Strictly Come Dancing 2019

Kelvin was technically excellent, not scrappy in the slightest. Only thing wrong was his free arm was a bit too bent but still a 10 from me, brilliant performance and miles better than the rest.

Karim was out of sync with Amy at times and the over-dancing is getting boring, he always looks as if he is putting in a monumental effort.

Emma's posture was dreadful towards the end and some of her footwork was a bit dubious, definitely not worth 10s.

I wanted to like Alex's dance more than I did - there wasn't enough of her actually dancing with Neil for me.

Saffron made mistakes, I suspect partly due to the speed of the music. Not as good as last week and the other dancers were distracting.

Chris barely danced any salsa, and Michelle barely danced at all. Posing and armography isn't good enough for Strictly.

She's lucky she hasn’t got my cold. 🤧🤧🤧

I’m sorry alece10, I was rather strident and a bit rude. It’s just it’s very hard being a woman sometimes. Starts early with all the pink toys and princess outfits and being told that “good” girls are nice and kind and, yes, feminine. While boys are “scamps” and “strong” and [mostly] superheroes! I think the stereotypes for girls are even worse than when I was growing up and sometimes I despair! I am sorry if I leapt on you in a grumpy fashion but if we don’t call it out how will we ever change things? I apologise for my tone but perhaps you could also have a read through of thoughts that you post and double check for unconscious stereotype judgements? 

I am probably not the only one, but I think Strictly is getting worse and worse every year. I thought last year was bad enough but the judging is all over the place this year. I think Kelvin is average and a total novelty act. He should have gone Week 2 or 3. He is only staying because he gives all the Karen's of the UK a hot flush. It's like the judges don't care, they just fling whatever score they want out. I am hoping Karim wins, he's the best on there by a country mile and has been since the beginning. Michelle was too polished for the show, much like Ashley Roberts last year. Michelle is a master performer and unfortunately, her Blackpool number was too far out of the box for the general plebian audience. Such a shame. I hope the show gets axed soon, I really do. It's making people think that the average dirge they see on the TV is the epitome of dance, it's far from. Its presenting dance for the uncultured. We need better quality of dance on TV. Don't even get me started on that Greatest Dancer trash.

I agree with you that Strictly is generally getting worse each year, but labelling Kelvin a novelty act is just completely wrong. From a technical standpoint (and yes, I am a dancer so I'm not just making this up) he is often very good indeed, particularly in Latin (his ballroom could do with some work but no one is perfect). If you think he is average then you must think Chris, Emma and Alex are worse than dreadful, such is the technical gulf between them and Kelvin.

Karim is very good, especially in ballroom, but he tries too hard and needs to work on making it look effortless and less frantic. Saffron has excellent ballroom technique for the most part but needs to improve her Latin.

Michelle did a decent Foxtrot at Halloween, and her Rumba was ok, but otherwise I didn't particularly rate her from a technical or performance perspective (I can't recall seeing her smile once, which is a must for 4 of the 5 ballroom dances and 3 of the 5 Latin). Certainly in Blackpool she did neither, regardless of what it was meant to be (which definitely wasn't a Strictly dance).

If it's SO bad, why the hell are you watching it every week to see just how awful it is? Pathetic really.

Let’s keep the focus on the programme please, and not calling people names because we don’t agree with their opinions.

That Vogue dance was a complete misfire. Many people who watch this show and who pick up the phone to vote do not occupy the same very narrow sphere of popular entertainment that Visage exists in. My friend was visiting his folks at the weekend and watched it with them, they’re in their 70’s and are devoted SCD viewers from the beginning. Apart from having no clue as to who she is, they really don’t know what Drag Race is let alone want to watch it, and when she started prattling on about “the community” they didn’t know what she was talking about. The whole Marie Antoinette vogue thing may be immediately recognisable to Madonna fans but beyond that... not so.

Whoever came up with the decision to do that dance completely alienated them from the voting public.  

Or you know Michelle's choice as she has said multiple times.

Emma was awful. Even her best dance, she was just thrown around the floor. She was a waif. Chris is very average as is Emma. I think they both should have been long gone by now. They are both just sailing through, nothing special. UPDATE: I just realised you meant the current Emma that's still in, I was talking about Emma Weymouth at the beginning of this comment. Erm, yeah Emma and Tony, just average. Her American Smooth was below average. How on earth she got two 10's, I will never know.

I am not quite sure what work ethic you are getting from her. But I see a woman who's giving her absolute all every week, constantly training. That's part of the issue, most of the audience and some of the judging panel (it seems) have no idea about the technical aspect of dance. Competition is about technique and performance, full stop. Not about if Kelvin got your heart beating faster than a cheetah on speed. Too often people let emotion rule their judgement about dance when it should all come down to the black and white. Technique, technique, technique. If it doesn't, it just turns dance into a laughing stock and ruins the integrity of the art.

Karim went to Sylvia Young & Kelvin had dance experience. People are probably warming to Alex, Emma & Chris as there seeing improvement. With Saffron i wonder if it because of AJ (there rumors he getting bit to big for his boots and really believes he going to be in the final (esp with Giovanni & Kevin not in there)