Strictly 2018 - thread number seven **title edited on OP's request**

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New thread. Panicked with the title !

Is the sort of thing Alma? It's a lot more aggressive exciting than the usual stuff, and they have women too.

Having sat through far too many children’s dance recitals, the thing about tap is that there’s absolutely nowhere to hide - you just can’t disguise it when someone’s crap, and even a talented beginner won’t look good. Even more so than ballet.

Alma, BlackAmerican

Thank you - this is Morris Dancing with Attitude, indeed.

I'd been thinking of this, though.

wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Dark_Morris

This comment was on the Terry Pratchett books forum
"Somewhere on video, I have the Lancre Morris Men performing our own choreography of the Dark Morris. Black outfits, black bells with the little tinkly bits removed for "silent running" and black handkerchiefs. If I can find someone who still has a video grabber card in their PC I will convert it to Mpeg and post it on my site. It's quite an eerie sight as it is performed, as Terry describes it, in complete silence and very late at night."

I'd love to see that, too.

BlackAmerican I don't agree about the young and charming thing; Danny and isn't young neither was Debbie Macgee, both good dancers,

Of course ALL the variables couldn't and needn't be controlled, it would be fairer though.

Debbie didn't win (although she deservedly got to the final), Danny won't win either. Joe will win, and he is young and charming. Although this year isn't a typical year IMO as Joe's myriad followers would vote for him if he just came out and did a dump on the floor.

Joe's legions of followers will keep him out of the dance off and he will eventually win on votes alone.

In case they haven't been posted, this week's songs and dances:

Danny John-Jules and Amy Dowden Jive Flip, Flop and Fly by Ellis Hall
Seann Walsh and Katya Jones - Quickstep Lightning Bolt Jake Bugg
Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton - Samba Tequila by David Hirschfelder The Bogo Pogo Orchestra
Kate Silverton and Aljaz Skorjanec V.Waltz Finally Mine by Juliet Roberts
Dr Ranj Singh and Janette Manrara American Smooth Wouldn't it Be Nice Beach Boys
Vick Hope and Graziano Di Prima Cha Cha More Than Friends by James Hype featuring Kelli-Leigh
Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell Waltz The Rainbow Connection by Sleeping At Last
Graeme Swann and Oti Mubuse Tango Roxanne The Police
Lauren Steadman and AJ Pritchard Contemporary (Couples Choice) Runnin' by Naughty Boy featuring Beyonce and Arrow Benjamin
Charles Venn and Karen Clifton Street and Commercial (Couples Choice) Get Up Off That Thing by James Brown
Faye Tozer and Giovanni Pernice Foxtrot Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars
Ashley Roberts and Pasha Kovalev rumba Something About The Way You Look Tonight by Elton John

Lots to look forward to there! Charles won't want to be in the DO again this week so they need to be going all out for their choice dance and it'll need to be a crowd pleaser. Is there no Halloween special this year?

Halloween weekend would be the week after surely?

Thanks Gareth

I'm not sure that Roxanne is suitable for a tango.

I wonder which week they'll do Halloween, the 31st is a Wednesday this year so bang between the weekends. Or is it always Week 6?

I'm interested to see how Joe does with the waltz. Either it will be Not His Dance, in which case we'll find out if his legions can save him from the bottom of the leader board, or it'll be surprisingly good and confirm his status as a Dark Horse Novice.

I will actually be at home tomorrow night to watch live for the first time all series - I'm quite pathetically excited!

Alma, yes, that looks like them. Thanks!

ppeat, I seem to remember someone doing a tango to Roxanne in a previous series. Can't think who it was.

Re: Joe, do his followers even watch Strictly?

It was Simon Webbe who did the Roxanne tango.

I got the impression on ITT that this Graeme and Oti's tango will be to the Police version of Roxanne rather than the Moulin Rouge version. I think the version that Simon Webbe used works better for a tango, but we'll see.

Re: Joe followers, I have a DS and DD. To start with they both came in to watch Joe and then left again. DS has been less interested in watching Joe, although he will if he happens to be nearby, DD is getting more interested in watching the whole thing, but she often gets bored in the VTs and wanders off.

I've noticed on the Strictly YouTube that Joe hasn't gone over a million views yet for last weekend's dance, so perhaps his fans are getting bored and drifting off a bit.

Blackamericano, Joe’s dances has by far the highest number of views, outnumbering the next dance by at least a factor of 10. If the vieqa amd cotes correlate, then in theory he will always have the highest number of votes.

With my cynical hat -permanently on - even if Joe ended up in the bottom 2, the judges might save him regardless of who he's up against just because they think he's good for the ratings?

the judges might save him regardless of who he's up against just because they think he's good for the ratings?

I'm cynical too, but even I can't go for that. I think they're generally fair when it comes to the dance-off, even though they're not always with the original scoring. Plus, the viewing audience are not idiots and would see through it, and the producers would have their guts for garters.

Yes, he's still by far the most popular view, but just not as viewed as his dances were in the first couple of weeks. I'm pretty sure he'll win without ever being in a dance off, even if half of his followers get bored he'll still be the highest public vote by a very large margin (I'm guessing, since that is secret). I don't even mind all that much, he's trying very hard and embracing the whole Strictly thing, and he's very watchable. Plus, I enjoy watching with my DC, up until now they have been quite scathing about my enjoyment of it, so I'm grateful to him for that.

DarlingNikita I would offer up Peter Andre as a dancer who was saved at least twice by the judges because he was a 'name' that they didn't want to leave too early.

iklboo I really liked Simon Webbe (thanks for the link but my laptop is not good with them ). At least this year's Joe is better than last year's

Actually, I went back to check that, and he was only saved once, against Jamellia. But it's stuck in my memory because he clearly wasn't the better dancer, I think they were just fed up of Jamellia always being in the dance off.

Black, I don't remember those dance-offs but I'd personally be reluctant, as a non-expert, to say that they save people for that reason rather than on ability.

Well, nobody can ever say that I let a lack of knowledge hold me back from expressing an opinion.