Jade Carey is insanely good on floor!
I have the opposite opinion. Her tumbling is obviously great, but the rest of her FX makes me cringe and is a very stark reminder of the fact that she went from JO straight to senior elite without the experience the other girls who do junior elite for a few years before going senior get in terms of polish, grace, performance ability, etc. on all of the events, especially FX. The choreography is terrible and the way she performs it is awkward and uncommitted.
I'm going to post something that's probably going to be very unpopular on here: I REALLY don't like Simone's floor routine. The only reason why she gets away with this presentation/choreography that she has is that the tumbling/form is at a level 13402 times better than anyone else.
I agree with this as well. I think Simone is amazing, but the choreo of her current FX is much worse than her Olympic FX, which I didn't particularly love in the first place. I especially really hate the cutesy "shoulder dusting" and waving at the audience moves, and the random "Oh!" moment in the middle that is some sort of throwback to the same moves in her Olympic FX (but totally out of place in this one).
My thing with Morgan is that while she is undeniably good, she's kinda boring. There's nothing about her that makes me say "Wow" like the power of Simone, Riley's lines, Laurie Hernandez's smile, Regan's general cuteness, Jordan's wonder woman floor, Gabby Douglas's bars, etc.
Re: artistry the dancing is really just creative posing and flopping. It's never fluid or graceful, movements are never fully executed, and none of them even try to perform with their facial expressions. Heck, for at least two of the girls I thought their choreography was actually them being injured or "flopping" in the spirit of soccer. Honestly it's painful to watch - I wish they'd remove that stuff altogether.
I disagree about Morgan. Again, I think Simone is awesome and her sheer athletic skill is amazing, but I would rather watch Morgan on three out of four events (the one I would rather watch Simone on is obviously vault). Morgan's gymnastics is so precise and elegant. She seems to really consider every movement in terms of polish, style and finish. Her style on FX reminds me of 1996 Olympic AA champ Lilia Podkopayeva, which is a huge compliment for me. She doesn't just throw skills without thinking about where they belong in a program and how to start and finish them.
I love Riley's lines and style as well, but as for "Ragan's general cuteness", I find the way they package her with cutesy costumes, choreo and hairbows extremely irritating. It might have worked when she was a junior, but she is an 18-year-old adult senior competitor. Her current FX is less annoying in uber-cutesiness than her last two (her Olympic season FX in particular drove me up the wall), but it is still full of extraneous "I'm so cute!" movements.
I understand that gymnasts ignore FX choreo and dance nowadays because the judges also seem to completely ignore it, which is why routines with huge tumbling and terrible choreo like Jade's can win world medals, but IMO, if there is still going to be a requirement for music and choreography in WAG, it should be paid much more attention to and scored accordingly.
Plus three broken toes to boot (although Simone also competed with broken toes...and I hope she is taking some time off herself now)
