Originally Posted by milotic12:
“For a professional dancer it must be beyond aggravating when you've spent the entire week rehearsing a dance and the judges are as rude as they were to Sophie and Brendan tonight. Especially when Brendan knew how well she'd performed. I thought It was a perfectly human response. I would've throttled the judges!”
Perhaps he needs to watch that performance back, then, because he was obviously so involved in it that he wasn't aware of what Sophie was doing.
ESPIONdansant is quite right - hip action was lacking. Also, Sophie looked extremely self-conscious throughout, with some awkward smiling going on - which rather killed the atmosphere of the dance.
There have been some brilliant rumbas on Strictly - Kara and Artem's, Pamela and James', Cherie and James', Rachel and Vincent's - all of which had an intensity that Sophie and Brendan's just didn't have. Yes, she had some lovely lines - but it looked too careful, and Sophie didn't lose herself to the dance.