Its so good to see the Judging Panel be fun and have chemistry as a foursome again instead of Cheryl and Simon and then whoever the other two are.

I find Sharon and Nicole a little bit too much together, I like their wackiness normally, but tonight it got annoying because both were so 'wacky'.

I don't mind the panel being fun, but Sharon and Nicole also need to take the show seriously (although after last week that idea went out the window). We're in the live shows and last night they were way over the top as though they were both drunk, they all should take a leaf from the strictly panel. I miss the 2008 - 2010 x factor days.

Nicole Is wacky, but she still was the only judge to give constructive feedback..

I quite like Nicole as a judge. I raise my eyebrows when she stands up to dance but I suppose that's her way of showing some contestants that she thinks their performance is great.

fun more like drunk what a mess of show it was last night!

Last night, Sharon and Simon were high as kites, and Nicole and Louis were 100% smashed. It was drunk mess, and no one had any idea what was going on, let alone Dermot. Nevertheless, the generally poor quality of last night's acts rivaled the judges' bad behavior as the main takeaway of the night.

True
Simon says whatever he wants to say to try and sway or deter the viewer
Sharon was drunk
And Louis talks utter sh!te

The strictly panel has Bruno who is WAY over the top

I think if Nicole had been on the panel instead of Cheryl during the Dannii years, it would have been amazing. Dannii and Nicole are both constructive in their criticism, both honest and don't resort to nastiness

I totally agree, four middle aged (putting it mildly) people behaving like drunken teenagers, pathetic. No wonder such dreadful choices have been made for the last 12.

Agree. I didn't like Dannii at first but she grew on me with her comments. Nicole usually has the right advice but last night all the judges seemed like they didn't know what was going on and more importantly didn't care (don't blame them in a way with the crap they chose to put through lol)

I blame them. They CHOSE the crap after all. No need to make a bad job worse by being drunk though. About as unprofessional as you could get I'd say, AND paid obscene amounts of money for doing so.

do people still really think the judges have any say in who they put through ?

I think so