Well, Christmas is indeed drawing closer… I went to a Christmas Charity ball this weekend just gone by, my online ordered Christmas shopping has been arriving, cards are up and the air is cold…

So whilst nursing my delicate condition on Sunday evening, we watched the dance-off of Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1…I am not the number one fan in my house, but heck, Katie watched Star Wars with me earlier the day, it was the least I could do…

Now the show itself, as with many reality shows, does have a hypnotic effect caused by us wanting to see how everyone progresses through the show, who is going to score highly with the judges — not to mention the simple aesthetic allure of those costumes and the fabulous dance movements… It is a highly entertaining and hypnotic show indeed.

Now the last paragraph of this TV Review about last weeks show points out that:

Apparently Matt’s been having hypnotherapy for his nerves … and if he cracks them then we’ll be in for a good show.

Matt and his nerves are what tends to make this all good TV, isn’t it? I mean, the tears and the trauma of watching others go through this journey…

I read that last week, the hotly tipped Rhydian, star of the X-Factor has been complaining that the TV company not being interested in the contestants well-being and are simply interested in making good TV footage… I must say that the early shows being so heavily punctuated with people crying because ‘this is all I have ever wanted’ or bucking under the intense pressure because they ‘really, really, really want this…’ Or because 5 years ago their great uncle, twice removed died — ‘And I want to do it for them…‘ is the type of indulgent stuff that has deterred me from being interested this year…

Hmmm… I guess that Strictly Come Dancing may simply be more hypnotic because the person I love the most in the entire world loves it so much… So the hypnotic effect seems to have been cleverly passed on by her… Is this phenomena some kind of hypnotic trasnmitted version of Chinese Whispers? Or just a law of persuasion and influence proving itself in my life again?