Just caught up while my Christmas cake is in the oven.
Odd evening.
Thought both Tess, Claude and Motsi all looked like they'd been down the market for a work's Christmas do frock. Usually love Claudia's outfits but she was all kinds of wrong last night.
Will and Nancy- utterly shite music- very good dancing I thought. Though what marred it for me was him saying in the VT they were going to be mirror images of each other, then if you kind of took your gaze outwards and watched from a distance, Nancy was always a nano-second ahead of him. But the judges clearly don't have my keen eye lol.
Shirley saying "nobody knows what to expect after Blackpool" was weird. What? Like we know you're going to give everybody 9 and 10 at Blackpool and then come back to reality? Or you chuck your below 9 paddle in the North Sea? Or you've sobered up (because she literally sounded like she'd been on the bottle last week, or taking "how to shout loudly" lessons from Motsi.
I enjoyed Molly and Carlos (for once) She looked great and though he did go "look at MEEEEEEE!" as usual, she was nicely showcased I thought. @EsmaCannonball agree with your comment about Molly too- everyone acts like she's about 15 rather than 22 and been in the cut throat telly business for years.
Ellie and Johannes- I enjoyed this too. OK, she's never going to be at the same stage as the others, and yes, it's probably long past her time to go, but like Tony Adams, she's having a good time, she's learning to dance, she's enjoying every minute and has a great relationship with her partner. And there's none of that steely grit "I wanna get to the final so badly I'd make the rest of them lick the back of Kym's throat to get Covid" that some of them (Will and Helen) are definitely showing. Motsi's comments were good.
Fleur- loved the VT with Vito explaining the techy bits. Would like more of this and less rending of garments over dead rellies whose favourite show was SCD. Within 10 seconds I'd stopped watching Fleur and just watched Vito. Vito looked like he was dragging a sack of spuds round and the spuds didn't want to be there. If she'd done that dance a couple of weeks ago, she'd have been slated for it, but now she's had 40 there's no going back. (PS Had Vicky Giggles just sewn a bit of extra stuff into Kym's old frock for Fleur? Had an offcut left?)
Hamza- I enjoyed it, but as the rest of you say, what I enjoyed was Jowita. I'm not a dancer, so have no idea if all the stuff about him being a fabulous leader was right or not.
"Is the elephant in the room with the Argentine that if you don't look the part because of height, body shape etc, the whole thing just doesn't work" @MoirasSaggyBundles I think, rightly or wrongly, that could be true.
Helen- bit like Fleur for me last night. The comments in the VT and what she said afterwards "going out and enjoying ourselves" rinse and repeat, didn't translate to the dance. Agree with Craig really. She looked like she'd rather be anywhere else especially during that bit she did on her own with the big Samba moves- seemed really half-hearted. The wheeling her round in the trolley was ludicrous and took about 10 seconds. I actually thought she'd forgotten that it wasn't the end of the dance and the trolley was supposed to be the end bit.
I'd have given my votes to Molly and Ellie. Two to Molly probably because she has no fan base in the public. Hers for me was the best of the night.
I'd like to see Fleur and Helen in the dance off ("based on last night's performance alone" with either to go. It's obviously not going to be them though...can see it being Molly and Ellie, with Ellie to go.
@SeeSawSeen Danny and Oti's samba, Austin Healey's Paso and Tom and Camilla's showdance are the ones I rewatch most often. All 3 make me wish I had danced.