A couple of SCD related 'Make it stop' s

[shadypines]

Tess, if she says ONCE MORE that Shirley or Motsi are on their feet whilst applauding....Shirley and/or Motsi stand up to applaud almost every dance, it's nothing new but Tess has to tell us, the poor viewer EVERY.BLOODY.TIME. She's drivin' me feckin' crazy.

Maise, you're good at robotic dancing , we get it, enough now.

I think they just run out of things to say tbh. But yes, it is annoying.

I used to hate it when Bruce would say "It's all for you!" when the audience did standing ovations. It got stupid in the end because the knobhead audience would stand for everything.

Doing then "phone" sign. Or walking fingers along the top of the phone number

Guaranteed to lose votes in this house

thenightsky , hi mmmm you'[re too kind sort of get your point but then I thought, hang on, Tess is paid top whack for this presenting job. If I were a presenter of one of the most watched TV shows then I'd make it my business to find other things to say rather than sounding like a chuffin' echo. Fgs I've just put 'standing ovation' into the thesaurus and come up with 13 other possibilites!

ooh PoloNeckknickers and I thought I was riled!

Bloodypunkrockers I like your style, am imagining you watching what you think is the best dance ever ever ever and then they do the phone sign/finger walk and you slam the phone down ha ha ha

Claudia manages to come up with different things to say. Tess is all ‘Aw look at your little face’.

Circusoflove and therein lies another of Tess's habits that makes my foot itch, the fact she talks to the contestants as if they are toddlers! I wonder if she talks to Vernon like this? She even sticks her bottom lip out when she does this!

Like the title says..Make it stop!!

Make the intrusive CGI stop. I want to see the dance not a lot of technical bollocks. And this year it’s all In such ugly colours.

Judge how good/entertaining this person is at dancing and to help you we will totally obscure them with a CGI T-rex. So bloody annoying!

Oh the CGI is awful! Just bring back classic, simple, clean dancing.

The clever use of dry ice to cover the dance floor so we can’t see when they mistakes on their footwork.

Spinning the camera the opposite way round the couple and they twirl very fast - I came for dancing not this blurry weirdness!

The 'comedy' bits they often have in the pre-dance training VTs. Well, I suppose they have to include things to entertain children stuck watching it with their families.

Giovanni bellowing "THANGEW! THANGEW! THANGEW!" when he's called safe during the results show. It took me about four years to warm to him and he's rapidly losing my goodwill again with that shit.

I have a feeling Gio has begun to wish he'd never started that . It's "his thing" now and if he stopped people would spend column inches speculating why... but it's getting less enthusiastic by the week.

Instead of berating Tess for going on about Shirley and Motsi standing up, I'd like to think we could berate Shirley and Motsi for standing up. Maybe if Tess mentions it every time it might change things.

(Totally agree about her infantilisation of the contestants, though)

And yes, Shirley, it is invariably too early...

I don't know, the other week he didn't get to do his thangews because he and Ranvir were the last to be called, and he just did it up in the Clauditorium instead 😡

I also wish they'd stop with the soldier fetishising thing, particularly JJ doing a dance in his uniform. Blatant heartstring-tugging to get us to vote for somebody who seems perfectly nice but is dull as fuck to watch.

someone cut Claudes Fringe or tie her hair back , just for once !

Oh this thread is so cathartic!

I absolutely hate the CGI crap and the spinning camera person. It makes me dizzy and renders large sections of the dance unwatchable as I have my hand in front of my eyes to stop the dizziness.

I wonder if the producers took advice on these effects in respect of diversity/inclusivity. They could be really triggering for migraine/vertigo sufferers.

We just want to watch the dance clearly, with no bullshit special effects. It’s only 90 seconds, could we just have the whole purpose of the show presented to us properly?

Tess should never have got this gig. She’s a walking clothes horse who reads off an autocue and if she ever adlibs she is patronising and condescending to the contestants.

I am only thankful that this year covid has put paid to her endless grabbing of the dancers hands with her claw!

If anyone else is watching the end of the hit list before strictly starts, Alan and Sean are hot.

@shadypines

thenightsky , hi mmmm you'[re too kind sort of get your point but then I thought, hang on, Tess is paid top whack for this presenting job. If I were a presenter of one of the most watched TV shows then I'd make it my business to find other things to say rather than sounding like a chuffin' echo. Fgs I've just put 'standing ovation' into the thesaurus and come up with 13 other possibilites!

ooh PoloNeckknickers and I thought I was riled!

Bloodypunkrockers I like your style, am imagining you watching what you think is the best dance ever ever ever and then they do the phone sign/finger walk and you slam the phone down ha ha ha

That's Gorka bombed out for me for doing phone AND walking fingers

@SimonJT

If anyone else is watching the end of the hit list before strictly starts, Alan and Sean are hot.

They were cute. I'm very pleased for them that they will be able to get their new toilet.

Just record it ( sky + it!) and fast forward all the rubbish except the dance and the scores.
Can do whole show in 30 minutes and it's much better.
Can't stand Tess or Claudia
Terrible presenting skills
Hate the little how the week went vids with the rehearsals etc.

Tessbot.

That is all.

The wailing, warbling singing.

That Phantom of the Opera number last night was just appalling shrieking.

And wheeling out people's grannies to try to secure more votes.

I don't mind Tess that much. I find her a little annoying but Motsi, on the other hand, is one of the most annoying people ever.

Keeps standing up. Keeps standing up and jiggling about (surprised her boobs have never come out of her awful dresses). Shouts, shrieks, screeches all the time. Hardly ever says anything sensible or constructive.

I have taken to actually listening to her comments and they are almost all inane rubbish. She is on a par with Alisha Dixon.

Alisha had the excuse that she was not a trained dancer. Motsi bloody well is although you would never know it from her pathetic comments,.

Get rid of Motsi next year

@JimmyJabs

Giovanni bellowing "THANGEW! THANGEW! THANGEW!" when he's called safe during the results show. It took me about four years to warm to him and he's rapidly losing my goodwill again with that shit.

I hate this, I cringe.

I’ve been awaiting Motsi’s mahoosive breasts to appear on the dance floor for their own routine for ages.