I think I already have...oops!

I just rewatched Danny and Oti's AS and Claudia and AJ's QS and i have to saw they were even more enjoyable than i even thought last night! The speed of Claudias QS - one wrong move and she was in a heap on the floor! And whatever your views on Danny, you can't really deny the pure enjoyment on both his and Otis faces when they dance! I think that is why i love watching them dance. I just don't get that same feeling when watching Louise, there just seems to be no passion for her for dancing. One week to the final and Louise is still worried about not looking silly etc.

Quite. Why is that?

Does s/he know that when Sofa says she is digging out the gin, she isn't going to offer him a refreshing alcoholic beverage but instead she means to feed him/her into one of these.

http://www.jadhaogears.com/cotton-ginning-machine.html

I'm a he, and, BRING IT.

Me too. I'm ABC. Anyone but Clifton. I may not even have the courage to watch the final live if both are still in, as the Grimsbyfication of the whole event will be tortuous, not to mention TTF hitting the deck like Zebedee on acid for 3 perfect 40s, while Tiny Tears weeps with the overwhelming emotion of it all. I fear, in advance, for not only my TV but the ruin of all personal possessions hurled thereat. If Doti take the gb I will watch retrospectively, thumbing my nose at the TV all the while, and chanting Ner ner nerner ner at the certain knowledge that the Grimsby duo go unrewarded. But let's wait til the results show....

Well it's been a short acquaintence but an enjoyable one. I will remember you fondly RIP.

Whoever it was wittering on about Claudia & AJ gapping was ridiculous. She kept her chest up to AJ very well throughout.

Have on my epitaph - 'Dance Purist'.

Apparently I can go back and find some of your Jay comments, so I'd love to hear more about what you thought of Danny's AS and samba

Of course it wasn't.
Best male jive is a title that is always going to be Michael Vaughan's.

Do you know, the first time I watched Louise and Kevin's tango I honestly thought it was motorbike helmets on the conveyor belt? I watch the prop/ faffing part of a routine very closely, of course...

But now I know they're glitterballs it all makes sense! The glitterballs represent Strictly, of course, and they are on the conveyor belt in order to convey a sense of time passing, one glitterball appearing at regular intervals as the years go on. The four glitterballs that Kevin and Louise pick up and put in boxes represent the four series that Kevin has competed in. They are being picked up from a conveyor belt and put into boxes because of course Kevin hasn't won yet - he has the memories of each of those four series but he doesn't own any of those glitterballs (yet...) so he and Louise can only pack them up for someone else's benefit at the moment. Having finished putting the glitterballs away (to the lyric of "You say that you love me/ All of the time" - the show says it loves Kevin and his partners because they always reach the final but at the end of it, where's the proof? He doesn't win, he just has empty words and too few votes), Kevin and Louise get up to dance because of course the two of them are still in the competition and as we saw with the conveyor belt, time keeps on going and it takes them with it.

At the end Louise herself is on the conveyor and she falls off the end into Kevin's arms, which I think has two possible interpretations. Louise at this point puts herself in the position of one of the glitterballs on the conveyor belt and allows Kevin to display her at the end as his prize. Does that mean that Louise is Kevin's prize, regardless of whether or not he gets to take a glitterball home at the end of this series (has Louise convinced Kevin that winning isn't the most important thing - does he now think that dancing with Louise is the ultimate prize for this series no matter what?) or has Louise, by jumping onto the conveyor belt, metaphorically turned herself into the glitterball trophy for this year (is this an attempt at magical thinking - if they believe hard enough that Louise is the winner then hopefully it will come true?).

Or, you know, something else happened.

Mothers..... That made me LOL with recognition from the female perspective.

I find it hard to see her feet through the waves of mortification

Shouldn't that be "Dahnce Purist" dahling?

Evening all *mwah*

That's a very interesting interpretation. (No, really - it is .)

I think it was all a load of glitterballs, meself.

Yep. That was my exact experience too. Thought he'd be a smug bot, but now really like him. There's no neuroses and hand holding required. He respects Oti and just gets on with the job at hand.

What can I say, I've spent a lot of time studying literature and I like a challenge. I would hope that I'm talking nonsense but it's fun making up stories!

Cue months of media for "Jellus Jamie"

Evening darlings. I've just had my tea and am fully prepared to bring it all up if both Cliftons get through.

No one can rock a pole neck like Pasha

That's OK. We may disagree with you; we may even point and laugh, but I doubt you'll get any judgement on your values, morals or value as a human being.

According to some, I'm a Brexit-voting, Trump-supporting Nazi because I don't like any of the Cliftons.

Bloody hell, is this the first time Tess has ever actually had even boobs?

MiniDot just looked at Janette and asked if it was Lesley... ouch

Stop trying to make "double-dancing" happen Tess!