Thank you!! What I find funny and have ever since it happened was how many complain about the pat answers the skaters give after a performance and, "Oh...How I wish the skaters would just say how they really felt in these things." However when that finally happens, the skater gets labelled a stuck up jerk from now until the end of time. Scott said something stupid in the heat of the moment in front of a microphone. It's called being human and it happens.Originally Posted by skatingbc
Also Scott's a bit of a character and people like that don't always think before speaking. Goodness knows Kurt Browning's been on certain people's hate lists from back when he did his first commentating for NBC at 94 Worlds and called Michelle Kwan "kind of sexy". Even he said he screwed up on that one and didn't think how that would sound once spoken, but I remember when CBC hired him for this current commentating job, many were still holding that against him and getting on their high horses "fearing" for what he'd say now. Not that the actual facts 94 Worlds had been the first time he'd ever done commentating of any kind and that Kurt had learned from it ever came into it. Oh no...SkateGods forbid!!
Just as some have a grudge against Kurt for something so stupid, I won't be surprised to keep seeing what Scott said in December to keep popping up from now until who knows when as well. Some just can't let go for whatever reason.
Mrs. P, if you've got a problem w/a poster and how they're posting, then use the little triangle w/the ! mark in it that's in the lower left corner of all the posts around here and report that poster to the Mods. BTW if you think things in here are heated and nasty, might I suggest you never go into FSU's Competition Threads. This *is* the tame and classy place and what I've seen in here tonight is not that bad compared to other events/results people had problems w/in the past.
What I don't care for is when someone who isn't a Moderator decides to post multiple postings telling us all how to behave. That's how things are on a skating board during Worlds and Olympics. They can get heated and nasty. It's been that way ever since the mid 90's when the online skating boards first started and I don't see it changing. That's what happens when people invest so much into a sport or anything they feel so personally about.
If you don't care for what's being said, either report it or ignore it, but don't keep lecturing us please. That gets rather old too.
Now on to my thoughts about Meryl and Charlie....
I'm not mad about where V/M and D/W ended up on the podium. I have a far different problem when it comes to Meryl and Charlie...
I truly do believe that V/M and D/W ended up exactly where I believe they deserved and regardless of what some might think about the marks, they're not that far apart. Not really. Yes, I do love Tessa and Scott and am thrilled after everything they've been through the last two years they got their title back. My problem is that I want to love Meryl and Charlie too, but only like them because there's just...Something missing there for me and I can't put my finger on it. I'm not sure if it's because due to their speed they can cross over into frantic skating so easily at times or (and this could be it for me) IMO they're not that versititle.
IMO, I think it just might be their speed that's the problem there too. Because they're so fast (we call them the Whirling Dervishes of Skating, as the speed on their twizzles and spins just blow us away every time) there's only so much music out there that works w/them and they need that powerful music. To me, their S&D FD from the 08-09 Season is exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about. I still think that's the best program they've ever had. Even to today. It fit them, the music allowed them to use their speed to their advantage and also their rawness I pick up from them also worked w/that music.
That could be why some of us just haven't been able to warm up to their FD this year. I usually adore a program done to what is one of my very favourite pieces of Classical Music, but a program like that needs softnees and finesse. It doesn't matter how hard they work at it, Meryl and Charlie will never be soft or finesse type skaters. As I've said, they have this rawness to them and their skating that no one else out there has, but instead of working w/what they've got, their speed and rawness, they seem to be trying to do the opposite kind of programs and...It does feel a bit fake to some and I hate saying that about them, but there it is.
I actually think something like W/P's Je Suis Malade FD would be incredable for Meryl and Charlie. It's powerful, it's passionate and raw and they would just shine IMO. Instead, the direction they have been going down just isn't doing it for me and others and is a dis service to them as well. If there's anyone in Canton who need to go somewhere else for Choreography, it's Meryl and Charlie IMO.
This could be the reason why some of us feel, that while Meryl and Charlie were so good at the beginning of the Season, the program seemed to stagnate a wee bit as the Season went on. Because perhaps they'd already taken it as far as they could take it. Whereas if you go back to look at Tessa and Scott's programs, both of them, they're *very* different programs that were skated the last two days than what was debuted back at Skate Canada. Because of that, the programs kept evolving and growing and hadn't yet reached that peak that Meryl and Charlie did right at the very first.
As I said, it's all JMO, but I just can't seem to warm up to Meryl and Charlie and I want to. I also think it's part of the reason why many of us get that whiff of something not "real" about their skating. Because they don't fit that cookie cutter Dance mold, but the coaching team behind them is trying to do just that and it's not helping. Sure an Olympic Silver, a couple of World medals and a World Title are amazing accomplishments, but I have this strange feeling Meryl and Charlie have not even come close to reaching their potential and I don't think they will if they stay in Canton.
And now I need to end this before I babble anymore. :oD
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) They had no chance to win this event, and the judging today proved it. They outskated Virtue/Moir, but were not rewarded for their effort. Many other competitors received season's best scores at this event, but the scores for Davis/White were very low.
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