Oh please the only reason this french team moved up is because all the top teams of their era retired and the return of the corrupt french official from salt lake i won't mention his name.
Ok, all of you V/M fans, just stop all the insulting because it's getting really crazy and mean here. First of all, it's clear which is the more overrated team: V and M. I used to be a die-hard fan of them, but I've been getting really really tired of hearing all this praise about them being so good, and we all know part of that's because they're a young team. For an old team like D/S it's so much harder to gain recognition like that.
Second of all, we're not trying to say who's better than who all the time, but in terms of spontaneity and genuine expression I can't see why people disagree who the winner is here. V/M are excellent technicians and they emote pretty well for people their age, but you're not giving D/S enough credit if you fail to see that in terms of expression they're the undisputed #1. Everything about their moves is seamless, and every movement in their choreography has meaning. Just recall how intricate their Piano program was compared to the rest, as even V/M fans recognized that Sphilpand and Zueva's choreography of Umbrella was a bit empty in choreography at times.
Initially, I was worried about their pink floyd program too as it left me cold at SA, only at the last minute at the GPF final, it made complete sense to me as they skated with such certainty and fluity as they never have since last year (I think the last time was 2008 Europeans when they skated the original version of Piano). With half the audience saying they should chuck the pink floyd (myself included at the time I think), they kept improving, kept skating the program with conviction and belief that the music was meant for them. That's what they kept telling us in their interviews, how their music meant so much to them because it summed up their decision to continue, to keep skating after winning Worlds.
That is also partly why I'm so dismayed that V/M chose to skate to the same music, while knowing that song meant so much to the other team. Yes, they announced their choice as Pink Floyd before the season started, but did they say it was The Great Gig in the Sky? No, not a word of it. for some reason they chose not to announce it, and I must say that was deceitful on their part. I think their team saw that having the same music as D/S puts them at a great advantage, because by comparing each move they can choose to make their corresponding ones more technically difficult, which is what they seem to have done looking at the clips. Yes, the spins are interesting and so are the lifts, but it strikes me as though they're trying too hard to be innovative, in order to one-up themselves as well as the other teams.
But to me, and I think to those with discerning eyes, their program doesn't carry the same sincerity and fluidity as D/S program. I urge everyone to watch their GPF performance; for me, that's when everything made sense. It was such a hard sell for D/S, trying to make their audience see its beauty, and now that they have done just that and worked so hard to pave the way, for V/M to come along and take advantage of it like that (whether they intended to or not, but they sure have found themselves in a position to do just that), how could we not be dismayed that they didn't choose a different song during their long period of downtime? I can't help but call that lazy , and a bit unprofessional.
V/M lifts and am glad to see a different spin than last year. Can't wait to see them at Canadians
