Strictly - the post-Blackpool-comedown
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shallownessStaturday's show, mainly my response before knowing the results:
I always dislike the choice to introduce the judges, which means a Craig-bashing joke from Bruce, at that exact point in the show, even if the dancing couple is winded, because it’s jarring, especially so this week with Len’s announcement that three of them may have got over-excited last week and they were going to be critical. I didn’t see Craig being all that much more critical overall (a point he made on Monday's ITT), and the others defaulted to their normal style of judging anyway. I thought Bruno was overgenerous with Natalie and Darcey definitely was with Mark. It was undermarking that made me vote for Sophie and my liking Abbey’s paso more than the judges that made me phone for them. That's just two phone calls.
Susanna and Kevin, do not make her yelling out ‘Kevin’ at the start of a dance be a thing, thx. Not great, though as ever she sold it. She may have been happy with the score, but I think Kevin was aware of where it would place them on the leaderboard.
I got bored during Ashley and Ola’s dance, while I really enjoyed Patrick and Anya’s dance. I don’t know if it’s a waltz vs. Viennese waltz or Ashley vs. Patrick thing. There was the added interest of whether Anya would have a wardrobe malfunction this time. I came close to voting for Patrick too, but I thought that three calls was a bit much.
As I’ve broken the order they danced in, let’s go on to the other celeb males: Mark is the weakest, he knows it, if he wasn’t in the bottom two, TESS, YOU IDIOT, it would be a travesty because a stronger dancer would be. Not deserving of an eight, whereas I enjoyed Ben’s Charleston more. It showed how much he has improved, certainly performance-wise. I think these two should be the bottom two – this week will prove how popular Susanna and Kevin really are.
Now, I said ‘shut up, Bruce’ a lot, because when he speaks, that’s what one does, but Brendan’s comebacks made me literally switch channels to spare myself from cringing, although I was on his and Sophie’s side. I thought she was so graceful, the shapes were lovely and she got the constant movement. I agree that a rumba doesn’t have to be raunchy, and I think Craig got closer to identifying the problem with it by talking about the connection sometimes dropping off and the change in mood being the issue. I noticed that too, but I thought it deserved 9s and 8s. Hence the voting.
I thought Natalie’s tango was quality, although I noticed a few things that made me really think it wasn’t a 10, especially if what Craig was talking about with the hand was right. Was it? We’ll probably find out about Anya’s foot from close study. I’d tend to back the female pros in most things over the judges.
I also enjoyed Abbey’s paso – I sort of got the point about it being just a bit floaty, but if she’s had less training than Sophie (who mentioned ballet class a few weeks ago) that was excellent.
Bruce’s Venice joke made me laugh. Nothing else did. I suppose I should be relieved that there were as few Dr Who references as there were, given everything. I am writing nothing about the VTs.
Results show: Fun opening dance with a very nice call on who was in the cake. Also CLAUDIA for the chef look.
Very tense Susanna (someone needs to explain to Artem that if he an Natalie are along on top of the leaderboard, they’re mathematically fine) probably gave the best response. Popularity proved then.
Aljaz getting to toss Kristina around was an interesting combo for interchangeable pseudo-operatic quartette no. 3.
No look at footgate in Len’s lens.
Right bottom two – I think Mark scored by being more used to being in that position. He was more relaxed and didn’t make the mistakes Ben did, simples. I wanted Ben to stay, but I could see why the votes went the way they did.
I always dislike the choice to introduce the judges, which means a Craig-bashing joke from Bruce, at that exact point in the show, even if the dancing couple is winded, because it’s jarring, especially so this week with Len’s announcement that three of them may have got over-excited last week and they were going to be critical. I didn’t see Craig being all that much more critical overall (a point he made on Monday's ITT), and the others defaulted to their normal style of judging anyway. I thought Bruno was overgenerous with Natalie and Darcey definitely was with Mark. It was undermarking that made me vote for Sophie and my liking Abbey’s paso more than the judges that made me phone for them. That's just two phone calls.
Susanna and Kevin, do not make her yelling out ‘Kevin’ at the start of a dance be a thing, thx. Not great, though as ever she sold it. She may have been happy with the score, but I think Kevin was aware of where it would place them on the leaderboard.
I got bored during Ashley and Ola’s dance, while I really enjoyed Patrick and Anya’s dance. I don’t know if it’s a waltz vs. Viennese waltz or Ashley vs. Patrick thing. There was the added interest of whether Anya would have a wardrobe malfunction this time. I came close to voting for Patrick too, but I thought that three calls was a bit much.
As I’ve broken the order they danced in, let’s go on to the other celeb males: Mark is the weakest, he knows it, if he wasn’t in the bottom two, TESS, YOU IDIOT, it would be a travesty because a stronger dancer would be. Not deserving of an eight, whereas I enjoyed Ben’s Charleston more. It showed how much he has improved, certainly performance-wise. I think these two should be the bottom two – this week will prove how popular Susanna and Kevin really are.
Now, I said ‘shut up, Bruce’ a lot, because when he speaks, that’s what one does, but Brendan’s comebacks made me literally switch channels to spare myself from cringing, although I was on his and Sophie’s side. I thought she was so graceful, the shapes were lovely and she got the constant movement. I agree that a rumba doesn’t have to be raunchy, and I think Craig got closer to identifying the problem with it by talking about the connection sometimes dropping off and the change in mood being the issue. I noticed that too, but I thought it deserved 9s and 8s. Hence the voting.
I thought Natalie’s tango was quality, although I noticed a few things that made me really think it wasn’t a 10, especially if what Craig was talking about with the hand was right. Was it? We’ll probably find out about Anya’s foot from close study. I’d tend to back the female pros in most things over the judges.
I also enjoyed Abbey’s paso – I sort of got the point about it being just a bit floaty, but if she’s had less training than Sophie (who mentioned ballet class a few weeks ago) that was excellent.
Bruce’s Venice joke made me laugh. Nothing else did. I suppose I should be relieved that there were as few Dr Who references as there were, given everything. I am writing nothing about the VTs.
Results show: Fun opening dance with a very nice call on who was in the cake. Also CLAUDIA for the chef look.
Very tense Susanna (someone needs to explain to Artem that if he an Natalie are along on top of the leaderboard, they’re mathematically fine) probably gave the best response. Popularity proved then.
Aljaz getting to toss Kristina around was an interesting combo for interchangeable pseudo-operatic quartette no. 3.
No look at footgate in Len’s lens.
Right bottom two – I think Mark scored by being more used to being in that position. He was more relaxed and didn’t make the mistakes Ben did, simples. I wanted Ben to stay, but I could see why the votes went the way they did.
