I think Plushenko's interpretation of the music tends to be significantly better than his choreography.
Chan has some of the best spins of the men's field, and his spins even change from year to year. He's one of the only men to do a proper cross-foot spin, his camel positions and sit positions are textbook. He has two different sit positions. He gets huge height on his death drop. Plushenko at his prime had decent spins, but they pale in comparison to Chan's in terms of speed, rotation, variety and difficulty (other than his strained Biellmann). This is ridiculous. Although I'm hardly surprised when you consider Stojko to be a "fabulous spinner".
I had to do a double-take when you said you can play any background music in Chan's performances, as I was sure you were talking about Plushenko. How the heck does Plushenko relate to the music when he is stroking? He only "interprets" the music at standstills or when he's gliding. I'm sure you consider hip thrusts and frenetic flailing as interpretation, right? I'm sure if you put a mask on Chan's Take Five, La Boheme or Aranjuez you'd certainly be able to tell what program it is. Turn off the music in the first 2 minutes of Plushenko's 2010 Olympic FS and honestly tell me if anyone would be able to tell that it's a tango he's skating to.
I know you hate Chan but when you say things like Plushenko has more musicality or that his spins are on par with Chan, I can't take you seriously. Things Plushenko does do better than Chan is facial expressiveness, commanding the ice and having a presence, projecting to the audience, and jumping consistency (of which, he's the best of all time, IMO). I would love to see the interpretation marks Plushenko would get if he took the jumps out of his program and was said to be a skater from Lithuania or Mexico.
You like better Chan, but the majority of people disagree with you. Do you remember itoja's post?
You don't have the monopoly on it. So learn to deal when someone else joins your club.
You are a demagogue with a lot of free time at your hand. And a very boring one. Who is trolling the board with speculations and assumptions full of "presumably", "likely" and other ranter's vocabs. Yawn. To see how you use the word "fact" about smth. that didn't happen yet is beyond laughable. Plu didn't skate LP with one quad yet in Sochi, and neither did anyone else. No one can say for sure that he will compete there in the first place. Moreover, if you wish to sound less stupid, you at least should bother to rant within common sense. Therefore, based on the previous results someone can assume that Plu will go clean, Chan will zamboni the ice twice-three times with his butt and once on his tummy, Hanyu (thanks to Orser) will barely finish his prog, Reynolds will UR two-three jumps. And if in this case Plu won't be over them, than it's a classic ISU stupidity that you are advocating here
. To compare Plu's speed, arms, artistry with Chan's is ridiculous. Chan is few minutes of short-track, then butting, then again rushing to another corner and butting, always with airplane-arms, probably in order to keep the balance on falls better, etc. I can continue. Your rants are the most boring SC propaganda that showed up here recently. Could you be more creative? 
You are a demagogue with a lot of free time at your hand. And a very boring one. Who is trolling the board with speculations and assumptions full of "presumably", "likely" and other ranter's vocabs. Yawn. To see how you use the word "fact" about smth. that didn't happen yet is beyond laughable. Plu didn't skate LP with one quad yet in Sochi, and neither did anyone else. No one can say for sure that he will compete there in the first place. Moreover, if you wish to sound less stupid, you at least should bother to rant within common sense. Therefore, based on the previous results someone can assume that Plu will go clean, Chan will zamboni the ice twice-three times with his butt and once on his tummy, Hanyu (thanks to Orser) will barely finish his prog, Reynolds will UR two-three jumps. And if in this case Plu won't be over them, than it's a classic ISU stupidity that you are advocating here
The only fact is this: http://www.ujt.co.jp/SHOP/445879/912573/list.html Chan advertising some sales of fs clothes on far to be luxury J-site, with novice skaters and the guy who never medalled at major events. While Plu has Mercedes-Benz and Ulysse Nardin for that purpose. Mao, Dai, Yuna are all well-off people and being treated like royalties on their countries. Only Chan has to sell his image for chicken feed. I do understand why he is always so pissy, as well as his desperate online "lawyers". Poor follks. That must be suck .
What the heck does that have to do with anything? You're just grabbing at straws to bash Chan, aren't you? :sarcasm: Figure skating isn't even close to as popular in Canada as it is in Japan and Russia -- Dai is his country's first men's world champion, Kim is her country's most famous celebrity (let alone athlete), and Plushenko is a star in Russia because of his Olympic success and because people care way more about figure skating over there.
If I right remember Plushy had two quads in Japan Open, and in Open test skating in September, one 4t and one 4S-stepped out. And he said they planned two quads, and they changed the LP for ECH-but we can't see, because of his withrawal- 70% of his jumps would have been in second half.Well clearly you have time on your hands to respond to me and follow it up with your own trolling... I mean, Plu has a Benz?
The reason I use "likely" and "probably" is to imply that I'm predicting something. I use "fact" to describe certainties. Like, FACT: Plushenko has one quad in his program (he hasn't had more than one since well before the last Olympics... not to mention I said it in the context of he would need to get a 2nd quad, so maybe read the rest of the post next time?)... just like FACT: Chan/Hanyu have 2 quads (but might do 3 in Sochi, who knows!). And based on most recent results, sure Chan has fallen. But by that logic, we can assume Plushenko will swiffer the ice with his butt just like he did at Euros and screw up two major jumping passes, and won't even attempt a quad in the SP, and withdraws before the LP, right?
I agree with the mods, you're tiresome and and bring nothing to the table especially when you clearly have a giant chip on your shoulder for Chan. It's rather pointless bantering with you.
Um, really? Then what would you call Verner winning Europeans (and getting silver/bronze two other years)?
Maybe to you that is not significant evidence, but Plushenko did 2 quads in last years JO. Of course with his injury, it is too early to say he can still restore quads now. But he mentioned in many interviews last year (before the injury) that he needs a second quad in his LP. So it is not Plushenko who ignore the trend, but you did not follow up Plushenko's performance. Of course it is not a problem since apparently you are more interested in other top men, but stating that Plushenko has no second quad is not correct.
And of course you can argue that the JO performance Plushenko did not do it clean (he fell on the last 2A) so the two quads do not count
As for butt swiffing, you do know that Plushenko was seriously injured, right? Oh I remember in the post discussing about his EC performance, most of the posters were concerned about his injure, you kept on and on criticizing his skating, so maybe you do not know. And let's face it, the number of Plushenko's butt swiffing performances probably is lower than Chan's clean performances.
