As you can see, I wrote about the yin and yang of the show, as I try to do with everything. I can totally understand your points, but I found there to be a lot of good in the show, as well, and wanted to point those numbers out. I’m sorry if you were disappointed in the show, but I just gave my impressions of the show, as best I could.

Thanks for reading and commenting!

Karen

Thanks for your thoughtful comments. It sounds like you really know your skating shows!

I agree with every one of your points! I hadn’t even realized that there were performances on the Dancing With The Stars nights, so I’m sure that a lot of ticket buyers were really disappointed about seeing the cuurent Olympic Champion.

Your point about the cast being a mix of amateurs and pros is well taken–that’s why it was so great when we had both shows. SOI had it’s own little family flavor and we were happy to see the same cast year after year, while welcoming exciting newcomes to COI each season. I think that that’s what SOI was going for this year, but it’s a shame that the advertising gave the old-timers short shrift. I hadn’t realized that.

And I especially agree with your take on not enough group numbers. I remember that one of the few times Mr. X accompanied me, he pointed out how much fun Sergei Grinkov was having on the ice with the other skaters, and he had never seen Sergei that happy before. It makes the audience feel that we’re in on the action. I think the reason they don’t do them as much anymore is that this group has had no real leader since Scott Hamilton, and then Kurt Browning, left.

So, it is what it is, and I’ll continue to support SOI because we live-ice-skating-lovers unfortunately don’t have too many choices nowadays. And since they now change-up the cast every time out, we can look forward to the one they come up with next year.

Karen