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Post by alece10 on Oct 8, 2022 18:03:35 GMT
We need a revival of Sweet Charity. One of my favourite musicals and some of the best songs ever.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 8, 2022 18:08:14 GMT
Didn't we have one at the Donmar a few years back? Anne Marie Duff etc
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Post by alece10 on Oct 8, 2022 18:33:31 GMT
Didn't we have one at the Donmar a few years back? Anne Marie Duff etc We did but it was all very strange. BTW point scoring tonight all over the place as usual.
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Post by Matt on Oct 8, 2022 20:49:27 GMT
I think Kym got under scored, I thought she deserved more. The same with Will actually. I’m surprised Tyler didn’t get 39 or 40. I knew Craig wasn’t gonna throw up a 10 this early but I thought Anton would. I thought Helen did SO much better. Ellie T seems to be really lacking in punch and execution, everything seems half arsed with her movements. I thought Richie and Gio was awful but the judges seemed to love it?
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Post by theatreian on Oct 8, 2022 21:55:35 GMT
Jayde and Karen were overmarked in my opinion. The scores were very inconsistant overall again in my opinion.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 9, 2022 10:02:52 GMT
I know we have this discussion every year, but movie week is essentially just another musicals week. Jurassic Park being one of the few exceptions, which to my untrained eyes and ears seemed completely unsuitable for a rhumba. It's very kind of BurlyBeaR to let Helen and Gorka rehearse in his luxury loft apartment, now tastefully decorated in pure brilliant white. Grey, teal and sunburst yellow is so last year. As is furniture! 😂
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 9, 2022 11:32:50 GMT
A few thoughts on last nights show,
Firstly I though the Encanto sequence was extremely well done.
Shirley was gladly back on form.
With that hair I thought Motsi looked a muse-either one from the Hercules animation or one of the sisters from Xanadu.
Thank god Matt Goss lost the hat!
Although not such a fan if the routine itself, I like that Ritchie & Givanni were dancing on that platform in front of the Judges.
Whilst I appreciate that this was the intention, with that dress and wig, Ellie could have been Cher!
I think this was Kym Marsh's best dance to date.
With that wig, I though Fleur looked so completely different. Possible because I am so used to seeing her with all that hair. Sh also looked remarkable buxom!
Tony Adams- there's a point where people are laughing with you, but at you
Helen Skelton and Gorka was very well done.
The problem with Tyler and Dianne's dace was that as great as it was(and it really was) was the fact that it was so fast! To really get all of it you' have ro re-watch it!
Finally, Jade Adams- kudos to her. She's a big girl and she had the guts to appear on national television in a leotard against someone with significantly different body shape and helps her own. Respect
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Post by Matt on Oct 9, 2022 11:46:24 GMT
I like that Ritchie & Givanni were dancing on that platform in front of the Judges. I felt like they spent more time not dancing than dancing.
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 9, 2022 12:03:41 GMT
I like that Ritchie & Givanni were dancing on that platform in front of the Judges. I felt like they spent more time not dancing than dancing. you know what? Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with you, then that falls on Giovanni. He's the pro, not Ritchie
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 9, 2022 12:48:07 GMT
Too much “faffing” as Len Goodman used to say.
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Post by karloscar on Oct 9, 2022 17:38:48 GMT
I felt like they spent more time not dancing than dancing. you know what? Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with you, then that falls on Giovanni. He's the pro, not Ritchie The producers would be making that decision not the pro dancer. You overestimate how much say they have in how the show looks.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 9, 2022 17:44:10 GMT
I’m sure it’s a conversation between the Pro and the producers. This is for ratings. Everything is orchestrated.
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Post by karloscar on Oct 9, 2022 18:22:27 GMT
Vito as Elvis will be going on repeat for the foreseeable...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 9, 2022 19:00:34 GMT
Couldn’t stand Shirley Ballas before but her flagrant bias makes me despise her even more.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 9, 2022 19:03:31 GMT
She isn't reacting in a professional way to what is being danced.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 9, 2022 19:05:47 GMT
I’m renaming her “Shirley Bias”
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Post by jm25 on Oct 9, 2022 21:56:39 GMT
This is the first time I've watched Strictly consistently for a few years but I'm loving it! Jayde and Karen in particular are such a joy to watch and Tony Adams' Full Monty dance had me properly laughing out loud. Obviously he's not very good but I hope he sticks around for a few more weeks!
As I haven't watched for a while, this is the first I've really seen of Shirley as a judge. I thought some of her comments were really off last week but thought it was just a one-off. But it was more of the same this week! Not impressed. Really seems to have it in for some of the contestants.
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Post by bimse on Oct 10, 2022 6:47:21 GMT
The judges marks and comments seem so very random to me, no consistency whatsoever, and certain judges seem biased towards and against certain contestants . The public vote is a joke, it’s a popularity contest , not a dancing competition. The two in the dance off this week should not have been there, at least 3 others were just awful but were kept in due to popularity and/or political correctness. It’s not a fair competition, no way. Just my opinion, before the woke brigade start fizzing .
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Post by vdcni on Oct 10, 2022 9:12:41 GMT
Yes that woke Strictly audience voting to put two non white mid table contestants into the bottom two at the expense of the uh four white celebs at the bottom of the leaderboard.
And yes it is a popularity contest and always has been, sometimes that has still meant the best dancer winning but often not.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 10, 2022 12:02:46 GMT
Richie and Giovanni absolutely deserved to be bottom 2 this week. There was very little dance content to the 'routine', there was no connection between them. The costumes were ludicrously bad.
And Giovanni clearly wasn't properly engaged in the whole thing. In the past he has been brilliant at showcasing what his partner can do. I just don't think he could be bothered this year. There has been much speculation that the two of them have clashed and that may well explain the lack of investment.
I can't say I blame him. Richie comes across on screen as rather grating. I certainly wouldn't want to spend several hours a day with someone like that.
Were they the worst dancers? No. But can I see why the public voted that way? Absolutely.
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Post by crabtree on Oct 10, 2022 12:49:33 GMT
has anyone been in the audience for the saturday/'sunday' recording? How long a break do they have between recording, and what time do they finish. it's a long day for everyone. I still laugh at tess and Claudia starting the results show by looking over their shoulder at a routine clearly recorded ages ago.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 10, 2022 12:54:53 GMT
has anyone been in the audience for the saturday/'sunday' recording? How long a break do they have between recording, and what time do they finish. it's a long day for everyone. I still laugh at tess and Claudia starting the results show by looking over their shoulder at a routine clearly recorded ages ago. About as long as it takes Tess and Claudia to change into a new outfit I was told
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 10, 2022 13:19:02 GMT
I appreciate were still only in early days and are now going into week 3 of the completion but has everyone stated assigning the favourite couples yet? The ones you're will in on, or the ones that you're just tolerating until they're voted off?
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Post by alece10 on Oct 10, 2022 15:10:59 GMT
Will Mellor for me. Always like him and he just seems a nice, funny guy and he's a pretty fair dancer. Tony Adams for the entertainment value.
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Post by ruthieh on Oct 10, 2022 18:02:30 GMT
Just watched Ritchie on ITT and he actually came across as really calm and insightful. He clearly couldn’t believe he was on Strictly in the first place. He’s grown on me.
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Post by foxa on Oct 10, 2022 21:06:26 GMT
I'm particularly enjoying Tyler, Will, Fleur and Molly - think they are all strong.
Sad that two of my favourite pros Giovanni and Kai are out so soon. Giovanni's heart didn't seem in it this year.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 10, 2022 21:24:19 GMT
Will is probably top of my list.
I don't warm to Molly but can acknowledge her performances as being good.
I really don't let Helen at all. This is more to do with her performances on other shows than anything she is doing on the dancefloor. But I just don't like her and nothing will change that.
I am pretty ambivalent about the rest of them. Not a vintage batch of celebs
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Post by FairyGodmother on Oct 10, 2022 23:28:20 GMT
Ritchie's stationary samba walks were atrocious. <gavel> If you're going to do something right in front of the judges, with your feet at their eye level, make sure you do it properly (and I'm not letting Giovanni off the hook either, he should have made sure he could do them).
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 10, 2022 23:39:22 GMT
Ritchie's stationary samba walks were atrocious. <gavel> If you're going to do something right in front of the judges, with your feet at their eye level, make sure you do it properly (and I'm not letting Giovanni off the hook either, he should have made sure he could do them). I genuinely believe that Giovanni didn't give two hoots about whether Richie was doing the right steps. He had the air of having completely checked out of things
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Post by lou105 on Oct 11, 2022 5:41:02 GMT
Having watched their exit interview on It Takes Two, I can't disagree! Giovanni's answers were quite uncomfortable to watch. There was none of the " I'll miss spending the days with you" stuff and he analysed their performance as " quite good"!
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