Originally Posted by ElizaDnl:
“That's why I hate the dance off - no matter how big their public support, once the numbers dwindle it becomes impossible for the person at the bottom of the leaderboard to avoid the dance off. Jeremy hasn't got a chance in hell to make the final. That is the real unfairness of strictly, I think, not the fact that ringers are included, but the total protection they get through the dance off.”
Well if, say, Jeremy was bottom of the judge's leaderboard and top of the public voting he'd go through to the final.
Trouble is if he's not quite at the top of the public vote - he could end up in the dance off and be out.
If the PTB must have the dance-off, they shouldn't have it for the semi-final as there are too few contestants, even with 4 in the final.
They could have something else to fill the missing few minutes in the last Sunday show - a world champion pair? viewers' choice of previous dances? training clips?