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SCD 2013 #6: The semi-finals are here!

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ScatterGotStuckUpTheChimney · 13/12/2013 20:12

Following on from the last thread.

I'm looking forward to seeing two dances from everybody.The music choices don't look bad either relatively speaking.

Bizarrely there's only one couple (Patrick and Anya) who have two of the usual ten dances, the others all have AT/AS/salsa. Natalie and Artem don't have a ten dance at all.

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Wessex · 14/12/2013 20:39

I've voted Sophie. Her Paso was my favourite dance of the night ( I accept the music they had thrills me to the very bowels) but I thought it had power, technique, atmosphere and was highly original.

OodKingWenceslas · 14/12/2013 20:40

Voted for Sophie & Patrick.

NewGirlInTown · 14/12/2013 20:41

What a clodhopper Susanna is. Are people voting for her because of the empathy?
Natalie is magnificent. I love Artem but their height difference was a problem in the AT.
Think Abbey will win.

thenightsky · 14/12/2013 20:41

Wessex sums it up perfectly!

areyoubeingserviced · 14/12/2013 20:41

Watched Mark and Karen's AT on YouTube.
It was great. Ramps is my favourite SCD celebrity ever. He was sooooo shy .
Loved Alesha Dixon too. Absolutely gorgeous girl .

almondfinger · 14/12/2013 20:43

Divvied up my votes between my fave Abbey and the seriously under marked and divine Sophie. Never warmed to Natalie. Simpering Suzannah should have gone last week. Poor old Patrick, tonight was not his night.

Never really liked Brendan but he was well within his right to be pi@@ed off tonight, that pd was incredible.

Abbey, Sophie and either Natalie or Patrick (don't mind which, Abbey is going to win) for the final please.

Does anyone not find Kevin's fancy teeth a bit wired?

thenightsky · 14/12/2013 20:47

Kevin is lovely, but Suzanna should have gone last week at the latest.

NewGirlInTown · 14/12/2013 20:55

Only Craig has any credibility in his marking. How could Darcey give Abbey a 10 after pointing out her flawed feet in the lifts? Bizarre.

DaveBussell · 14/12/2013 20:56

I've given all my online votes to Patrick tho' I don't expect that will help him - it didn't last week and he was top of the leaderboard then.

I suppose it will just depend who he's up against in the dance-off. If it's Susanna then I think the judges might just keep him in. If it's anyone else then obviously he will go. Can't see Sophie in the dance-off, she seems to be strangely popular.

wetaugust · 14/12/2013 20:56

There's been huge over-marking this series. Far too many 10's for medicore dances. It just devalues the truly great performances.

Had a look back on Youtube at some of Ramp's really great dances - the AT (9.10.10.10) the Salsa to Hot Hot Hot (9.9.9.9) Tango to Eleanor Rigsby (8.8.9.9) Paso Doble (8.9.9.9) - a "phenomenal scotre" according to Tess.

How times have changed.

Wessex · 14/12/2013 21:02

Ramps also did one of the great showdances (there have been some dreadful ones) with the most amazing lifts.

And the judges looked so young!

SwirlingStorm · 14/12/2013 21:03

schilke I totally agree! Sophie is limp and cold IMO. Really don't get all the support for her. She tried to inject a bit of drama into that Paso but her arms were awful and it was the music which stole the show. Besides which, Brendan is (still) arrogant and irritating.

Abbey however oozes joy, drama and passion when she dances. She's a nervous flippertygibbet off the dancefloor but captivating on it. To win you need tonnes of chemistry with your partner too and she and Aljaz have it in spades!

JaneEyreTheRedNosedReindeer · 14/12/2013 21:06

Darcey's marking is a bit off NewGirl
She gave Patrick a ten despite wardrobe gate the other week.
Not his fault, I know, but surely you shouldn't give a 'perfect' score when that happens - it can't help but detract from the routine.

Wessex · 14/12/2013 21:06

I love Brendan but this commentary on his Lisa Snowden Showdance is very funny.

JaneEyreTheRedNosedReindeer · 14/12/2013 21:13

That's priceless, Wessex!

NewGirlInTown · 14/12/2013 21:19

Totally agree Jane. The male and female celebs were very unbalanced so some targeted marking to keep Patrick and Ashley in.
Ramps has been the best overall champ for me.

Wessex · 14/12/2013 21:36

I think there have been some great winners and some more talented than Ramps but what was great was the partnership with Karen and how he blossomed from a shy.

Many other winners have had some dance/stage experience but Ramps came from a completely different world and took everyone completely by surprise.

Abbey is good but to me she is not a surprise. She is a model, she is glamourous. I can imagine her nightclubbing and being a disco queen. I really love it when someone blossoms on the show under some excellent tutelage.

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them"

SwirlingStorm · 14/12/2013 21:39

Agreed Wessex. Ramps' victory was the pinnacle of Strictly - fantastic yr never matched before or since.

Wessex · 14/12/2013 21:44

Sorry just realised half my post was missing etc.

I meant to say it was wonderful how he blossomed from this shy, reserved, non tactile man into a wonderful, tender, sexy dancer.

It's a year etched in my memory!

RedPencils · 14/12/2013 22:46

Wessex - thats one of my favourite Strictly videos of all time, for all thd wring reasons. It never gets old, the commentary is hysterical.

I'll bet my house and two children that Brendan won't be making Sophie do that next week.

NewGirlInTown · 14/12/2013 23:18

If anyone wants the result, PM me

MickeyBaubles · 15/12/2013 01:46

waves to wessex

The thing about Bacofoilgate is not that it did not do Lisa any favours in the grace dept. It's not even that she was a bit too leggy for Brendan to do gymnastics with. Or the fact that he obv thought it had gone really really well.

It's the fact that he genuinely thought he was doing what the judges had told them all to do only a week before.

the judges specifically said aim for this

I feel a bit sorry for him for walking into it.
He saw amazing gymnastics and ACDC and converted it into bacofoil and Meatloaf.

But knowing he has form for plagiarising reimagining same as nicking dirty dancing choreo for kerplunksky in series one although who hasn't and that he didn't say in week 2 this series when complimented on the charleston choreo 'actually it wasn't me that choreoed but thanks on his behalf' means I can point and laugh instead.

The dancers btw who are incredibly successful and athletic are Victor Da Silva and Hanna Karttunen and they have been used again as executing the perfect showdance in strictly here:

her swimsuit here is not that different from Lisa's get-up.

Athletics worked for Denise and Louis, not so much Kara and Matt

But I am pretty sure Sophie won't be talked into just wearing a swimsuit or catsuit Xmas Wink

A reason imho Tom Chambers took the trophy was when Camilla did a choreo incorporating lots of different dance learnt. Same for Lilia and Darren.

If Sophie has any sense she'll do the charleston that deserved 10s first and a classy glamour showdance with all the best ballroom bits.

MickeyBaubles · 15/12/2013 01:52

If a slow best of ballroom is too pedestrian then Brendan needs to do something quicksteppy like Jack Osborne's recent freestyle in DWTS
Sophie could do that type of routine better than latin...

CeliaFate · 15/12/2013 07:39

I hate the showdance professional couple. All lifts and throws and twists. Boring.
I like a showdance that is choreographed to the celeb's strengths and showcases the dancing they've learned during the series - Alesha Dixon's was good and Tom Chambers' was fab.
A case in point was when Vincent got to the final with Rachel - she'd excelled in the ballroom all through the series, but he'd choreographed a disco dolly number which didn't suit her at all.

LucyLasticKnickers · 15/12/2013 08:14

who is ramps? or was ?

aalijah,and Abbey, their first dance, i couldnt take my eyes off him! to see Abbey, he was so good.
i like patrick but his second dance wasnt so good, but neither was suzanna's.

i am sure natalie is a runaway winner but i dont know how the judges chose and they want us to keep watching and wondering.

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