Originally Posted by bobajot:
“John provided the best entertainment SCD has ever had, The producers have been trying to emulate it ever since without success.”
Unfortunately they did with Widdy when they cynically built up all this controversy around her and deliberately let her break the rules. Although I personally found her obnoxious and not in the least bit entertaining - she got to the quarter finals so I think that would have been regarded as a 'success' of some sort. This difference between her and John though was that imo he was at least likeable and entertaining and he did at least put some effort in
Originally Posted by katmobile:
“I'd argee with that assessement - foxtrot aside I don't actually think JS was actually that bad on the ballroom side - his latin sucked but then so did a lot of people's that year - Rachel's latin was technically pretty good but lacked oomph, Austin had a couple of great routinues but was mostly mediocre on the latin side although he did the ccc with a lot of energy, Tom was the opposite of Rachel on the latin side - he went for it with great gusto wasn't always great technically and I was put right off his paso but cape twirling that looked like he was wiping his bum with it and gurn city going on in his face, Lisa's latin was sometimes abysmal and the better stuff was so utterly over-marked it put you right off, I loved Cherie but she wasn't great at going faster than a walking pace, Christine's was hit and miss - like Tom there was a lot of energy but not always technique - except for the paso where she just sucked and Jodie's was pretty bad too with the honourable exception weirdly of the jive - considering it's not a dance which suits the tall and she had a bad cold when she did it - which was fun but not technically amazing.”
I agree with your assessment too
That wasn't a vintage year for Latin - the only latin dances that stood out for me were Cherie and Rachel's rumbas and Austin's jive and paso - oh and John's paso for entirely different reasons
Oh and Heather's salsa was good even though it wasn't danced flawlessly - it was a different style of salsa to what I'd seen before on the show.
I remember the week the controversy really kicked off when Cherie and Lisa were in the bottom 2 and both had Latin dances and Cherie got eliminated - it had been simmering away the week before when Rachael was in the dance off with Heather the week before.
