No question, this was the routine frankie fans were waiting for, and it didn't happen. WHY? No green paint left? Anything to do with 'frozen' this year is a vote winner.....I know kids loved the last routine and would have bought in thousands of extra votes. The difference between winning and losing.Instead they probably sloped off to bed around 9pm!
The paso should have been the 'judges' choice, not kevin's.....the samba they were 'saddled' with was their 'worst dance', while caroline and simon were given dances they did well first time round!!
WAS THIS THE BIGGEST SINGLE MISTAKE EVER FOR A SCD FINAL??
(apart from caroline's 40, obvs).....

No.

The other two were better dancers.

better trained maybe...

...Defying Gravity's from Wicked, not Frozen.

I think it was a bit of a mistake not to do it as Frankie's last dance definitely missed the wow factor - both of which Simon's AT & Caroline's Charleston had. I'm not sure it would have done much to swap the votes up, since Caroline's show dance really was exquisite, but it may well have got Frankie her only 40 of the series if done to its full potential.

And her Samba still got solid scores first time round, but had had room for improvement (and the 39 she received suggests that wasn't a bad call).

I thought it was from Frozen as well and Frankie was meant to be a Birdseye Frozen Garden Pea. I understood the tension in her face was meant to convey her angst at being turned into Minted Pea Soup and the bit when she flew up in the air was interpretive of coming to the boil in the water.

Ooh you are Wicked...

Thank you. You made me laugh like a drain Brilliant!

I think it was a mistake and would have made the result even harder to call. That routine had the WOW factor and you need as many of those in the final as you can get.

Problem is they couldn't have allowed Frankie to have reprised that routine with green make-up and disappearing skywards on her broomstick without allowing Caroline to have the backing dancers which really enhanced her Charleston.

That "rowing" sequence on the floor only really works when there are others in the boat. Poor old Pasha was Johnny-No-Mates yesterday.

Those two routines complete with whistles and bells would have upstaged most of the Showdances, and perhaps more importantly would have lessened the impact of Simon's AT

It was deeply unfortunate for Frankie that one of her most striking routines was her tango. I can get why it wasn't performed though - logistically, the makeup was perhaps too difficult to replicate in the timeframe (though surely green gloves etc meaning it was only her face would have helped). It did cross my mind that maybe the image of a greened-up Frankie lifting the trophy wasn't something the BBC wanted - a bit too odd perhaps?

Brilliant indeed!

Not sure I agree with your reasoning. We've see a good few routines over the years with flying, but there was only one week when backing dancers were used. The Green Tango was one of their three favourite routines they were considering and I think it would have been a better choice than the Paso. There would have been time in the break between shows to get Green Frankie ready.

I think something could have been done with the make up - it's didn't have to be so full on - Pasha had the hint of vert make up for the Shrek jive in that final and as far as the broomstick the equipment was in place as Judy came down on it in the group dance. I can't see it would be that much different to sort out in one show as another?

Tbh I thought all of the judge's choice of dances for the dancers were bad! That was the mistake last night.

Caroline had had the win in the bag since Pixie left and then Jake

Seeing Judy's entrance did make me wonder. Pasha looked a little nauseous with just the hint of green, so not a great look. I still think it's because on the last night, with new viewers, they thought Frankie in green was too odd, especially if she won.

more than likely.
It's a shame though - to me a final should be about celebrating the good stuff not a couple of week one cha cha's, a dance the celeb can barely think about with curling their lip and a random Charleston because there seemingly has to be one in every section

Perhaps it was considered unfair to allow a celeb to generate votes in the Final solely as a result of special effects.

Had Frankie and Kevin performed that Tango without the whole Green Witch get-up and Broomstick departure, would it have earned them the same number of votes?

If the order of the show had been different, she could have done the 'green' dance before the break between the two shows - hence enough time to remove the make-up.

Frankie was not my fave but I really liked that dance.

No because it meant we didn't have to listen to the band's singer ruin that top note again.

I hate that song and I hated the routine so no I think it was a sensible choice.

It wouldn't have had quite the same impact if she hadn't been full on green ... that would be impossible before the showdance and Frankie possibly didn't want to be green when she .. potentially .. lifted the glitterball.

I don't think it made a difference, as I don't think Craig would have given it a 10 and it probably wouldn't have made the difference in voting (that second show was really even more of a formality than usual). But if there's anything to blame for not getting to see it again, it was the utterly bizarre set of judges' choices.

I think everyone knows after Carolines show dance, nobody, no matter what they danced and how they danced it, had a chance. The reaction that showdance got was ridiculous. It has 20 000 + plus likes on FB on the official page, with the second dance having a maximum of 5000 likes.

There was NOTHING anyone could've done after that showdance.