What a very odd show that was!
Pamela is not my favourite, but I admire her a lot, and admired her all over again for wearing that dress and looking like a saloon girl from the Wild West. You go, girl. The nation's favourite modern poem is Jenny Joseph's 'When I am old I will wear purple', but in reality when older people say 'what the hell - I'll wear what I want' there is a chorus of disapproval and mutterings of 'mutton dressed as lamb'!
Oh, and it was a bloody good paso as well.
Now Kara
is my favourite, but I was slightly disappointed with the Viennese Whirl (copyright Bonnie). Yes, beautiful lines, beautiful shadow dancing, lovely twirly bits (technical term), but they broke out of hold too often and yes, her foot did come off the floor, albeit accidentally. It wasn't as good as Alesha's, Len.
Aw, Gavin 'get away from the mirror!' Henson.

Dreadful samba, but I loved the ending and I thought Katya did a terrific job of showcasing his (limited) talent. Great music choice, too.
I nearly fell asleep during Scott's Argentine Tango. :yawn: Sorry. The opening was fandabbydoozy but then it was all Natalie, with Scott acting like the lamp-post while she swung around him. What was all that about?
Oh dear, oh dearie dear. Matt fans will be spitting blood after his mauling by the judges and I do think they were very harsh, but it was a very, very average salsa. It was also very reminiscent of Scott's AT - obviously not the dance itself, but the way Matt was used to throw Aliona around, rather than having Matt doing a bit of, you know, salsa or something.
But, even though I didn't like the dance, I'm on the side of the conspiracy theorists here. First his VT had him being more than a teensy bit arrogant about getting to the final, then he gets the harshest criticism of any of the contestants this evening, and certainly the harshest criticism he's received so far. To me, it looks contrived. My guess is that they are manufacturing a close contest to counter all that 'Matt has got it in the bag' talk. When he gets through to the final (I'll eat my hat if he doesn't) and wins it, it will be the public wot put him there. It's Tom Chambers all over again. Sigh.
And then the bloody swingathon.

I really don't see how anybody could tell what was going on, who was good, who was bad, who was giving it their all and who was marking time. I certainly couldn't tell, so we'll just have to trust the judges.

From what I saw, I liked what Pamela and James were doing, but as I couldn't even see Kara and Artem I have no idea if they won fairly or not. Please God they don't bring it back next year.
Oops, sorry, long post.