Here we go again with Alesha's judgements.... copying the others because she is not qualify enough to  judge the dancers!

 

Firstly Bridget- harsh...

 

But back to what counts; the show lagged a bit tonite. Part of the reason I didn't enjoy it so much is because I felt deflated that (my future wife) Jade Johnson had to withdraw. To me, she's what the show is all about, because although she didn't match Ali or Ricky W's top marks, like many of the past beautiful and talented celebrities she was overlooked and put unfairly in the dance off over the less talented others...

 

But she came back stronger and was a firm contender. It just wasn't the same excitement as really she and Zoe should have been among the final seven at least. It's  now a two horse race and so the future shows are going to feel like leading to an anti-climax (or if it mirrors last years result, a farce), you just know the logical outcome and so its not as interesting.

 

Anyways, we'll miss ya Jade! I thought the public got the dance-off half right, obviously Natalie C was spared again and I just wonder how long its going to go on for. Ali was undermarked, and with Ricky W, I kind of got what Len meant about the lift being random cos he's a traditionalist, but obviously thats just nit picking, thought they'd get more 10s. Chris is doing a lot better than I thought he would, deserves to be in the top four.

 

The reason its now a two horse race is because Laila sprained her ankle. I was scared she'd go, knew she'd end up in the bottom two. Why? Because of all the crappy comments on here and other places about the sympathy vote, which has been used throughout the ENTIRE series!! But she's pretty, talented and threat rite, so she deserves to be in the bottom after a decent mark and six hours of training not so? C'mon, she beat people like Natalie who had over 10 hours practice!!

 

But I just knew the public would turn on her for her looks and talent... so that left Ricky G. Right person went, he had a good innings and it was weird his final dance was better than the tango he'd rehearsed for the past week. But on personality he'll be missed, all the celebs seems to be good hearted people this year- at least away from the papers...

i wish all these idiots would get the hell off brucies back they cant do all the things that man can do even though he is twice their age when they can sing dance and present to even half the standard that he can then the can comment but as they cant do any they should shut up

And for me , the winner of Strictly 2009 is Ricky Groves for leading Erin around the floor in his last "Brokenhearted " dance ! You`ll be missed ,you are what Strictly is all about !!

I think it would help if the Competition Rules for Strictly Come Dancing were more universally known.   If  a doctor rules that a competitor should not dance then they are given a bye for one week only.  That is the rule that was applied in the case of Jade's injury.  If a doctor leaves the decision to dance up to the competitor, as in Laila's case,  and the competitor chooses not to dance then they forfeit their place, that is the rule.  By choosing to try to dance then Laila at least gave herself a chance, if she hadn't done so she would have been out.

 

For the record, Head Judge Len has the final say because of his knowledge, experience and qualification.  That also is in the rules.  There are few people in the Ballroom Dancing world better qualified than him, let alone in this forum, to judge the competition.  During the dance off, Ricky did dance better than Phil and it was that performance that was being judged - again, this is the rule.   It will be interesting to know what Karen (another world class judge) thinks, she is on It Takes Two's Choreography Corner on Tuesday evening, I hope Claudia asks the question.

 

At this stage there are no 'bad' dancers left but clearly neither Phil nor Ricky G were seriously expected to win although they have both made admirable progress and provided excellent entertainment.  There are still another couple of celebrities in a similar situation, they aren;t good enough to win but they have done and will continue to do well, providing great entertainment until it is their turn to leave.   That's what it's all about, isn't it?

2 million more viewers when Brucie isn't there !!  That says it all.  RETIRE BRUCE YOUR DOING US A FAVOR

Geoff, you are absolutely correct in what you say about the so-called music.  I have said it before to no effect, but the prog is called STRICTLY Come Dancing and for proper Ballroom, Latin, Old Time etc you must have the correct musical tempos.  Trying to perform proper dances to todays disco orientated crud makes a total mockery of the idea that you should dance to the music which is perhaps why there are so many poor performances.  Still the happy clappers, Z-list celebs and other hangers on in the audience must have something to do with their hands so as a result, we suffer banality. 

 well done phil to get this far considering your knee problems, remember me from the golf shop in Los Belones spain?  you er a much better cricketer than a dancer m8 if you ever read these comments be nice if you get in touch, mile high club? wonder where that comment came from hmmmmm hehe

Sorry one more thing lol I don't think Len is the fairest judge, in my opinion he scores too highly quite a lot. I think Bruno is the fairest.

I still hate the fact that Len gets the deciding vote like I said before because the fact of the matter is, we can at least have some faith in the judges votes being fair but to give one judge more power over the others because they've been in the business longer is not fair! So what if he's been in the business longer? Craig and Bruno are qualified in the knowledge of dancing so their vote should be just as equal and valid but it is belittled simply because they haven't been working in the business as long as Len! What's the point of them bothering to vote if whatever Len says goes?! It's like their votes don't count in the first place! I've hated this deciding vote nonsense from the beginning and I still hate it, it's plain and simply wrong. Like I said there should be 3 or 5 judges to make the dance-off votes fair and valid. Anyways I'm looking ahead to next week now.

It's driving me mad that people can't get their heads around the judges votes. It wasn't 2:1 to Phil and Katya it was 2:2 and then Len decides between the two couples. He's not going to change his mind after casting his original vote, so when it's 2 votes each the couple Len votes for is through. He is the most experienced and fair judge. He is the only judge who's background is vastly ballroom which is what the competition is about, Craig and Bruno have wider experience and I'm still not happy that Alesha is given any say at all in who leaves.

 

It was really hard to compare the American smooth and V Waltz, there are only 3 steps in the later and it's an incredibly technical dance. I thought Ricky did really well and was consistent in the dance off. Phil lost it when it came to the dance off, he looked a bit like he was messing around didn't really care.

 

When do they start to do 2 dances? That;s when we really start to see who the winners are.

Here we go again - another strictly fiddle.  Bet in track and field events that if you hurt yourself before the contest, you are out - why then has Jade been given a free ride into next weeks dances.  Probably the same reason why Ms Dixon was foisted on us by the pc/diversity brigade at the BBC.  Tufnell was not very good but had a go and is out, whereas Jade did nothing and is still in.  Stinks to me like last months leotard.

Great fun with Claudia - sorry but Brucie not missed at all.   Oh Dear Laila you fuss,faddle and tear-jerk about something every week.  Poor old Anton I say.

Laila, I admired your courage last night. Seeing you dance with that leg brought a tear to my eye and I was sad to see you break down. Anton, you are my hero. I cant wait to see you fight back next week and prove to everybody that they were right to keep you in.

Excuse me for being cynical, but before last night's show I had Laila down to be in the dance off - I felt the Rumba was not going to be her dance based on recent performances however, upon spraining her ankle she had a choice of whether to dance or not.  Given that she went ahead and gave it a go, she decided once out there that it wasn't working and broke down in tears - always good for the sympathy vote and of course we at home predicted that she would never be in the dance off because that would have caused far too many problems for the producers of the show.  Anyway, if the doctor said she would be ok to dance why couldn't she have had a painkilling injection prior to her performance?  I would have preferred she didn't dance at all.  Will she perform this dance next week? Although how fair that would be to the other couples I'm not sure, as those who didn't dance this week would in theory have had longer to perfect their dances for next week.  I full sympathise with Jade's position which was unavoidable but I felt the Laila episode was too much of a publicity stunt.  Sorry.

I don't watch the dancing because it's pathetic but I like to watch the scoring just to see what a shambles it all is.  Presumably if Jade is unfit every week between now and the final she'll be able to come back then.

 

@Katherine/Olivia etc

 

Yes, Alesha's use of grammar is very annoying. Or should that be, she were right annoying in her use of grammar?