@caseyedwards you are full of even more sh*t than usual.
Inman's email cited *Plushenko's own words* about having no transitions. He said "“We as judges should think about what we saw before putting that mark down", which oddly enough is what you are criticizing him for recommending - he was reminding people to judge what they saw on the ice and not to be judging on reputation. Key word: "reminding", not "ordering".
He was not "pushing for all judges to give plushenko 5 in transitions" - his email said nothing about giving specific scores to specific skaters.
And since Inman helped write the IJS standards for component marks, I think he knows more than you do about what a transition is and where it happens in the program