It was fun watching Zagitova reel off the jumps in the last half. Unfortunately the first half was a snooze (IMHO).
Well, ya.
Many complain about this, although for some reason choose not to account for part of the problem being her average choreo, unremarkable spinning, poor basic skating and collapsed line. * shrug *
If you don't like the music you're essentially checked out.
So since we're rewarding mediocrity in the other elements we have little choice other than to spread them out.
Give me some footwork a la Chan, Kozuka, Sato, Buttle...a Nikodinov layback, any Ruh or Krieg spin, a Rippon combo spin and I'd be rivetted.