please don't shout. especially to convey what is after all only your opinion. its really not worth the effort.

finger in ears and brain off may more widespread than you initially thought

That was from hours ago. It's called 'rational thinking'.

And I'll use as many capitals as I wish, by the way.

I would only consider myself being wrong if I was faced with actual evidence rather than guesses, assumptions, self-implied or assumed "rigging" and examples of confirmation bias. Otherwise, I retain an open mind.

Exactly.

There is a distinct \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ element to it with many of them imo

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Quite why this series is different from previous ones with inconsistent marking is beyond me. It's got nothing on Series 6, with the outrageous over marking of Lisa Snowdon.

And Pearson blow a massive hole in her own argument by suggesting that the Queen of Inconsistent Marking™, Arlene, should come back. Pur-lease.

Anita lost her place because of Gleb's choreography - simple as. He could have put lots of judge-pleasing steps in, and instead created routines that forgot the basics. A shame, but there you go.

Probaly producers. Even the couple choice of dance is probably decided by producers (See Kellie this week with a Charleston and a upbeat showdance music. The Clifton's must have loads of brown envelopes.)

Pearson's a hard-up hack who carefully examines every current bandwagon and picks the one that, in her opinion, offers her the greatest opportunity to write an article full of cliches, bias-confirmation and vindictive indignity.

The woman's never had an original thought in her life and probably researched this particular article by reading Twitter and DigitalSpy.

That bit is true actually. She was referred to Monkseal.

There's a more interesting theory floated in this week's popbitch that the 'Strictly fixed' stories are being driven by a bitter Simon Cowell …


But popbitch rightly points out that Pearson should really be directing her fire at TXF …

There's nothing wrong with my brain thank you very much Anita should be in the final, the show has been manipulated to get Anton there, end off. A lot of people are saying this are not all of them are Anita fans.

As an Anita fan who really wanted her there I have to disagree with you - she really didn't deserve to be in the final. It played out as it should have and there was no damn fix.

If Anita should have been in the final she would be in the final. If Helen should have been in the final she also would have been, go back as far as you like.

If Anita had been popular enough she could have danced the valeta in a kilt, an "I love Simon Cowell" t shirt and a Christmas tree headdress and she would still be there-end of-(to borrow a phrase).

That's ok, that's your opinion but I disagree with it.

If Helen has beaten Anita to a final place I would not be unhappy about it.

Fine if you want to leave in la la conspiracy land - that's your prerogative. However, all these fix claims and dummies being spit out is spoiling it for the rest of us. The salsa let Anita down in the dance off and the judges voted accordingly.

Can we have a thread for all the conspiracy theorists to live in so the rest of us can talk about the show normally?

Quod erat demonstrandum I think.

Agreed on BOTH points.

If Anita had beaten Katie to the final that would have been absolutely fine, but she didn't.

I couldn't watch last Sat so I kept up with the show thread and from the report it was obvious Katie was going to struggle.

I was surprised when the spoiler came through, but it did say that Katie had improved and Anita hadn't,in two dances where there had only been one point between them anyway.

I watched the main show later, and the results show and ,unsurprisingly, this is exactly what happened.

No fix no anything, the better dance in the dance off won. I thought Anita was great but they could never as a partnership have produced something like that waltz,do I recall when they had the quickstep Anton was helping Gleb with the step? What Anita and Glen produced K and A could not have, but it came down to one performance of one dance and the better one won.

If it had been the other way around I'd have been disappointed, but I would have accepted it.

I agree with you. I don't think people realise that "fixing" can cover a multitude of sins. Reality show audiences are manipulated very subtly into doing what the producers want. It doesn't always work and can backfire. But 90% of the time it probably works. If the majority of people on DS think there was no fix, then you could argue it's worked. If people are open minded and realise that these shows are very carefully orchestrated from beginning to end, to create controversy and what they deem to be in the best interests of the show, then fine. If people don't think that then they are incredibly naive.

How do you know there was no fix.

I applied rational thought, my own eyes, critical thinking and basically used my head and not heart.

How do you know there was a fix? Answer is you don't

I hastily add that all she did was ask me how many Pimp Slots everyone had had and I didn't even register who I was talking to. Which is my excuse and I'm sticking to it...

Just to throw some fuel on the fix fire .... the fixxy part, for me, is not how Katie won the DO, but how the whole semi-final was set up. Anita got an obnoxious, too fast song. If she’d got an appropriate song, I assume even Gleb could’ve come up with something more appropriate—see his various other appropriate dances with appropriate music, despite the odd Gleb special. Katie had a good enough song for the waltz, Georgia had a good enough song for the Viennese Waltz (which she’d basically already danced), Kellie had a great song and the final position on the night. Ever since the producers chose Kellie’s office quickstep over Anita’s paso to close the night in Blackpool I’ve wondered if the producers weren't slightly biased in her favor (whether due to the pro or to Kellie’s obviously being the better technical dancer) despite her not seeming to be a fan favorite. What would’ve happened had Anita danced to a salsa song, and Kellie had danced the AS to some song not conducive to Fred and Ginger retro fantasy?

But whatever. I’m not a conspiracy theorist. Gleb f...ed it up.