Never mind - as Ola will be getting the whip out today, I am sure there will be many more Team Cola moments for him to catch up with later in the week!
"No-one ever notices it until it goes wrong" - so said the lovely sound engineer, and this is so true of so many of the backstage elements that we have seen showcased on ITT this year - from runners, to lighting, to sound, to cameras - they are all spot on every single week. I am so glad that ITT has chosen to shine the spotlight on the backstage teams this year, and to show us exactly how much skill and hard work goes into making a seamless show.
To summarise, there are 140 sources of sound on the show and 7 sound desks. The breakdown is 32 mikes on the dancers, 60 radio mikes, 60 talk back radios to keep everyone on time and in the right place, and 48 on the band, with 10 mikes for just the drum.
Interesting that after Mark and Karen's salsa incident in Series 4 the mikes are now sewn into the seams of the costumes, to make sure that nothing can ever happen like that again. (It was bad enough for it to happen with the salsa, but can you imagine what would have happened if the mikes had got tangled up during an AS or a showdance - real potential for danger, so I am hugely relieved that that has been rethought!).
Love the fact that the sound guys get to know all the secrets happening backstage, because they can hear everything on the mikes.....funny if one of these days, a disgruntled sound engineer decides to "accidentally" switch a mike to live so that we get to hear things we really shouldn't!
I felt very, very sorry for Zoe and James and even shed a tear for them (must be going soft!). I think the worst moment was when Zoe said "Great, so I can't dance and I'm unpopular". The sad fact is that some couples are just seen as expendable in the production team's eyes, and will be given bad/boring edits to engineer the shock exit mid-series ratings boost. The thing is that the cannon fodder couples are real people with self-esteem issues/confidence problems, and that toying with them in such a way is a pretty cruel thing to do.
James has gone up in my estimation somewhat with his grace in defeat - although part of me is wondering whether he has really learnt from last year, or whether he knows not to bite the hand that feeds as his wife shows a real shot at going quite far in the competition with a partner, at the expense of other more talented dancers.
Looking back at their best bits though, they looked amazing in week 1, but really never quite surpassed their early potential. (Bit like Team Cola it that respect).
And so with tears and the shattering of James' bad boy image, it was bye bye Zoe and the reformed Mr Jordan.
The judges as ever were annoying - do they really not get the fact that criticising the public just increases the likelihood of the anti-judge vote? The show needs its shock exits (however horrible that can be for the couple involved), and the viewers want the increased drama. Pretending that they are unaware of this just makes them look idiotic. And as for Alesha "The top couples are scored higher for a reason" - 9 for Zoe's samba, Alesha - really!? What was the reasoning behind that exactly? And a few of your other dodgy scores? Because the reason that Zoe and James were in the dance off was because of the over marking on the American Smooth, when all 4 judges conveniently ignored the fact that the last lift happened a good 4 seconds after the music had finished (something I have never seen happen before on SCD), and the overmarking on the rather naff disco samba.....
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