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Old 25-11-2013, 18:10
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It's a fair bet that, had Ben been saved, he would have been in the DO next week anyway.
Agreed.

Ben did mess up in the dance-off, sadly.
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Old 25-11-2013, 18:38
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I don't get why this is subject to so many conspiracy theory threads. Mark was better than Ben in the dance-off - the only thing there's really a question mark over is why Craig would have saved Ben given that the dance-off is meant to be based purely on the two performances done in it.
I agree. On their first performances it was almost too close to call, but Mark was clearly better in the DO.
I don't know why people are making such a fuss really, there was no doubt about the bottom two, the only slight surprise was that Ben didn't get enough public votes to save him.
As it was, there wasn't much between them, but Ben made a couple of big mistakes in the DO. Simple as that, in my opinion.
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Old 25-11-2013, 18:39
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Imo It's a little bit suspect being that Mark has survived the dance-off for the third week. I know which I would rather watch. I have never been a fan of Kristina but in her shoes I would be more than a bit miffed....As for the reason they saved Mark.... my guess would be that the Beeb look after their own.....
Totally disagree with all of the above comment. Craig hates the lack of action and precision of Mark's footwork, so would never have chosen him over Ben. Ben's dancingwas commented on by 3 people who are supposed to know abit about dancing and who had seen the first round only a couple of hours earlier (as we all know , don't tell the BBC), and they voted on the basis of what they saw.
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Old 25-11-2013, 18:55
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Yes, Mark may have been marginally better in the dance off but Ben was under marked and should not have been at the bottom of the leader board..
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Old 25-11-2013, 20:43
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Saw Craig tonight and he said that both made errors in the DO but that Ben's routine had more content which was why he voted to save Ben. Craig was spot on with that assessment. Let's be honest in saying that Mark does so little in the way of difficult steps that it is almost impossible to make a big mistake.
As far as the other three judges were concerned I was amazed at how they all used almost exactly the same words in saving Mark. It was almost as if they were using the same autocue.

Always nice to have a bit of controversy isn't it.
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Old 25-11-2013, 20:53
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Saw Craig tonight and he said that both made errors in the DO but that Ben's routine had more content which was why he voted to save Ben. Craig was spot on with that assessment.
Shame Zoe then skewered him over his ludicrous claim that Anya's feet were off the ground at the end of Patrick's VW. Poor lad should have had his cataracts done at the same time as his hips, maybe.
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Old 25-11-2013, 21:38
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Yes, Mark may have been marginally better in the dance off but Ben was under marked and should not have been at the bottom of the leader board..
And who do you think should have been there instead - really? I'm interested to know! Ben wasn't a terrible dancer but it was s bad dance and he was one of the two worst in the competition last Satruday so ergo the right two were in the DO - sorry my friend your justification is clutching at straws. Why shouldn't he have been in the bottom two - because you don't fancy Sophie or Susannah or Patrick as much or because you're Kristina and I claim my five pounds?
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Old 26-11-2013, 08:23
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Yes, Mark may have been marginally better in the dance off but Ben was under marked and should not have been at the bottom of the leader board..
And had more of the public actually voted for him, he would not have been in the bottom two.

So the public "undermarked" him as well.


Which perhaps says that he was not undermarked at all. And that his place in the bottom two was because he was one of the two worst dancers on the night.
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Old 26-11-2013, 11:07
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The choice of Mark to stay in was farcical.
Both he and Ben are not good dancers but Mark is atrocious.
He can't even walk across the floor properly.
I'm sure that he's a nice,genuine guy but as a dancer he's poor
For pros such as Len to say he dances correctly is as laughable as the comments Darcy makes about loving his performance.
I wonder what Len's peers in the dance world think of his ratings and comments such as "Gie it sum welly", "Yer pickled me walnuts" .But then the show's not about dancing it's about "FUN,FUN,FUN"
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Old 26-11-2013, 11:22
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The choice of Mark to stay in was farcical.
Both he and Ben are not good dancers but Mark is atrocious.
He can't even walk across the floor properly.
I'm sure that he's a nice,genuine guy but as a dancer he's poor
For pros such as Len to say he dances correctly is as laughable as the comments Darcy makes about loving his performance.
I wonder what Len's peers in the dance world think of his ratings and comments such as "Gie it sum welly", "Yer pickled me walnuts" .But then the show's not about dancing it's about "FUN,FUN,FUN"
Mark is not atrocious - he actually moves pretty well for an overweight guy with bad knees and people with greater dance knowledge than I have praised his timing and his musicality and ablility to capture the mood of a dance - I will miss him when he goes because he always danced with charm and I think might have had a reasonable jab at a paso had he not be saddled with a theme that worked against him. Actually the last of the completely useless dancers went with Dave and we are now working our way through the ones which aren't hopeless but aren't serious contenders to lift the glitterball either. When Mark goes next week - which seems almost ineviatble given his continued presence in DOs over the last few weeks and the fact that everyone else left in the competition is a serious contender for the glitterball (the only person I can see him win a DO against would be a Sophie crippled by performance anxiety and I think she's too well liked to end up in the DO) then after next we'll have the interesting situation of a fight between the people who can actually win it.
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Old 26-11-2013, 15:03
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Saw Craig tonight and he said that both made errors in the DO but that Ben's routine had more content which was why he voted to save Ben. Craig was spot on with that assessment. Let's be honest in saying that Mark does so little in the way of difficult steps that it is almost impossible to make a big mistake.
As far as the other three judges were concerned I was amazed at how they all used almost exactly the same words in saving Mark. It was almost as if they were using the same autocue.

Always nice to have a bit of controversy isn't it.
Craig is the first Judge to say that Dance is about performance aswell as technique, and Ben had absolutely none in the Dance Off. He completely gave up before it had even started, and it was surprising to see for a former top flight sportsman who thrives on his competitive spirit.

Mark always gives a performance and interprets the dance, which is half of what it's all about - either professionally or in a TV entertainment/comp like Strictly.
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Old 26-11-2013, 15:50
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Craig is the first Judge to say that Dance is about performance aswell as technique, and Ben had absolutely none in the Dance Off. He completely gave up before it had even started, and it was surprising to see for a former top flight sportsman who thrives on his competitive spirit.
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Yes, if anyone is in doubt simply compare the start of his routine where he looks at the camera, gives a knowing wink, and an OK sign. There, the DO performance was half-hearted to say the least.
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Old 26-11-2013, 16:42
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I don't think it's all about mistakes: it's about content, performance and mistakes. If content and performance are roughly equal, then the couple with the fewer mistakes will win. But if there's a wide discrepancy in content and/or performance, then of course there'll be less emphasis on mistakes.

This way, if a stronger couple finds itself in the dance-off against say, Mark, they'll be allowed a couple of mistakes (assuming the difficulty of their routine is making the most of their abilities).
Indeed, any of the top 6 could stop half way through their routine and they would still have done more steps and scored more points for movement and acting than Ben or Mark have in a routine. The difficult choices this series have largely been avoided because Deborah and Rachel went out to top 6 dancers - who shouldn't have been there. Rachel v Mark or Ben would have been more difficult to weigh properly on difficulty attempted and achieved, and potential, and effort to try and master the steps, versus avoiding them.
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Old 26-11-2013, 20:18
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I do think Len looked as if he was in pain last night when he chose Ben to go!....
I don't know about Len but Darcey looked positively distraught at having to give that verdict.
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