Originally Posted by Monaogg:
“I suspect the vast majority have never heard of Danny until Strictly. Where Louise is more well known.
Of the two, Louise has had more actual dance training and her footwork is superb. Just a lot of us do not get any joy of dancing from her. Where for us Danny quite clearly is loving dancing & does not seem to care about the marks, only that he does not let Oti down. Without Danny this year for me would be meh.
Louise seems hung up on getting it right and does not let the moment overtake her. The only thing I blame Kevin for is choreographically forgetting this is a television show, rather than a stage show or dance competition. So routines can either be too big for Louise to properly sell, or too introverted to connect through the TV.
All just my opinion.”
Well said! I agree entirely, Danny & Oti have made the show for me this year, particularly the last few weeks. I do like Ore & Jo as well though
I have to admit I get really annoyed at those who say it's unfair that he's there, or that he hasn't had a journey.
First, it's not unfair, he's perfectly entitled to be there within the rules of the show, so it's the rules you have a problem with, not Danny. Strictly has never been a show about complete dance novices, it's simply a show about people who've never danced
ballroom and Latin before learning to do so (or mostly, in a few instances like Kara and Harry they had actually done a bit of ballroom or Latin before... Danny isn't one of those though).
Second, of course he has had a journey - just because the improvement isn't the "great whacking in your face couldn't dance a step week 1 and is now brilliant" type of improvement doesn't mean it's not there. Danny week 1 and Danny now are two different dancers, Oti has done an amazing job with him. And Danny isn't much different from a lot of the other winners, who also started off good and got better (Kara, Alesha, Caroline etc.). He hasn't had it all easy either - remember the Foxtrot?