Originally Posted by hansue:
“I would slightly disagree with your first point as a lot of people on here have raised concerns about the marking of Ore, I don't tweet so I cant comment on how many people feel that he was overmarked but I suspect there were thousands of tweets. I also read about it on a website and a lot of people commented on there so I don't think its just a couple of tweets. I also don't think for one moment that his colour has anything to do with people feeling that he was being favoured and I know The Sun does get a lot of bad press (sorry for the pun) but they are repeating what many people have said. I do agree though with singling one person out because its not Ore's fault but its the judges that people are complaining about and I cant help but agree with this.
I cant comment on Series 6. I did see it but I wasn't a member of the forum then so didn't know how people felt and of course social media wasn't so widespread as it is now.”
I didn't dispute that people have questioned Ore's marking. My point is: why do what some people (and it's a tiny proportion compared to the viewing figures) say about a television show warrant a newspaper headline intended to diminish one SCD finalist and also the BBC?
The Sun's article is constructed around comments from bitter rentagob James Jordan (clearly so hard up he's lost any principles he might have once had), and quotes four people. Four. Not thousands. So they've manufactured a 'story' intended to undermine Ore (in final week) and also the show as a whole. And rather than seeing it as a validation of their opinions, anyone from the anti-Ore brigade who actually loves Strictly, should see through that piece for what it is - yet another attempt to bring the BBC down.
I'm sorry if you feel Ore shouldn't be in the final. Clearly other people feel differently - after all, if he was as unpopular as some FMs like to maintain, he would have been in the dance-off … and yet he wasn't. Similarly, Claudia can't have had the public support to end up where she was. The public don't pay any attention to the judges - if they did, Ed Balls would never have lasted as long as he did - so I hardly think the leader board could have influenced them. It's the way it happens on Strictly.
But Series 6 was way, WAY worse than this. By a million miles. I'm sure it's in the DS Forum archive if you've got the time!