The highly inaccurate guide to Strictly 2021, Week 10: Results!

Group dance
Strictly reveals that they'll be responsible for the robot uprising, by generating an endless series of dancebots...

Okay, the BBC's vfx team is just showing off now by adding yet more robot dancers into the AR video. The AR this year has been stunning - last year it was something of a gimmick, but this time they've graduated to three-dimensional figures that remain anchored in space as the camera pans around and views them from different angles. They've even managed it with the projection on the dance floor - the towering castle from Rose and Giovanni's dance to Frozen was particularly impressive as it merged into the floor projection even as the camera moved. AR's come on a long way since the early days of the virtual swingometer!

Sweet Talker by Years & Years
It took me a few moments to realise those were tassels on the dancers' leggings and not eighties wibbly wobbly video effects!

Dance-off
Well, going into this I would have expected Tilly and Nakita's samba to be easily defeated by Rhys and Nancy waltz - but after that dance-off I'm less sure. The waltz was just as elegant as yesterday, but no-one can say Tilly and Nakita didn't give their all into that samba...

Bonus quotes
Anton: "Desperado~~"
Claudia: "Can we have your Craig please?"
Giovanni: "Three." (Craig: laughs)

Skyward Sword HD: Absurdly Strong Shield!

Look - an arrow! Clearly much more important than the raging tentacle monster 😅

Anyway, I've just reached Lanayru in Skyword Sword (one day I'll complete the blog series, promise!) and took on the dragon's Lightning Round challenge because why not. It went surprisingly well:



I think that's the first time I've actually obtained that in Skyward Sword, and I reckon I've earned that after that boss rush. One boss in Skyward Sword is physically hard work, let along eight of the blighters in a row!

To be fair some of them are complete pushovers by the time my sword's been upgraded to the Master Sword, and with the reflexes and skill that comes from being 30-odd hours into the game. Others... aren't. The biggest difference is between Imprisoned take 1 and Imprisoned take 2 - the second incarnation is tougher, faster, and cheats by climbing up the side of the pit. So of course Lanayru left that one to the end, and of course that battle went right down to the wire. On reflection that was the only truly difficult battle out of the lot, as the Imprisoned battles were the only ones with a hard time limit and the first incarnation I swatted in a minute or so (the powered up Master Sword makes a lot of difference!).

And as proof that Zelda games continue to surprise me no matter how many hours I put into them, Koloktos (the giant corrupted six-armed chakram-throwing Buddha-like statue at the top of the Ancient Cistern) apparently can summon cursed bokoblins. I've never seen it do that before!

The amount of physical effort needed (motion controls are hard work!) reminds me of fighting those three Darknuts at the bottom of Twilight Princess' Cave of Ordeals. Actually, no, that's harder - Lanayru gives you a moment to collect yourself between each boss, and even within the battles it's sometimes possible to slow down the tempo for a moment, but those Darknuts don't let up for one moment.