If scoring around 35 and 36 is a plateau that what a plateau! Comparing Scott's Rhumba and Matt's, Scott's beyond embarrassing tbh. Then again, Scott has proven yet again he excelled in fast dances, like the quickstep and jive last night.

Kara all the way - I don't really enjoy scott's dancing that much

We get it, you don't like Matt!

Matt's rhumba, besides looking a little 'jerky', were MILES better than many male celeb rhumba. Bear in mind female celebs often do much better in rhumba than male ones. Thing is when the male celeb does a bad rhumba, it looks REALLY bad, like Scott's dire attempt last week. Matt's thankfully watchable, and his technique, despite less fluidity than the pro, is very, very commendable.

I am speaking as a Kara fan btw.

Great minds think alike!

I think Kara is - and I know it's a sweeping statement - technically the best Latin female since Jill Halfpenny.

I think you have missed my point. Matt had high scores to start with and has been in the same place or sometimes slightly higher all the time. The voters like to see a "journey" (sorry!) but Matt is still in relatively the same place as at the beginning.

I just read a theory proposed by Monkseal that the judges artificially hold back Matt's ten until later for some kind of impact of their eventual winner, apparently Monkseal might have thought that's what happened with Mark Ramps and Tom Chambers in the past. What do you think?

I can't agree with him (is Monkseal a he/she?) somehow. So far, I think Matt's doing very well. Don't care about the silly journey thing. Scott scored quite similar to Matt in the first week and then he got tens, and then a lousy rhumba and then the crazy score for his jive (then again, if Gethin can get ten from Len for his jive, so can Scott I supposed...), which was good but not better than Kara's AT!

Agree here. Her Ballroom isn't bad, at all, but Latin dances are where she excels. Alesha was consistent in Latin but her footwork was messy.

No, I don't dislike Matt. I hate the tendency on here to label people as "haters". I have a different opinion to you - big deal.

Monkseal is a he......

I don't think Matt's that good, although he seems nice.

It's between Scott & Kara... I think Kara is slightly better technically, but Scott's performing skills are very good. It's very close.

Matt or Scott will win tho, because they're blokes.

Sorry, your own Freudian slip, I'm afraid.

I make it very clear you dislike Matt. Dislike is a very neutral word with no negative connotation. You decide to add the word 'haters'.

I probably didn't explain myself very well. I don't think the judges are holding back artificially. I think the producers are HIGHLIGHTING it artificially.

Based on the first couple of months, in storyline terms, the top four are Matt, Scott, Kara, and Pamela and they're much of a muchness ability wise. So why give Matt the underdog "when will he get a 10?" storyline and not Pamela? (Certainly I think if she did her rumba now it might scrape a 10 from one or two judges based on what's getting them. It just came too early). Because they know he'll be around at the end, they know he's a likely winner, and they can run an underdog "proved himself to the judges" thing. They've done the same for every man that's won.

It's just like Patsy is the Letitia/Carole/Whoever "middle aged woman with low self esteem who discovers herself and gets her groove back and whatever". The same storyline over and over again. Matt's just a "type", and a type that usually wins.

Bing! I completely see it now! *gazes at Monkseal in wonderment*

I completely agree with you. I think they took build up these 'types' Patsy is without doubt the next Letitia. And for me MAtt is from the same mould as Tom Chambers and Chris last year. Nice, boy next door type. And we seem to like voting for those types in Britain.

I noticed on the thread 'which celebrities we like that we didn't expect to like' - Kara features heavily. It just shows how much we are inclined to not like attractive, young female celebrities. Only when they show themselves to be really likeable like KAra and Alesha before her, do we start to give them a chance.

If they progress to the semi-finals we are in for a treat.

Kara was as good as the pro dancer from the start of the show so she is the one most likely to walk off with it if the judges can get their way.