Originally Posted by ianswaiting:
“What the hell is Laura doing in the bottom 3. Has the public taken leave of their senses?”
Its not only that it exposes some of the best skaters to the possibility of going with no protection from the randomness of the public vote and two going. There seems to be a constant war in some reality shows between the people who cast interesting people with potentially good stories and some producer further up the chain who comes up with wizard ideas that destroy any brilliance seen in the casting. Add on a random early public vote and you end up with a mess.
Its there in BB where they cast a wide range of people and then producers, housemates and voters conspire to remove anyone at all different or unsual. Its there in SCD when the journey stories now always fail - because they go before reaching their potential as some hopeless case stays. The waste is also there in SCD when they get a major star like Martina Hingis and lose her in week one. DOI now has already lost two of its more interesting stories and characters to an uneccessary week one gimick when theycould just as easily have had a normal proceedure and possibly lost one of the people with no ability or potential or story or charisma.
There's also two mysteries. Why does Nadia get to do DOI when she can't skate - surely there's someone else out there who can or she should do it after a few more weeks training next year when she can? Secondly, do agents get their acts onto the wrong show? Matt's athletic/lifting SCD routines were made for DOI, Zoe was too tall for DOI and possibly just right in ability and build for SCD, Nadia would seem ideal for SCD as her personality would carry her a long way, and she might have done well on acting and dancing skill without the need to skate too. There's probably no reason why Angela wouldn't match Felicity's success on SCD either. There just seems to be enormous potential wasted all around - both in whose DOI story we don't see because some producer decided to waste people in an elimination stage and because someone picked the wrong people for the wrong show anyway.