Originally Posted by swnymor1963:
“I was disappointed...probably bored after the first few weeks last year.....I dipped in and out of Strictly for the next 4 or 5 weeks(never watching a full show)....and guess what...I loved the final 4 or 5wks.All the remaining contestants were great...all the duffers had long departed and I could actually sit down and enjoy, rather than endure the show.....and this years followed a similar course, so with a bit of luck the final month will be great......Loved series 3; 4 and 5 from the off and watched every show.Why the change....is it just me and Strictly is no longer the must watch show of the week.....or has the show changed and it just does`t appeal to me as much....Who knows.”
“I was disappointed...probably bored after the first few weeks last year.....I dipped in and out of Strictly for the next 4 or 5 weeks(never watching a full show)....and guess what...I loved the final 4 or 5wks.All the remaining contestants were great...all the duffers had long departed and I could actually sit down and enjoy, rather than endure the show.....and this years followed a similar course, so with a bit of luck the final month will be great......Loved series 3; 4 and 5 from the off and watched every show.Why the change....is it just me and Strictly is no longer the must watch show of the week.....or has the show changed and it just does`t appeal to me as much....Who knows.”
It might be the series length and what comes with it? You have lots of people there to go to fill the weeks and some good ones go early because of the voting. You can tune out and as you say pop back near the end and you won't miss who should be still there and hopefully some good people will remain. Arguably too the stories suffer from being dragged out over so long a series - its a marathon journey with lots of going around in circles rather than a good story and you can only hear the same old lines so many times.
In some ways I think the shows that don't have audience voting that matters throughout are also now better at delivering the right people for a competitive final or drama. SCD seems preoccupied with trying to keep their good dancers in and despite everything they have tried they still have their third and fourth best prospects struggling with no votes only 6 weeks in.
There's also the question of who goes on it and who is left. As fewer people watch the soaps even soap actors become unknowns, meanwhile, one athlete blurs into another and the cricketers seem to merge into one. I can't enthuse about Phil when they have run the same story twice already or about people who seem to be playing their Eastender's characters on it. I also really wonder whether some parts of the audience would be more enthused if they had been a bit more imaginative and got more famous people - Hannah from Primeval rather than Laila perhaps?
