
So, are we getting used to The Shirt, then?

Really, though, I think it the clearer one sees it, the less bad it looks...
Anyway, great performance!
First when I read here that Papa Mishin wasn't there, I was surprised - all right, actually, I was shocked. I wondered: Where could he be?!? But then it struck me... maybe he simply is indisposed? I mean, he is human, after all, isn't he? He just seems so indistructible that one cannot imagine him being incommoded by anything - even something as commonplace as the sniffles, for example.
Maybe that's the strategy - Papa Mishin wants Sasha to have a few clean skates under his belt before he starts adding in more challenging content. (Like Liza, last year.) After all, the latter half of Sasha's season last year was a bit... tricksy. Plus maybe he wants to introduce Sasha onto the senior scene a bit... cautiously at first, and let him get comfortable with it. Well, we'll see as the season progresses what happens - early days yet.