I've never been to Whistler so I only speak of it's reputation, much of what I learned while the Olympics were there; they talked a lot about the snow during the coverage.

I'm gonna say, I never really got friends. I just don't get why that show was popular. It seemed pretty hacky to me.

I think the writing has finally caught up to the acting in this show, and I'm enjoying the results. This was a very strong episode with some very strong character writing. I love the reversal of the Holt/Gina dynamic with Holt getting to play selfish for once. It rounds out his character so efficiently, while…

So, like 30 people?

Canada, who certainly has cold places picked Vancouver/Whistler. A warm coastal city with a mountain notorious for it's sketchy snow conditions.

Translators are expensive.

I watched much of last night's telecast with a healthy dose of the FF button, but I still have a couple of observations.

Winter events need to take place on snow or ice. That's what makes them winter events.

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Mancuso was not a favorite to medal in the super-combined much less win the event. She had every reason to be ecstatic about her performance. Mancuso has made a very compelling habit of over-performing at the Olympic games and I found it a delight to watch.

I'm a bit of an NBC apologist, but they have missed some extremely obvious stories already in these games. You can't prepare everything but to have close to nothing on that dutch speed skating team prepared seemed like gross incompetence.

Would have loved to seen a package on the Dutch speed skating team that just happened to feature twins. Twins! That's just too strong a story to not prepare ahead of time and NBC treated it as an afterthought.

Yeah, you missed it. It was really compelling too and for the life of me I don't know why such a marquee event happened so early. They did training runs on Saturday during the sun where Bode Miller established himself as the favorite but the weather conditions changed for yesterday and Miller finished off the podium…

One of the ice dancing pairs got deducted a point because a feather fell off her costume. So yeah, it does. Don't know if it effects scoring in any other ways but logic would dictate that it would.

I think they must smooth the ice periodically through the night. It just never makes it to broadcast.

I do not know if this is true, but it would make sense to me if the guys had some padding under their pants for those lifts. Seems safer at least.

That camaraderie from the boarders comes from the culture of the pro-snowboarding tour which is billed as an entertainment attraction as opposed to a serious competition. Winning at all costs isn't what a professinal snowboarding event is all about. Selling energy drinks and entertaining tourists is more important.

Every single event is live online with a cable subscription. Please don't complain that NBC's primetime coverage is tape delayed. It's a very silly complaint. It would be literally impossible for them to have live primetime coverage.

I'm not sure what Perkins is expecting for the slopestyle commentary. When a rider made a mistake I thought they were pretty clear in it's explanation (left the rail to early, landed too far back on her heels, dragged her hand on the landing, was loose in the air) and on the mistake free runs they made sure to inform…

We're only 5 episodes in and as far as I can tell the show has yet to settle on what it is yet. I tuned into the pilot because I saw a comedy set on a military base, which is a rich setting for storytelling, and saw enough to tune back in the next week. The main character was a good solider in a position he resented…