Love Like Lose-skating edition

[Layback11]

Love: Firebird (LOVE SO MUCH)
Like: Sleeping Beauty
Lose: Life is Beautiful

Worst costumes of the 2015-2016 season: Yulia's rainbow dress, Liza's illusion fabric over the chest dress, Mura's feathers

Love: Takahito (it made me laugh, so I'll put it here)
Like: Yulia
Lose: Liza (just plain inappropriate)

Warhorses: Carmen, POTO, Turandot, R&J, Rach 2, Scheherazade

 

[skylark]

Love: Turandot, Rach 2
Like: Carmen, Scheherazade, POTO - with an asterisk *I adore Meryl & Charlie's POTO FD at 2014 Nationals
Lose: R&J

Character skates: Ricky Dornbush's Sherlock Holmes, Michelle Kwan's Salome; Meryl & Charlie's Samson & Delilah

 

[Layback11]

Love: S&D
Like: Salome
Lose: SH

Notable FDs this season: C/B Rach 2, W/P whatever it is, C/L Fellini medley, Shibs Fix You, I/Z Frida, G/P She Said

 

[actualrealliveanna]

Love: Shibs
Like: C/L, W/P, I/Z
Lose: C/B, G/P

Notable Ladies SPs this season: Ashley Wagner's Hip Hip Chin Chin, Mao Asada's Bei Mir Bistu Shein, Gracie Gold's El Chocolo, Julia Lipnitskaia's Elvis, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva's Carmina Burmana, Karen Chen's Nessun Dorma, Satoko Miyahara's Fire Dance

 

[invisiblespiral]

Love: Mao, Satoko, Karen
Like: Wagner, Gold, Julia
Lose: Liza

Pina Programs: S/S, Abbott, Chartrand.

 

[Layback11]

Love: Mao, Satoko, Karen
Like: Wagner, Gold, Julia
Lose: Liza

Pina Programs: S/S, Abbott, Chartrand.

Love: Chartrand
Like: Abbott
Lose: S/S (never saw it)

Notable Swan Lake/Black Swan programs of the last few years: I/K, Wagner, Aaron

 

[skylark]

Notable Ladies SPs this season: Ashley Wagner's Hip Hip Chin Chin, Mao Asada's Bei Mir Bistu Shein, Gracie Gold's El Chocolo, Julia Lipnitskaia's Elvis, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva's Carmina Burmana, Karen Chen's Nessun Dorma, Satoko Miyahara's Fire Dance

Love: Ashley, Gracie, Karen
Like: Mao, Satoko, Julia
Lose: Liza

Notable Swan Lake/Black Swan programs of the last few years: I/K, Wagner, Aaron

Love: I/K
Like: Wagner
Lose: Aaron

Romeo & Juliet: Gordeeva/Grinkov's Tchaikovsky R&J; Moore-Towers/Marinaro's Leo DiCaprio soundtrack; Yuzuru's Nino Rota R&J

 

[actualrealliveanna]

Love: G/G
Like: Hanyu
Lose: M-T/M

Notable Turandots: Karen Chen, Shoma Uno, Shen/Zhao, Yuna Kim, Shizuka Arakawa

 

[sunnystars]

Love: Chartrand
Like: Abbott
Lose: S/S (never saw it)

:eeking: how!?! watch it now and edit this list after!!

 

[Layback11]

Luuuurv: Karen, Shoma
Like: S/Z
Lose: Arakawa (Never seen it)

Notable Semi-Recent Carmens: V/M, Adelina Sotnikova, Sam Cesario's 4 different Carmens, I/Z

 

[invisiblespiral]

Love: V/M
Like: Cesario, I/Z.
Lose: Sotnikova

Homages to one's country: Yuna Kim, Yuzuru Hanyu, Mao Asada.

 

[Layback11]

Love: Yu-Na
Like: Mao
Lose: Yuzu

R&J (2013 version) programs: H/B, So-Youn Park, Yulia Lipnitskaia

 

[actualrealliveanna]

Uhhh, this is tricky.

Love: H/B
Like: So-Youn
Lose: Julia (just because I never saw it skated clean)

Former Dance Junior World Champions FDs this season: Yanovskaya/Mozgov, Hawayek/Baker, Bobrova/Soloviev

 

[Layback11]

Love: H/B
Like: B/S
Lose: Y/M

Former JWC ladies FSes this season: Evgenia Medvedeva, Lena Radionova, Julia Lipnitskaia

 

[andromache]

Love: H/B
Like: B/S
Lose: Y/M

Former JWC ladies FSes this season: Evgenia Medvedeva, Lena Radionova, Julia Lipnitskaia

Love: Elena (UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT lol)
Like: Evgenia
Lose: Yulia

Top-ranking European pairs teams that aren't Russian: Savchenko/Massot, Marchei/Hotarek, James/Cipres

 

[Layback11]

Love: Elena (UNPOPULAR OPINION ALERT lol)
Like: Evgenia
Lose: Yulia

Top-ranking European pairs teams that aren't Russian: Savchenko/Massot, Marchei/Hotarek, James/Cipres

Love: M/H (partly because I amuse myself way too much by doing the corresponding finger movements to "Stayin' Alive" in their FS )
Like: J/C
Lose: S/M (Never seen them)

MOAR! Top-ranked non-Russian pairs (NA and Chinese): Duhamel/Radford, Sui/Han, Scimeca/Kneirim, Yu/Jin, Peng/Zhang, Wang/Wang

 

[invisiblespiral]

Love: S/H, Y/J
Like: P/Z, W/W
Lose: D/R, S/K

1990s ladies skaters: Chen Lu, Michelle Kwan, Yuka Sato.

 

[actualrealliveanna]

Love: Michelle Kwan
Like: Chen Lu
Lose: Yuka Sato

Dance Teams Going To GPF: Weaver/Poje, Chock/Bates, Cappellini/Lanotte, Shibutanis, Hubbell/Donohue, Bobrova/Soloviev

 

[solar]

Love: S/S
Like: C/B, W/P, C/L
Lose: H/D, B/S

Women going to the GPF: Medvedeva, Gold, Miyahara, Asada, Radionova, Wagner

 

[Layback11]

Love: Gold, Asada, Radionova
Like: Medvedeva, Miyahara
Lose: Wagner (Sorry...only one in this field I'm not an actual fan of, but she's fine)

Mans going to the GPF: Fernandez, Hanyu, Chan, Murakami, Uno, Jin