November 16, 20195 yr spoiler result below Michelle is OUT. Saffron was in the dance off. Gutted but I expected that, both the elimination and Saffron being in the bottom as well. It's just such a shame to lose who I think at her peak is capable of as much as Kelvin. It sucks that Karim or Emma can have multiple off weeks and sail through anyway but Michelle has one and that's it, that's her done.
November 17, 20195 yr I was 50/50 on Michelle tbh. Twitter seemed to stan her / the performance from tweets I’d seen and she was even trending as was Vogue and Team Visagio so I sort of felt she could’ve escaped the dance off but I knew If she did land in it that I could only have seen Chris leaving over her based off this weeks dance. It’s kind of hard to judge a dance to vogue where they were voguing though. My mam and dad both said “she’s not even dancing” and I could sort of see what they meant. I guess older viewers were probably of that opinion too. But for what the dance was she did sell it. I just wish she did it sooner when we had more couples left and not at Blackpool as tonight was a night some couples really peaked. Some definite over marking this week though! I’m feeling it’s a Kelvin or Alex win now. I know Karim got through after a dodgy dance last week but I can’t see him overall winning. Chris still being there is a shock although my area is a bit mad for him. I live in South Shields and the promo is huge for him over here! He has a loyal fanbase.
November 17, 20195 yr I agree with the result tbh! Michelle is overall one of the best there - certainly stronger than Chris, Alex and Emma. However this dance just didn't showcase what she can do. Maybe it's my ignorance to vogue but I felt like she could've given a lot more in her performance of it as well as the technical side to it. Compared to the other dances of the night it did feel lacklustre and I wasn't surprised she went. Just a shame as she is a great personality and a great dancer! Her foxtrot and quickstep weeks were incredible :heart:
November 17, 20195 yr I wish Michelle done this dance earlier in the competition. The Blackpool stage showed how limited it was to show your abilities even more. I think If she’d done it earlier though she’d have gotten through as I doubt she’d have been bottom when some of who’s eliminated were still there. It was always going to be a risky dance though. I think for what it was she did it well but I can totally see how people were like “but she didn’t dance”. Blackpool usually attracts some better scores too than studio weeks though so had she done that in the studio she may have got something like 6-7-7-7 rather than 8x4. Meh. I like Michelle much more than Saffron but I can’t argue with that result. It was only really Chris who I think the judges could’ve justified getting rid of over Michelle this week but even then his routine had a lot of content. Edited November 17, 20195 yr by Jordan Lee
November 18, 20195 yr Yeah it was definitely really bad timing for her to do it, in a way it was perfect for Blackpool and I know that she wouldn't have changed a thing as it meant so much to her and the community she loves so much, but of course Blackpool week is where everyone steps it up and the judges are being so much more generous, so it's really not the week to take a risk with something that just won't be understood or stand out as much. It's just a shame it had to happen this way, because at her best she is so so capable and this is definitely too early to lose her.
November 18, 20195 yr Yeah it was definitely really bad timing for her to do it, in a way it was perfect for Blackpool and I know that she wouldn't have changed a thing as it meant so much to her and the community she loves so much, but of course Blackpool week is where everyone steps it up and the judges are being so much more generous, so it's really not the week to take a risk with something that just won't be understood or stand out as much. It's just a shame it had to happen this way, because at her best she is so so capable and this is definitely too early to lose her. I agree. It’s always a shame when we lose a genuinely good contestant on a low score by their standards dance too as well. Like Michelle’s topped the leaderboard, consistently scored well she drops to bottom once (whilst she’s still scoring 32! And she’s out unanimously. It really was just a bad week to do it though. Even if she’d saved it for two weeks time is it when they each do two routines it could’ve been better as her other dance could’ve pushed her back up the leaderboard. Meh I guess we will never know. But it was just too marmite a routine for the shows biggest week (aside from the final). Having said that though I always sensed she’d have been a bit of a dance off queen had she got to the final and I never had her down as winning the whole thing.
November 18, 20195 yr And we have our first "who is your fave" Tellymix poll! ...the results :lol: 7 of the top 8 on the poll actually being the top 7 though :lol: This was off before they’d danced in week one but it’s quite telling. Edited November 18, 20195 yr by Jordan Lee
November 18, 20195 yr This is such a slap in the face to the entire voguing/LGBTQ+ community. Fuck that backwards heteronormative show.
November 20, 20195 yr This is such a slap in the face to the entire voguing/LGBTQ+ community. Fuck that backwards heteronormative show. It’s not really though. She was bottom of the leaderboard. If she’d been like second or third like she was the week before when she fell in the dance off I’d get that point but she was bottom. She needed a big public push to get through it and maybe it was never there for her tbh. We will never know but she was second the week before wasn’t she yet still ended up in the dance off?.. being bottom she likely didn’t stand a chance in retrospect.
November 20, 20195 yr the public isn't much better to be honest. most still believe that voguing is not dancing so i'm just like ughhh
November 20, 20195 yr I can just imagine what Len and Arlene would’ve been like if they’d still judges. I think they’d have been lucky to have gotten 6s if they were still on the panel.
November 20, 20195 yr The fact it wasn't appreciated is a slap in the face to the community. I get why it wasn't understood and I get that it's totally different from what's usually on the show, but like I said I think that's what Couples' Choice should be! It's not a problem when say Chris does something outside of the usual, because he's "fun" and it's hetero-normative enough to fly, but it's ignorant and a slap in the face to the culture to say she didn't dance or it "wasn't even dancing she just flapped her arms about".
November 20, 20195 yr The fact it wasn't appreciated is a slap in the face to the community. I get why it wasn't understood and I get that it's totally different from what's usually on the show, but like I said I think that's what Couples' Choice should be! It's not a problem when say Chris does something outside of the usual, because he's "fun" and it's hetero-normative enough to fly, but it's ignorant and a slap in the face to the culture to say she didn't dance or it "wasn't even dancing she just flapped her arms about". Agreed, I kept thinking back to Chris' Couples' Choice and I'm sure he received a couple of 9s, when I didn't think it was any good at all. Not because it was out of the usual but because he didn't do it as well as he could. With Michelle, it was full of drama and sharpness, plus you could see how much it meant to her and how she wanted to do the dance justice. It's a bit of slap in the face, but what I'll take from it is that at least Michelle had the platform to do the dance and give insight, both factual and personal, about it too.
November 21, 20195 yr I think it was appreciated tbh. Like she did get 8s across the board which is by no means bad. It wasn’t her best dance by any means though and other dances on the night were better. I think because we didn’t see her for all the routine as some of it was just her dancing and some just Giovanni dancing and then when she was sitting down doing armograohy that probably confused people. What would others on here have scored her out of curiosity? The public vote is another matter. She could’ve got more public support this week to last week tbh I wonder she placed in terms of the public what’s the highest she could’ve been public wise to still be in the dance off? Saffron must’ve lost to her in the public vote I’m guessing. With Chris though I’m thinking he’s less experienced and probably gets over marked when he does basic things well or doesn’t make mistakes. With Michelle they might have been harsher on her because of how good shes been throughout. But I can just picture Len tearing that to shreds! He often disliked some of Giovannis routines when he was on the show.
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