The winner SPOILERS

suzanne was obviously going to win the flying routine
how can a guy look 'graceful' doing it?
its much harder for the males, i mean look at last years winner, kyran, he was really bad at flying.
i found this comment on another doi forum and decided to put it here:
"See, I thought I really wouldn't mind who won because all the finalists (in fact the last four) were all so good; but I was really disappointed when Suzanne Shaw won.

I've read a lot of stuff here about how Chris Fountain had an unfair advantage having played ice hockey before and have to say..um, no actually. Thats a case of apples and oranges. The disadvantage of having to "unlearn" incorrect moves far outweighs any perceived advantage. (Also I'm guessing that if Suzanne had been topping the leader board as often as Chris there would have been a whole lot of squealing about how her ballet and gymnastic experience was unfair). One of the pleasures of this series has been watching Chris gradually lose the typical hockey player blasting untidy "run across the ice stance" and gain grace and style.

Now I see a lot of comments about how wonderful Suzanne's flying was and yes it was lovely but Zaraah was very good too and Chris out did her on the routine. However, I thought all this was supposed to be irrelevant to the Champion result - isn't it meant to be judged on the Bolero alone? Wipe the slate clean, all past mistakes forgotten etc etc? don't think the voting should start until after both contestants have performed and I do wonder how many people regretted a premature vote when they got to see Suzanne and Matts routine. That was NOT a good bolero.

Chris & Frankie had a beautiful flowing routine that was performed very well and suited the music, Suzanne and Matt had a bitty jerky routine that was at odds with the music and had little mistakes and hitches in it. Yes, they may have been wanting to do the snake charmer for weeks but not had it fit with the music and I'm afraid it still didn't and should not have been in there. It was a real shame because Suzanne is a pleasure to watch when she is actually skating - the pairs spiral hinted at what could have been. So much of her on -ice time has been given over to time consuming big and dangerous lifts; Chris Fountains amazing spin and almost-axel, Zaraahs footwork or her own in unison moves from "Music" are far more impressive.

I felt the marking was inconsistant - if you penalize Chris for fluffing the ending (though really if you hadn't seen it before who would have known) you should mark Suzanne down for muffing some of the steps...

The other gripe was the camera's keep focusing on Suzanne's son - he was crying most of the time and probably should not have been there. Unfortunately it made me even more disgusted by her blatant bit of manipulation and vote begging using her son - my boy's going to be there and he would so like to see his Mummy win blah blah- yuck. Perhaps it is just as well she won Dancing on Ice, the Celebrity Mum of the Year people might want their trophy back. "

for those of you who were nice enough to read all of that, you ave to agree right? chris shouldve won. (btw have you seen zaraahs bolero? it easily beats suzannes)