2021 NHK Trophy: Pairs Free Skate

[saturdaysun]

Why are they in a quarantine?

Everyone entering China has to quarantine (exceptions will be made during the Olympics). The entire team just returned from Italy.

 

[elektra blue]

@elektra blue got me wanting carbonara so much last week I had to go get myself some.

that's what friends are for

 

[anonymoose_au]

Why are they in a quarantine?

China is super strict...I think they're still imposing a 21 day quarantine even if you're vaxxed? That will change for the Olympics for the athletes though.

 

[lariko]

I still can’t with M/G music. That evening news cut in the end is just so cringy.

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[Vasilisa1]

I still can’t with M/G music. That evening news cut in the end is just so cringy.

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The suite was written by Sviridov for film ‘Time, forward!’. It’s often performed by an orchestra (I’ve listened to this music three or four times) and not cringy at all.

 

[lariko]

The suite was written by Sviridov for film ‘Time, forward!’. It’s often performed by an orchestra (I’ve listened to this music three or four times) and not cringy at all.

It feels like their skate goes on and on, then is interrupted by a newscast. It is the newscast music, we heard it for years and years as newscast opening. I’m expecting an update on how the collective farms are faring, lol.

 

[Flying Feijoa]

I’m expecting an update on how the collective farms are faring, lol.

Think I might have underestimated your age...

I liked M/G's programme but that's fair, life experience can create some very person-specific mental associations with music (holiday visits to dysfunctional relatives ruined Butterfly Lovers for me)

 

[lariko]

Think I might have underestimated your age...

people often do I am from ‘75 vintage and was born to this music, the fact my mom never fails to bring up whenever M/G skate.

 

[Dawn825]

I like both of C/L's programs, much more than the others we saw here, I wish they had skated a little better and made a stronger case for being considered the US's top team.
M/K are sooo charming and confident, they would benefit from music with more personality but everyone is behind them anyways. And they're so young, so I'm excited to watch them in the future, almost all the other top teams are probably on their last season.
I was such a big fan of M/G last year and now i can barely be bothered to watch them. I love the short but it has unfortunately gotten a bit stale at this point. I think mostly because their free is so disappointing with so much recycled choreography that I can't even let myself get invested in them for the short when I know the free is coming.
T/M only have to skate well once - at the Olympics. They are not in the same situating as the Russian ladies, fighting to make the team and suffering in the perception game by losing to a competitor once. They're lucky that all the other Russian teams have lukewarm programs, so their lukewarm programs won't hurt them. They're beautiful skaters, but the depressing energy coming off them always makes them hard to root for personally.

 

[Yeslekyelnats]

I like both of C/L's programs, much more than the others we saw here, I wish they had skated a little better and made a stronger case for being considered the US's top team.
M/K are sooo charming and confident, they would benefit from music with more personality but everyone is behind them anyways. And they're so young, so I'm excited to watch them in the future, almost all the other top teams are probably on their last season.
I was such a big fan of M/G last year and now i can barely be bothered to watch them. I love the short but it has unfortunately gotten a bit stale at this point. I think mostly because their free is so disappointing with so much recycled choreography that I can't even let myself get invested in them for the short when I know the free is coming.
T/M only have to skate well once - at the Olympics. They are not in the same situating as the Russian ladies, fighting to make the team and suffering in the perception game by losing to a competitor once. They're lucky that all the other Russian teams have lukewarm programs, so their lukewarm programs won't hurt them. They're beautiful skaters, but the depressing energy coming off them always makes them hard to root for personally.

Only she is young in M/K. I thought I heard them say he was 30 but he could easily go at least another 4 years I would think.

 

[rollerblade]

Yea, I was surprise to find out there's ~10 years of age difference between Miura and Kihara! Crazy how well they matched.
Kinda remind me of a former Chinese pair team (Wang Xuehan & Wang Lei).

 

[Dawn825]

Oh wow, I didnt know that, I only googled her age. So who knows how long they'll keep going. Fingers crossed we see more of them.