Impromptu

I don't know if they had any different reaction privately, but publicly they didn't have anything negative to say:

Former UK Ice Dancer, I think he is also one of the pros on Dancing on Ice. Here are some photos from the commentating stream, where he was doing the PBP and also stretching: https://www.instagram.com/p/CM4DzeNLGn_/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CM7WSLJrgBT/

Interesting ideas. I was only going back ten years, because that's been the decade that Brown has competed in. Robin Cousins and Kurt Browning are in my top five male skaters of all time (Cousins' "Satan Takes a Holiday" routine I still remember vividly and it's been almost 40 years since I saw it live at World Pros). I could see Kurt skating to "Sinnerman," but I'm not 100% certain I'd pick Robin... Toller Cranston, or Gary Beacom... oh, or David Liu. Now, when it comes to "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," I'd absolutely have Robin Cousins or Kurt Browning skate that program - and I could imagine both of them doing a better job with it than Jason at this point (not that he does a bad job with it, but I don't think he's competed it enough yet for it to really gel, and honestly, I'm not loving the programs that David Wilson has given him - they don't instantly fit Jason as well as Rohene's programs do).

Actually, he's extremely consistent - he's never finished worst than 9th place in any (national or international) competition (going back to 2009), including medaling at 4 continents twice, winning 7 Senior Grand prix medals, 9 medals (including 5 Gold medals) at other senior international events, and one of the reasons for that is that he normally lands his jumps, lands them cleanly and with high grades of execution. He has some of the purest technique out there, and the most difficult non-jump content there is. There is a reason why you'll hear the commentating crew always refer to him as a "skater's skater" - it's because other skaters understand just how technically difficult what he does is. I look at his current short program and I can only think of three other skaters from the past decade who could pull that off (Hanyu, Patrick Chan, or Daisuke Takahashi). Now, you could say that he's not consistently landing a quad jump, and that would be true. But he's pretty consistent on everything else.

What is awesome about Bryan V is how he always seems to nerd out over the challenge, if its not something in his skill set, it always seems to be something he's interested in trying to do, and he's great at the talking head section explaining what about the challenge is specifically challenging. He reminds of those Amazing Race racers who no matter where the race sends them, are, "Awesome! Serbia! I've always wanted to go there! Oooh! Nova Scotia! I've can't wait to see it! Far out! Viet Nam! It's been a dream of mine to travel there."

I didn't love any of the collections, but if I were picking someone to be out, it would definitely be Sergio... yes, the final dress was pretty, but google "grey ombre gown" and you'll find dozens of similar dresses, many of them prom gowns. Nothing new there.

Ugh, Garo, what a smug jerk. Shoving a curvy girl into a corset (which she won't even be able to get into or out of herself!) is not "celebrating her shape." It's reshaping it to your needs.

No, it's not on Wikipedia. Ice-dance.com keeps links to their older events coverage. Here; https://www.ice-dance.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2014USNationalsProfiles-Novice.pdf (Scroll to page 2)

Sergei and Marina never coached Carreira and Ponomarenko -they've always been with Sphilband. They did coach Anthony and his former partner, Sarah Feng (who is now a pairs skater and is competing at Junior Worlds this week).

180 cm (5'11") might be a magic number: Previous Olympic Gold Medalists... Alexei Urmanov (5'11"), Robin Cousins (6'), Brian Boitano (5'11"), Ilia Kulik (5'11"), Evgeni Plushenko (5'11").

The Bee's voice is the only one that sounded really familiar - my guess would be Roberta Flack.

I just looked up his bio, and discovered he is from the same town I am from. Parkersburg WV... and we had grasshoppers there. (And also, aside, the horrible 17 year ciccadas, which could be inspire a whole line of creature make-ups).

But Stone Cold Steve Austin isn't dead. No, but that wouldn't be an obstacle for a demon to take the form of Stone Cold Steve Austin and tell Eleanor that he was the real Stone Cold Steve Austin who had just died.

What probably happened is that PR sent copies of all the patterns to Dixie, but not the final designs (you'll notice there wasn't a Dixie person there judging the runway). Dixie looked at the patterns, and picked Claire's and possibly picked Brandon as their second favorite. So when it came to the runway show, the judges had to pick Claire and figure out some way to justify it, but since they were also judging the final clothing, they didn't need to have Brandon in the top 3, they could pick their other two favorite actual looks. When Claire was disqualified, Dixie could say, ok, we still need a pattern, so we'll take our alternate print, Brandon's. At that point, they could either go back and re-shoot the top 3 judging and include Brandon as part of the top 3/or 4 - and by doing so, lose all their precious drama - or just announce that there was no "winner" but that Dixie would use Brandon's pattern. Dixie probably decided later to give Brandon the cash, but that may have been a decision that happened long after the episode was edited, so the announcement wasn't part of the final cut.

While we know that due to the reboots have taken place over a couple hundred years, that doesn't mean that that same amount of time has passed for those still alive on Earth, because time could run differently in the "/not Good Place." Even 300 years of "/not Good Place" time could be the equivalent of five minutes of alive time. Of course it could also be equal time... but it doesn't have to be. (Which gives the show's writer's all kinds of options for later seasons).

There were a lot of things in the pilot that bugged me (that have already been pointed out), not to mention the patient being prevailed on to consent to the operation was a huge issue for me .... but... Freddie Highmore was amazing and I'm still thinking about the pilot today. Which means I'll be back for the next episode, and hopefully they'll get the bugs out of their system once they've finished world building.

Looks like there's a nice coffeetable (? I think coffeetable size.... it's defintiely coffeetable book priced) book tie in that was just released yesterday: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/orphan-black-classified-clone-reports-delphine-cormier/1126273457?ean=9780062663962 "From the secret files of Dr. Delphine Cormier, comes this ultimate guide to all of the characters, conspiracies, and shadowy organizations in the smart, innovative BBC America television thriller Orphan Black. Designed to resemble the classified files and notes of Dr. Delphine Cormier, this in-world compendium chronicles the inner workings of the mysterious people and organizations at the heart of the acclaimed hit television series Orphan Black. "

I thought it was wonderful that we got a 30 minute coda to the story (although I need to watch it again without the worry that that someone with a gun was going to jump out of the woodwork at 9:40 pm) - I hate it when a story ends with the death of the bad guys and everyone smiles, then fade out. I always want to know how they lived after that, without a mission. And here, we found out. It made sense that Allison would continue to be the nurturing mom, who wants everyone to just relax and enjoy being together, and Helena to settle into a home that she never realized she needed, and that Cosima would continue to make crazy science as she and Delphine go forth to find and cure the Ledas... like Sarah, she needs a mission. Even Rachel's ending made sense - it's probably not going to be a happy life for her, but it's the life she wants. I can imagine that Krystal may pop in, with another weird mystery for Art and "that Australian" to solve, and even Tony may visit his sestras, now that it's safer for him to do so. With Sarah, we saw that when the mission- her fight- ended, and she had time to stop and breathe, she now was mourning S. I thought that her walking out on the test was not that she hadn't changed, but that she hadn't accepted she had changed. She was used to S. picking up the slack for her, and without S., she thought she couldn't do it alone. Her plan to pick up and run wasn't because that was still her character, but because she was afraid it was her still her character. She's been fighting the conspiracy for (2? years), and now that she's not, she hasn't yet figured out that her new battle is internal, not external. Without S. as a rudder, she's scared, and a scared person first tries to behave in what worked before. But that scene with her other sestras helps her realize that not only will Cosima, Alison and Helena (and Felix, and Art, and even Delphine) be her rudder, but they give her the encouragement to trust her own rudder. It was a beautiful ending, and I loved it. I loved how it showed that for some people, the ending of the war doesn't mean they can immediately adjust to the new world, even if it's a world that they fought for. I will really miss this show, but for me, it went out on a perfect note. (Which is not to say that I won't be the first in line if there's ever an Orphan Black movie... there's certainly enough potential for great stories to be mined in this new world).

Or, as Felix called them, "The Fish People." ( I think my all time favorite line from the show -and non verbal response is Felix's, "Helena, did you burn down the Fish People's ranch?" and Helena's big grin in response.)

Rachel said "alternative facts" ... she was describing the role of one of the board members.

I'm watching and appreciating... I guess it's just that I'm doing it quietly.

Apparently it's a clip-on? http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-obsession-with-plant-and-flower-hair-clips-2015-10/#perhaps-its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-we-see-this-trend-make-its-way-to-the-us-16

ESPN just published an interview with the Quarterback's Coach Clint Trickett, which does give a little bit of follow up after the season: http://www.espn.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/114280/qa-east-mississippi-c-c-assistant-clint-trickett-talks-last-chance-u

It turns out that "LokSat" was a typo. The season villain was actually a LolCat, and the precinct is invaded by a mob of feral cats looking for cheeseburgers.

Oh I got to be a test audience for this pilot in April (one of those things you do in Las Vegas if you are there for a week (!) with your entire family (!) and don't like to gamble). My mom and my sister were with me and we all have vastly different preferences for what we like to watch on television. All three of us hated it (for different reasons), which might be the first time in history we have agreed on anything.