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Not sure why so many people are eager for fluffs again. During the ABC days folks were complaining about the excessive fluffs and wanted more skating. Now that they GET more skating, they want the fluffs back. hwell:
I want more of BOTH! Broadcasters simply should allocate more hours to their figure skating coverage to accomodate both, period.
Well, OK, I know it's not that simple for them. Under time constraints, showing more second-tier skaters is better than showing more fluff pieces for me. But I must admit I like short reports/mini documentary type things such as Caroline Zhang taking a small lesson from Michelle Kwan that NBC showed last year. I find skaters more respectable and/or more adorable by watching these things. After all, didn't American people get to know more about Michelle and Sasha through ABC's countless fluffs? (OK, maybe not.) Also I like watching the backstage. In last year's Worlds coverage by ABC they showed this ladies SP summary with Terry Gannon narrating over it. Well, I know it sucks that full skating was not shown, but this summary portion with skaters in the backstage looking at their protocols and getting interviewed by the media from around the world, having happy moments and sad moments...etc. I got the chance to see what the skaters went through after the skating, it was candid, more candid than kiss and cry. Sure, it was through the eyes of the ABC camera crews and filtered through the minds of the video editing people in the console room, but this kind of taking a look at what's going on in the backstage actually makes me want to root for all these skaters even more and makes me wish them the best of luck in their subsequent events.
And I liked Browning Breakdown and Push Dicks Button too. NBC should get a permission from ESPN and continue this with Kurt, or if that's impossible, do that with Scott.
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