Figure Skating

[Bama]

Alina in a tiger print catsuit - ROWR!!

[ChicksDigScars]

Man, that song does NOTHING to quiet the rumors that Tessa and Scott have secret stashed away babies. People just watched that and said, "Oh yeah. They're banging."

 

Alina: You know, if she was 18, I'd think that cat suit with the nekkid looking illusion fabric down the leg and side of the booty was cool.....buuuuttttt. 

Edited February 25, 2018 by ChicksDigScars

[Cindyluwho]

Say what you will about Scott and Tessa, but they are absolutely fabulous skaters. That was beautiful!

[stealinghome]

 That costume is...interesting.

[Bama]

Why did she end with a candle on her tummy?

[dankesean]

1 minute ago, Bama said:

Why did she end with a candle on her tummy?

True art is incomprehensible.

[mtlchick]

2 minutes ago, Cindyluwho said:

Say what you will about Scott and Tessa, but they are absolutely fabulous skaters. That was beautiful!

Skating to The Tragically Hip to boot.  The only thing more Canadian would be Scott holding a beer while performing and they were wearing plaid. 

[Cindyluwho]

1 minute ago, mtlchick said:

Skating to The Tragically Hip to boot.  The only thing more Canadian would be Scott holding a beer while performing and they were wearing plaid. 

Or a Timmies.

[HartofDixie]

9 minutes ago, Moxie Cat said:

Annnnd....that's the end of NBC skating for now at least. We saw Shibs, Osmond, and the North Korea pair.

i don't get it...is there actually a crossover audience that wants to watch both skating performances and people bobsledding, all chopped up? Idk, if you've seen one bobsled going down that chute, you've seen them all.

Why did NBC force this exhibition to start at 9:30 am and not air it live?

[Jaded]

6 minutes ago, HartofDixie said:

Do you think the NBCSN will show everyone or am I better off streaming the gala?

NBCSN has it scheduled for 2 hours so I don't think that's enough time to show everyone. I missed the first couple performances online since it seemed to start early and it's been going over 2 hours with a short ice refinishing break in between. The TV version might have some fluff stuff so I might FF'd through it. The ending with everyone even the little kids who picked stuff up off the ice was a nice way to end things.

[stealinghome]

I want Javi to come be my best friend so I can observe him being hilarious and adorable all the time.

[mtlchick]

They wasted no time in getting "This Is Me" slowly implanted into our brains for the next Olympic cycle.  (And I say that as a chick who loves Hugh Jackman singing and dancing.) 

[Souris]

Apart from a few performances, I wasn't overly thrilled with the gala. It suffered from a general lack of FUN. (Javier excluded, of course.)

[fireice13]

They had fun at the end on the ice when they all took a selfie together and one of the pairs skaters lifted Hanyu.

[Bama]

Barbie Girl was fun.  Alina was....interesting.  Misha was super fun.

And the group selfie at the end as mentioned was cute.

[MaKaM]

Was it the Torino Olympics where Johnny did a trio with a US pair? I remember loving that. (or was that his My Way performance)

[Mellowyellow]

I'm out so I missed the live stream.

What did Alina and Evgenia do? Were they good?

[JenMD]

12 minutes ago, Jaded said:

NBCSN has it scheduled for 2 hours so I don't think that's enough time to show everyone.

I just noticed it's been shortened down to an hour.  It's now on the schedule for 4-5 am (Eastern).  That's a bummer.

[Moxie Cat]

Looks like NBC will be back shortly with V/M (a little after 10 pm EST).

[gatopretoNYC]

This is one of my all-time favorite exhibition programs. :)

[Moxie Cat]

2 minutes ago, JenMD said:

I just noticed it's been shortened down to an hour. 

Argh, you're right! When I set it just a few hours ago, it was definitely 4-6 with nothing at 6-7. Now hockey is 5-7. What happened, was the gala not as good as NBC was expecting? Weird.

[Growsonwalls]

I like this V/M exhibition. I dare say it might have been reworked into a FD with a little work.

[gatopretoNYC]

They have the replay of the gala available on the NBC sports app now.

[Growsonwalls]

So Alina Zagitova is a tiger or something? 

[tanyak]

1 minute ago, Growsonwalls said:

So Alina Zagitova is a tiger or something? 

I think she's a fire goddess? But wtf is this?!

[Jaded]

9 minutes ago, Moxie Cat said:

Argh, you're right! When I set it just a few hours ago, it was definitely 4-6 with nothing at 6-7. Now hockey is 5-7. What happened, was the gala not as good as NBC was expecting? Weird.

It was a low energy gala save for a few performances as others mentioned before. It might have been better if so many hadn't gotten sick resulting in withdrawing. 

[dankesean]

42 minutes ago, Bama said:

Why did she end with a candle on her tummy?

OK, so the non-flippant answer, provided courtesy of the commentary on the NBC chopped up gala broadcast, is that she was 'portraying the priestess of the goddess of fire'. So the candle is explained.
Not sure where being dressed as the Rum-Tum-Tugger comes into play, though.

[GeminiDancer]

14 minutes ago, gatopretoNYC said:

This is one of my all-time favorite exhibition programs. :)

 

I love them. Their Carmina Burana! I think they are the only dance pair to match the intensity.

[annzeepark914]

Will we get to see Cappellini/Lannotte? They always do a great gala performance. Alina's was unusual but she's amazing.

[ChicksDigScars]

Yeah, NBC gave us next to nothing. Shibs, Osmond, the North Koreans, and the three Gold Medalists (since Savchenko and Massot are not there). NBC didn't even show Medvedeva. Wow. Yesterday's news, I guess.  Watch the stream. Or maybe NBCSC, if they show it all. 

 

The stream also had more "intimate" camera angels.  Tessa and Scott got more close ups of the longing looks and you even saw Scott mouth what MAY have been "I love you," to Tessa before they started. But I'm not a good lip reader, so no guarantees on that one. Oh, and a slo mo of Scott basically feeling her up, thus my comment above about them not doing anything to squash any secret babies rumors. The performance that NBC just showed looked more innocuous. 

[MaKaM]

1 minute ago, annzeepark914 said:

Will we get to see Cappellini/Lannotte? They always do a great gala performance. Alina's was unusual but she's amazing.

If they were going in order, nope. Hanyu was the last guy on the docket.

[ChicksDigScars]

Oh, there she is. They are out of order. I was wondering why they skipped over Medvedeva, especially after all the drooling and orgasmic reactions that they had to her. 

Edited February 25, 2018 by ChicksDigScars

[MostlyC]

I caught the Javier skate online; it was hilarious.  NBC won't show it on air probably, but they should.

I did not understand Alina's exhibition skate at all.

[annzeepark914]

Medvedeva is on now. Shush, Scott.

[elle]

23 minutes ago, gatopretoNYC said:

This is one of my all-time favorite exhibition programs. :)

Thanks for sharing!

Such fun! I enjoyed hearing the commentators react and laugh.  Some things don't need translation.

[displayname]

Zag has an not-too aesthetically pleasing 3Lz-3T. Shows who trained her.

 

Switch coaches Zag! You could be better!

Edited February 25, 2018 by fan94

[sab85]

I kind of love Medvedeva for skating in leather pants and a black hoodie. And this music seems like the equivalent of a pissed off Alanis Morisette.

Oh shut up Andrea, Virtue and Moir won the gold medal, they didn't run over and steal it out of the French's hands. Why is she here?

Isn't the gala supposed to be fun? Where is Javi?

Edited February 25, 2018 by sab85

[displayname]

Yet again Zag's EX beats Med's EX, because while Zag is too young to emote more than she does, she still has movement to the music.

[Growsonwalls]

9 minutes ago, ChicksDigScars said:

Yeah, NBC gave us next to nothing. Shibs, Osmond, the North Koreans, and the three Gold Medalists (since Savchenko and Massot are not there). NBC didn't even show Medvedeva. Wow. Yesterday's news, I guess.  Watch the stream. Or maybe NBCSC, if they show it all. 

 

The stream also had more "intimate" camera angels.  Tessa and Scott got more close ups of the longing looks and you even saw Scott mouth what MAY have been "I love you," to Tessa before they started. But I'm not a good lip reader, so no guarantees on that one. Oh, and a slo mo of Scott basically feeling her up, thus my comment above about them not doing anything to squash any secret babies rumors. The performance that NBC just showed looked more innocuous. 

I kind of think that Tessa and Scott might date after the games. I saw an interview a few days ago where they acted more coy about the question than they've ever been.

[elle]

Took away the gold?

Please stop talking during the skate.

[Mittengirl]

So far the gala has been pretty boring, IMO.  I liked it better when the skaters did fun stuff in the gala, rather than this overwrought skating NBC has shown tonight.

[ChicksDigScars]

Looks like NBC ran out of programming with the US laying an egg in the Bobsled medals. They're now filling in with ealier performances, so maybe Fernandez will make the cut. 

[Libby96]

Why is Andrea Joyce announcing this gala?  They already have Scott and Tanith. 

When she is the one doing the rinkside interviews, it seems that Terry Gannon always says something like "Now we will send it down to Andrea Joyce, who just caught up with so-and-so."  It always gives me the mental picture of the skaters walking away as fast as they can in their skates, ducking behind curtains and such as Andrea pursues then, tottering on her high heels while clutching her microphone.

[displayname]

I hope you guys watch Jun Hwan Cha's gala.

 

Or find it on YouTube. The most fun besides Boyang's Spiderman, for me.

[Growsonwalls]

1 minute ago, Libby96 said:

Why is Andrea Joyce announcing this gala?  They already have Scott and Tanith. 

When she is the one doing the rinkside interviews, it seems that Terry Gannon always says something like "Now we will send it down to Andrea Joyce, who just caught up with so-and-so."  It always gives me the mental picture of the skaters walking away as fast as they can in their skates, ducking behind curtains and such as Andrea pursues then, tottering on her high heels while clutching her microphone.

It used to be only U.S. skaters who had to endure Andrea Joyce but this Olympics they sicced her on Med as well. Poor girl. No one deserves Andrea Joyce.

[MaKaM]

3 minutes ago, Libby96 said:

Why is Andrea Joyce announcing this gala?  They already have Scott and Tanith. 

When she is the one doing the rinkside interviews, it seems that Terry Gannon always says something like "Now we will send it down to Andrea Joyce, who just caught up with so-and-so."  It always gives me the mental picture of the skaters walking away as fast as they can in their skates, ducking behind curtains and such as Andrea pursues then, tottering on her high heels while clutching her microphone.

"Wait, wait!" Andrea cries. "I haven't gotten you to cry in front of the camera, yet! America NEEDS to know why you are such a fuckup and let down an entire nation (that never once cared about you before today)"

[elle]

3 minutes ago, ChicksDigScars said:

Looks like NBC ran out of programming with the US laying an egg in the Bobsled medals. They're now filling in with ealier performances, so maybe Fernandez will make the cut. 

Or not.

The last skate was interesting, more what I expect to see at a gala.  Hopefully someone can post the other skaters we missed.

[displayname]

[honeywest]

No Shoma, no Javi, no Cappellini and Lanotte, no Misha Ge. 

Edited February 25, 2018 by honeywest
Misspelling

[sab85]

The ending with all the skaters was kind of hilarious. Poor Zag was off the beat at least 50% of the time.