Your Strictly routine?
Juless
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Mine is:
Put Strictly on to record, and begin watching half an hour after start time
Fast forward through opening dance , clips of contestants rehearsing / dancing in inappropriate places and Clauditorium
Watch the dances and the judges comments and voting
Vote, vote, vote!
Check Spoiler thread … a lot!
Same process on Sunday night, just watching the dances and the judges vote.
Later in the series I do sometimes watch the rehearsal room footage, if I’ve got committed to a couple … like with Giovanni and Rose last year.
This works for me, so don’t shoot me!
Put Strictly on to record, and begin watching half an hour after start time
Fast forward through opening dance , clips of contestants rehearsing / dancing in inappropriate places and Clauditorium
Watch the dances and the judges comments and voting
Vote, vote, vote!
Check Spoiler thread … a lot!
Same process on Sunday night, just watching the dances and the judges vote.
Later in the series I do sometimes watch the rehearsal room footage, if I’ve got committed to a couple … like with Giovanni and Rose last year.
This works for me, so don’t shoot me!
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2) I watch it live from the start, pausing (and then fast forwarding as necessary) when a "comfort break" is needed. I use my 3 free votes and then take my dog out to pee. Check the spoiler thread in the morning in the early weeks, and last thing at night later on.
I have it on record in case I miss the beginning, however I'm usually ready, wine in hand, candle lit and ready for SCD action.
Hubby pops his head around the door when he hears me clap, shout or cry. He's usually cooking dinner. Sister texts me about her favourite dance etc, but I don't encourage her. I need to watch and enjoy.
I seldom fast forward, but occasionally when I need to. For all the moaning I often do about it I LOVE the show,
Never look at the spoilers.
Did I say I love SCD, Long may it reign.
I use both mine & Mr C’s free votes (usually Mr C watches with us and votes for who we tell him to
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of babysitting on weekends for a family member who is in a bit of a crappy situation, so in the coming weeks if I’m doing that, I’ll be recording the show and catching up on Sunday.
Use my 3 votes.
Read various bits of DS.
Wait for the spoiler to come in.
And my other routine would be an Aljaz waltz to Kissing You, loaded with arm-hankies and pivots.
Howwwww!?!?!? Your brain is, well, a nerve centre of activity 😜 but so many things going on at once!
Wow, 4 tabs open!!
On a typical week, if I'm not out:
Watch the show live, with no distractions.
Vote (free votes only early on, there might be a phone vote top-up later into the run).
Come onto DS to read what everyone else thought and to make some posts myself.
*which enables later FFing through VTs and Tess-talks...
I start watching when dinner is ready and whoever fancies watching it with me will join me. DH and DD14 largely not bothered but last week they sat through it with me and behaved themselves. It was nice to have company while hiding behind a blanket cringing at Matt’s dance and they did laugh along with me. Good to have others in the room when I’m shouting at the TV regarding the scores. They joined in too.
There will be a gin and tonic or two consumed while watching, especially while the show is so long and drawn out.
DD16 was my Strictly viewing pal for the last ten years or so but now more often than not she is out or working on Saturday nights and I’m usually too impatient to wait until Sunday to watch with her (plus wouldn’t be able to vote.) So I watch the dance videos on YouTube with her late Saturday night or Sunday morning and quite enjoy the speed of running through them like that, plus seeing if her opinions are different.
Didn’t vote last week as we were a bit too far behind and I’m not bothered yet but once I get a proper favourite or two, I’ll make sure dinner is ready in time for us to start the show with time to vote. We have three BBC accounts between us but DD14 lets me use her votes however I want to as she’s not bothered who we vote for.
Sometimes I’ll load up the show thread on here on my iPad while watching to see if others are feeling the same way but usually I wait until afterwards and read it in bed along with 5 thoughts. Avoided the spoiler thread on Saturday but that never lasts longer than three or four weeks once I’m properly invested. So there’s usually an hour or so’s DS reading before I go to bed.
I also thought the question was going to be which Strictly routine would you like to do and that’s easy for me: Apolo Ohno’s Dancing With The Stars samba (with him) or I’m fine with doing either of the sambas Gorka did with Alex or Maisie (with Gorka of course.)
Other type of Strictly routine? I think I’d love to dance a foxtrot. Maybe an AS version (but without lifts). In my fantasy world (the younger, fitter version of me) I’d probably choose a Quickstep
2. I’d love to do a Tango......would need tall male dancer as I’m a 5ft 10 lady 💃🏼💃🏼🕺🏿🕺🏿
I always used to lurk here so I’ve decided to join in this year!
Oh and an Argentine Tango for sure. With Kai or Johnannes because they’re adorable.
Pretty much what I do, although I do tend to fast forward through the contestants I am not keen on and some of the judges' comments (Motsi, I'm looking at you
We watch the full show, commenting & each giving our scores and comments, I watch Twitter and Digital spy Forums at the same time - sometimes we record and watch on delay just in case all the rehearsal vids are stupid comic sketches (we want to see the celebs learning the routine!)
I check for the spoiler first thing sunday morning and only tell my husband if he asks
Also my routine would be the Jive, just because it's my favourite dance and I'd love to give it a go