It seems I'm the only one who likes Mariah's SP. It looked great on OIP's clip and now when you could see her facial expressions on the stream. (In the Cranberry practice it wasn't that great.) It will develop and get better especially once she gets the step sequence under control. People hated the Britney program too in the beginning but by nationals it was fire.
And it's weird that people are saying Mariah at 25 doesn't know her mind and what she wants to skate to. Adam isn't a svengali forcing her do things, and I think he's been a great influence on her. She had her best season with him in 2019-20, podiuming at all her events and even being the first American woman to medal at both her GPs in many years. I think besides the pandemic, last year was difficult for her because Adam WASN'T with her at competitions (he spent months abroad).
At this point of her career she isn't going to pull a 3A or a quad out of her butt so she might as well differentiate herself in another way and skate to fun stuff that she likes. Better this than both programs being boring warhorses. Skaters shouldn't think what's "Olympic" (was "Let me think about it" Olympic?) because that's not authentic either, you're thinking about what others want to see. And I'm sure Adam has drilled into her that making or missing the Olympics isn't going to define her or her skating career.
I could see Gabby withdrawing in an effort to save her shot at the SkAm spot if she doesn't think she can redeem her SP, but I thought Amber's SP was a good start to the season for her and was looking forward to seeing more.
All those shaky landings though..This shouldn´t place above Young.
