scene from the men's short program

[jaina]

Evan Lysacek takes the ice, arms raised.

Rogue: "People of Vancouver! KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!"

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Loved the men's short tonight, y'all. Too bad I had class and couldn't watch/chat live. Some serious highs and serious lows. Still hate Plushenko.

Comments

[amaz0n-princess.livejournal.com]

This is why Rogue is pretty much made of WIN. Made both of us LOL so hard this morning!

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Well we are happy to have supplied a smile. :)

(I think he's made of win too!)

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

Did you see the Today Show yesterday? Meredith Viera made a crack similar to that when Evan showed her how to enter the ice with arms raised.

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

That's too funny!

[julietvalcouer.livejournal.com]

I think Plushy was PISSED that Takahashi and Lysacek are SO CLOSE. He really thought this was going to be a runaway like 2006. To which I said..."Suck it, Plushy!" I hope he tries his 4-3-3 and gets downgraded or falls, and both of them pass him.

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, you KNOW he was mad. You could see it in the close-ups they kept doing of him. Ohhhh, I want nothing more than for him to lose. Hate. Haaaaaaaaaate.

[julietvalcouer.livejournal.com]

I DESPISE him (give me Yagudin any day!) but if he does the quad-triple-triple, then...okay, I could see it.

And now I'm biting my nails because Takahashi wants to put in a quad. NO, YOU FOOL! Though, if he DOES manage to land it, and skates the rest of the program like he did his short, I will be first in line to burn the judges if they put Plushenko ahead of him.

Though my idea scenario is Plushy crashes and burns, Evan wins with a lovely clean program (where did that clean 3a entry come from?), Takahashi takes silver, and Oda, Lambiel, or Weir sneaks in for bronze. (Johnny medaling would take a mathematically miracle, but it could happen if Plushy, Oda, and Lambiel all bomb horribly.)

[julietvalcouer.livejournal.com]

*ideal scenario and mathematical miracle. Gah. Cannot type.

[slyvermont.livejournal.com]

We missed you at chat. I hope we do it again -- we've got a lot more skating to go! (And Liz found an Australian feed that worked for awhile so we didn't have to listen to Bulgarian.)

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

I would love to do it again-- Tuesdays and Thursdays are just super bad timing for me because of dance class. Argh! Tomorrow is going to kill me. I may have to spoil myself as soon as I get home.

[dm-lunsford.livejournal.com]

Zod! Hee! Yes, Rogue is made of win. ; )

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Awww, I think so too. ;-)

Haha!

[belluthien.livejournal.com]

I also loved the men's short tonight...

I kind of like the arrogant bastard Plushenko. He does it so well. ;-)
But I also like Lysacek, and the Japanese man in the running, too.

It will be an interesting show down, and a nail biter... I hope NONE of them falls. I hate watching them fall.
y

Re: Haha!

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Arrogant bastards just do nothing for me...he's just so annoying about it. Like, he doesn't acknowledge that his fellow competitors might be as good as or better than him.

I want everyone to skate clean! Much more fun that way. I totally love Daisuke (the Japanese guy). He has such lovely flow!

Re: Haha!

[julietvalcouer.livejournal.com]

I want everyone to skate clean. Except Plushenko. Because if he jumps clean he will win even if he does NOTHING ELSE but stroke around the rink. So he can fall all over the place if he wants.

[belluthien.livejournal.com]

I actually like all three of the guys up front, for different reasons beyond the fact that they are all fun to watch and excellent on the ice.

They're all so close it will be a race tonight.

Daisuke Takahashi was smoking on that ice, and his flow was indeed very fine.

Evan Lysacek was compelling and emotionally engaging on the ice, from start to finish. And I found his grace in the interview after to be a refreshing contrast to Plushenko's bravado.

Plushenko seems to annoy a lot of people. I get the impression he does it on purpose, that he likes being "the bad guy." Maybe for him that works like fuel to his fire. I find his persona is entertaining. He did say in the interview before the skating that "if he doesn't win" he still has won olympic gold, and no one can take that away. That, to me, was his way of saying he realizes there are competitors who are well capable of competing against him and winning.

And indeed there are.

I know I'm an outsider when it comes to actually liking Plushenko...

I will continue to hope none of them falls, and that the judges do their jobs fairly, etc...
y

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

Please tell Rogue that we now officially refer to Lysacek as "Zod" in the Peters household.

[writingpathways.livejournal.com]

Drive by to simply say Plushenko is a douchebag and I was P.O. when I found out he was in this Olympics. Go Evan!