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Aug. 18th, 2012 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyMy parents are home. My mum said they'd probably be back by about 3pm, but just I was getting ready to come downstairs at about quarter to 2 I saw them pulling into the driveway. Almost the first thing my mum said to me as she came in was how horrible it had been - while laughing - and showing me her bitten-off fake nails. I get the feeling I made a wise decision not to go with them.
At first the kids stayed for a bit, while mum and dad unpacked and sorted out which things were theirs and which weren't. While mum and dad were sorting things out the kids were basically demanding to go home, and when everything was unpacked and my parents were ready to take them, they were demanding to stay. I beat a hasty retreat to my bedroom. Where I have been pretty much ever since, apart from going down for dinner. I think everything's basically back to normal now though.
What I do want to say is that this week I was largely entertained by Got To Dance semi-finals, which they repeated on Sky 1 every day this week. I LOVE GOT TO DANCE SO MUCH. I love all the judges. And we have some amazing amateur dancers in the UK. The only real low point was that each of the judges performed a dance themselves on each show, and Kimberley went first, and she is basically my favourite judge and was going to be doing some contemporary dancing, which she originally trained in, and I was really excited...and then her dance turned out to be slightly racist. The staging at least. It wasn't like the worst thing I'd ever seen, but it leaned pretty heavily on the 'problematic and kind of appropriative' line. Which was a shame. Apart from anything else, I couldn't concentrate on her dancing, like I wanted to, because I kept getting distracted by how awful it was. Oh well. Later on in the week she did another dance with Adam Garcia, although it was more along the lines of her commercial dancing. But it was also less racist. Which was nice.
Anyway. The show itself made me grit my teeth repeatedly, because of their habit of making all the contestants read and look at a few of the Twitter/Facebook/livechat comments about them online after they get their judges' comments. Which Davina McCall makes them read, and reads out LOUDLY AND MEANINGFULLY. Every time it happened I basically wanted to smash up my TV. Also I really hate the way they 'excitingly edit' dance routines on shows like that. Maybe it's just my OCD talking, wanting everything to be the same, and I've probably complained about it before on other dance shows. But I just think that performances like that are meant to be watched on a stage, where they are performed. By members of the audience who have one vantage point, and only one, all the way through. Not constantly cutting to an overhead shot, and then swirling round them. JUST LET ME WATCH THE DANCING. FROM THE FRONT. So yeah. That was annoying.
But mostly it was lovely, and showed me some amazing dancing. Like, some beautiful poledancing:
And Hoofing, which is a style of dance I didn't even know about:
All of which was lovely. And Adam Garcia did a performance that kind of blew me away. Which was odd, because of the three judges, he's probably my 3rd favourite. I still love him, but you know, Kim and Ashley. But still. And then he and Kim danced together. And Ashley was obviously so sad not to be dancing with them. THEY EACH PROMISED HIM ONE DAY THEY WOULD DANCE WITH HIM. I love them. Apparently they are adding a fourth judge in the next series. I am mostly excited by this, for some reason, but also slightly worried it will ruin the current brilliance of them. DON'T RUIN THE CURRENT BRILLIANCE OF THEM. That is all.
ETA: I am wrong - the new judge is replacing Adam, who has left for...reasons. See, this is why he is my 3rd favourite. Maybe. The new judge is a guy from JLS. I am slightly more apprehensive about what the new series and judge-dynamic could be like now. But. It could still be GREAT.
At first the kids stayed for a bit, while mum and dad unpacked and sorted out which things were theirs and which weren't. While mum and dad were sorting things out the kids were basically demanding to go home, and when everything was unpacked and my parents were ready to take them, they were demanding to stay. I beat a hasty retreat to my bedroom. Where I have been pretty much ever since, apart from going down for dinner. I think everything's basically back to normal now though.
What I do want to say is that this week I was largely entertained by Got To Dance semi-finals, which they repeated on Sky 1 every day this week. I LOVE GOT TO DANCE SO MUCH. I love all the judges. And we have some amazing amateur dancers in the UK. The only real low point was that each of the judges performed a dance themselves on each show, and Kimberley went first, and she is basically my favourite judge and was going to be doing some contemporary dancing, which she originally trained in, and I was really excited...and then her dance turned out to be slightly racist. The staging at least. It wasn't like the worst thing I'd ever seen, but it leaned pretty heavily on the 'problematic and kind of appropriative' line. Which was a shame. Apart from anything else, I couldn't concentrate on her dancing, like I wanted to, because I kept getting distracted by how awful it was. Oh well. Later on in the week she did another dance with Adam Garcia, although it was more along the lines of her commercial dancing. But it was also less racist. Which was nice.
Anyway. The show itself made me grit my teeth repeatedly, because of their habit of making all the contestants read and look at a few of the Twitter/Facebook/livechat comments about them online after they get their judges' comments. Which Davina McCall makes them read, and reads out LOUDLY AND MEANINGFULLY. Every time it happened I basically wanted to smash up my TV. Also I really hate the way they 'excitingly edit' dance routines on shows like that. Maybe it's just my OCD talking, wanting everything to be the same, and I've probably complained about it before on other dance shows. But I just think that performances like that are meant to be watched on a stage, where they are performed. By members of the audience who have one vantage point, and only one, all the way through. Not constantly cutting to an overhead shot, and then swirling round them. JUST LET ME WATCH THE DANCING. FROM THE FRONT. So yeah. That was annoying.
But mostly it was lovely, and showed me some amazing dancing. Like, some beautiful poledancing:
And Hoofing, which is a style of dance I didn't even know about:
All of which was lovely. And Adam Garcia did a performance that kind of blew me away. Which was odd, because of the three judges, he's probably my 3rd favourite. I still love him, but you know, Kim and Ashley. But still. And then he and Kim danced together. And Ashley was obviously so sad not to be dancing with them. THEY EACH PROMISED HIM ONE DAY THEY WOULD DANCE WITH HIM. I love them. Apparently they are adding a fourth judge in the next series. I am mostly excited by this, for some reason, but also slightly worried it will ruin the current brilliance of them. DON'T RUIN THE CURRENT BRILLIANCE OF THEM. That is all.
ETA: I am wrong - the new judge is replacing Adam, who has left for...reasons. See, this is why he is my 3rd favourite. Maybe. The new judge is a guy from JLS. I am slightly more apprehensive about what the new series and judge-dynamic could be like now. But. It could still be GREAT.
