FSU Watch Party Sunday #2: 2010 Olympics FD [3pm CDT/9pm CET]

[caseyedwards]

I always prefered the RUS drama style and have not recovered from the change in ID since then

AGREE!!!! Nothing in this competition compares to Domnina raising both her hands to her head as Shabalin grabs her

 

[skatingguy]

How many people these days still get married at 20 & 22, respectively? #secretbaby

 

[skipaway]

How many people these days still get married at 20 & 22, respectively? #secretbaby

#secretbaby should be old enough for novice.

 

[Amy L]

How many people these days still get married at 20 & 22, respectively? #secretbaby

If they were from the U.S. South you wouldn't have to ask. 22 is practically Armenian spinster age!!

 

[Theatregirl1122]

#secretbaby should be old enough for novice.

Yes, but they're so good at keeping secrets, we'll never know who it is!

 

[Hanna]

I gotta say, as schmaltz goes, Mahler was a MUCH better program than their 2014 program. Although Valse Triste remains my favorite of their FDs.

Agreed! Although I may have a slight Sibelius bias.

Ugh, typed "virtue moir" into google planning to search some of their old music choices from wikipedia, and of course the first thing google suggested was "virtue moir fanfiction".

 

[Barbara Manatee]

This is snoozier than I remembered but beautifully done.

Scott is and always will be utterly punchable, but I can't help be glad they got to have such a moment on home ice. How many people ever get that?

 

[jlai]

Vintage V/M, don't care for the program though

 

[alchemy void]

This isn't my favorite FD of theirs, but this is just ridiculous.

So smooth. Seamless. Incredible connection with each other. This is on a totally different level than D/W.

Good god, where's the V/M uber thread?

 

[skatingguy]

#secretbaby should be old enough for novice.

We'll have to keep track of the age to see when it hits junior and decide which one it is. Will it skate for Canada or the US? I'm believe it was born in Detroit during an ice resurfacing.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Agreed! Although I may have a slight Sibelius bias.

I might secretly love Waltzes? I maintain that D/W's greatest two programs were Sampson and Delilah and Die Fledermaus.

 

[casken]

This final flight really was old school Linichuk versus new school Zueva, and Zueva kicked ass.

Not really hard when one of Linichuk's teams has a skater who is basically skating on bone gristle, and the other team is B&A.

 

[Hanna]

So bitchy!
I bet @Hanna'10 loved it back then.

She absolutely loved it. But since then I've developed my irrational dislike for Scott, so Hanna'20 has a slightly harder time watching this.

I admit it was extremely, extremely well skated!

 

[Theatregirl1122]

We'll have to keep track of the age to see when it hits junior and decide which one it is. Will it skate for Canada or the US? I'm believe it was born in Detroit during an ice resurfacing.

In order to truly keep the secret, shouldn't it skate for, like, Russia or Germany or something? Canada or the US would be too obvious!

 

[Wyliefan]

2010 Wyliefan was extremely grumpy that V/M beat D/W. 2020 Wyliefan is able to be a little more objective about it.

(I still like D/W better, though. )

 

[skipaway]

In order to truly keep the secret, shouldn't it skate for, like, Russia or Germany or something? Canada or the US would be too obvious!

Azerbaijan for the win!

 

[Theatregirl1122]

But since then I've developed my TOTALLY RATIONAL dislike for Scott,

I fixed it for you.

 

[skatingguy]

Not really hard when one of Linichuk's teams has a skater who is basically skating on bone gristle, and the other team is B&A.

But that's how they skated, but usually ice dance results are determined by who pays the judges better, and Linichuk was a master, but she got bested by Zueva in Vancouver.

 

[Wyliefan]

at Scott shouting over the announcer.

 

[Jeschke]

B/A should have skated their '09 Tosca.
So much better

 

[Wyliefan]

The bling is blinding!

 

[Colonel Green]

From the perspective of ice dance politics, V/M ended this season in a very weird place, in that they'd won everything already (except the Grand Prix Final, heh), but it would have been kind of ridiculous to retire from competition at the age they were at. So they pressed onward, into a quad that had lots of artistic brilliance but also mounting frustrations as the momentum shifted against them.

But then, they started off things on such an awful note the following season; the whole history of the quad might have been different if Tessa hadn't gotten injured before the start of the 2011/12.

EDIT: Also, this had been building for a while (arguably since the late Bourne/Kraatz years), but this was the moment that cemented that ice dance had eclipsed pairs in Canada, a situation I don't foresee changing any time soon.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Man, the move to Linichuk was such a weird miss for B&A. She was good for their technique, but from a program standpoint, she so clearly didn't get them even a little bit. They're like pod people.

 

[skatingguy]

B/A should have skated their '09 Tosca.
So much better

You mean you didn't like that they brought back their Elvis program, and paired it with 'Ave Maria'?

 

[Amy L]

She absolutely loved it. But since then I've developed my irrational dislike for Scott, so Hanna'20 has a slightly harder time watching this.

Is it really irrational though? I've learned to separate the skating from the punchable mouth.

I liked both V/M and D/W as skaters and I megaloathed the fandoms, so I stayed the hell away from fan threads at all times.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

B/A should have skated their '09 Tosca.
So much better

Hot take, B/A should have won 2009 worlds with their Tosca FD.

 

[alchemy void]

I totally HATE B/A's packaging this season. They're so much better than this.

 

[skatingguy]

Watching this back it really looks like Ben went to the same tailor as Sergei Novitski.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

B/A should have skated their '09 Tosca.
So much better

B/A should have skated their Amelie program that they only did twice!

 

[Barbara Manatee]

Linichuk sure done B/A wrong. (But they deserved bronze anyway.)