Rgirl said:
As for the COP restricting creativity, I say baloney....Fans at least can give up watching.
Indeed they can. I hope you're right (about the "baloney" part), but, as I mentioned on another thread, I have to wonder when Elena Sokolova and Alissa Czisny get essentially identical PCS for their LPs at Skate America. IMHO Sokolova's performance made not the slightest ackowledgment of the music, her spirals were attrocious, her edges nothing to write home about, and for some reason she turned off her usual perky personality as well.
In the Short, although she was clearly the best, still the part that was missing was skating to the music. If you are going to use music like Rach #2 that fills up the arena, then
you have to fill it up, too. But she landed all her jumps and this gave her the top scores in choreography, interpretation, etc., on top of the points she legitimately got in the tech portion.
MM