Hmm. I liked Plushenko. Though both I and the UK commentators were in agreement that he was 'playing it safe' to an extent, in terms of being very focused on what would get him the points (landing the jumps, etc.) rather than just going with the music. I'm hoping he comes up with something interesting for the exhibition.
I thought the problems for a lot of the others were a combination of the new judging style (which seems to favour 'my god, do the fucking jump!' over program continuity) and just unnevenness of performance. Given a lot of them don't seem to be that old (was one of the earlier ones 19?) I don't think it's that surprising. Hopefully they'll be back for the next lot of games in 4 years all the better for having been there and competed this time.
I do have to say I thought a lot of the programs in general were pretty boring. (I watched nearly all of them, since the BBC showed the whole thing.) There was a a lot of 'hey, I'm skating! And there's music!' going on, rather than skating-to-the-music which is infinitely better to watch.
Also, I don't remember who, but I do remember there were several skaters who *looked* flawless but on replay didn't land jumps correctly and so on. Perhaps there's some of that going on and the US coverage didn't show the replays? (As I said, the BBC showed THE ENTIRE THING. Including warmups and 300000 replays of things.) It was pretty small stuff, but I don't know how that figures into the new scoring system.
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Date: 2006-02-17 12:43 pm (UTC)I thought the problems for a lot of the others were a combination of the new judging style (which seems to favour 'my god, do the fucking jump!' over program continuity) and just unnevenness of performance. Given a lot of them don't seem to be that old (was one of the earlier ones 19?) I don't think it's that surprising. Hopefully they'll be back for the next lot of games in 4 years all the better for having been there and competed this time.
I do have to say I thought a lot of the programs in general were pretty boring. (I watched nearly all of them, since the BBC showed the whole thing.) There was a a lot of 'hey, I'm skating! And there's music!' going on, rather than skating-to-the-music which is infinitely better to watch.
Also, I don't remember who, but I do remember there were several skaters who *looked* flawless but on replay didn't land jumps correctly and so on. Perhaps there's some of that going on and the US coverage didn't show the replays? (As I said, the BBC showed THE ENTIRE THING. Including warmups and 300000 replays of things.) It was pretty small stuff, but I don't know how that figures into the new scoring system.