Couples choice is rubbish
Veleta
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Couples choice is just a load of jogging about & posturing. It has no place in a dancing competition. How can Rhys get a 10 for that?
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The same way Joe and Dianne did for bouncing basketballs and calling it a dance 😂😂
Karen and Chucky; Bill and Oti ❤️❤️
2018 is when Couple’s Choice peaked (ironic as it’s the year it started 🤣). They had the brilliant theatre/jazz from Faye and Gio as you said, the fantastic street/commercial from Charles and Karen and a breathtaking contemporary from Ashley and Pasha
Firstly, it always gets high scores relative to other non-CC dances. That's because it's pretty much freestyle so there aren't any technical components that can cause marks to be deducted (e.g. the absence of heel leads in foxtrot, waltz etc)
Secondly, it makes the showdances in the final somewhat redundant. In earlier series when lifts were illegal apart from 2 in the American Smooth, the showdance was where couples got to do as many lifts as possible as well as any style of dance that they saw fit.
Finally, the addition of couple's choice means all couples perform one less dance from the recognised ballroom and latin list. AT, charleston and salsa (and even AS) were an acceptable departure from the initial ten dances, but CC is a departure too far for me.
Rhys was doing that stuff on the series launch show before his partnership was even announced!
Street dance is not about having a drunken party in the street. There is real skill involved in street dance and to hit those beats with synchronicity and technical choreography is actually incredibly difficult.
It’s unfair that the show should boxed in to only ballroom and Latin. Yes I appreciate that’s the way it started but they are moving with the times and showing the audience that there is so much more the dancing world that a CCC and Waltz.
Whilst I say that the CC can wear thin as it does give people a free pass - I don’t say get rid of but keep it much much later in the competition or showcase it as a final number as showdance in whatever theme you choose. That way it keeps fair for everyone in the contest and your not giving out the free pass at the sacrifice of someone with real potential going home incredibly early.
Isn't that what 'So You Think You Can Dance' did? It obviously wasn't that popular in the UK as it was canned very quickly.
They are trying to cater to a younger audience by bringing it in as most people do street.
This season particularly there doesn't seem to be any set styles for ot wither, it's just a "do what you want" thing.
Faye Tozers Jazz is really the only one that sticks out in my mind tbh.
Faye and Giovanni and Bill and Oti. In fact those two dances are probably amongst my favourite ever dances, and I’ve watched from series 2.
That said, I can’t blooming stand Couples Choice and would love for it to be consigned to room 101.
Edited to say that actually I hate CC if it’s street or contemptowaft, and that probably says more about me than CC 😂
Because Movie Week and Musical Week can be much of a muchness perhaps they could replace the latter with Couple's Choice week instead? Though I'm not sure if that would suit the semi final stage - they could pull it forward to week nine whilst they're not going to Blackpool. But Couple's Choice would need to be hooked back to Contemporary, Street or Theatre Jazz again, instead of being a glorified showdance.
But they do deliver the occasional flash of brilliance - Fay Tozer's 'Fever' is still on my list of favourite routines. That and their totally absurd and absolutely wonderful Lonely Goatherd routine. I don't think I've ever laughed (in a good way) more on SCD. And Bill and Oti's CC was excellent too.
I agree I think a bit more structure - as it was originally - would help.