux pas from the start of the live show. This led to her introducing a playback of the lindyhopathon disaster of 2018. Motsi looked horrified! I don’t care if it’s the twentieth anniversary, why bring it back the year you’ve got a blind contestant? Why bring it back ever? I hope that they’ll at least do some kind of rehearsal of the judges inputting the scores and Shirley having to read it out, or maybe the producers are deluded enough to think that chaos = entertainment.
Anyway, the second batch got called, and Pete was clearly shocked at his save (while wearing the fur coat, glasses and hat, bless), the producers tortured JB and Lauren (presumably because they’d got the same score as MoJo.) We were reminded that Craig had given Wynne ‘an extra point’ for entertainment, while denying Pete, rather undermining what he'd been spouting in the debrief. He didn’t have much advice to offer Wynne, because it was a case of ‘hope Montell goes really wrong.’
Jamie did a take-off of Anton (might be a mistake, because I think Anton is rooting for him harder than the other judges.)
Pet Shop Boys did another performance with weird head accoutrements for their musicians, and we got to see Luba and Gorka and then Nadiya and Nikita dance, with both ladies having gained long ponytails.
In the dance-off Montell threw all her energy into her samba, although the glimpse of the glitterball felt even more cruel this time around. And then Wynne mucked up the swivels in the opening section and wasn’t great at them later on, so the result was a foregone conclusion. And I think Wynne and Katya knew it. They decided to reference the hands thingy in their ‘final dance.’
The recap grouped the top 3 at the top, and Chris’s love of ballroom was clear, the middle three as the middle and the bottom two as the bottom. Tess was wearing a sparkly silver jumpsuit, while the judges seemed to have toned it down to what looked like almost monochrome, except it turned out Shirley had gone sparkly too. Claudia was wearing a leopard print blouse and looked much more normal than in the live show.
The top three couples were called safe, so there was no shock save, but Montell and Johannes were in danger again. On the one hand, they did a disco samba that I wasn’t feeling, on the other, I, like other audience members, had vote for a weaker white male celeb.
I realised I wasn’t a fan of Vito’s slicked down hair now that I was seeing him sitting down on a sofa.
We saw some of the pros dance ‘with’ Bluey for charity. Anchors Aweigh it wasn’t. But then, I’m not in the target audience.
Craig was offered an opportunity to expand on why he’d given Pete a four, and boy did he, talking about all the mistakes he’d seen and why he felt totally justified. This led on to him getting to introduce a replay of Claudia’s faux pas from the start of the live show. This led to her introducing a playback of the lindyhopathon disaster of 2018. Motsi looked horrified! I don’t care if it’s the twentieth anniversary, why bring it back the year you’ve got a blind contestant? Why bring it back ever? I hope that they’ll at least do some kind of rehearsal of the judges inputting the scores and Shirley having to read it out, or maybe the producers are deluded enough to think that chaos = entertainment.
Anyway, the second batch got called, and Pete was clearly shocked at his save (while wearing the fur coat, glasses and hat, bless), the producers tortured JB and Lauren (presumably because they’d got the same score as MoJo.) We were reminded that Craig had given Wynne ‘an extra point’ for entertainment, while denying Pete, rather undermining what he'd been spouting in the debrief. He didn’t have much advice to offer Wynne, because it was a case of ‘hope Montell goes really wrong.’
Jamie did a take-off of Anton (might be a mistake, because I think Anton is rooting for him harder than the other judges.)
Pet Shop Boys did another performance with weird head accoutrements for their musicians, and we got to see Luba and Gorka and then Nadiya and Nikita dance, with both ladies having gained long ponytails.
In the dance-off Montell threw all her energy into her samba, although the glimpse of the glitterball felt even more cruel this time around. And then Wynne mucked up the swivels in the opening section and wasn’t great at them later on, so the result was a foregone conclusion. And I think Wynne and Katya knew it. They decided to reference the hands thingy in their ‘final dance.’
