2023 Nepela Trophy - Ice Dance RD & FD

[Colonel Green]

My one caveat about the program design, it's always a little weird when a program is instrumental for almost the whole way through only to suddenly have lyrics (especially when most of the music they were previously skating too also has extremely famous lyrics that everyone in the audience knows but which weren't used).

 

[Wyliefan]

Swan Lake with a bubble braid, heaven help us.

 

[PRlady]

Zingas/Kolesnik - Beauty and the Beast but not a yellow dress. I’m not generally a fan of Disney programmes for skaters above young juniors but going with mostly instrumental cuts worked. I didn’t think they were quite as sharp as yesterday, she looked to be struggling a bit in the steps and getting behind him.

Also the choreo needs less hand-holding and more interesting dance holds. But they’re very good.

 

[Karen-W]

DavSmo - and now, let's introduce you to the opposite of ZingKol when it comes to LITERAL interpretation of the music through costumes.

 

[Wyliefan]

Whoa ... bad twizzle wobble into a sitdown for her.

 

[Karen-W]

Holy hell! She fell!

 

[Colonel Green]

Swan Lake with a bubble braid, heaven help us.

That plus the design of the corset really says "goth club" more than ballet.

Oops, Diana is going to make the judges' jobs much harder with that fall.

 

[airgelaal]

oooops

 

[PRlady]

I swear that’s the first time I ever said GOOD after a fall.

 

[Wyliefan]

If they medal with THAT, even with the short program cushion ...

 

[rfisher]

And, another mismatch team. I have a soft spot for Diana as I think she gets a lot of unfair snark, but I wonder what team Annabelle M and Gleb would have made. That was going well until she lost focus.

 

[Holy Headband]

Holy hell! She fell!

Will it matter?

 

[Belsornia]

Davis/Smolkin - I’m usually a bit of a D/S defender but this programme is so bad. It’s like the culmination of every terrible mis-judged WISA senior programme over the years. Not their day performance-wise either.

 

[Karen-W]

They're still gonna medal, given their decent lead over the Taschlers & ZingKol from the RD.

 

[Marta24]

Will it matter?

Probably not. The judges are going to fix it with the PCS.

 

[Sylvia]

Boooooo

 

[Karen-W]

Told ya! 1st with FearGib to go...

Davis/Smolkin GEO 188.94 (61.42 TES + 50.90 PCS - 1.00 DED = 111.32)

 

[Wyliefan]

Oh. My. Lord.

 

[marbri]

 

[jlai]

They still lead for that?

 

[PRlady]

What a ****ing travesty.

 

[Holy Headband]

Gosh, the sound of Swan Lake thundering in the background as Diana crooks her leg toward the ceiling in an ugly tutu and over-the-boots tights that fail to hide her terrible lines makes for such a grotesque sensory experience.

 

[her grace]

Boooooo

You know it's bad when Sylvia is booing! #JusticeForIceDance

 

[marbri]

I literally out loud every time this program starts with the crowd cheering. It's just

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - the only reason they finished behind ZingKol in the FD is because of the mandatory 1.0 deduction

 

[Karen-W]

I wasn't paying attention but tracker says Lilah botched her twizzles?

 

[Wyliefan]

I wasn't paying attention but tracker says Lilah botched her twizzles?

She did.

 

[PRlady]

Lilah looks like Gabby P skating after Diana.

 

[Karen-W]

Lilah looks like Gabby P skating after Diana.

Let's not go THAT far...

 

[Wyliefan]

First time I've ever thought "Fear/Gibson had BETTER win this."