EPISODE TWO:The second episode of
Strictly Come Dancing II happened this past Saturday night amidst the chaos of
exploding kneecaps, rumba's, quickstep's and Grethe Fox doing the splits.
All the judges spent the episode getting way too yawnily anti-discriminatory as they awarded the majority of the couples 27 points after they ridiculously gave Tamara Dey and her partner Brandon Eilers 27 for doing nothing except bum out.
By the time it got to the end of the episode I didn't have a smidgen of a feeling as to who would get the whack and was only certain that Freedom and snappy Mary defs wouldn't.
At the start of the episode I thought that Feeesh was in the most vulnerable position considering how rubbish he was last week but then he proved that he's getting over his jock issues and did well, so people must have voted wildly during the show or something.
I wish there was some kind of indication as to when the most voting happens and what kind of impact the evenings dance has on the end result - we never know this. I must say, I've never felt that I know exactly how the voting works and the way the judges and public votes are put into points confuses me.
I don't get why the public's vote isn't simply a seperate, tangible thing - like 30 000 people voted for Freedom and Mary - nor why they only announce who gets the lowest vote and don't do a rundown of where each of the couples is placed by the public. This would give an idea of what your fave's popularity is and how much more voting you have to do surely?
Anyway, everyone danced their rambas and quicksteps with zest and passion I thought, they all lined up for the verdict and schmodel Babs and her partner Thabo were announced Outdanced.
During their goodbye chat with Ian and Sandy Babs said she was honoured to have had the experience, was heading back to her cheerleading and ended by saying: "This must teach black people a lesson that we need to vote for one another,"
Personally I reckon the reason she got outvoted so quickly is because she's nuts and no-one wanted to spend an SMS to keep Kooky Girl in - she genuinely seems to believe her hair's really blonde.
That said, when you consider the leaderboard from last week her and Thabo were right up in their second position and even though their dance this week wasn't quite up to last week's, it wasn't bad.
When you look at them versus others there isn't any one thing in particular they've done that would make them the first to leave - so is Babs right that this the way things happen? Do people actually choose a favourite according to black and white? Are black people not voting?
Why was Babs the first to go?