1. Mark - I love him but this was the non event of tonight - can't understand Iveta's "choreography"
2. Still don't like Sophie - overrated, she is too languid for me
3. Amazed at Patrick - I hadn't really noticed him up to now, but that was a wow dance
4. Didn't miss Bruce at all but still prefer him to Claudia
5. Abby is so sweet - I wish her well

1. Go away Dave...please!
2. Susanna's waltz was beautiful
3. Ben...don't do backflips badly. Just attempt dancing, would you?
4. Mark has been sold down the river
5. Claudia forever!

1. Sophie seems very conservative in her style of performance. She needs to loosen up and lose her inhibitions to make a decisive impact.
2. Fed up of Craig being shouted down again.
3. Ridiculous overmarking yet again in all cases.
4. Ashley gets many bits of his dances right but imo he does not link his dance moves together very well. He will do each individual step very well but the dance as a whole is usually not seamless enough.
The transitions from one move to the next always look slightly out. To use a snooker analogy he is a great one ball potter but his positional play is poor. If Ola can correct this fault I think he will win.
5. Ola looked delightful in her pink number, really exquisite.

1 No Bruce is Brilliant.
2 Claudia on top form.
3 Gaping hole of talent with Natalie missing - get well soon.
4 Risky lifts for Patrick but they paid off.
5 Please Sophie get some passion.

1. Would love to see Patrick's dance again without the mistake.

2. Sorry Bruce but your time should be up.

3. Did love Susannah and Kevin Walz.

4. Claudia was brill in the Tess Pit

5. Did anyone count how many Severns Len dished out?

1. Missed seeing Team Nartem dance and hopes Natalie gets better soon and will be able to perform in Blackpool
2, Patrick was really good tonight and deserved his one ten as he was the best of the night
3. Liked Claudia and Tess hosting the show
4. Also liked Ashleys Quickstep
5. Susanna and Kevin Waltz was lovely

1. The quality of presentation improved tenfold on last week's laboured attempt.
2. Patrick was overmarked for a dance which admittedly was high on content... but also mistakes.
3. What on Earth was Iveta thinking with that choreography? Mark barely did anything.
4. I saw the passion from Sophie; I think I must have been the only one!
5. Get well soon, Natalie.

I know he can't dance but I just love Dave he makes me smile

Abbie is an amazing dancer from being not able to dance at all to where she is now -- and that is where the difference comes from not liking Natalie, however good she is

Sophie fascinates me, she is like a dancing stick insect.

A beautiful waltz by Kevin from Grimsby and Susanne.

Anton really is rubbish at latin

1. Loving the Yahama Keyboard/Swanny Whistle version of Sweet Dreams

2. Mark. Oh dear. A comedy routine when there shouldn't be one, and I'm not sure he enjoyed it.

3. Dave. Oh my. A comedy routine when nobody wants it, full stop

4. Craig was on full Pantomime mode and that didn't work much either.

5. Patrick's dance, on repeated viewing, looked a bit more stompy than I first thought. Good - but not...that good.

Dave's pro has treated the whole thing has a joke
Why moan at others about core strength and not tell Sophie she needs some
Looking the part and having a story does not = a good dance
Terrible music choices for some
Dave was better than Mark tonight

How doodle-do!

(1) - I can honestly say, without a hint of malice, that the show was SO much more enjoyable without Natalie. It felt like a proper competition again. I do feel sorry for poor old Artem - but I really do get the feeling he just wants it all to be over now.

(2) - Bruno should be replaced. ASAP. By Karen Hardy. PLEASE! He's loud, rude, silly, unfunny, overly full of himself, etc (and often comes across very much like Julien MacDonald in many ways, only not as nice!). I'm sure Michael Bolton would agree with me on this - Bruno has to go!

(3) - Ben would be the most genuine, worthy winner of SCD ever, and Craig should be ashamed - scoring that Jive the same as Dave's Tango!? (No offence to Dave - I thought he did really well actually)

(4) - Abbey last week = looked awful ! This week = STUNNING! Wow. Great look, great dance, and great partner. Well done to you, and yer big white knickers.

(5) Sophie... ZZZzzz... wake me up when she's gone! The phrase "VOTE FOR DENNIS!" springs to mind!

(6) Where does Kevin come from? I wish they'd tell us.

(7) Darcey: "the one thing that was missing for me, yeah?"... blimey, give it a rest, love!!!

(8) Iveta's leg lift is her "trademark". Leave her alone. She's ace.

(9) OLA

(10) NG is pregnant (I assume you all know that...right? I mean, the clues are all there, if you look...)

Ooops, did 10 instead of 5. Just call me "dArcey"

1) Dave & Mark & Fiona

2) Sophie, Abbey, Ben & the other bloke :yawn:

3) Patrick & Susannah

4) Worst series ever :sleep:

5) At least until now there was Inspector Montalbano to look forward to when this was over...and now that's finished too

Very poor showing indeed. The level should be much better than this at this stage in the competition.

Marking all wrong. Dave should have had 1s, Mark 2s and Ben 4s. Then they would not have had to give Patrick a 10 for a less than perfect routine.

On that note, Ben needs to go home, he is a crap dancer. It doesn't matter how nice he looks in a sailor suit, his jive was lamentable.

That AT from Sophie brought back the horrors of Bacofoil. The stick thin legs and shaky lifts gave me unwelcome flashbacks. At least there was not too much gusset.

Susannah was strangely brown. Like she was going on to do a show for the black & white minstrels.

1. Another lacklustre show.

2. Liked Abbey's Charleston, but not inspired choreography.

3. Sophie's AT choreography better, but much as I like her, was wobbly and a bit bloodless.

4. Mark should have been better.

5. No Bruce = joy.

Some good performances this week, Patrick, Abbey, Susanna - think it's because we're slowly saying good-bye to the duffers ( perfectly good spoiler thread for anyone to post about the demise of the latest one)

Hope they sort Natalie - if not she'll be sadly missed

500 miles was not the finest hour for the two singers who attempted it - ouch

Bruno was waspish to Anton, what many were thinking but no need

A few still doing very little dance content and then getting marked high

1) loved Patrick but not a ten Darcy

2) ivetta please stop making Mark look like an idiot, terrible costume, terrible choreography

3) finally Craig is back lol he must be feeling better. He was so right about Ben.

4) liked Sophie but please just let go a little more

5) get well soon Natalie, I was really looking forward to that jive.

Dave wasn't doing a rumba to 500 miles he was doing a tango.
Hard to tell with him of course.
Darcy was mad no dance with error should score a 10

Bumped

1/ Why is Dave still in SCD
2/ Why was Susanna undermarked
3/ Why would Darcy be going to Brighton when everyone else is going to Blackpool
4/ Why did Abbeys wig look lopsided instead of a geometric haircut
5/ Why have I waited all week for the Proud Mary Jive only to have Natalie fall ill

1) Loved Karen's dress tonight, the tartan and plain panels, absolutely loved it, quite took my mind off the weird Tango.

2) Mark's dance was THE most unsensual rhumba I've ever seen, horrible.

3) Well done Patrick for the spectacular save there, and for recovering so well.

4) Abbey! Good grief, has that girl really never had any dance training?

5) Sophie has the same china doll syndrome that Rachel Stevens had, she is like a beautiful, technically very good, but totally emotionless, automaton. A pity.

I agree! I love that song and was looking forward to it!

1) Susanna and Kevin were gorgeous. Good old traditional dance like the good old days.

2) Alijaz is beautiful. I love him.

3) Ben dressed like a sailor. Yum.

4) no Bruce! Yay! Tess and Claudia were amazeballs and they should be doing the show together each and every week.

5) Ola is marvellous.

Mea culpa!

Answer to point 4 is that she had

1) James was off as he hurt his back twisted a vertebrae in the gym on Monday
2) Darcy go to Brighton if you can't score properly
3) loved Susannes dance and Abbeys
4) didn't miss Natalie is she really pregnant?
5) love Ola do not like Karen off you walk 500 miles into oblivion please

1) Although I loved Patrick and Anya's routine, it should not have got a 10 because of the wobbly lifts. Surely, if a mistake is obvious enough that non-dancers such was myself can easily see it, it is not a perfect dance?

2) Would be glad to see Mark & Iveta taking it seriously next week. Mark does have some dancing talent and it's unfair to lump him in the same category as Dave. Let's see them doing a proper routine next week - no pulling faces or daft costumes.

3) It was a nice change to watch the show live and not have to join it fifteen minutes late so I can fast forward through Bruce's "jokes."

4) After supporting Fiona and Anton at first, I have sadly come to the conclusion that I'm never going to feel comfortable watching her. She is so nervous and I find myself waiting for the inevitable mistakes.

5) Sophie really needs to start showing some personality when she dances. Apart from her charleston and foxtrot, I have found all her dances very boring.