And, yes, everyone have their own preferences. 
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.). Then a drought. Then Max was the precursor, the pioneer, who had the jumps but was/is perceived as lacking other qualities to make him a "complete" skater (Tim Goebel was the same way). Now we have young talent (17 and younger, younger than Max was when he won his US championship) who not only have or are in the process of acquiring multiple quads, but have the time and show potential for being accepted by the judges as artists, as well. Nathan has excellent skating skills, and when he tries (like in his SP) he brings great grace and presence to the ice, with very balletic interpretation. The amount of progress he has made over the course of a season in his skating and choreography and interpretation has been excellent (whereas Max and Tim both struggled to show dramatic progress in those areas, though they undoubtedly worked hard and it showed.)Just wait until the finals this year
Re: US men and a "multi-quad era" - I'm in the "multi-quad era is only just starting" camp. Tim Goebel was an magnificent exception, but one skater is not enough to create an era unless that skater is so dominant as to have their own era (like Michelle Kwan
Juniors like Vincent and others haven't shown Nathan's knack for presentation yet, but they're young and time is on their side, though there is also the possibility of stagnation due to growth or injury (see: Nam Nguyen - while he's grown up, his actual skating and performance quality have gone NOWHERE, have not matured, because he's been so focused on recovering those lost jumps).
) but despite being a red blooded American, medals, medals, medals, records, records, records are not my thing. Not at the expense of "Tollers"
All the talk about Max...
It's too soon, it's too painful. I just can't.
Max will make it all right. He will. I know he will. The judges won't, but he will.
. But I think he would like to maximize his official scores as well. I like the comparison. I love Roger Federer. Also like Roger, Jason's a great sport too.
Speaking of Jason, his last 4CC blog entry is up: http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017/02/13/215863584/the-journey-begins-brown-blogs-from-south-korea
Doesn't sound like someone who is against quads to me.
But why? If Max came out with an FS as empty as Chen's he would be roasted alive. But no, because it's precious frigging Chen, it gets 91 PCS at Nationals, but Max never got any help from the judges, never. Max has people cheering that he fell, people who were hoping for him to fail, people who were happy because everyone knows that result in 2016 was an absolute travesty but people don't ACTUALLY care because yay it was arteeste Adam and it was only Max who cares? He never gets any credit for the work he does, and now these kids start doing multiple quads and get away with all the crap he never could and it's just. so. wrong.
How could he not when it was all he ever heard? When no-one was prepared to give him credit? When people acted like his National title was the end of the world but hey, Chen can stroke-stroke-jump and it's something wondrous!
I want to like Chen and Zhou but the blatant double standard and the total lack of problem that anyone has with that double-standard is killing me.
) Liszt at Finlandia in 2014. I loooved the Liszt program. Not as many five Tollers as Jason, but who does?
