Originally Posted by Becky245:
“But i'm thinking of how the marking is going, why are they giving Ashley, Susanna and Abby 9s when their performances had things wrong with them too? I'm a dancer and I hate being picky but Abby went out of time twice, Ashley's posture is really not great, susanna's top line was loose and patrick is a little hunched over too. I'm not saying Sophie is perfect, she has a problem with her character and sometimes she too is hunched over, but i just hate the way the marking is all over the place.”
I think because they all sell the dance better than she does. They all have technical faults but acting in the dance goes a long way to making up for those mistakes.
Sophie's face was exactly the same as it's been for every dance bar the charleston and maybe the foxtrot.
If Sophie had shown even a teensy bit of sultriness or emotion rather than yet ANOTHER blank face she may have got an extra mark per judge.
She was wobbly, unsteady and just walked the dance for me, rather than gliding her feet across the floor.
This is all in my opinion, of course.

You enjoyed the dance and that's great, but some of us are dying for Sophie to let us in and she's not.