SCD '21 #17: The week of the... interesting lifts

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

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I think it's a pretty good QF as QFs go.

Hope Dan doesn't go on too much

I'm glad that Dan is gone but fair play to him he did well to get as far as he has.

Shirley's hair is channelling Alexis Carrington Colby tonight.

Aww that's a lovely thing to say

@Aquarius1234

How pissed off is Dan .. lol

I think that's a mean thing to say.

Me neither.

He wasn’t my favourite but I love someone who tries and I love it when they fall in love with dancing.

The mean stuff wasn’t needed - he has been gentlemanly throughout.

Well done Dan but well deserved to AJ

@Cyrilgoggin

I can't understand the dislike for Dan. I think he's done a great job from going from someone who couldn't dance at all to someone who has tried hard and done really well.

He’s absolutely fine, but is a standard of someone who should have left about 3 weeks ago

Oh, that's very sweet.

If he doesn't stop talking. It will be a very short final dance!

I have wanted Dan to go for weeks but he wasn't pissed off just a bit sad that it's all coming to an end which is fair enough. I'd probably be crying.

Aww, Dan. I'm a but teary.

@IReallyLikeCrows

I'm glad they got the lift at the end and I'm sure she'll go through because that was better than Dan's dance but I think it was my least favourite of all the dances she's done throughout the series. It felt clunky throughout.

Spot on.

I think she is better than Dan but I'm still on the fence about her.

As that was lovely from both of them

He can talk for sure.

Well Dan doesn't need Tess to steer the chat. Aw - so lovely.

I don’t dislike Dan, but he’s the weaker dancer by a margin so I’m glad AJ went though.

He seems like a lovely man, I’m sure he’s a very gracious loser.

Aw, I think they are genuinely good friends

Aww I like this side of Dan.

I don't hate Dan but he should have gone out in week 5. Phew for AJ. Kai really needs to tone down his choreo and not cram 4 lifts into one dance.

Also, I don't think there's been Dan hate here. Yes, there's been some mentalists on social media who need to have a word with themselves but here it's just been that he's the least good of all the dancers for weeks now and frustration that he's still in. I don't think that anything here has been what I would call hateful at all.

I still like Dan less than I did when he was just a presenter to me. I find the bit of his personality I see on Strictly really annoying. Sorry if that’s 'hate'.

But their partnership has made me absolutely LOVE Nadiya, and I had totally written her off from previous series.

I thought Dan really upped his game on that last dance. I just wish he’d been a bit more forceful and well y’know….

AJ looked like she wasn’t having the ball she was having earlier. It could have been a tough call.

I bet they will watch that moment like Bridget Jones on the fireman’s pole

dan's time to go but i liked him

Having watched the dance off I think AJ has balance issues. She doesn’t look “grounded” in the faster dances and I notice she’s in the lower Latin heels (2 inch rather than 3) - I know she’s tall but that’s not what the heels are about, they’re about pitching the weight forward to allow the feet to move correctly to achieve the correct leg positions.

Not sure what she can do at this stage to rectify it but it could be her downfall.