Originally Posted by Drifter:
“God people have short memories. This year has been massively flawed, but it hardly deserves that amount of votes, as most of its problems exist in many other years too. In fact other years have been worse when it comes to getting rid of good skaters early.
Series 5 is for me the absolute worst of the lot - even though Hayley is one of the best they've had. There was no competition for the second year in a row (but at least in Ray's year several other skaters were enjoyable to watch, especially Jess, something that was hardly true of series 5), at this point we'd seen it all before, and then of course the absolutely cringeworthy and desperate attempts by the judges to make Gary Lucy seem decent and like a competitor, when in other years he'd be a 5th placer at best.
Which brings up another point: strange and/or biased marking and peculiar comments have existed here since day one - this year is no better or worse for it. Another example from series 5 was the forced OTT marking of Daniella in one week towards the end that put her top of the leaderboard. A good routine, but still not better than Hayley. Some will disagree but I doubt many did, and I believe Hayley quite rightly topped the public vote that week. She was the best every week by far. Thank god she was there because otherwise that series was deathly dull and several other people were made to look better than they were.”
“God people have short memories. This year has been massively flawed, but it hardly deserves that amount of votes, as most of its problems exist in many other years too. In fact other years have been worse when it comes to getting rid of good skaters early.
Series 5 is for me the absolute worst of the lot - even though Hayley is one of the best they've had. There was no competition for the second year in a row (but at least in Ray's year several other skaters were enjoyable to watch, especially Jess, something that was hardly true of series 5), at this point we'd seen it all before, and then of course the absolutely cringeworthy and desperate attempts by the judges to make Gary Lucy seem decent and like a competitor, when in other years he'd be a 5th placer at best.
Which brings up another point: strange and/or biased marking and peculiar comments have existed here since day one - this year is no better or worse for it. Another example from series 5 was the forced OTT marking of Daniella in one week towards the end that put her top of the leaderboard. A good routine, but still not better than Hayley. Some will disagree but I doubt many did, and I believe Hayley quite rightly topped the public vote that week. She was the best every week by far. Thank god she was there because otherwise that series was deathly dull and several other people were made to look better than they were.”
You've completely summed it up!
