Terrible show tonight/
scout2006
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The musical choices and the props were quite awful tonight and on top of it all the ridiculous Donny Osmond as guest judge >:( Quite possible the worst SCD show I can remember.
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Have to admit I am not liking this series. Was not a Brucie fan and he did get on my nerves a lot but the Tess and Claudia duo are positively doing my head in.
They are so unprofessional acting like a couple of giggling schoolgirls all the time.
The pro dancers are not as good as previous years.
Think I need to stop watching as tonight I did nothing but pick holes in the show constantly.
Such a shame as I was a huge fan.
Donny was loud, brash and felt at odds with the general tone of the show (there's British camp, then there's American camp). His overscoring was also frustrating.
The second half of the show was clearly loaded with decent couples to keep the potential wanderers tuned in. Placing Mark at the end was a ridiculous choice and brought the end of the show down like a lead balloon.
The theme was strained and forced, with some truly terrible music choices. Even the costumes looked poor tonight.
Tonight was honestly the least fun I've ever had watching SCD.
I'm not generally a fan of the themed weeks as they tend to shoehorn inappropriate songs into dances, but I thought the music choices were excellent tonight. I particularly enjoyed Frankie & Kevin's Puerto Rican Paso, Pixie & Trent's lyrical Quickstep, Jake & Janette's moody and menacing Waltz, Sunetra & Brendan's American Smooth (lovely choreo, Brendan) and Caroline & Pasha's technically challenging Rumba.
Tess is getting into her stride now and if she just cut out the attempts at jokes, which are still painful, she'd be fine. Claudia is, as ever, a joy. I enjoyed the judges' comments, which were appropriate and fair. I even thought Donny Osmond added something to the mix. Blimey, I must be in a mellow mood tonight - must go and adjust my medication...
There's no end of timeless ballroom dance tunes from countless classic film musicals.
Each week we know a lot of the choices are aimed at the X-Factor audience, but tonight was a chance to give us some decent tunes for a change.
But for one or two recognised show tunes, the choice was poor.
Just because a tune was recognisable from a movie, doesn't make it a good dance tune.
I turned over in the final third. Watching the Germans lose to Poland was far more entertaining.
I agree with more or less everything you say. Donny was a bit erratic with his scoring but I think he scored too high at the beginning and had nowhere to go from then on. He actually did give some helpful advice to quite a few of the celebs. Mark was unintentionally hilarious but Simon shot himself in the foot by not showing a little bit of humility when he was criticised. Love Claudia, mad as a box of frogs. ;-)
Maggie
I agree with most of what you say. I liked the same dances; I agree about Tess and Claudia, and about not being a fan of the themed weeks. But though I thought it was fairly good for a themed week, I didn't love it, and I don't think Donny worked well as a judge. (Still, it was mostly just a few of his comments and marks that were a problem.)
It felt awfully long, and I think it was let down by having so many poor dances at the start. Normally, the first dance is one that will get the audience in a good mood, and then good or otherwise entertaining dances are frequent enough to keep the mood up.
Perhaps the producers were misled by all the gushing praise for Alison's performances into thinking that having her at the start would do the job. It didn't.
Donny talked sense on Friday night but seems to have problems with the British number system. Maybe he was scoring in dollars?
And most of the VTs were naff.
Good choreography from Brendan, Kevin, Trent, and Ola. And Pasha, though maybe it was just slightly too difficult for Caroline.
Claudia up to her usual good standard and the other judges were OKish - as was Tess.
Apart from the skiff
It was good to have less "fahffing abaft" with props at the start of the dances but it still somehow felt as if everything was taking a dreadfully long time.