Crushagrape, I agree the judges are a bit erratic, in particular, Len. However I don't feel like the public are the level heads that balance it all out either . Dunno, I think it probably is hard to come up with the perfect system.
Carrots, it's possible that Lisa and Rachel have an advantage of stage school training although I doubt it is that much advantage by this stage in the proceedings. And Lisa didn't start off very good. Also you might say that other competitors have other advantages, e.g. John Seargeant is a more popular personality, Austin was likely to be considerably more fit etc, Andrew whathisname had the whole of GMTV behind him etc. So it probably all evens out.