clairdelalune wrote:
Whitebamboo, I appreciate your posts and your opinions and I agree with you, to me the most important thing is to see Evgeni skating to beautiful programs, which can grab the audience, like he always does. But if Evgeni is not successful next season, judges and Russian Federation will "retire" him, I hope you understand what I mean. He won´t be beaten only by Chan or Kozuka, he won´t have any chance to make the podium. I don´t think Evgeni would like to finish his career like this. If he loses because he is old, it´s ok, nowbody can ask him to do something impossible, but losing because he didn´t chose a good choreographer and a nice music, don´t you think it´s very stupid?
I do understand what you are saying. We all want to see Plushy have a successful season and win, and we all hope his choreography can contribute positively to it, there is no disagreement about that. But I don't quite believe it's a matter of all-or-nothing, or that having a program that pleases the judges and one that still sets Plushy apart are mutually exclusive.
As for your last question, please do not take what I am about to say the wrong way--but do you think Evgeni and the people around him are "very stupid?" (I am certainly not saying at all that you do, it's more of a rhetorical question than anything else.) Sometimes I think, we are all sitting here and analyzing what we want Plushy to do, or what he "should" or "need to" do, or what constitutes a good choreographer and a nice music, but in the end, every detail of the final product, every single move on the ice--all that is Evgeni and his team, not us. I am, for myself, hesitant to say "why can't he just do things this or that way, it's easy", since although I certainly do not claim to know much about skating, as far as I can tell, absolutely nothing of what Evgeni does is easy. Everything I've said in my own posts are, in the end, just idle speculations and wild personal imaginings. I am completely sure that he and Mishin understands all these issues much, much better than we do, it's a matter of finding ways of dealing with them--ways that will work for Evgeni.