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If it's any consolation I thought the Australian uniforms were pretty crap too. Mind you, we have had far more offensive ones!

Very proud Aussie here who enjoyed today's finals session immensely! Particularly impressed by Mac Horton who seems a nice, non-arrogant young guy with a great attitude. Everyone saw where arrogance got our men's 100 metre freestyle swimmers in 2012. Watch and learn, James Magnusson.

Australian water polo player Rhys Howden. Sigh.

Australian viewer here who is only now getting to watch this latest season, so forgive my rather untimely remarks. I've watched two eps so far. Re the first episode I saw with Zeus the savannah cat and Sebastian, I really enjoyed the Zeus part of the episode because there's something about a decent and devoted "cat daddy" which really resonates with me. Beautiful cat but perfectly easy to understand how a cat of his background would be literally climbing the walls in a small apartment without lots of other stimulation. I totally agree with the above poster re Sebastian and his owners. Talk about unprepared! I find it hard to relate to episodes with truly problematic cats because in all my years as a cat owner (or being owned by cats, more like!), I have never had any that have behaved like that. My current kitty, Claude, is 15 years old and has always had the most beautiful nature. He would no sooner bite or scratch me than fly to the moon. And the only time he has ever hurt me is accidentally, when I am trying to get into his cat carrier, because he hates it so much and will go into a "bat" position and strike out to avoid going in. But that's it. I don't know how Sebastian's owners put up with his aggression for so long, unless they really didn't think there WAS a solution? Awww, I thought he was wonderful, and what a beautiful, sweet kitty Elsa was. As someone said upthread, it's nice to see episodes about cats who aren't just out and out aggressive, but have other types of behavioural issues. I also got quite misty-eyed over the blind cats and their foster carers, especially while watching the ginger one playing so happily. The Meki half of the episode, I found myself getting rather frustrated with his owner because she just couldn't see the forest for the trees and that she was a huge part of the problem. I've never seen a cat who would willingly want to go under their owner's shirt for comfort. He's a cat, not a kangaroo joey who needs to be in a pouch to feel safe!

Cheers, Wendy. I will have to look out for that one too.

Probably everyone else knew this but I never realised Peter Scanavino was another guest star who ends up with a spot as a permanent character. Just rewatching S14 E13, Monster's Legacy, and there he is as the janitor! Did a really good job, too, IMHO.

Carisi has definitely grown on me, too. I didn't like him much at first, and that's without ever having seen his first ever ep at the beginning of S16. I actually did see it the other day and he was irritating and unevolved, and on a shallow note he looked terrible with that pornstache. But fast forward to the end of S17, and without my even realising it, he's become one of my favourites.

I haven't had a chance to watch this episode yet but I had to come to this forum to confirm the inevitability of a Ricky win. Ah, good luck to him - he is certainly a talented dancer, but it was so obvious from so early in the season that he had it in the bag that I, like many others here, found the season incredibly dull. I'm from Australia and you all saw the winner of what was probably our last-ever SYTYCD (because the ratings were so crappy), Michael Dameski, and if that has to be our last season, it couldn't have had a more worthy winner. He is just brilliant. He did that solo wonderfully on our show but I saw a clip of his performance on your finale and he still found a way to improve upon it. Hopefully his performance may open up some opportunities for him in the US.