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Robert

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  1. I know it is the most minor of nit-picks but the one thing that bugged me was Lundvik saying that her Nan use to be on Tumblr. If the episode is only 35 years in the future and Lundvik is approximately Hermione Norris' age (47), shouldn't Lundvik be the Tumblr user? Tumblr is known as the younger persons social media site (unless dear old Nanna had a thing for gay porn and cat memes) and I see it far more likely Lundvik would have an account herself and not her 50+ grandmother. ;) Anyhoo, I am just not feeling either Doctor or Companion this season. I think we definitely need another Donna. I realize it is going to take quiet some getting use to Capaldi's darker take on the Doctor after two quirky, funny, wonky and slightly deranged (in a humorous way) Doctors in a row. I think this would work quiet well with another Companion (any companion at this point!) but Clara is more-and-more feeling like a square peg trying to fit itself into a round hole. It just isn't working. The Impossible Girl has just become impossible to like. I am often quiet willing to forgive and forget bad sci-fi if they at least try to give us a throwaway line somewhere (i.e; the change in mass/new moon egg being something with maybe the creature being somewhat out of whack with space and time or something technobabbly to that effect) but the fact they didn't even try that reeks of lazy writing.
  2. My first memories of B&B Brooke and Ridges wedding (well one of them anyway) where literally it was two weeks of episodes that took place/revolved around the wedding and reception and nothing else. (There was a CJ and Ric punch up (I think they had only been SORASed once at that point) and extremely fake looking waves on the beach set). I also remember Sally Spectre's over acting and scene chewing. Oh the delicious memories. But everything did appear to be bolder back then (pardon the pun) with the writers taking time to develop characters and story lines. I found many of the B&B DVD specials (Best of B&B Weddings et cetera) a great way to catch up on old episodes and a great way to be introduced to characters as their younger selves and some (like Caroline) that where before my time. I do remember the 'younger/teen appealing' characters in the mid-90s, the long forgotten Forrester Jessica, Dylan Shaw, the Lady Called Michael and not-Lisa Tuttle. I cannot remember the name of the beach cafe they hung at and it has been bugging me for a while. I think I have been watching too much 90210 lately as I have the Peach Pit stuck in my head (and it is clearly not that!). It is funny none of them lasted more then a couple of years though I did get caught up majorly in the Sly-raping-Jessica storyline, which for 15 year old me, was pretty intense. One thing I never noticed back in the day, though I do notice now, is Stephanie's constant attempts to slut-shame Brooke (I may of just been a little too young and naive). I don't think the show ever pulled it off well, trying to do the family values angle with a family that had very little to begin with. In retrospect it does feel forced and awkward, and while it did give us plenty of brilliant Susan Flannery scene chewing moments, it does feel a little out of place as well.
  3. I say Len Goodman has nothing on Todd McKenney. Len can be a cranky old man when he wants to be (especially when dancers break the basic rules of a particular dance (ie breaking hold in the Quickstep)), but Todd can be down right nasty and mean when he wants to be. He is more the Simon Cowell of the DWTS world.
  4. Watching those clips of Toby again where a great trip down memory lane. But it believes holds up my theory of Toby's dancing being superb, second to none and really on point, but them all just getting lost in whatever kooky theme Leeanne came up with that week. Voters just started to remember the themes' and not the dancing itself. Arianne Caoili was great! And IIRC she was another victim to one of Todd's 'righteous' attacks (about previous dancing experience). I understand why Kouta won that season in the end (his storyline/journey as well as dancing improvement hit the mark exactly when it needed too. Something Todd talked about a few times this week to a few contestants as well. If anything the controversy of Todd's attack on her I think helped propel her into the final over Tamsyn or Andrew. Lets face it, Arianne while a brilliant dancer, was one of the biggest unknowns of any of the contestants to every appear on the show. Regardless of her Chess prowess, she was only known for being the women two Chess Nerds got into a fistfight about. I think Nikki Webster, Jason Smith, Arianne Caoili and now Robbie need to form a Todd McKenney Righteous Attack Recovery Support Group. ;) I did love the joy on Lynne's face when she saw she got Carmello as a partner in the preview clips (who wouldn't?!). I would love to see Carmello to win a season (even though I don't think it will be with Lynne). I can see her getting to final three or four if she doesn't turn into a disaster based on her H&A strength alone.
  5. Mark was bad, but I will admit he was a gentleman throughout the show with very little ego and who could laugh at himself, which is something that would appeal to the voting public. Still none the less, I don't think he is long for the DWTS world. Dicko on the other hand was brilliant. And the most brilliant thing about him was that as good as he dished things out (constructive and otherwise) when he was a judge, he was able to take it on the chin and learn from anything given to him as well. Plus all indications I've heard and seen are that as much as Dicko was the 'mean judge' on Australian Idol, he is a gentleman in real life. Dicko's downfall in DWTS (other then Chris and Ada being better dancers) I believe was the 'themeing' all his dances to the point where the actual dance got lost in the colourful but somewhat meaninless narative that was constructed. Though I think any criticism there really belonged to his dance partner Leanne Brampton, who did the same thing the follwing season with Toby Allen. Toby was far far and away the best dancer of season four but every single frigging week his dances had to have some sort of theme to them. Leanne didn't seem to allow either partners strength as a dancer (and the dance itself) take the centre stage. At first the judges praised them (quiet rightly) for his dancing aspect, but they did start to waine in their lovin' towards the end (both funnily enough crashed and burned with their Quickstep - Dicko's Muppet themed and Toby's Duel Banjos - fun and energetic - but just very little Quickstep)
  6. To answer your question about the rules, the one thing I have noticed in the US version is that when dancers get called out on breaking the rules (especially in the Quickstep I've noticed), Carrie-Anne, Len and Bruno seem to still mark them relatively highly. Best example I can think of is when Nicole Scherzinger was raked over the coals by Len for breaking the rules in the Quickstep and still got a really high score of 8/6/9. The judges in the Australian version do mark down heavily for both vagrant rule breaking and dances that contain very little ballroom. Todd has always been the harshest in the judging but the other judges still mark pretty low as well. A few years back one of the contestants famously got 4/40 for his Paso Doble which really was nothing but him wiggling on the dance floor and his partner dancing around him. Kym is adorable and I am so glad she is judging now. She just is plane sweet!
  7. There are no real A-listers on the show. No Nicole Kidmans or Hugh Jackmans, heck no major Sporting Stars this season as well. B-Listers Lynne McGranger - I wouldn't quiet say she is the Deirde Hall of Aussie Soaps, more like Suzanne Rogers - a solid presences that has been on the tele for a couple of decades. Rikki-Lee Coulter - reasonably successful a few years ago post Idol, but she is now dangerously being known for just appearing on multiple reality televisions shows. Mark Holden - a 70s has been that found minor fame again being an Idol judge Torah Bright - everybody loves an Olympic Gold Medalists, though it was not really in one of the sports we care about either. Kyly Clarke - the friendly happy face with a great smile that is a regular on morning television. The alternative spelling of her name drives me crazy however. C-Listers Eamon Sullivan - only an Olympic Silver medalist, so nobody remembers him (tough but accurate). Most remembered for his more successful (and gobby-mouthed) ex-Girlfriend Tai Hara - a newbie to the soapie world, currently just another pretty face with buff body David Rodan & Matt Cooper - football codes are quiet insular and state based in Australia, and very very few footballers get known outside of their code/club really, and these two guys ain't cracking the big time either with television or commentary. Z-Listers (aka I don't know who the heck they) Ashley Hart April Rose Pengilly
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