SCD '20 #9: GOAT (Greatest Of All Threads, or GO Away Tens)

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

You decide.

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@Samcro

strange question here. I want to join in with the chat, but have a feeling my posts are a bit yawn. can anyone give me tips on how to make them better?

Just post away Samcro - all are welcome and I'm sure your posts aren't yawn at all.

We have serious posts and we have silly posts; some people know loads about dance, others, like myself, don't; all comments are welcome and all are equally valid.

Sometimes we go way off track into other topics and then come back in a big circle to something vaguely resembling what we were originally talking about; there are a couple of "in" jokes (like the Predicting Octopus which have been running for several series, but you will pick them up and can join in at any time with your own contributions- just get 'em in there and we'll run with it!

We often have differences of opinion, but we try to keep it civil.

There is One Rule and One Rule only - NO SPOILERS!

(Which is why I got one of my own posts removed because I had unthinkingly posted something ambiguous.(

Otherwise - Welcome to the House of Fun!

I don’t think they ever actually say ‘hey it’s Sunday and this is a live show’. In normal times, the music act and the pro dance are filmed before the Saturday show even starts, but Tess and Claudia introduce them like they are just about to happen. Do people really think it’s live?
It would be about 5 hours long in the first couple of weeks if it was all on one night. I love Strictly, but that would be too much a test of endurance for me.

How can anyone make Aljaz look bad? But they did.

What can I say Frequent? They have a gift.

I don't know why they pretend it's a different night. It is a bit odd

Especially when everyone - even Trappist Monks living in the Alps without any media access at all - knows exactly when it is recorded. The looks on their faces when someone accidentally lets slip that all happened on Saturday is cracking!

It would be about 5 hours long in the first couple of weeks if it was all on one night. I love Strictly, but that would be too much a test of endurance for me.

Pffft!

Lightweight!

samcro , yours is a name I remember which suggest your posts interest me!

@Piggywaspushed

samcro , yours is a name I remember which suggest your posts interest me!

@Piggywaspushed

samcro , yours is a name I remember which suggest your posts interest me!

Ahh but maybe your just a sons of anarchy fan lol. Thanks for the kind words folks. Just in a bit of a mood today.

I have no idea who or what Sons of Anarchy is

I think a cbbc show was involved
It was Blue Peter and they held a vote for the name of the new animal but then used a name that didn't come top - no idea why as it was a preselected list so the kids hadn't decided to call the new pooch DoggyMcDogface or anything.

I've got a question! Why is the bbc allowed to carry on pretending that there's two separate shows, Saturday and Sunday? I remember some years ago (maybe 15 or so?) there was a big hoo-hah about falsifying stuff on bbc shows...can't quite remember the details now, I think a cbbc show was involved.

Anyway, it was all frowned upon and they were told to pack it in. So why is SCD exempt?

They don’t pretend there are two separate days of filming, or that the Sunday show is happening live on Sunday. Obviously on the Sunday show they have to say things like ‘on Saturday/last night, we saw x, y & z’ happen because that’s when x, y, & z was broadcast and when the majority of the audience watched it happen. It would make no sense if they said ‘earlier tonight we saw x, y & z happen’ because the main show wasn’t broadcast earlier on Sunday. Ditto the Christmas specials: they don’t pretend they’re happening live on Christmas Day, but they make reference to it being Christmas because that’s when the audience will be watching it.

Lots of shows do the same: Jools Holland's NYE show isn’t going out live on NYE, and they don’t actually say ‘we are here, right now, live on NYE’.

It’s a bit of a stretch to claim that using footage other than on the exact day it was filmed without spelling out that it was filmed at an earlier date is ‘falsification’. The only falsification would be if they stated it was live when it’s not actually live.

Personally, I just talk shite in a rather repetitive manner. JJ is grinding my gears and I think 75% of my posts have been rather passive aggressive about that. I worry sometimes someone is gonna go Oh Just Shut Up About it! (which would be fair, lol)

So yeah samcro, we're not that interesting if you actually analysed each of us!

Ps: you all know that sometimes the Sunday show musical guests were filmed weeks in advance and might not even be in the country when their Sunday show performance is broadcast, don’t you?

My theory is that BBc Breakfast Dan Walker will escape doing Strictly until they stop pretending that they film on Sunday. He is quite religious and does not work on Sunday. I do think that some of the bbc stars get press ganged in to it a bit.

@Redcrayons

I don’t think they ever actually say ‘hey it’s Sunday and this is a live show’. In normal times, the music act and the pro dance are filmed before the Saturday show even starts, but Tess and Claudia introduce them like they are just about to happen. Do people really think it’s live? It would be about 5 hours long in the first couple of weeks if it was all on one night. I love Strictly, but that would be too much a test of endurance for me.

They don't have to have the whole show on one night though, they can split it over 2 days but just stop the faking, what's the point anyway?

I'm sure a lot of people do think it's live and on two different nights - my Mum used to talk about someone she worked with who refused to believe that a certain soap wasn't 'real' because she could see washing on the line out of their windows.

I didn't know it was 2 diff nights til I read it online and the show had been going several years.

I noticed yesterday that Tess said 'on Saturday night' at least twice in referring to the dances and of course they all go through the charade of changing costumes.

Fiddling the results of a viewer vote is very different to filming something on a Saturday and broadcasting it the following day, though.

On the Saturday show they start off with the pre-recorded Pro dance and then the announcer says “AND NOW! LIVE!!!! HERE ARE OUR HOSTS TD AND CW!!!” as they cut to the live studio. On Sunday they don’t do the “AND NOW! LIVE!” intro.

Yes fiddling votes is worse, but filming something on a Saturday and pretending it's being filmed on the Sunday is still dishonest.

It also allows for 'spoilers' to get out.

Oh , that I did not know zebra!

I think Dan Walker is lovely and always seems very principled.

He is also very very tall.

They were originally going to do it on two nights, but Bruce didn't want to do both, so it was filmed in one go.

Filming on one night means they don't have to redo hair/makeup hidious costumes and allows the Pros/celebs to have a day off. There was a suggestion of the results going out the same night but it would behave to be late and so beyond the bedtime of many kids.

I always used to think it was amazing that they did all the hair and makeup again for the Sunday show. It seemed like such a waste when only 2 couples would actually be dancing... 😂😂

Can I join the "had a bad day club"?
My back went at half five this morning and I've been on the sofa all day... No work... 😔 😔 😔

@Frequentflier

Does anyone read Marianka Swain's blog? I really like the way she explains dance to non-dancers.

I must have a look at that.

@Maireas

They were originally going to do it on two nights, but Bruce didn't want to do both, so it was filmed in one go.

Ah, that's interesting!

Sorry but it definitely is falsification. They are pretending that the events have happened on a different night and I find that deceitful. Then again it was years before I knew that Jools NYE show wasn't live so I must be too gullible for this world

I’ve had a relatively good day.

So shall be on hand to cosset those that haven’t.

Don’t worry. I will cover my feet.