Originally Posted by afterthoughts:
“Once again the point of the show is totally lost on some.
My favorite was Phil, but I'm not deluded enough to even think that he should have made the quarter final.
Ali & Ricky are the two best dancers. Chris should have gone before Natalie. I just hope that he is in the bottom two with Ali, doing Samba. He will sure to be gone, and not win the event because he works on the BBC.”
So what is the point of the show?
It can't be a straightforward dance competition because if it was, why would there be a public vote?
If we were just looking for the best dancers to progress, we could just have the judges marks each week and forget anything else. Or simpler still, have a straight face-off between Ricky and Ali and stuff the rest of them.
It goes without saying that the show is better for having a couple of celebs who start with no pedigree and improve significantly to the point where they can challenge at the end of the series but, in the absence of that this year (still miss Jade), I find it slightly insulting that people are still pontificating about the show being all about
dancing and that it goes without saying that those who are better at
dancing somehow have a divine right to win the show.
When I examine my own feelings, I probably come down to the face that, for me, a celeb has to have a certain fundamental ability to dance to ever get my vote.
However, that's only my view and while there's a public vote, nobody should presume to tell others what the show is about. That is tantamount to telling them how to vote and, as such, making the public vote irrelevant.