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Post by lynette on Sept 23, 2018 18:36:09 GMT
We have seen that older women are not necessarily duds so they could have tried a bit harder to get Susannah off to a better start.
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Post by poster J on Sept 23, 2018 19:00:46 GMT
I've managed to get through the opening pro dance (dreadful - what was the point of the water and the cobbles (lucky none of them twisted an ankle!) and where was the actual ballroom dancing?) and Danny's Foxtrot, which was equally awful due to the lack of Foxtrot or any form of smooth dancing whatsoever - there was more side by side than in holds, which should have been marked down as Amy should know better. That was worth a 5 at most.
The show better improve dramatically after this otherwise I'm not sure I'll have the patience to stick with what seems to be a now complete transformation into everything that's bad about Dancing with the Stars in the US...
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 23, 2018 19:11:45 GMT
iplayer is the best way to watch - you can just fast forward though the dreadful VTs and chatting. Focus on the dance and the comments.
Would be a much better show without the faff and Tess's inability to SHUT THE F UP!
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Post by callum on Sept 23, 2018 19:52:47 GMT
Anton embarrasses himself every time he opens his mouth... he doesn’t need help from the costumes.
Constantly answering back to the judges and talking over Claudia - think he forgets that he’s the one partnering the celebrity, not the other way around. Thank god we were spared him being made a judge. Would have got rid of him along with Brendan... dead wood!
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Post by callum on Sept 23, 2018 20:00:26 GMT
Other than that though - a great opening episode. Enjoyed Dr Ranj and Kate the most. Shirley is such a great judge - excellent rapport with Bruno and not afraid to really pick the contestants up when they make mistakes. Watched back her comment about Sean's hair. Fair enough when he was doing a tango, head movement v important in that dance with quick rotations etc and his thick hair waving around made it hard for her judge. Like she said, keep it down for the latin.
Also watched back Susannah's dance thinking it wasn't as bad as a 1, but actually, there is zero technique - all she's doing is literally walking and stepping so clunkily. Then again, no worse than Ed Balls' worst and even he rarely got a 2.
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 23, 2018 22:51:44 GMT
Watched this on catch up today. I have been a fan of this show, probably from when it started, but for the first time I found this a LONG slog! The early shows have 15 dances to get through but even later on in the competition when the numbers have been culled it is padded out with filler with the couples getting to do 2 dances each.
I just felt after watching the first "live" show that it is so formulaic now with the comedy role, the sports stars, actors, ex pop stars, the stories of long hours worked in their "day" jobs, family members in the audience etc. that I could have been watching a repeat of a series from a couple of years ago and would not have noticed!!
I felt very sorry for Susannah who was made to look very foolish - very unnecessary. I hope for her sake she gets voted off quickly to save any further humiliation with more ridiculous "routines" week after week.
For the first year ever, I think I will just watch the results show on Sunday which gives a taste of the routines and the result!
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 23, 2018 23:08:25 GMT
Joe's online social media presence is clear to see. On Strictly's Youtube channel most of the dances from Saturday night have hit somewhere around 30 to 50,000 views. As of this moment Joe is sitting on 531,000 views. It's a good job he can dance!
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Post by poster J on Sept 23, 2018 23:47:35 GMT
Joe's online social media presence is clear to see. On Strictly's Youtube channel most of the dances from Saturday night have hit somewhere around 30 to 50,000 views. As of this moment Joe is sitting on 531,000 views. It's a good job he can dance! Well I guess we can almost just give up on any idea of it being a contest now then, unless he has an absolute nightmare one week and the scoring combinations end up putting him in the dance-off...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 7:58:45 GMT
It's all about Dr Ranj! Not only is he a nifty mover, he's as cute and funny as a bag of puppies AND he's been working the night shifts at the hospital this week. Oh and he helped a mother deliver her baby the morning of the Saturday show too.
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 24, 2018 13:12:10 GMT
Joe's online social media presence is clear to see. On Strictly's Youtube channel most of the dances from Saturday night have hit somewhere around 30 to 50,000 views. As of this moment Joe is sitting on 531,000 views. It's a good job he can dance! Well I guess we can almost just give up on any idea of it being a contest now then, unless he has an absolute nightmare one week and the scoring combinations end up putting him in the dance-off... Interesting. It's the first time the show will have come across this massive social media following and no doubt the reason he was booked. Will his followers actually vote for him though? If they do, it will skew the voting and it's game over - keeping him out of the dance off (where the judges can vote him off) and then win the final?
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Post by lynette on Sept 24, 2018 19:03:04 GMT
Ooo how interesting I didn’t know about his social media following.
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Post by karloscar on Sept 24, 2018 19:16:09 GMT
Joe's first dance last year was the jive....Joe's first dance this year also the jive. History repeating???
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 24, 2018 19:42:52 GMT
Well I guess we can almost just give up on any idea of it being a contest now then, unless he has an absolute nightmare one week and the scoring combinations end up putting him in the dance-off... Interesting. It's the first time the show will have come across this massive social media following and no doubt the reason he was booked. Will his followers actually vote for him though? If they do, it will skew the voting and it's game over - keeping him out of the dance off (where the judges can vote him off) and then win the final? Now up at 809,000 views! Now bare in mind that the Strictly Youtube channel only has 123,000 subscribers so there's hundreds of thousands of people specifically seeking out Joe's video. If he can encourage all of his followers to vote for free online then he pretty much has this in the bag.
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 24, 2018 19:49:42 GMT
Now up at 809,000 views! Now bare in mind that the Strictly Youtube channel only has 123,000 subscribers so there's hundreds of thousands of people specifically seeking out Joe's video. If he can encourage all of his followers to vote for free online then he pretty much has this in the bag. He doesn't even need all of them - a percentage will do! If he stays in over perceived better dancers week after week I can see it becoming an issue with the other contestants and the voting public. Watch this space!
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Post by poster J on Sept 25, 2018 9:26:45 GMT
Interesting. It's the first time the show will have come across this massive social media following and no doubt the reason he was booked. Will his followers actually vote for him though? If they do, it will skew the voting and it's game over - keeping him out of the dance off (where the judges can vote him off) and then win the final? Now up at 809,000 views! Now bare in mind that the Strictly Youtube channel only has 123,000 subscribers so there's hundreds of thousands of people specifically seeking out Joe's video. If he can encourage all of his followers to vote for free online then he pretty much has this in the bag. I had a feeling that would happen as soon as he was announced. Seems to be a nice enough guy, and he was one of the best of a pretty terrible set of dances on Saturday, though that's really not saying much. I don't consider him to be a celebrity so the thought of him winning doesn't really sit well with me, especially if he does it over some far superior dancers - it's happened in the past and it's always a shame for me when the final doesn't contain the best dancers, even if they don't win. Thankfully it doesn't look as if I'll be massively invested in this series anyway - after all the promise of the launch show there were only 3 dances I really enjoyed on Saturday (Lauren, Graeme and Faye) and it seemed as if pretty much all the pros apart from AJ, Oti and Giovanni had forgotten how to actually choreograph the dance they were supposed to be doing and gone for disco (Latin) or American Smooth (ballroom) instead - really unimpressed.
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Post by tonyloco on Sept 25, 2018 10:27:32 GMT
Now up at 809,000 views! Now bare in mind that the Strictly Youtube channel only has 123,000 subscribers so there's hundreds of thousands of people specifically seeking out Joe's video. If he can encourage all of his followers to vote for free online then he pretty much has this in the bag. I had a feeling that would happen as soon as he was announced. Seems to be a nice enough guy, and he was one of the best of a pretty terrible set of dances on Saturday, though that's really not saying much. I don't consider him to be a celebrity so the thought of him winning doesn't really sit well with me, especially if he does it over some far superior dancers - it's happened in the past and it's always a shame for me when the final doesn't contain the best dancers, even if they don't win. Thankfully it doesn't look as if I'll be massively invested in this series anyway - after all the promise of the launch show there were only 3 dances I really enjoyed on Saturday (Lauren, Graeme and Faye) and it seemed as if pretty much all the pros apart from AJ, Oti and Giovanni had forgotten how to actually choreograph the dance they were supposed to be doing and gone for disco (Latin) or American Smooth (ballroom) instead - really unimpressed. I very much agree with everything you say, poster J, but I do wonder these days just what is the definition of 'celebrity' when it comes to TV quizzes or reality shows?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2018 17:04:59 GMT
Joe being a celeb or excelling at his particular field is a hard one. Would Lauren consider herself a celeb - she'd probably define herself as a Para athlete or a Sportswoman.
But if voting is free and Joe's fanbase gets behind him then he could be hard to beat.
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Post by lynette on Sept 25, 2018 20:27:15 GMT
I saw on twitter a criticism of Joe because of a gesture he was making while waiting to go on. I don’t know what it is cos I’m not au fair with current customs etc but I was wondering if you guys know more.
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 25, 2018 21:10:17 GMT
I saw on twitter a criticism of Joe because of a gesture he was making while waiting to go on. I don’t know what it is cos I’m not au fair with current customs etc but I was wondering if you guys know more. It was this It's not anything rude. It's a game that I remember seeing for the first time on an episode of Malcolm in the Middle that has made a bit of a comeback recently. Basically the person makes that gesture below their waist and has to trick people into looking at it. If you look at it then you lose the game and the person can hit you on the arm. It's referenced a lot in online memes.
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Post by lynette on Sept 26, 2018 14:25:52 GMT
How can he hit us all in the arm?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 26, 2018 17:42:06 GMT
He’s engaging the vlogger community with inside jokes. Clever.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 17:48:10 GMT
He's basically making a joke of doing the show by pulling out YouTuber jokes so that he can get votes from the fangirls.
I will say, he is one of the better YouTubers of that "group". Most of them are assholes now.
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Post by lynette on Sept 27, 2018 22:31:11 GMT
Maybe someone will 'have a word'
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Post by anthony40 on Sept 29, 2018 19:52:43 GMT
Let's separate the wheat from the chaff, eh?
Second year in and Shirley is really coming into her own and she really knows her stuff! Kudos to her!
Guess we can all predict one of the couples in the bottom tow, but who would do you reckon the second couple be? Katie? Sean?
I still reckon Charles is the one to watch throughout.
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Post by vdcni on Sept 29, 2018 20:37:56 GMT
Susannah needs to go. She's genuinely terrible and it's not fun to watch.
Loved Kate, Ashley and Faye.
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 29, 2018 21:20:32 GMT
Well, that was forgettable.
I do like Faye and Giovanni, Danny and Amy and Charles - though his partnership with Karen I'm not sure about.
Shirley so obviously doesn't like either Vick or that bloke she's with - who I have to grudgingly admit took last week's direction extremely well and came up with a pretty decent routine for her this week. If even I can admit that, surely Shirley should have acknowledged it?
Ashley is in another stratosphere. It cannot help Katie being there among the likes of her and Faye. She looks uncomfortable, as does Susannah.
Gawd, but how rubbish was Tess tonight? She really went for it, and then some. Cringe.
I'm not sure if I can even bear to watch next week. It's so long. Stacey is so annoying, as is the doctor. Seann was dreadfully out of time and Lee wasn't much better. Isn't he supposed to be a musician? Danny's timing was unbelievable. Brilliant. Thought it unfair that Joe got to do another dance that would appeal to his little fan girlies rather than ballroom. (He has fan girlies right? I have no idea what a b/vlogger is. Got a bit confused seeing him making insurance companies' favourite type of roofs. I wasn't really paying attention.)
I can't remember anyone else. Can they do a Bake-off and chuck 2 out please? (Every week until Halloween.)
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Post by lynette on Sept 29, 2018 22:44:28 GMT
Kate! Just wow.
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 29, 2018 22:53:50 GMT
Both this week and last it has felt like Tess has tried really hard to come across as quite natural and funny rather than her usual robotic self and it was so cringey to watch. I had to look away when she was laughing about the umbrella gag. I think she should stick to the script and leave Claudia to have the fun.
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Post by karloscar on Sept 29, 2018 23:15:14 GMT
Well she's never been either funny or natural, no matter how hard she tries. And she'd have her hand politely but meaningfully slapped away if she attempted to paw me after I'd sweated my ass off on the dance floor. Would be brilliant telly if one of the celebs turned on her.
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Post by callum on Sept 29, 2018 23:33:20 GMT
I genuinely think a random person picked from the street could do that job just as well as Tess Daly. Actually, I take that back... they’d be better!
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