On Strictly 2018 Week Two

[danieldwilliam]

Week two of Strictly has passed.

As predicted by just about everyone Susanah Constantine (and Anton) are first out. Their Week Two score of 12 giving them an overall score of 24 and bottom place on the leaderboard. They were joined in the dance off by  Lee and Nadiya whose combined score of 48 put them in the dangerous middle ground of 7th place. I think I'd be a little bit worried if I were Lee and Nadiya but it's early days, the field is broad and there are worse dancers still in the competition.

Quite challenging dances for early on in the competition. On reflection I think this is unwise. It makes the early rounds a bit of a dice roll. Get a difficult dance and a bit of bad luck and you run the risk of being out much earler than you ought. I favour the more structured learning route but I guess Moffat needs a job now that he's no longer ruining Doctor Who or Sherlock.

I think I'm managing to get behind Katya and Seann and DJJ and Amy. I'm pretty much convinced that Katya is the cleverest choreographer in the competition.

Joe Suggs has moved in to favourite with the bookies at 4/1. He's moved a lot from the 10/1 you could get before the pairings were announced.

Kate Silverton has moved out quite a bit, which is sad but probably fair. Seann Walsh and Katie Piper are favourites for Next Elimination.

Worth noting that the following EU dancers would not be allowed in the UK after the 29th March without a visa.

Giovanni, Gorka, Alijaz and Graziano. Who knows how much a professional dancer is paid in Brexit Britain?

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Not quite everyone. JW was convinced that the Anton vote would keep them in and was completely amazed when it didn't.

I have wondered whether this pairing was a test of Anton's popularity with the viewing population.

[danieldwilliam]

A test of his popularity in that, if they give him a bad dancer who has little charisma then it's all down to him.

Perhaps, but if I were Anton my response would be "but when you give me someone I can work with I get the backing, look at Widdecome, look at Katie Derham"

JW had clearly not read my searing analysis of why Susanah would be first out and how it's all Boris Johnson's fault.