As a massive fan of Halloween anyway I absolutely love it!! 👻
Strictly Halloween: love it or loathe it?
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Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“It's a novelty.
Halloween, originally a British custom that was exported to the USA yonks ago, practically died out here until the retail industry "forced it onto the public as an excuse to sell a lot of tat."
I really don't mind it on Strictly, some of costumes are quite good.
It must be hard thinking up new ones each year.”
“It's a novelty.
Halloween, originally a British custom that was exported to the USA yonks ago, practically died out here until the retail industry "forced it onto the public as an excuse to sell a lot of tat."
I really don't mind it on Strictly, some of costumes are quite good.
It must be hard thinking up new ones each year.”
originally its a Celtic ( Irish) custom that travelled to Britain .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
Originally Posted by LadyLavender:
“It is the only night of the year when Brendan looks really, truly, happy.”
“It is the only night of the year when Brendan looks really, truly, happy.”
Yes, this and if he's wearing the guy liner so much the better!
I think they over egg it a bit with the daft VTs but overall I enjoy it.
It's a bit tiresome when it comes round every year. They need ten new ideas for routines each time and there just aren't enough to go round. Some celebs are bound to get an awful mish mash (lets do the monster mish mash!) of music and theme that is highly undanceable.
I don't like it. Don't like Halloween and don't like Strictly theme weeks so I was never going to be keen. But as Guy Fawkes Night actually falls on a Saturday this year they could ring the changes and have a Bonfire night special full of fire, firework, Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Stuart references.
And put @EdBalls on the bonfire as the Guy Fawkes 
A fitting fate for an ex-Parliamentarian.
He will probably have had his run by then. But I am not....quite..... ready to see him go yet.
A fitting fate for an ex-Parliamentarian.He will probably have had his run by then. But I am not....quite..... ready to see him go yet.
Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“It's a novelty.
Halloween, originally a British custom that was exported to the USA yonks ago, practically died out here until the retail industry "forced it onto the public as an excuse to sell a lot of tat."
I really don't mind it on Strictly, some of costumes are quite good.
It must be hard thinking up new ones each year.”
“It's a novelty.
Halloween, originally a British custom that was exported to the USA yonks ago, practically died out here until the retail industry "forced it onto the public as an excuse to sell a lot of tat."
I really don't mind it on Strictly, some of costumes are quite good.
It must be hard thinking up new ones each year.”
Bit of a tangent, but one good thing about Hallowe'en becoming more of a retail event is that it's pushed Christmas back at least into November!!!
Originally Posted by Gaz112:
“Bit of a tangent, but one good thing about Hallowe'en becoming more of a retail event is that it's pushed Christmas back at least into November!!!”
“Bit of a tangent, but one good thing about Hallowe'en becoming more of a retail event is that it's pushed Christmas back at least into November!!!”
Not really, big multiples will already have Christmas gear out. The usual complaints about mince pies now on sale being out of date before Christmas have been aired (as usual) in the press. Halloween gear tends be sited in one plac, e Christmas stuff crops up all round the store.
Just walk into any garden centre, "you'll have to fight your way through Christmas stuff to find a plant." They'll have Halloween stuff too.
I can't stand the whole Halloween bandwagon that has been foisted upon us, not just the Strictly show - it's something that should have stayed the other side of the Atlantic.
I love Halloween but not really on Strictly.
The outfits/makeup are fun but the dance itself usually suffers because of the theme/music and the ridiculous props.
The outfits/makeup are fun but the dance itself usually suffers because of the theme/music and the ridiculous props.
Originally Posted by Yoshi Fan:
“Loathe it. There's too much focus on having the theme incorporated, with costumes and props, and the quality of dancing is always poorer for it.”
“Loathe it. There's too much focus on having the theme incorporated, with costumes and props, and the quality of dancing is always poorer for it.”
Me too, so much so that I don't watch and never will .
Originally Posted by Paace:
“Me too, so much so that I don't watch and never will .”
“Me too, so much so that I don't watch and never will .”
I like to think I have a "take it or leave it" attitude. I never watch anything on TV live. I record it and with Strictly I quite often skip through stuff. Even the dances of some in which I've not really much interest. I'll do it with Halloween. The show is designed every week to include stuff that will appeal to someone.
Originally Posted by Clarkie66:
“I loathe everything about Halloween with a vengeance and think I will record the show and then only watch the actual dances.”
“I loathe everything about Halloween with a vengeance and think I will record the show and then only watch the actual dances.”
I record the show every week , I cut out all the waffle and just watch the dancers, I even FF one or two of them.
Imho SCD is nothing like it used to be....
Originally Posted by pinkwafer:
“Yes, this and if he's wearing the guy liner so much the better!”
“Yes, this and if he's wearing the guy liner so much the better!”
I love when he wears guyliner. However, two weeks ago when he danced to the Twilight film tune and they "did" him as a vampire, he resembled my 15 year old cousin when I gave her a contouring palette for her birthday and she went mental on the highlighting powder.
Originally Posted by An Thropologist:
“I don't like it. Don't like Halloween and don't like Strictly theme weeks so I was never going to be keen. But as Guy Fawkes Night actually falls on a Saturday this year they could ring the changes and have a Bonfire night special full of fire, firework, Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Stuart references.”
“I don't like it. Don't like Halloween and don't like Strictly theme weeks so I was never going to be keen. But as Guy Fawkes Night actually falls on a Saturday this year they could ring the changes and have a Bonfire night special full of fire, firework, Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Stuart references.”
I like that idea. Unlike some viewers, I'm not virulently anti-theme or anti-props; I just get bored with the same old stuff. I think it's getting increasingly difficult to come up with new ideas for Halloween and this could be an interesting alternative.
Some years it works others it falls flat, last years was terrible, 2014 was great because of Frankie's Wicked Tango and 2011 we had Holly's swan lake AS those are the two that stand out the most.
I don't generally like Halloween at all, but for some reason I enjoy the theme for Strictly. Maybe because it doesn't involve me dressing up or answering the door to loads of kids I don't know telling awful jokes.
Bah humbug!
Bah humbug!
I think the themed weeks are a magnification of the normal weeks in that if music and costume work for the dance, the the routine is generally better and in a themed week that can be magnified. Unfortunatley too often to fit the theme it is like fitting a round dance into square music. And music to fit halloween is fairly limited.
Originally Posted by Forget-me-not:
“I think the themed weeks are a magnification of the normal weeks in that if music and costume work for the dance, the the routine is generally better and in a themed week that can be magnified. Unfortunatley too often to fit the theme it is like fitting a round dance into square music. And music to fit halloween is fairly limited.”
“I think the themed weeks are a magnification of the normal weeks in that if music and costume work for the dance, the the routine is generally better and in a themed week that can be magnified. Unfortunatley too often to fit the theme it is like fitting a round dance into square music. And music to fit halloween is fairly limited.”
This. ^
I loathe Halloween and by and large feel the same about all theme weeks.
This year's Movie week was a revelation - it was bloody marvellous!
Originally Posted by The Swampster:
“The end of October is fast approaching and in Strictly word that means Halloween. I have to say I enjoy this 'special' less and less each year. It was fun at first, but now it's a bit like being told the same corny joke year in, year out.
The costumes and make up are inventive but ultimately most people look pretty hideous. And the music is taken from a limited range to fit in with the spooky theme, which is why we've been treated to two jives to Monster Mash - hardly the greatest choice of jive music.
What does everyone else think? Am I just being a miserable old bag about it?”
“The end of October is fast approaching and in Strictly word that means Halloween. I have to say I enjoy this 'special' less and less each year. It was fun at first, but now it's a bit like being told the same corny joke year in, year out.
The costumes and make up are inventive but ultimately most people look pretty hideous. And the music is taken from a limited range to fit in with the spooky theme, which is why we've been treated to two jives to Monster Mash - hardly the greatest choice of jive music.
What does everyone else think? Am I just being a miserable old bag about it?”
I usually hate watch it
It's so massively over produced that I end up thoroughly enjoying it.And responsible for one of my all time favourite dances: Patrick and Anya's Quickstep.
Not a fan. They go way over the top with it.
Its become a tradition, so I know its not going anywhere - but it'd be nice if they changed up the theme nights. What about a '70s or '80s night?
Its become a tradition, so I know its not going anywhere - but it'd be nice if they changed up the theme nights. What about a '70s or '80s night?
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