Caught up. Overall impression: :hopelessness: I am very cranky since 1) my night meds haven't kicked in yet 2) I got on the wrong bus while coming home (my fault for being preoccupied, but still) 3) I am still upset about a certain darling's free, so I may be overly harsh. Please feel free to add me to your ignore list if I say something that irks you.
- Junhyeong started nicely with a 3A-2T, then he started falling... He's only 22 and he may get back his game as Brezina and Voronov have, but then me the (bleep) wonders about the other case scenario. He'll make a great choreographer, hope he'll go that route when he does retire. Side note, what was with his shirt missing a back...
- Kevin Reynolds, Sato Hiroaki, Yaroslav Paniot, the three were painful to watch. I can't remember what the programs were like, it's just a whole bunch of pops and falls in my head. Moving on.
- Alexander Johnson popped quite a few jumps, but he didn't fall for the first time in the first group. I also remember a nice split leap.
- Deniss Vaslijevs had a nice, although cold-looking, costume. Not a fan of the music (the shouting was off-putting) and far from clean, but nice energy. Oh, and bonus points for Stephane Lambiel.
- Matteo Rizzo wasn't clean, but when nobody is that's enough for bronze. I still find the cuts awkward though.
- Yamamoto Sota receives the Best Costume award here. Good program, and he's quite charming. Would love to see it clean.
- Vincent Zhou had a very awkward pop for a beginning. Still, even with all those underrotations his layout was pretty impressive. The thing is, although he had a nice costume and great music (I love me some good nice traditional East Asian music), he seemed so focused on the tech that the performance aspect fell somewhat flat to me. Some face, s'il vous plait.
- God Dmitri, you have such beautiful lines, lovely musicality, a good program, and height and speed in your jumps, why do you have to pop them jumps... I think he's becoming a sweet poison (I saw some people using the term cactus, I'm used to using the poison simile - it kills you yet you take it eagerly - so I'm keeping it), another one to add to my list.
- Sergei Voronov wasn't clean, but with nobody clean that was practically stellar. And um, RIP Denis Ten, but am I a terrible person to say that I don't feel much from the program?
- I still want that lovely white costume Uno Shoma wore at Lombardia back. And I have no idea what to make out of him, to do nice, clean quads then to stumble on a 3S... But at around 90% clean he was the cleanest here today, so he gets that gold (as expected).
- Junhyeong started nicely with a 3A-2T, then he started falling... He's only 22 and he may get back his game as Brezina and Voronov have, but then me the (bleep) wonders about the other case scenario. He'll make a great choreographer, hope he'll go that route when he does retire. Side note, what was with his shirt missing a back...
- Kevin Reynolds, Sato Hiroaki, Yaroslav Paniot, the three were painful to watch. I can't remember what the programs were like, it's just a whole bunch of pops and falls in my head. Moving on.
- Alexander Johnson popped quite a few jumps, but he didn't fall for the first time in the first group. I also remember a nice split leap.
- Deniss Vaslijevs had a nice, although cold-looking, costume. Not a fan of the music (the shouting was off-putting) and far from clean, but nice energy. Oh, and bonus points for Stephane Lambiel.
- Matteo Rizzo wasn't clean, but when nobody is that's enough for bronze. I still find the cuts awkward though.
- Yamamoto Sota receives the Best Costume award here. Good program, and he's quite charming. Would love to see it clean.
- Vincent Zhou had a very awkward pop for a beginning. Still, even with all those underrotations his layout was pretty impressive. The thing is, although he had a nice costume and great music (I love me some good nice traditional East Asian music), he seemed so focused on the tech that the performance aspect fell somewhat flat to me. Some face, s'il vous plait.
- God Dmitri, you have such beautiful lines, lovely musicality, a good program, and height and speed in your jumps, why do you have to pop them jumps... I think he's becoming a sweet poison (I saw some people using the term cactus, I'm used to using the poison simile - it kills you yet you take it eagerly - so I'm keeping it), another one to add to my list.
- Sergei Voronov wasn't clean, but with nobody clean that was practically stellar. And um, RIP Denis Ten, but am I a terrible person to say that I don't feel much from the program?
- I still want that lovely white costume Uno Shoma wore at Lombardia back. And I have no idea what to make out of him, to do nice, clean quads then to stumble on a 3S... But at around 90% clean he was the cleanest here today, so he gets that gold (as expected).