Strictly Come Dancing 2014 (Official Thread)

[JonRB]

Ace-T said:

You tart!

[james_tigerwoods]

Just watching it now - I am still liking Sunetra. **does this smell like chloroform?**

I am really loving Dave Archer's band though. Utterly brilliant.

[Fishtigua]

ash73 said:

Best thing is to watch how it should be done by the pros:
Doesn't look much like that on strictly, but you might recognise some moves!

No it's bleedin' not.

Watching some fking Germans in a 5-a-side stadium in China is not what latin dance is about.

I've spent most of my life in the Caribbean and Latin America and not one of those moves has ever been more mangled than by those Tuentonic footwear and feather munchers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG5F4rt2Ol4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHhNSZtutRo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlrNPBfOowg

[SPR2]

Indeed. Having learnt ballroom dancing in my teens to medal stages maybe I look too closely at the footwork and think hmm that is not much like a foxtrot etc..

I wonder how it would work if they did groups of e.g all sports personalities, actors/ actresses etc.as the celebrities.and bring in some formation dancing too.

[JonRB]

SPR2 said:

formation dancing

What... like line dancing?

[NBTBRV8]

JonRB said:

And finally Bruno gives a score different from Len.

He did last week too.

[Granville]

I think everyone had improved this week even Scott and Judy, and whilst Scott & Judy deserve to be at the bottom there was a degree of slight improvement.

[SPR2]

JonRB said:

What... like line dancing?

Not at all.
Was a couples team event in the original Come Dancing .
Too young to remember?

[RichB]

SPR2 said:

...(there) Was a couples team event in the original Come Dancing...

Indeed. A dance orf against the clork wasn't it?

[JonRB]

SPR2 said:

Too young to remember?

Yup! This is only my 2nd year of watching Strictly.

Although I'm old enough to remember the original Come Dancing (it only finished in 1998 according to Wikipedia), it's not something I ever watched.

[SPR2]

RichB said:

ndeed. A dance orf against the clork wasn't it?

I can't recollect a dance off against the clock, but I can remember Frank and Peggy Spencer were one of the teams.
Anyway will it be Judy and Simon in the dance off tonight ?

[RichB]

In previous years of Strictly they have had a dance off round where the judges watched the couples for 3 or 4 minutes and gradually pulled them off leaving just one couple of the floor at the end.

[SPR2]

Come Dancing was a regional competition throughout the UK and think it would have been amateur couples and not celebrities with a professional partner so quite different to SCD.

[JonRB]

RichB said:

judges watched the couples for 3 or 4 minutes and gradually pulled them off

Blimey. Is that the Porn version of Strictly?

[HD Adam]

JonRB said:

RichB said:

judges watched the couples for 3 or 4 minutes and gradually pulled them off

Blimey. Is that the Porn version of Strictly?

So that's why it was called Come Dancing, eh?

[NathanJones]

Ola to quit

https://uk.celebrity.yahoo.com/gossip/omg/strictly...

[Daz68]

This voting is a complete joke. Spoiling the show really.

[RichB]

Daz68 said:

This voting is a complete joke. Spoiling the show really.

It's been like this ever since the John Sargent episode.

[AlexRS2782]

How many more weeks are we going to be subjected to Scott Mills?

[Adrian W]

What is the point of the judges if their opinion counts for nothing?