InsaneJournal

Current mood:	mellow
Current music:	Vienna Teng-Paper Cup

Romantic pieces
After two days of watching the Trophée Eric Bombard in between preparing packages for mailing and mailing them, I did notice the stream had much better timing than last year; granted, there were a few times it unfroze just as a performance finished(especially annoying was it coming out of a long streak of images just as Samuelson and Bates finished), but it also seemed to know when I absolutely had to see. After much antics during the ladies free, it played Yu-Na's free skate without disruption, amid streaks of Inoue and Baldwin it at one point unfroze just long enough for me to get to see the throw triple axel(though I had to go to GoldenSkate to read about it before I could believe they'd actually gone and landed it again!), and it also showed me all of the Kerrs free. Just after Pechelat and Bourzat got their scores, however, it was time to run off with mom to the movies to see Jane Campion's Bright Star, and I figured I wouldn't have a problem finding Virtue and Moir's FD on YouTube later. It was the sensible thing to go watch: two hours versus four minutes, right?
Not sure. Bright Star was very pretty to look at, and I kind of liked the two leads, but it didn't convince me at all. I knew it was based on a true story and I still didn't buy it. When mom started listing off what are less inaccuracies than blatant alterations to reality, I wasn't surprised in the slightest. I thought the Brown character stole a few scenes.
Virtue and Moir's Adagietto, on the other hand...I just saw it now, and I'm kind of glad my first encounter was on NBC HD.. Romance you buy, beautiful skating and breathtaking lifts, all with the feeling that this will be greatness when it is skated on the great stage of Vancouver...much as I love Tanith and Ben, I am starting to really want these two to win that gold. The bits of their flamenco I saw stunned me too.
Also possibly bringing the house down in Vancouver and Jessica Dubé and Bryce Davison and their free this year. Contrast it with M&T's Love Story. I saw enough of both to concede that M&T won this round fair and square, since D&D were so rough on the elements, but D&D's was the program that shocked and moved me, and left me frustrated because the scratchiness messed up something that could be so great, and if they can make it more polished in February, it will be an earthquake in the Pacific Coliseum, and I really do hope a medal. And said medal might become a little easier, if S&S don't get their act together pronto! Seriously, has there ever been a worse performance from a pair of reigning World Champions? I can't think of one.