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danieldwilliam) wrote2021-09-28 02:57 pm
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On Strictly 2021 - Week 1 Dances
I'm just getting up to date on Strictly 2021.
This is going to be a pretty bare bones review of the situation so far.
I'm not surprised that Adam Peaty & Katya Jones or Rhys Stephenson & Nancy Xu are doing well. Both the celebs seemed pretty good dancers from the pre-season pairing show. Katya is one of the strongest pro-dancers. Nice to see one of the newer pros doing well.
Little surprised to see AJ Odudu top of the leaderboard. Not surprised she's done well but I'd have picked one of Adam or Rhys ahead of her. Again, nice to see a new pro-dancer doing well early doors.
Not hugely surprised at the bottom place. I fear Sara Davies is probably my pick to go out first. Bit surprised at the second and third bottom. Robert Webb will need to up his game quite a lot. I thought he'd be a little better. Ugo Monye is paired with Oti. He's a rugby player and they tend not to do brilliantly - favouring power over agility professionally - but he's not a bad mover for a rugby player. And he's paired with Oti. Mitchel and Webb are one of my top ten comedy duos and I quite like Ugo and I think Oti is one of my top three all time pros. Hoping to see them do better.
Surprised and delighted by John Whaite and Johannes Rabede's dance. It worked really well and I thought leant in to the masculinity of two men dancing together rather wonderfully. I fear the public vote might be lumpy for them but fortunately they are a a good enough pair of dancers to weather any public discord.
I thought Tom Fletcher under performed my expectations and Dan Walker over performed.
Current predicted finalist comes from a pool of AJ, Adam, Rhys, Greg, Tom and I'm not sure - probably one of the other women will sort themselves out but none of them seemed to me to be under-marked. But one of them will get themselves in to the box seat.
This is going to be a pretty bare bones review of the situation so far.
I'm not surprised that Adam Peaty & Katya Jones or Rhys Stephenson & Nancy Xu are doing well. Both the celebs seemed pretty good dancers from the pre-season pairing show. Katya is one of the strongest pro-dancers. Nice to see one of the newer pros doing well.
Little surprised to see AJ Odudu top of the leaderboard. Not surprised she's done well but I'd have picked one of Adam or Rhys ahead of her. Again, nice to see a new pro-dancer doing well early doors.
Not hugely surprised at the bottom place. I fear Sara Davies is probably my pick to go out first. Bit surprised at the second and third bottom. Robert Webb will need to up his game quite a lot. I thought he'd be a little better. Ugo Monye is paired with Oti. He's a rugby player and they tend not to do brilliantly - favouring power over agility professionally - but he's not a bad mover for a rugby player. And he's paired with Oti. Mitchel and Webb are one of my top ten comedy duos and I quite like Ugo and I think Oti is one of my top three all time pros. Hoping to see them do better.
Surprised and delighted by John Whaite and Johannes Rabede's dance. It worked really well and I thought leant in to the masculinity of two men dancing together rather wonderfully. I fear the public vote might be lumpy for them but fortunately they are a a good enough pair of dancers to weather any public discord.
I thought Tom Fletcher under performed my expectations and Dan Walker over performed.
Current predicted finalist comes from a pool of AJ, Adam, Rhys, Greg, Tom and I'm not sure - probably one of the other women will sort themselves out but none of them seemed to me to be under-marked. But one of them will get themselves in to the box seat.