Dancing With the Stars - Ireland

Alpha_zero

I hope we get to see Teresa dance one more time!

jluv

Ahhhh at least her sons are there for her tonight..

amdublin

I honestly don't think Theresa improved one iota??

honeybear

pc7 wrote: »

Ryan is the reason she's in the dance off, he's a plonker, even the dance opening was all about him

Said in an earlier show, he could cost her

BorneTobyWilde

cONFUSED.

sHE IS GONE.
That's good, she's crap .

pc7

Missed the start, is the George Hook judge gone for good

amdublin

Alpha_zero wrote: »

I hope we get to see Teresa dance one more time!

Ah stahhpp no. I can't look at it again

duridian

Wax on, wax off...

pc7

Oh dear lord I thought he was going to drop her!!!

Alpha_zero

pc7 wrote: »

Missed the start, is the George Hook judge gone for good

He is doing an British accent now

CFlat

pc7 wrote: »

Missed the start, is the George Hook judge gone for good

He's become an ambassador for Marlboro cigarettes.

duridian

See y'all later folks.

HeidiHeidi

Awww, I nearly caught up!

But at least it answered the question re Denise's dance - there was a LOT less shuffling around the place this time - which begs the question, why didn't the judges pick up on her mistakes first time round

She sounds terrified being interviewed!

cathy427

Nickys primary school teacher way of ordering them to their spots (before the judges decision ) just shows, yet again, how he is not a natural presenter.
Needed to learn the trade before being at the top end.
IMHO he is the same on the radio - without Jenny he just reads the autocues and hasn't a clue.

HeidiHeidi

cathy427 wrote: »

Nickys primary school teacher way of ordering them to their spots (before the judges decision ) just shows, yet again, how he is not a natural presenter.
Needed to learn the trade before being at the top end.
IMHO he is the same on the radio - without Jenny he just reads the autocues and hasn't a clue.

I won't hear a word against Nicky - he's the best (well, one of the better) thing about this show! Easily the most natural on screen, along with Darren (I don't wish a minute's misfortune on Julian, but please let him not be fit to return before the end of the series).

What I boggled at was the hasty rearranging of the successful dancers behind the final three while the tension drum-beats were going - surely to God, given the plethora of choreographers involved in the show, someone could have given five minutes to that???

Can we all just give a silent prayer of thanks for the dance-off? Finally, there was a bit of justice in the results - again, no harm to Teresa, but she really wasn't at the races, her time had come.

368100

With Darren instead of yer man....and a dance off....the show has gained a lot more credibility......I've even started warming to Lorraine....I think she's settled into the judges role nicely....and Brian was always good imo.

If only we could press a reset button and have the show play out again with these changes .......thalia would still be in.

But I'll be happy if they just keep Darren.....please please let it happen

The Talking Bread

I agree re Lorraine. Her improvement has a lot to do with running out of awful cliche jokes I guess!

Lady Chatterton

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Gawd, Roisin O is the spit of her mother!

I thought Róisín O had a look of Sharon Stone about her.

HeidiHeidi

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I thought Róisín O had a look of Sharon Stone about her.

Christ, that is one deeply unflattering picture of her :eek:

Purple Mountain

Surely the point of a dance off is two new dances to be performed by the bottom two??

Purple Mountain

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Gawd, Roisin O is the spit of her mother!

I thought Róisín O had a look of Sharon Stone about her.

Eh.... No

HeidiHeidi

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Surely the point of a dance off is two new dances to be performed by the bottom two??

Are you new to this?

368100

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Surely the point of a dance off is two new dances to be performed by the bottom two??

No.....the point is to give the bottom two another chance to redeem themselves against any mistakes they might have made earlier.

freshpopcorn

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Surely the point of a dance off is two new dances to be performed by the bottom two??

If they were to do a different dance in the dance off they'd need to change costumes as well!

Purple Mountain

368100 wrote: »

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Surely the point of a dance off is two new dances to be performed by the bottom two??

No.....the point is to give the bottom two another chance to redeem themselves against any mistakes they might have made earlier.

I don't agree with that.. There's very little room for surprise and something to pull out of the bag as a saving grace.

368100

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I don't agree with that.. There's very little room for surprise and something to pull out of the bag as a saving grace.

In fairness....I've done a bit of dancing and learning one routine every week would be a challenge never mind two.....maybe not for the stronger dancers but certainly for the weaker.

Wouldn't make sense to learn two just in case ......or what could they do? Keep a dance in reserve the whole way through the series? Practising it every week just in case they land in bottom you? Nonsensical.

I take it you don't watch strictly? Dance off format like this has worked very well for years.

Purple Mountain

368100 wrote: »

In fairness....I've done a bit of dancing and learning one routine every week would be a challenge never mind two.....maybe not for the stronger dancers but certainly for the weaker.

Wouldn't make sense to learn two just in case ......or what could they do? Keep a dance in reserve the whole way through the series? Practising it every week just in case they land in bottom you? Nonsensical.

I take it you don't watch strictly? Dance off format like this has worked very well for years.

I just feel there is no element of surprise here.. Just a rehash of the earlier performance.. Every week we will know who is going home as there isn't room for any wow save me factor in the dance off. :eek:

HeidiHeidi

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I just feel there is no element of surprise here.. Just a rehash of the earlier performance.. Every week we will know who is going home as there isn't room for any wow save me factor in the dance off. :eek:

Well in fairness with no dance-off we've so far lost Des Bishop, Thalia Heffernan, and other dancers FAR better than Teresa or Des Cahill - so there has been a surprise element, just not in a good way!

They had to introduce some element of sanity to proceedings or it would have turned into total farce.

And if you've watched Strictly Come Dancing at all, this has always been the way when there's been a dance-off.

What I'd dearly love to know is if the RTE producers didn't initially intend to have a dance-off, and saw the imminent prospect of it becoming a total popularity/who's-got-the-biggest-voting-fanbase contest, and hastily wrote one into the script!

368100

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I just feel there is no element of surprise here.. Just a rehash of the earlier performance.. Every week we will know who is going home as there isn't room for any wow save me factor in the dance off. :eek:

Maybe not in a bottom two like tonight....but a bottom two of equal ability has the potential to surprise.

Of course you're entitled to your opinion by all means....I just don't think a different dance off dance would work.....or be fair for that matter

Purple Mountain

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Well in fairness with no dance-off we've so far lost Des Bishop, Thalia Heffernan, and other dancers FAR better than Teresa or Des Cahill - so there has been a surprise element, just not in a good way!

They had to introduce some element of sanity to proceedings or it would have turned into total farce.

And if you've watched Strictly Come Dancing at all, this has always been the way when there's been a dance-off.

What I'd dearly love to know is if the RTE producers didn't initially intend to have a dance-off, and saw the imminent prospect of it becoming a total popularity/who's-got-the-biggest-voting-fanbase contest, and hastily wrote one into the script!

I do agree with the dance off in principle.
However it is impossible to avoid it being a popularity contest entirely unless it's solely based on a professional scoring system by the judges (which of course would be a revenue no-go for RTE) but we still see Des hanging in there as the public vote is keeping him out of bottom two dance off so it's not fool proof.