2024 Strictly

[dewaltdisney]

This show is losing a lot of live show viewers according to viewing statistics which I think is down to many things. The BBC are trying to say that more people watch it on catch up but they are failing to recognise that a lot of these viewers are like us who speed through the crap and just watch the dances and the corrupt scoring. The BBC has already decided who is going to win and the pathway will be littered with those who threaten their decided outcome. The first elimination was a travesty as swimmer Tom Dean was bumped out in favour of useless Toyah Wilcox who should have gone being a donkey. His dance was far superior to hers.

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[etaf]

agreed
we watch so much more now on catchup - so easy with the PVR we have - going back 7 days on the guide

My other half watches this show, although in delay mode - so she skips through a lot of the rubbish , and the music v dance combination she has commented has been very mismatched this series

the only judge worth listening too and scores correctly is Craig - but then he voted for toyah

[dewaltdisney]

Spinning through last night's episode, it is fairly clear that the BBC has decided that the two to make it through are the blind bloke Chris (deserved) and Amy Dowden (cancer survivor)and her tick-box partner. Again, the scoring was absurdly biased, and there were some boring dances we skidded through, too. It is all wearing a bit thin with all the constant whooping by the audience at nothing, the lacklustre music, and parsimonious sets relying on computer graphic overlays that only the TV viewers see.

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[yartin]

I can't watch this thing for more than 2 mins.

[Neelix]

We stopped watching it a few years ago. Well past it’s sell by date

[dewaltdisney]

Yes, you are both right. I think we will reach the point where we eventually stop bothering to watch the clipped version. Last night we saw a preposterous dance-off diversion flare where potential winner Amy Dowden was in the dance-off against hopeless Paul Merson, with an obvious outcome. This is the BBC's way of making it look like she has had a difficult pathway but with no risk at all. We have seen this happen in the past with other winners where strong opposition to the chosen winners have deliberately been canned to get them out of the way. When you watch the scoring on a fast forward skip you can see how contrived it all is. I agree, it is on borrowed time.

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[dewaltdisney]

Spinning through last night's episode, it is fairly clear that the BBC has decided that the two to make it through are the blind bloke Chris (deserved) and Amy Dowden (cancer survivor)and her tick-box partner.

Well what a bleeding surprise, despite the Judges absurd scoring, a guide for sheep to follow on the phone vote, the blind guy Chris McCausland won. In fact he really deserved to win as the spirit of the show is taking a nondancer through a journey to dance well enough to win but he is blind and did really well despite being marked down by the Judges. The two who got the best scores were JB from JLS (me neither) and Tasha Ghoulie who both have previous dance training and it showed. The public upset the BBC plans for the JlS bloke to win with a mixture of sympathy votes and he bloody deserves it votes. This whole thing is so fixed we are done with it as even the dances are boring now. We skid through so much that it just is not worth bothering with anymore.


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[etaf]

my wife does that too skips through- moans about the lighting and camera work , and this year a lot of moans about the music choices - and she did say maybe wont bother to watch anymore , as most of the time you cant see the dancing with camera angles and ridiculous lighting.
The guy that went out the other day - he had improved so much, the essence of the show

The scores from judges - she skips most of that as apart from craig (in my opinion is the only guy marking correctly) , its all nonsense , Every one would have had 10's otherwise , so all sitting at 120 equal

When Chris had got so far maybe week 4 or 5 , unless if made a big mistake he was bound to win

[dewaltdisney]

Even Craig says he has relaxed his comments somewhat for fear of being cancelled. He need not worry, as with the other three goons judging to please the audience, his comments do not matter anyway. I used to like Anton, but he has turned into an applause chaser. I agree with the incongruous music and dance choices. I cannot stand Tess Daly's wooden presenting skills and The Winkleman has worn thin. By the time we speed through all that and the other filling dross showing training, there is not a lot left. Time to quit.

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[Grendel]

My wife’s friends had organised a strictly party for the final , probably an excuse for a girly booze up but unfortunately Mrs G has a cold so decided not to go and watched it at home. That meant I basically had to sit through it although I was reading stuff on the iPad . I don’t really “get” dancing so can’t really comment on the quality of the dancing itself .