Jason's footwork sequence is so beautiful, muzak and all! Love him. Poor thing can't jump for _____ but I love him.
Have figure skating fans always been so irrational and knee-jerk defensive when it comes to their favorites? Or is this more of an internet era thing?
I mean, if in the mid-90s you said something objectively true, like 'Lu Chen is such a fabulous skater on so many levels but her spins are ghastly', would all the skating hausfraus freak out and insist that she was a brilliant spinner?
It's beyond me.
Here's the thing, though. You explicitly stated that "Jason can't jump for ___". If you'd said "shame he can't do a quad" then you wouldn't have got half the reaction that you did. The problem was that you stated something that is patently, objectively untrue.
Because Jason can jump. He has beautiful triples and a beautiful triple Axel. Skaters who "can't jump for ____" don't jump the way Jason does. He has a good, tight air position, lovely lines, and good flow in and out of his jumps. His triples regularly attract +GOE. So clearly, Jason can jump, and the judges agree that he can.
And if this is about the number of doubles in his FS here - that was planned. Anyone who's followed Jason for more than two minutes knows that Jason always plans doubles in his first couple of outings of a new FS. It's standard procedure. It doesn't signify anything.