Originally Posted by Birdie65:
“I really like Natalie and admire her but I was blown away by Ali's beautiful performance! I can no longer bear to watch the whole show while Alesha is a judge, so I just watch the clips of the dances after the show. I noticed so many things about Ali, in particular her gracefulness and the elegance of her posture throughout her body, most noticeably her neck and head.
I am so impressed and would be delighted if she and Brian won, even though I am a long-time supporter of Anton and would love to see him lift that trophy. For me, no matter how much I like a dancer, they MUST win on merit alone, and that is why I was so upset at last year's travesty. Camilla and Tom are both lovely people and I often enjoyed their performances, but they should not have been in the final, let alone won it on popularity as they did. Even Len recently admitted that "this is a popularity show".”
I joined this thread to point out that it would be bad if natalie won as she really isn't a good dancer and then I came on your post and found myself swingin completely to the opposite of tht reaction.
natalie isn't the best dancer and it annoys me that she is given consistantly good comments by the judge when I can see very clearly that she si not dancing well .
However I would rather someone who is popular and shows some emotion wins rather than the dancing by numbers that we had last year with Rachel.
Tom is a much better dancer than natalie and having got to the final won fair and square with that showdance . It is after all a popularity contest as well as a dancing contest.
Personally the best winner for me would be a good dancer with a good personality ( who isn't Natalie for me!)