Highs & lows 2013

I see somebody has mentioned this on the Honesty thread so I'll start us off for last night's show:-

Highs
Sophie & Brendan's charleston
Ashley & O.la's AS
Claudia in Tess's area

Lows
Tony& Aliona's dance choice, oh dear
Abby's pouty face and crossed arms
Somebody has to leave tonight

Well done 50!

Highs-
Sophie's Charleston
Jeanette's dress
Claudie !!

Lows-
Poor Tony trying to Charleston
Too many dances too early -although it paid off for Sophie
Vanessa's crocodile tears 

Highs:

- Goes without saying, Sophie & Brendan's Charleston. It was stupendous!
- Team Tess & Claudia.


Lows:

- Overmarking, especially Abbey and Susanna
- Wondering if K.ristina is too short for Ben like she was for Colin last year.

Ooh great to see this thread!

Highs

C.laudia back
Sophie's dance

Lows
Choice of dances grrr
Why? Why? Choose the Charleston for Tony!? poor guy
The seemingly anti Aliona by SCD
Vanessa being all mushy


ps ssshhhh but I missed B.rucie! don't shoot me

Sax

Omg Low Low Low Matt Goss' Remake of When Will I Be Famous!" Cringeworthy! I wondered if they had the wrong mic on then nope recalled nope he sounds the same!

Sax

Highs:
Seeing Brendan trying something completely new and Sophie's execution of it
The Pro number on 'result' night
The props not being overly intrusive yet

Lows:
over and under marking
Judges favouritism
Matt Goss looking like Justin Timberlake but not sounding like him

Highs
Sophie and Brendan's dance - one of those real 'Strictly moments'
A nton and Fiona - loving the partnership
a 2 hour show - bliss!
The unpredictability of the first elimination - didn't have a clue who would be opposite Tony

Lows
Erratic marking - some couples not penalised for obvious errors - whilst others were
Too much gushing over Abbey by the judges
Choice of dances - I've said enough on this one
Vanessa's antics
Humiliation of Tony - too over the top for me.

Highs

- Ben's mini breakthrough
- Sophie's non-traditional but still very enjoyable Samba
- Deborah's joy

Lows

- Felt sorry for Julien.
- I sat watching the pro Viennse Waltz and realised how much I miss Natalie, E.rin and F.lavia
- Patrick, Rachel and Abbey's dances.

High's
Cr aig getting custard pie d by O la & James
Deborah & Robin
Seeing Brendan smiling

Low's
Vanessa's hair
Stripes down the sides of the men's trousers
James being out early

Highs

Ben's Improvement
Deborah's dress lovely
Less fake tan on the celebs
Dave's enthusiasim

Lows
James agreed out to early
Julian surviving
Ruining the song Love is in the air
C.laudia's outfit on Saturday part 2 its Sunday really!

Highs

Sophie and Brendan
Julien is out - I just hope that doesn't mean he will now be on ITT
Deborah is still there - not the best dancer but she is so enthusiastic
Natalie's dress/trousers
Robin and ???'s performance to Keane



Lows

Deborah's shoes and skirt
Abby's hair (and eyes!)
Andrea Begley - I know her voice is good and that she is blind/partially sighted, but she only ever stands still and never moves! And what on earth did she do to Dancing in the Dark ??!!??!!

Highs

Ben improving
Asley's dance
O.la's dress
Patrick's dance

lows

Deborah's shoes
Tin foil pencil skirt
C.laudia wearing a bin bag?
Julien in D/O he didn't deserve third week
Danielle's singing too quiet & same tone all the way through
Did Janette stumble in their dance to the song? & the lifts didn't seem smooth as usual

highs
Mark's cha cha cha
Ben's salsa
Sophie's frock and Hepburnesque styling

lows
Poor old Julien
Dave's ineffectual effort (an insult to Julien)
Abbey's over marking (yet again)

Highs
Sophie and Brendan's dance
Natalie's dance and outfit
Fiona's dress
Karen's dress

Lows
Dave's dance - thought it was a very poor waltz
Deborah's shoes  
Abbey's dress
Bizarre scoring from judges

Highs[b]
Sophie and B rendan
Ben's improvement
Pro-Dance opener on the Sunday show

[b]Lows
Bizarre marking
Dave not being in the dance-off (love him as a chef but novelty is wearing off on SCD)
Deborah's shoes!

Highs
Mark's cha cha
Natalie's quickstep
Fiona's Dress

Lows
Seeing Julien in the dance-off
the fabu-u-lus darling one's 3 paddle
The safe. And the beret. And let's have the yellow trousers, too.

Highs
- No Julien!
- Friends theme
- Abbey's Foxtrot
- Susanna and Mr. Fromgrimsby
- Deborah's Viennese Waltz - so undermarked!

Lows
- The judges bullying Rachel
- The banana  
- The idea of Bruc(e) twerking  
- Sophie's Cha Chaa Chaaa

Highs
Artem wearing a sombrero in the VT - even though it's been done so many times, I always laugh at Artems expressions

You can call me Sir from now on telling a joke to Abbeys daughter, thought that was a nice touch (rubbish joke though)

Those anti-gravity yoga sheets that Dave and Karen were in

Lows

Tables on wheels props belong on Dancing on Ice

A.nton, CRH and B.runo look like they've shared the same cheap bottle of hair dye

Pasha - gets the prize for most unsuitable choreography for your partner

Highs

Abby's Dress & dance
Fiona looking more confident
Seeing C.raig looking well

Lows
Weird marking by Darcey
Props,props & PROPs faffing about with
Rachel's make up
Awful theme friends music
Suzanna's dress
Hearing the tune If they could see me now & NOT seeing Tom Chambers

highs
A.nton dancing a quickstep, beautifully
Abbey's frock
Mark's work, liking it

lows
Props, tsk!
Dave, meh!

saxonsiren wrote:
Seeing C.raig looking well

Ah Sax - you always say nice, kind, thoughtful things. I bet your mates think they are very lucky :-)

highs
Mark's dance
Deborah's dress

lows
Dave and Carmen Miranda
Props- pah!
Wrong people in DO
Deborah gone and Robins tears  

Littlebear wrote:Ah Sax - you always say nice, kind, thoughtful things. I bet your mates think they are very lucky :-)

Thank you Littlebear

Highs

- Mark & Iveta's partnership continuing to blossom.
- Earth, Wind & Fire. I was shimmying away!

Lows

- The show felt flat this week.
- Sophie not being able to find her Latin groove. Will be quite upset if she can't master it.
- Deborah's exit. She captured the spirit of Strictly for me.

HIGHS
Tess's dress during the main show
Time Warp (made me laugh)
Patrick - I haven't liked him up until now but then IMO he did the dance of the night - just shows that SCD is never predictable!!!!

LOWS
B ruce's mistake when he called Darcy 'Dave' - but he did cover it up well by pretending to call L en 'George' shortly afterwards.
Bad music choices which in turn led to:
Forgettable performances for the most part.
Weird DO again but obviously Rachel had a 'bounce' last week and was not polling the volume of votes.