Tessa and Scott's program is not bland! If you find it bland, then you are missing out on what you can enjoy. Their motivation to dance comes more from within.
Meryl and Charlie's dance is dramatic, dynamic and gives you a sense of excitement but it doesnot have the same level of authenticity as the canadians programs, everything looks magnificent and is put there for a purpose but it looks ad put in place for the points. They skate for the levels and the points and that's what irks me. This detracts me from their skating- i try to relate and connect but the way they skate can only make me appreciate what they are dong drom a distance- and that fact cannot be disputed.
This contrasts with Tessa and Scott- they perform and take uneccessary risks for the sake of the dance. Yes, they dont slways hit the levels and the transitions are a little less smooth and effortless but The dancing is as one and they make the technical work seem almost incidental in comparison to the actual dancing. Their dancing is the dancing i enjoy watching,
Technically the americans are superior and they will win most likely win the olympics but im looking past 2014, when the and the canadians finish their careers- i worry about the direction of dance in the future- its going to be too clean, confined, constructed and controlled and if Meryl and Charlie win over tessa and scott, this precedent will be set for ice dance in the future.
Meryl and Charlie's dance is dramatic, dynamic and gives you a sense of excitement but it doesnot have the same level of authenticity as the canadians programs, everything looks magnificent and is put there for a purpose but it looks ad put in place for the points. They skate for the levels and the points and that's what irks me. This detracts me from their skating- i try to relate and connect but the way they skate can only make me appreciate what they are dong drom a distance- and that fact cannot be disputed.
This contrasts with Tessa and Scott- they perform and take uneccessary risks for the sake of the dance. Yes, they dont slways hit the levels and the transitions are a little less smooth and effortless but The dancing is as one and they make the technical work seem almost incidental in comparison to the actual dancing. Their dancing is the dancing i enjoy watching,
Technically the americans are superior and they will win most likely win the olympics but im looking past 2014, when the and the canadians finish their careers- i worry about the direction of dance in the future- its going to be too clean, confined, constructed and controlled and if Meryl and Charlie win over tessa and scott, this precedent will be set for ice dance in the future.