Laura ? Chloe ?

No I thought it was probably the right result based on tonight's performances.

The only people who get robbed in these sorts of shows are the voting public.

36p from a BT landline (with mobiles several times that) - what a rip off!

The 50s gangster Jason stole that hat from?

Nah. Over the whole series Sam and Laura were the best. I personally think Sam was better so he deserved to win. But he wasn't loads better than her, so if Laura had won I wouldn't have said Sam was robbed either.

No I don't think so - they gave great performances and can be proud of themselves. Well done to them.

This is how I feel too but I would have preferred Laura to win.

My honest answer: I don't think so. I didn't really have a favourite, but I probably would have preferred both girls to Sam before the finale tonight. However overall his performance was better, and his Bolero IMO opinion was much better than Laura's. Chloe was the weakest tonight and deserved third place (although I would have liked to see her and Michael's Bolero, because Michael seems more experienced than Colin).

I thought Laura was robbed of acceptable choreography.

No, it was correct 1st, 2nd and 3rd tonight IMO.

Agreed.

Vanilla Ice and Jennifer were robbed of further advancement into the competition.

Unless you mean tonight, in which case...no.

Actually they were both very good, I forgot how good Jennifer was

In my opinion, yes, both Laura & Chloe was robbed.

Sam was a massive letdown mid-series and the scores proved this.
He started great, and went down and down and down. Laura & Chloe didn't "step up" to his level - rather he didn't get any better from week one.

Sam's performances were all about HIM every week and it wasn't a partnership like Laura's & Chloe's were.

Laura performed every routine superbly and Chloe was very graceful.

However, Sam bounced back in the final five and started improving and getting back on par with Laura & Chloe... However, for me he was too inconsistent and Laura and Chloe deserved it more.

Gutted Chloe didn't get to skate bolero.
Gutted Laura didn't win.

Bad result for me tonight... After such a fantastic series

Yes Kerry Katona.

*Runs out of the thread as fast as she can*

Agree. Jennifer in particular should have went much further.

Actually you probably talk as much sense as some other people on her.

Yes Jen and Angela, they went too soon

Yes, us....have you seen the price of the voting

My thoughts exactly - from a mobile you could be paying well over £1 a vote!

The final format shapes the result even if you ignore any availability of time to vote questions that have always been there and the judges signposting.

T and D don't uprate anyone's past routine. Chloe is left with a routine thats for an earlier week and scored less than her best 2 and the other two's. The other two get their best routines.

The showdance favours the tall male in the same way as flying would have severely and unfairly disadvantaged him. It becomes a lifting competition and Chloe and Laura have to match 3 pro girls with pro sized bodies. Chloe is most limited by her height in comparison - she has to be perfect in the air alongside two pro girls - Sam's pro girls will be perfect unless Sam makes a bigger error. .

Laura hasn't got a T and D great routine going in and her pro isn't a choregrapher - which is an issue in both the Bolero and the showdance. Riverdance meanwhile is probably one of the best routines of the series - partly because, like Jai Ho, is comes with set, recognisable and vote winning moves.

Sam is difficult to beat because he starts the series as the best skater and he's one of the rare male celebs who can lift well . He's also got a tiny partner. This weakens the possibility of the girls winning by going for the more exciting lifts and means they need a really good routine to match his pre-existing skating skills and Branne's ability to do the daring moves. Chloe is already doing things no other tall girl has done. Neither girl gets a really great routine from T and D - and both needed something stronger in the final.

Finally, culling the one in third early denies Chloe doing the routine which might best show off her acting, her ability to danceas a pair and the type of moves she can perform well . It would have been interesting to see what hers looked like against Sam's.

Far better to give everyone a good new routine or to devise one with more help, to allow everyone to do their best routine , to uprate the past routines as possible and to allow everyone to do the bolero. They don't do that as there seems ever less time to produce decent final performances on both DOI and SCD - and because splitting the two votes probably makes them more money.

Not really bothered to be honest, all 3 deserved to be there and was much too difficult to call that final

Think 'robbed' is too strong a word to use, the title was there for the taking this year and could have been anybody's by 10pm

Like some others if anyone was 'robbed' it was Jennifer and Vanilla...Went much too soon due to the bizarre voting of the GBP to keep people like Carry and Johnson in

no it was the right result on the night IMO

I agree with this too

And I agree as well. Christopher Dean seemed to favour Sam more than the others. It certainly felt like that when after he had a bad week on the show, he got given a great routine the following week, with the others having not as good a routine.