Originally Posted by
arddunol:
“Thank you !
oops, typo though; Sorry ,. I was typing it too quickly before going to work .
should be:
Craig has always been right .... the public vote keeps them in and their embarrassment continues , it as if we enjoy seeing their embarrassment ... ..... we do ! car crash TV !! a sure fire vote winner and viewer magnet
FWIW I genuinely think the show needs a John Sergeant , someone who can't dance but goes far , in order to keep the interest of those who watch in order to be entertained and not for the dancing 
This is what keeps viewing figures up , until it does get a bit more exciting towards the end .
Very few actually capture the public imagination and those who have , have mostly been poor dancers 
Exceptions may be : Ramps and Matt Dawson, Alesha, Matt Di Angelo, Tom Chambers last year .
These are the ones who keep people watching
The general viewer doesn't give two hoots about insults , kangaroos , stick insects , rag dolls or whatever ; they just enjoy the entertainment .”
It may keep some people watching but ultimately when you get a JS figure doing practically nothing that could be called dancing or entertainment and in danger of winning without actually even trying , the anti-judge voting kills the show. Other viewers will note that its no use following the good dancers if they go while the dire ones stay and potentially good celeb dancers won't sign up for a show where someone hopeless gets 40% for not trying whilst you get 2% for doing well and trying very hard.
I don't think Dawson, Di Angelo and Chambers won for capturing the public imagination or having a story - they did so well because they were males and attracted more female votes than their often better female opposition. Ramps
had a story and Alesha was the best one there by miles after her opposition left early.
This year they have avoided what sells the show to lots of their markets.You suspect because they don't want another JS fiasco or something worse and do want a credible winner. The judges are being nicer so the anarchist anti-judge voters are tuning off and voting for J and E on X Factor. Ricky W may or may not be attractive enough to appeal to the female vote which votes on those terms and Chris or the other Ricky is hardly a runner in that race. They have avoided the bad and potentialy too popular dancers and managed to get rid of Joe when he turned out to be one, so there's no one building that vote. In terms of stories the stories are mostly ones we have read before - Eastender learns to be a lady and hunky cricketer changes into artistic dancer. The Eliza Doolittle and Billy Elliot stories look stale after so many retellings. In terms of quality, they have some good females who are stalled either with no votes , no Latin or the wrong choreography and a run away winner which doesn't look like a good race.
Its not actually that bad and if the better females can be kept in may turn out to be a good competition but you can see why its not going to excite some of its usual audience.
Meanwhile they been silly enough to challenge X Factor when X factor has the full list of males who are attractive to female teens, males who are attractive to older females, people with strong back stories and talented female singers - plus judges who are bigger stories than the finalists and really big guests.
