Originally Posted by RhythmIsADancer:
“Totally agree!
No I won't now bother watching the final.
Slightly strange, as 2 of the finalists were my predictions from the start - Danny and Louise, but the blatant overmarking of "BBC Ore" and undermarking of Claudia (both her dances were better than Ore and that QS was possibly the best ever on SCD and deserved a 40) means I have zero interest now in the final.
I know it's "fixed" every year (Tom over Rachel and Austin was the worst), but that doesn't make it any more palatable.
If there is any justice in this crazy world we live in then Danny should win by a mile.
The only comfort from this series is the end of Len Goodman, who'd passed his "sell by date" even before Forsyth!”
BIB - rewriting history, or what?!?
The judges/producers got rid of Austin because they wanted their darling Rachel to win, in a final against the appallingly overmarked and also unpopular Lisa Snowdon. Then they rigged the scoreboard in the semis so that Tom couldn't possibly win - hence the three-person final that year. Rachel may well have been technically brilliant, but she wasn't clicking with the public, who went with the contestant they preferred (who also did by far the best show dance). The SCD6 final should have been Tom/Austin/Rachel - but the producers/judges stopped that.
I have to laugh at the bitterness on this thread. If anyone's to blame for what has happened, it's Will Young, for bailing. If he hadn't, there'd be a four-contestant final (probably the four we saw in the semis). Was Claudia good? Yes, of course. But there was no way the judges wouldn't put their favourite through - and you could see that she and AJ knew that before the dance-off.
Way more interesting is the fact that Louise must be popular with viewers - she's never been in the dance-off and she was vulnerablelast night … yet she went through to the final. Which I'm guessing must mean she topped the public vote.
The other interesting thing was that Danny, who has been consistently overmarked, clearly doesn't have quite the public support we might have thought. Which makes Louise look like the one to beat, not him.
As for all the FMs peddling the conspiracy theory of 'BBC bias' … pur-lease. They may not want Ore in the final, but they have zero evidence to back up their case. Ore presented This Morning recently … so how that even makes him a 'BBC star' is beyond me.