Strictly Come Dancing 2017

Postgrad10

Call me Al wrote: »

Debbie had a fairly lacklustre jive, but a good second dance.
Sometimes I think she is a bit too dainty in her movements which is fine for ballroom but not so good for anything fast.

Very true. I had a group of friends over watching last night and there was something about her jive that wasn't right and we couldn't figure it out. Everything was there but it didn't sit right.

ncmc

Just catching up now, thought Mollie’s samba was terrible, her roll was shocking. I liked both of Joe’s dances, the choreography of the AT was fab. Debbie’s jive was massively over marked, her leg was far too straight, her kicks weren’t sharp enough and I thought she showed signs of fatigue towards the end. Alexandra’s salsa was amazing! Not a fan of hers but she did really well last night.

ncmc

I must say the costumes were fab last night, Katya’s first dress was stunning.

Call me Al

Postgrad10 wrote: »

Very true. I had a group of friends over watching last night and there was something about her jive that wasn't right and we couldn't figure it out. Everything was there but it didn't sit right.

That's why her Argentine tango was great. It requires a great deal of fine detail 're foot placement. The dainty precision suits her.

iamwhoiam

Claudia looks like a musical instrument tonight

😂😂

Autosport

Are we watching?

Alex for the win

iamwhoiam

Autosport wrote: »

Are we watching?

Alex for the win

Watching !! Joe and Katya for me

Autosport

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Watching !! Joe and Katya for me

We’re nearly there

Cateym

Joe and Katya all the way!

iamwhoiam

Craig makes me mute my teli . Such a fake attention seeker

Autosport

Oohh I like both these ladies, don’t want any of them to go

Autosport

Mollie had a beautiful dance sorry to see her go

iamwhoiam

Awww . I loved Mollie and AJ . And such a gracious few words from Mollie

Call me Al

I'll miss Mollie. At the beginning I thought she was just too saccharin sweet but her positivity and genuineness really have grown on me.

And was I the only one glad not to see Alexemdra with the teddy bear again?
Whose dances are we looking forward to seeing? For me it's Joe and Alexandra...

Aisling(",)

So so so glad that Joe got through.His my favourite to win.

I like Gemma as a person but Im meh about her dancing. Though both did well in the dance off they've no real chance of winning so I doubt it mattered either way.

I'd say Alexandra's show dance will be amazing. Hope she choses Proud Mary to do again.I loved watching that 😊

Heroditas

Joe for the win. Hasn't been in the dance off yet and also they're a bloody good pair.
Hopefully Alexandra gets voted off first

Postgrad10

Looking forward to see what Katja has planned for Joe's show dance !

Postgrad10

Postgrad10 wrote: »

Looking forward to see what Katja has planned for Joe's show dance !

Love her choreography. Very adventurous. And he’s got a lovely smile and giggle.

Go Harvey Go

Well, I tell you what - having avoided the spoiler, that genuinely felt like an anticlimax...

I did expect either Gemma or Mollie to go - and I would have been leaning towards Mollie, too.

But I honestly didn't think *both* of them would be in the DO. I thought there was more chance of Alexandra being in it again, having been in the last two - and I didn't rule out Debbie being in it, either.

Mind you, I did suggest last week that Gemma might have narrowly avoided the DO on at least one occasion. And, of course, Mollie was in it twice before tonight.

I also suggested yesterday that Joe could be odds-on to win after tonight. Well, I'm right...

Paddy Power: Joe 4/6, Debbie 11/5, Alexandra 11/2, Gemma 10/1
Ladbrokes, Coral: Joe 4/6, Debbie 5/2, Alexandra 6/1, Gemma 14/1
William Hill: Joe 4/6, Debbie 9/4, Alexandra 6/1, Gemma 10/1

Heroditas wrote: »

Joe for the win. Hasn't been in the dance off yet and also they're a bloody good pair.

And won't be in it at all now. It's all in the hands of the UK public from here on.

MilesMorales1

I don't think the judges were ever keen on Mollie so I'm not surprised she got sent off tonight.

iamwhoiam

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I don't think the judges were ever keen on Mollie so I'm not surprised she got sent off tonight.

Craig doesn't like the pretty young things . He gushes over people like Lisa Riley and Judge Rinder and Alison Hammond , the jazz hands / show business OTT types

ncmc

I think it was a fair result tonight. Mollie is well behind the rest of the pack and I think it was her time to go. While I thought her and Gemma were pretty evenly matched in the DO, overall Gemma has been the stronger dancer.

Hannibal_Smith

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Craig doesn't like the pretty young things . He gushes over people like Lisa Riley and Judge Rinder and Alison Hammond , the jazz hands / show business OTT types

Really? I remember Judge Rinder and Craig making a few snipes at each other?

I wonder did Giovanni going full throttle in the jive make Debbie look like she was flagging. If he'd taken the energy down a notch, would she have looked better?

Call me Al

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

Really? I remember Judge Rinder and Craig making a few snipes at each other?

I wonder did Giovanni going full throttle in the jive make Debbie look like she was flagging. If he'd taken the energy down a notch, would she have looked better?

No I don't think so. She just didn't have the kick and sparky reflexes I think you need in a good jive. I'm not wanting to be ageist (I'm closer myself in age to Debbie than Mollie :-( ) but I think while she is an excellent dancer, her age, as opposed to her dancing skills, showed through slightly in some of her movements in this dance.
Giovanni is like the cat that got the cream and rightfully so :-) He's done well despite the odds. Not many older dancers get this far based purely on dancing ability, and not the novelty factor they or their pro bring to the competition. Hats off to them both.

Hannibal_Smith

Call me Al wrote: »

No I don't think so. She just didn't have the kick and sparky reflexes I think you need in a good jive. I'm not wanting to be ageist (I'm closer myself in age to Debbie than Mollie :-( ) but I think while she is an excellent dancer, her age, as opposed to her dancing skills, showed through slightly in some of her movements in this dance.
Giovanni is like the cat that got the cream and rightfully so :-) He's done well despite the odds. Not many older dancers get this far based purely on dancing ability, and not the novelty factor they or their pro bring to the competition. Hats off to them both.

Absolutely hats off to them both. They've done fantastically well. It's just Giovanni looked like he was in full on dance comp more akin with a partner of equal footing. If he'd taken the energy level down a notch, would she have coped better?

I worry sometimes that he will break her. Particularly musicals week when she was injured and asked him to do one lift and he told he no, there'd be two lifts, in the end I think there were 3? It worked (for me anyhow) I loved that routine. But I wouldn't be surprised if after the series finishes, there's a 'How Giovanni worked me too hard' type tell all

HeidiHeidi

Just watching the results show now, having watched the actual dancing show in fits and starts over the last few days.

A few observations - poor Mollie's samba being show directly after Alexandra's in the snippets at the end of the full show can't have done her any favours :eek:

As much as I can't stand her, Alexandra's really was a masterclass in how to party!!

Debbie (over)playing the age card the last few weeks has started to get on my wick a bit.

HOLY **** to that cantilever "lift" in Joe and Katya's dance :eek::eek::eek: I'm not sure whose abs would have been closer to bursting, I was severely impressed! (interesting to see Joe fall off sideways in the rehearsal!)

Hoping against hope for Joe and Gemma to get into the final - I don't care who of Alexandra and Debbie gets dropped (I don't honestly think Mollie has a chance).

HeidiHeidi

Awww, it's the chats before the danceoff, and I think I'll have to cut Debbie some slack - I thought she was going to pull the age trick again, or tears, or both - but fair play to her, "I've got my sparkle back" - can't be easy having lost your husband of lord knows how many years, and she really looks like she's loved doing Strictly.

Still rooting for Joe though

Postgrad10

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I don't think the judges were ever keen on Mollie so I'm not surprised she got sent off tonight.

Well they kept her in over Aston. There was some favouritism there.

Postgrad10

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

Call me Al wrote: »

No I don't think so. She just didn't have the kick and sparky reflexes I think you need in a good jive. I'm not wanting to be ageist (I'm closer myself in age to Debbie than Mollie :-( ) but I think while she is an excellent dancer, her age, as opposed to her dancing skills, showed through slightly in some of her movements in this dance.
Giovanni is like the cat that got the cream and rightfully so :-) He's done well despite the odds. Not many older dancers get this far based purely on dancing ability, and not the novelty factor they or their pro bring to the competition. Hats off to them both.

Absolutely hats off to them both. They've done fantastically well. It's just Giovanni looked like he was in full on dance comp more akin with a partner of equal footing. If he'd taken the energy level down a notch, would she have coped better?

I worry sometimes that he will break her. Particularly musicals week when she was injured and asked him to do one lift and he told he no, there'd be two lifts, in the end I think there were 3? It worked (for me anyhow) I loved that routine. But I wouldn't be surprised if after the series finishes, there's a 'How Giovanni worked me too hard' type tell all

In the rehearsal videos you could see how careful he was being of her injury, Debbie was not at all pressurised and nor would she do a tell all.

Dial Hard

MilesMorales1 wrote:

I don't think the judges were ever keen on Mollie so I'm not surprised she got sent off tonight.

They were right not to be. She was shite, in fairness.