Yeah I 100% agree with this. Which is why it annoys me so much, I mean there’s no other sport that’s judged on whether or not you look like you’re in love with your partner. The rest are all just about who’s the best at their sport/most athletic and whatnot. It just seems like a very ridiculous requirement.

I agree with point 2, the French pair have a very Tragic Lovers Overcoming All Odds To Be Together air to them in the vein of ballet pairings and fairy tales versus Virtue/Moir’s very showing Broadway sexiness.

lol that’s fair. you get to be obnoxious about winning, that’s like half the fun of watching the Olympics to begin with.

Yeah but the Shib Sibs were clearly having more fun? And like what is the point of doing something as outrageous as dancing-on-ice if it isn’t fun? I mean the winter sports are all basically created on the basis of shouting “you know what would be INSANE and DANGEROUS but also SO MUCH FUN” so they should stay true to…

Look at them go!!!

tbh I yell about ice dancing because no one really gives a huge amount of shit about it and I try to only yell about shit that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things because having a reasonable tone about everything all the time just isn’t as much fun somehow.

I’m so excited to find a whole contingent of people who are on the same side as me on this.

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

thank you for posting this, I hadn’t seen it yet and it MADE. MY. DAY.

I mean, did you watch their skating? They’re at a disadvantage because they’re 100% not sexy, with a ton of space between them, unlike everyone else, as the judges definitely seem to reward the ‘performance’ element based on how sexy-and-in-love you appear. And it’s not like they’re the first ever sibling pair in ice…

It was so bad. So, so, so, so bad. Which kind of made me happy, because I definitely didn’t want them to win, so....

I honestly couldn’t say. I’m looking at the TES breakdowns right now and it doesn’t have a maximum score lifted, but does give the 4-1 difficulty ranking of all the elements which were all the same except the Shibs had a lift that was a 3 instead of a 4, but since the 4-ranking lifts are all based on hip grabs I’m…

ALL OF YOUR OPINIONS ARE SO SO RIGHT. I love how we’re on exactly the same page here. That’s the only critique I had of the Shib Sibs, which, thank god they seem like they’re done with Coldplay after this routine.

Also their short program music was the best by far. And yeah no one can touch their twizzles. Which, obviously, given that the 32 fouettes are a huge measurement of the best ballerinas, is the most weighty measurement  about as far as who is the best pair of ice dancers in my mind.

Yeah I definitely would have put the French team ahead of the Canadians as well. However Shib Sibs>Papadakis/Cizeron still. I did appreciate how ballet-ic and emotional their performance was while not being over-the-top like Virtue/Moir. However ballet doesn’t equal ice dancing in my mind (which I’m saying as a huge…

I get that everyone is hot for Virtue/Moir but the SHIBSIBS WERE ROBBED. They’re the most technical dancers and don’t have to rely on SeXinEss/We’re Just SO IN LOVE to convey emotion/impress you with their dancing ability.

RIGHT like put them in a pair of pointe shoes and that is some TOP LEVEL BALLET SHIT RIGHT THERE. And their twizzle sequence in the free skate was next level as well, no one else could touch that shit.

I get that everyone is hot for Virtue/Moir but the SHIBSIBS WERE ROBBED. They’re the most technical dancers and don’t have to rely on SeXinEss/We’re Just SO IN LOVE to convey emotion/impress you with their dancing ability.

I was about to make this comment myself. My favorite pair of yoga pants is somewhere in between the two, in that they’re definitely pants but don’t have such a wide cut at the bottom. More of a straight-cut jeans type deal, if that makes sense.

W H A T ?