Did Artem stamp his feet as well, or was it just Kara ?

Thanks Kaycee. I know Len had commented on the heel leads but hadn't watched it over. I don't know why people think there is some sort of agenda to mark Kara down. The bottom line is that the judges notice the footwork, but most casual viewers don't and that often explains the discrepancy in views.

I maintain that it's better for Kara if she's seen as being hard done by than favoured.

Look at the backlash against Pamela this weekend. The perfect score has done her no favours at all.

I haven't been voting for Kara but it would be interesting to see, the 'wobble' that none of the rest of us saw.

I wish I could wobble as hideously as Kara does... *sigh*


Artem stamped his feet as well at the same time as Kara. It was on a music accent, so it was quite obvious it was part of the choreography, and not a technical point.

I do wonder if that's why it was awarded - along with top place last week?

I cling to the hope that Kara is being protected, as it were. A vain hope, maybe, but I do so want to see her win.

Very true!

I'm going to be quite controversial and say that for the first time, I thought Pamela deserved her 10's (and you know I'm not fond of her or James!)

I thought it was a magical routine and I didn't see the stumble others have mentioned.

That said, I thought Kara deserved a quartet of 10's as well.

But when you have to work harder for the top marks, it means more, it's more satisfying and the audience will tend to get behind you. So yes, maybe they have learnt their lesson from how they treated the likes of Lisa Snowdon and Ali Sebastian and don't want Kara to suffer the same fate.

Hideous wobble??? Rubbish! She took a second at the most to slightly adjust herself, as professionals do as well if they risk overbalancing. It's not glaringly obvious as Kara did well and kept control of herself, PREVENTING a proper wobble.

I think Craig just wants to be a smart-ass and spot the tiniest of things. Incredibly harsh to take a full mark off for that subtle adjustment in my opinion - if that was his only reason. I'd understand the two stamps as a reason for a mark off more than that "wobble".

I thought the K+A tango was also worth 4 x 10. Beautiful as Pam and James' V. Waltz was, it is not of the same performance difficulty as that tango was. I was quite annoyed by the marks, and very disappointed to see K+A get ony 2*10.

Considering the vast majority of SCD viewers have absolutely no clue about Digital Spy I don't think the "backlash" on here will make the slightest bit of difference to Pamela's popularity in general.

It goes to show the absurdity I suppose of SCD, trying to compare couples doing completely different dance forms.

When it comes to the latter stages of SCD it would be nice to compare the couples doing the same dance.
Would be great if we could compare Kara and Pam's tango on the same show.

Or/and they can't work out their marking comparabilities between Kara, their most gymnastic young female ever with massive complexity in her routines, and Pamela, who is their oldest really good dancer ever. Kara has more content so not making any mistakes is less likely. Pamela has less content but couldn't be expected to do even more. What they can't do is keep on penalising Kara for mistakes she makes doing moves that no one else gets near to trying without giving her credit for doing more moves that work. If Pamela has an individual target set for her 10s Kara needs one for hers too.

Well I thought she was going to fall over for a moment, even from the angle we saw it, but since no one mentioned it until Craig I assumed it was part of the dance. Maybe that's the wobble he was talking about? If so then he didn't make it up.

Craig sees "hideous wobble" in Kara's tango

What, where, Sorry but I didn't see Anne come stumbling onto the set when Kara was dancing, if she did it was very unproffessional and in bad taste - I think I will complain.

That is positively the last time I will mention the BoD EVAH

There was no wobble, Craig had decided to give Pamela a 10 on friday, Kara may have corrected herself but she did not wobble or nearly fall over Rita1. Pamela did however stumble but as they had decided she was going to get 40 they ignored it.

Craig has been the most consistent judge this year but has really disappointed me with this blatant bias.

I wouldn't be so sure. The papers gauge overall fan responses from forums and online blogs. Journalists from the nationals often use DS for handy fan 'quotes'. There are two in this article in The Sun referring to Pamela's top score that were definitely directly lifted from one of the threads on this forum.

Well I thought for a moment she was going to fall over as I said - made me jump slightly at the time.

I didn't see Pamela stumble - I wasn't concentrating on her dance because I'm getting a little fed up with her.

I agree with you about Craig though. When he said Kara's dance was fantasmagoric or whatever, I thought why not a 10 then! But this is not the first time he's done this during this series. It's not the first time he's done it to Kara, and she's not the only one to suffer from it. I do think if Craig is going to give gushing praise then he should explain why he's not giving a 10 - at the time and not two days later.

Yes, it's funny he said that. So the judges could see a wobble in Kara's routine that the TV camera didn't pick up but the TV camera picked up a wobble in Pamela's VW that the judges couldn't see?

Did Harry Potter put a confudus charm on the dancefloor or something?

Ew!! Ew ew ew ew ew! The Sun quoted me. I feel sick and used ... that rag stole my thought and printed it ...


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And Ignazio as well. I bet he's ecstatic.

Oh yes, of course! I thought I recognised the quote. In fact, that's what made me check and see if it was from DS because I knew I had read the 'neck brace' bit here.

Cheeky buggers. Maybe you'll get a small fee or something, or not!

I'd rather Pamela get 40 every single week than have my thought printed in that rag

What surprises me is that the comments underneath are actually more sensible than your average Daily Hate article.

EDIT: I read some of the other articles and the comments are mostly erudite and witty. Quelle surprise at the Sun.

What I find odd is why didn't Craig point out the wobble on show night. He usually does.