[LIST=1][*]Dave is not a natural comedian and it shows - banana eating made me cringe.[*]Fiona grossly overmarked[*]Patrick - I wasn't overly sympathetic - messing around on roller blades was asking for trouble.[*]Sophie and Brendan - I found their cha cha colourless - much like their costumes.[*]Bruno - I'm finding him less OTT and more constructive in his advice.[/LIST]

1. Ashley's Jive was great, but spoiled by who ever made him wear those shoes, which were not Ola's choice (she said so and was quite rightly not happy about it, so who ever is making celebs wear 'Jive' footwear needs to butt out.

2. Well done to Len for speaking out about the props and faffing being way out of control tonight, but it was terrible timing to do it the week before the Halloween show.

3. I enjoyed watching Dave & Karen bantering with the judges a million times more than their dance and eating Karen's hat was a classic Strictly moment!

4 Robin's appalling choreography will be to blame if Deborah (who is a joy to watch) goes home this weekend. She looked fantastic and can dance, so what was he thinking?

5. Pasha's appalling choreography will be to blame if Rachel goes home this weekend and for the first time since the first ever episode, I felt uncomfortable watching a celeb listening to the judges' comment. What was Pasha thinking? My heart went out to the lovely girl.

Not her total lack of ability to dance, then?

1) Fed up of Dave & Karen now, time to go!

2) I just love Abbey Crouch, desperately want her to win

3) Ben was dreadful! How the judges thought that was amazing I'll never know?

4) Wish we'd seen Ashley's 'recovery' from his knee slide.

5) I also loved Mark & Iveta, you can tell that Mark is really trying hard.

1. Natalie, Sophie and Abbey all boring again. The latter two over marked.
2. Rachel dances like a jerky robot no matter how its disguised.
3. Dave was borderline tithead tonight. He won't be in the dance off though.
4. Ashley is growing on me.
5. Don't get Ben, hulking about.

Harsh Ignazio, harsh! x

Agree about Dave. I can't believe at the start I vowed to vote for him no matter what every week. I'm so over him. Not funny at all (and his whole act takes up so much bloody time as well!).

1. Sick of props.
2. Sick of Ola's choreography.
3. I am rapidly getting sick of Dave and if he makes it through to next week I suspect I'll have heard the joke enough to no longer find it funny at all.
4. Mark still makes me smile. And tonight he did a proper dance with no faffing. I hope he at least makes it to Blackpool.
5. Sophie's cha-cha was a bit bland (and she's my favourite) but I don't see how anybody could say it was overmarked - 30 is hardly hugely generous by this year's standards.

And a sneaky 6 - in a night with a lot of questionable choreography, Robin's viennese waltz stood out. What the hell was that?

1. Started well with Natalie & Abbeys dances.

2. Injury week part 2, not good.

3. Too many props with too much faffing.

4. Dave seems to be getting worse, but you gotta love Karen

4. What has Susanna done to be stuffed into a loo roll hider sans roll?

1. I adore Iveta & Mark. Their waltz really moved me. Iveta is a brilliant choreographer & Mark a fantastic performer. They are wonderful.
2. Really didn't like the music choices tonight and the show felt a bit flat.
3. Deborah & Robin's dance was a VW? You could have fooled me.
4. Poor Rachel, she just can't do it. Pasha's choreo also not great.
5. Too much faffing from almost all couples tonight.

absolutely loved Natalie and artem tonight - I'm warming up to them as a pair. they seem to get on really well and she was amazing tonight with a difficult dance

absolutely loved mark and iveta's waltz. love that he is trying hard. he creates such a beautiful story when he dances. plus he has an awesome pro

agree with a few that Dave doesn't really how bad he really is. agree Karen was hilarious with the banana. she is totally bananas so that moment fitted really well

I liked abbey's dance but didnt' love it. think she stiffens up when she gets nervous which effects her movement. loved her tango last week though. think her and aljaz are incredibly hot together and that he is an absolutely wonderful choreographer

don't think the standard this year is very good in general

oh and one extra - BEn really disappointed tonight. definitely overmarked - the judges are overmakrign him because 3 of them think he's gorgeous and one of them always overmarks sportsmen! I think he is drop dead gorgeous but he isn't doing much dancing and I think its a cop out to say he isn't really competitive anymore. this is a bloody dance competition, so get competitive or go home.

1. Natalie and Abbey - wow.
2. Rachel and Ben HAVE to go. ASAP. Not entertaining and can't dance.
3. I still have a soft spot for Fiona and Deborah. (see 2. - as in complete opposite).
4. Liked Deborah's boardroom table (appropriate for her and spng) but no more time-wasting props please?
5. EW&F tomorrow. Yes please

1. Stop with all the props please!

2. I really like Dave but even I believe he's well out of his depth now and should go sooner rather than later. BUT I loved Karen's Carmen Miranda look and the "banana and comments" section!

3. Abbey looked amazing! Loved her dress, her whole look and her foxtrot was great too!

4. Much better from Fiona. And she was able to recover well from a mistake too!

5. Marking not as outrageous as in the past couple of weeks.

1. Mark & Iveta moved me before they even danced a step, he just shows the emotion in his face. I am starting to think he is the male front runner.

2. Ok ok we know Abbey is a great ballroom dancer, it's time for another fast Latin to test her

3. Please give Susanna a beautiful ballroom dress

4. Poor poor Rachel needs to be put out of her purgatory, I just don't believe her when she says she is 'loving it'

5. Ben, Patrick, Ashley. All very meh

1.Lighting is absolutely brilliant this year, especially liked the swathe of spotlights on Mark at the end of his dance
2. Costumes are great, loved Karen as Carmen Miranda
3. Craig actually gave some constructive criticism
4.Bruce seemed to keep the show flowing- first time this series
5.Several pros making their celebs start out of hold and on their own - risky I think

1. Poor Sophie. My favourite, but it really wasn't her dance. I'm so confused as to why they put Sophie on last with such a mediocre dance

2. I thought Susanna was overmarked. It was so dull and I thought the frame was a little loose.

3. Ashley's was so undermarked, it actually really annoyed me Should have had at least one nine imo.

4. So happy Fiona has improved. I like her and I really hope she keeps going that way.

5. Poor Rachel. She really is trying but, week after week, is being savaged by the judges

1. Really impressed with Abbey tonight - for the first time.
2. Too many props and faffing.
3. Sophie's cha cha was woeful. Went wrong, hesitant and looked lost. Why end the show on this?
4. Mark moving playing straight.
5. I didn't know it was possible to not be able to dance the conga. If somebody had told me I'd have called them a liar before tonight.

Just because she cant dance, doesn't mean that he has to choreograph awful routines for her.
So yes , he is in part to blame for this awful Paso. He could have and should have done a much better job with the choreography imo.

1) Terrible show tonight...I kept waiting for something to happen, but it just didn't

2) Poor Rachel. She just can't do it, Someone should just beam her outta there. Pasha isn't really helping matters (and I am a huge fan of his).

3) Mark has impeccable timing and musicality. Iveta really knows how to show that off, too.

4) Agree about the quicksteps tonight, just not cuttin' it.

5) I miss Natalie Lowe.

No - please see below for my answer!


Thank you!

My main thoughts are that there was a lot of over marking tonight.

Deborah, Patrick, Fiona and Ben being particular examples.

Also, Dave is either the most useless dancer on the planet, or he is deliberately not doing his best.

There is no way that anyone of his age that could do a ninety second, fairly simple, routine so badly after 30 hours of training. It is just not credible.

There was nothing right about it. Most anyone could have done better after just an hour.

I dislike this attempt to progress by deliberately being the 'useless clown'




Maggie

Agree with everyone....
1. Tonight's show was disappointing
2. Rachel embarrassing, she can't really be enjoying it, can she?
3. Dave's was so bad I can't believe they rehearsed at all everyone can conga
4. Loved Mark and Iveta, the emotion and story telling were brilliant
5. No more faffing about.......PLEASE
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1) Iveta is my new fave pro, what a great sign up and her and Mark will get to at least week 8

2) Thought the 10 paddle would be out but there was no way it could have been, dissapointing show

3) Abbey and Aljaz are ridiculously good looking

4) Robin's just not up to scratch IMO, been said before on here but his choreography is just not exciting would of rather have seen Deborah with someone else

5) I really hope next week is the series brekthrough week, Halloween back in 2010 created Kartem's Paso therefore I have high hopes

1. Loving the love for Mark and Iveta. He's really bringing her out of her shell too.

2. Fed up with Dave.

3. Liking Ashley's attitude. (But I used to watch Hollyoaks so still have a soft spot for the hapless Darren!)

4. Can't get excited by Natalie, even though she's clearly ahead of the pack. And fed up with Artem looking so smug.

5. The hair & makeup team should be ashamed of themselves, sending Rachel out looking like that. I cant believe that bolstered her confidence when she's clearly out of her depth. Pasha should be choreographing to his partner's ability. Fed up with him looking so brassed off.


Agreed, a lacklustre show, this week. I recorded and FFd through much of it